Do to all the crazy weather the world has been going threw recently I wouldn't be surprised if we had another ice age.
Do you think the world is changing climate wise?
Climate change is the natural state of the world. I seriously doubt we understand it well enough to predict what it will be in a year, let alone a hundred years. The bogus arguments by alarmists certainly don't convince me that they have anything credible to change my opinion.
Climate cooling is a far greater threat and another ice age is almost certainly just a matter of time. We are overdue. On an otherwise excellent show I watched today %26quot;BBC How Earth Made Us%26quot;, they said we were due for an ice age 7000 years ago but the early agriculture from 7000 years ago stopped it from happening. That was presented as if it were a fact that human agriculture so altered the climate that it stopped the ice age that we would be in now. Those people have to delusional if they think that. It was apparently just contrived by some alarmist climatologists to pretend that the ice age danger is over. An ice age is obviously a danger if you look at the historical record. I don't put any weight into the deluded notions of activists that make such crazy theories as humans 7000 years ago stopping the ice age and then state them as facts. An ice age isn't something I am worried about happening in my life but it sure wouldn't surprise me to find out you are right about the next ice age starting sometime in the relatively near future.
Do you think the world is changing climate wise?
Yes it is constantly changing. It always has been and always will.
The weather has always been changing...that is nothing new...and not caused by our technilogical age.....no matter what they try to say. All you have to do is look back before it began to know.
The weather goes in cycles....and Global Warming for example is all about money!
The worlds climates are most defiantly changing and rapidly! Well, rapidly for climate change anyway. And it will only be changing faster and grow more severe. I think there is a possibility of another ice age. Though, it may be far into the future, I think it is closer than most people might assume.
There are always short term ups and downs. But, you have to look at the long term.
Things like in Dawson City, Yukon, they have been tracking the ice break-up on the Yukon River. This has been happening since the late 1800's, which is a fair bit of data, collected over time. There is a definite trend to earlier break-ups. About 9 days earlier now, on average.
Scientists also do ice cores, which means drilling into a glacier to check things like atmospheric carbon, etc., They can also take cores of lake bottoms, and check permafrost, etc., to get similar data. It can be seen that over a much longer time, we are rising much faster than over many previous centuries, or even millennia. The question was whether this was natural, man cause, or some combination. A couple of years ago, a huge conference was held to determine this, and while the exact amounts were not agreed to, it was agreed that man has had a negative effect.
The fact of global warming is basically accepted by all reputable scientists (which a tiny handful of exceptions); the big debate has been how much of a hand humans have in this. We do, but by how much is not agreed.
it always is, It's called Cycles, and the planets goes thru these cycles, there was the little ice age not too long ago, so why are we so alarmed, it's just nature doing what it has dome for who knows how long.
It always has been changing. The temperature is always going to be changing because God is in control of it :)
Yes, it is constantly changing. It will continue to do so long after man is gone.
Yes, the climate of the earth is changing, and it does change constantly as it has throughout history. Yet, the way that the climate is changing now is very unnatural. The oscillation of hot-cold times seems to be happening at an earlier predicted time that should occur naturally. In other words, we, as the human race, may POSSIBLY be contributing to the change. There is a lot of evidence these days that points to the human race being a major contributor, though.
yeahh so we have to start doing drugs and having sex more and live our lives becuz the worlds gonna end !!
I truly believe it is changing. For example in the UAE, last year we had snow in the mountains and we recently had hail, thunder storms and heavy rain in some parts. This is not normal for this region- desert area. Deserts are known for serious droughts. Need to discuss more check www.comfaceit.com
Look, the honest answer is that no one really knows what the weather or climate will do from one month to the next, let alone one decade to the next. Did you know that the climate models the IPCC used couldn't even come out with the actual outcome of historical climate? In other words, even when they knew what the answer was, they couldn't replicate with their computer models.
The President's science advisor on global warming is John Holdren, a guy who predicted that global warming would lead to over a billion deaths by 2020. This is the guy that your tax dollars are now paying for to advise your president on what to do.
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The current Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, has seriously suggested mandating that all Americans be required to paint their roofs and sidewalks white to reflect more sunlight! Don't believe me? Think I'm exaggerating? Read it for yourself:
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment鈥?/a>
One thing that all scientist agree on is that the climate is always changing. What they cannot draw a consensus about is whether the globe is getting hotter or getting colder. The natural factors affecting climate are very numerous and complex.
Beware of hoaxsters that are selling the Anthropogenic Global Warming as a scientific consensus. The theory of man made warming has lots of evidence against it and much of the most compelling evidence presented to support AGW has been proven to be fraudulent. There's Big Bucks to be made promoting the hoax.
http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/global-w鈥?/a>
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckt鈥?/a>
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424鈥?/a>
http://www.neatorama.com/2006/09/19/10sc鈥?/a>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/20鈥?/a>
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-鈥?/a>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environ鈥?/a>
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/en鈥?/a>
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/14/jo鈥?/a>
http://www.businessandmedia.org/specialr鈥?/a>
Global Warming is real, no doubt at all.
Forget the supposedly starving polar bears (they aren't) forget the melting Antarctic (it's not).
But consider these things I've observed over the years:
Farmers in UK now lamb their sheep 3 times a year, not twice as previously.
Seagulls now breed all year round in Cornwall, not just the Spring and Summer as previously.
My son is now 23 years of age, he has played in decent snow about 6 times in all his life, previously we had snow almost every year. He has yet to drive in snow. (He was overseas last winter)
Daffodils now flower in Cornwall in January (in sheltered conditions), not March as previously.
I have Southern European Cacti living outside in my back garden.
(although one did die this winter)
Grapes are once again being grown commercially in England.
Olive trees are being planted in Southern England.
I repeat, these are the observations of an untrained (in climate technology) ordinary person.
The world is getting warmer, live with it.
But why oh why is the huge question, I do not believe puny Man could affect this massive climate system, no way.
Yes, I do, and I believe the long term global trend is indeed upward, with periodic short term trends, as the graphs show, although I question how accurate the global temperature measurements are. I believe that mankind is affecting the outcome, but I am unconvinced that those effects are significant in the short term, climate being more impacted by natural processes. Now, I am not a scientist, but I have not seen a satisfactory explanation of why temperatures are apparently increasing globally the way they are without taking into account mankind's contribution of CO2 but study the information I can find as the opportunity arises to learn more about it.
I do believe there is a possibility that if global temperatures continue to increase, mankind's activities may accelerate the process and at a certain point may even tip us over the edge of uncontrolled and rapid climate change to which we cannot adapt in time given our present population, distribution and lifestyles.
I do not believe there is cause for alarm based on what we do know, but feel that we should pursue further research with considerable urgency and carefully adopt measures and policies with multiple benefits in order to manage the potential risk. For example, alternative energy both addresses the risk of AGW, accomodates declining natural resources and increasing cost to the consumer due to competition for supplies, and decreases our dependence on foreign oil, which can help in terms of military costs to keep supply lines open.
In addition to objecting to the alarm shown on both sides of the debate, I also reject the absolutism of denial and the obvious efforts to derail the dialogue about the issue. For all of these reasons I describe myself as a skeptic who objects to the deliberate manipulation of data on either side but particularly object to the political manipulation and obstructionism on the right. I just want to see some reason in the debate that will draw us to a satisfactory conclusion rather than the stalling that is so in evidence right now.
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Hi Tonia,
The climate always changes - if you look up the word in a dictionary, that is part of the definition. %26quot;Climate%26quot; comes from the Ancient Greek word %26quot;Clima%26quot; meaning incline, as the temperature is always either rising or falling - the idea of a stable temperature across the globe is silly (think about it, it's not stable throughout the year or even the day, why would be stable across decades or centuries?).
A suggestion for you - go to Google and search for %26quot;record high temperatures%26quot; or %26quot;record rainfall%26quot; or %26quot;record cold temperatures%26quot; or whatever. You will find that most records were set long ago, not in recent years as you might expect. Weather has always been crazy, we just had a thirty year quiet patch that's all.
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It's always changing, and the weather is always %26quot;crazy.%26quot; Situation is normal.
Yes, it's heating up.
