Global Warming

[Coldicote]

2010. According to news reports this looks like being the coldest December for a century, since records began in 1910, and there's still January to come. I expect it won't be long before we hear the familiar warnings about global warming. I shall take a bit of convincing after this. What do you think about it?

[cazzz1975]

I have already read stories about global warming, instead of threatening high temperatures they are warning of perilously cold winters, personally I think they are now just guessing/clutching at straws.

exhibit A

http://www.independen...ientists-2168418.html

[dtgblue]

I really enjoy paying the extra money on my fuel bills to pay for more windmills, and yet Im sat here shivering

[Hopkirk]

Global warming is already happening.

Why do people still try and deny it?

It's like the flat earth society all over again.

[cazzz1975]

If it is hopkirk, I wish all the scientists would stick to the same story then, it would make life easier for the huddled masses like myself to digest

[JMR27]

A few years before the 'Global Warming' twaddle, we were told there was an ice age coming. Just the other night some bigwig from the Met Office was saying there aren't computers capable of predicting the weather months in advance. I think it's all a big con.

[craft1948]

I have no idea.............so come on, sell Global Warming to me.

[Coldicote]

I don't deny the possibility of global warming, but if scientists want us to believe it they need to be better at explaining it. Over what kind of time scale is it likely to be of any consequence and in what way?

[society]

At present, it's global 'colding', no that should be global freezing. And it's not only in Europe, it everywhere that experiences winter weather.

[sandyRoe]

Could Global Warming produce freezing winters and scorching summers?

[jno]

it's "global" warming, not "my street" warming. This month might be cold in Britain, but other places, and other times, have seen above average temperatures.

17 countries experienced record highs this year:

http://www.guardian.c...rd-temperatures-world

[dtgblue]

I recall a professor being interviewed on the BBC tea time news tellling everybody that there was an artesian well (in the south of the UK) that had almost completely run dry and he said that was due to the amount of co2 being pumped into the atmosphere. He also said that this well would never regain its total capacity because it needed severel years of heavy rain to fill it, not just the odd downpour. This was in 1995 after a series of long dry summers. For the next 5 yrs it poured down regularly, I know because I lived in a property with rising damp, which had been solved by the dry spell. I didn't see the professor on the news 5 years later apologizing for his scare mongering

[Rasman]

My view on Global warming / cooling - and it's just my opinion - is that it's a naturally occurring cycle determined by changes in solar activity.

To presume humanity is directly responsible and that in some way we can effect it is both arrogant and ignorant.

That doesn't stop government sponsored scientists promoting gloom and doom so their paymasters can levy green taxes and push eco - technology they have a financial vested interest in though.

Massive con.

[dtgblue]

spot on rasman, maybe sun spot on lol

[beso]

Understand the difference between weather and climate. At present you are experiencing particularly cold weather. That is not "global colding".

The average global temperature for 2010 is on track to be one of the highest on record.
http://www.japantoday...nd-highest-since-1891

The definitive global figures for October are available.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/

I shall be interested to see December when it comes out.

While no computer can predict the weather months ahead because of many variable details, the climate is the average weather over time. The atmosphere is retaining more heat than previously and the planet's average temperature is rising. It is not rocket science to see where this will lead.

I guess you have already forgotten the recent norther summer where high temperatures and lack of rain resulted in thousands of fires burning out of control.

[dtgblue]

Whilst I agree with what you say beso, how do you explain the recurrent periods of global warming and cooling over the past 10,000 years, before any man made involvement.

[dtgblue]

p.s. could you also tell me when magnetic North will become magnetic South, and will it happen overnight or a longer period of time I,m intrigued?

[dtgblue]

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[ABerrant]

I remember way back in the 1980s Global Warming was being characterised as producing an overall rise in global temperature, measured in single digit degrees Celsius, while observed phenomena would include greature extremes of seasonal weather i.e. hotter summers, colder winters and increased likelihood of droughts or floods depending on your location.

[ABerrant]

^ "greature" ??? That should be "greater"

[beso]

dtgblue:

Atmospheric carbon dioxide is not the only mechanism that influences the retention of heat by the planet. Some of these are no understood. However the presence of these other mechanisms in no way discredits the effect of Carbon Dioxide.

There is no doubt that increasing CO2 in the atmosphere causes significantly more heat to be retained. Half of the CO2 added to the atmosphere by human activity since the start of the Industrial Revolution has occurred since 1978.