Serious question to global warming believers?
by admin on Tuesday, March 8th, 2011 | 7 Comments
No this isn’t an inflammatory baited question.
Where I live in rural Oklahoma in the late 90s, we had mild winters, we could even camp in December and January. At the time, it was blamed on global warming. The earth is warming, they said, and it doesn’t snow as much.
Fast forward to now, we’ve just had our 2nd “hundred year storm” in 3 years. Two merciless blizzards. Unheard of low temperatures for this area, record levels of snow, etc. This was blamed on global warming too because the higher temperatures (wherever they are) are causing evaporation and more moisture in the air causing the blizzards.
My question is simply which is it? They can’t both be true can they? Or the argument becomes circular.
Ten years ago the tree huggers told us we wouldn’t be seeing snow in just a few years time.
Now, with all the snow it is because of global warming. Doesn’t matter what happens, they say it is because of global warming.
Global Warming be praised! If we had no Global Warming, Oklahoma would be buried under a glacial ice sheet. Global warming is keeping it from getting as cold as it really could.
There is nothing stable about the climate of this planet, or any other planet. The very person who is warning us about global warming is getting rich off of it, and it all seems like a large money making scheme.
According to libs, colder than usual winter weather is ALSO proof of global warming
Global Warming is a fact, for one thing. So it’s not about “believing or not believing”. Second, whoever in Oklahoma told you that global warming was the cause for this snow snorm or that tornado didn’t know what they were talking about. Global warming causes more extreme weather conditions over the long term. One cold winter or one hot summer are not sufficient data. The data is measured over decades. Since they started measuring, the average temperature of the earth is clearly increasing. It’s increasing rapidly. This is the scientific method. It is not some guy on tv bloviating about some random trendy baloney. Furthermore, the scientific community has rated Global Warming as human caused with 90% certainty. They rate it with 90% certainty because unlike us politicos, they admit there is a small possibility that they are wrong and it is not human caused. Nevertheless, the fact that the temperature is increasing is 100% certainty. That is happening.
This is why the term more commonly used now is “climate change”.
Global warming is GLOBAL, not Oklahoma. Here is a link to NASA charts showing changes in mean GLOBAL surface temperature change. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/
I’ve lived in OK all my life and don’t remember anyone associating lack of snowfall with global warming in the 90′s although people did speculate about global warming contributing to the temperature when it got stuck in the 100-teens one July back in the mid 90′s.
This past week we had both a record high and record low temperature. A week ago today it hit 76 F and by Tuesday was frigid. That’s Oklahoma for you.
It makes sense to me that global warming would cause more water evaporation which could contribute to more rain and more snow in the winter – what happens to water vapor when it cools off?
I have no idea whether global warming is a factor in current blizzards and record snowfalls in the U.S.