Global Warming with Colder Temperatures

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This topic just popped into my head this afternoon, what is up with all the talk on global warming and somehow the temperatures are lowering.

Last month, Florida had snow flurries and Texas had snow which hasn't happened in many years.

So, is this global warming a lie?

Another interesting topic :p
 
This is where so many people misunderstand the concept of Global Warming. You can't base it off of one year of data. You have to base it off of hundreds or even thousands of years worth of data. One colder than average year means nothing in the long run.
 
Ok, here is what most people don't understand about global warming, its a naturally occurring event in nature. Man has no real way to influence it. Since the creation of this planet, there have been a total of 4 or 5 mass extinctions, granted majority of those were only bacteria, its still a living thing. And each extinction is usually the result of an Ice age, which what happens after an ice age? The world begins to warm up again, hence global warming. Its fact that there will be yet another mass extinction, and the odds of beating it don't seem too favorable. But all this junk about man made global warming is pure crap. They say currently we're doing more damage than ever before, well I call it a lie. Look at the automobiles of the 50's, they just poured out smog.

Another funny thing, they claim its the creation of CO2 thats the cause of this global warming. Well I'm sorry, we have to breathe to live, not our fault we produce CO2 as waste. Maybe if they didn't chop down most the rainforest we wouldn't hear these lunatics go on about this global warming. And what I'm saying isn't just personal opinion, I got most these ideas from the guy that founded the most reliable weather forecast form of them all, the weather channel.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-s...-founder-global-warming-greatest-scam-history
 
Snow in Florida and snow in Texas (even though it does actually snow in west Texas more than you think, so it's not a rare occurrence there) are a bit deceiving. What I mean is, it is the global warming that is MAKING it snow in those places. It might not make sense, but think more into it. The warming is melting the polar ice caps, and whatnot, and sending the cold air into Canada and eventually, the United States. Furthermore, the United States is just one country in the world. Did you know a lot of the other countries in the world are actually having above average temperatures? That's how those occurrences are deceiving.

EDIT: I agree with PheonyxXx. Global warming and global cooling are natural processes that we have no influence over.
 
Global warming isn't real. Chuck Norris got cold so he turned the sun up. Now he turned it back down.


Lol but no in all seriousness, it was never Global Warming necessarily, it's Global Climate Change.
 
I've heard Global Warming can be temperatures in both extremes (extreme hot and extreme cold), so something like this is out of the ordinary really. If you deny Global Warming, you're obviously not seeing the real facts and proof that have been around for years.

dmaster out.
 
CCloud said:
Snow in Florida and snow in Texas (even though it does actually snow in west Texas more than you think, so it's not a rare occurrence there) are a bit deceiving. What I mean is, it is the global warming that is MAKING it snow in those places. It might not make sense, but think more into it. The warming is melting the polar ice caps, and whatnot, and sending the cold air into Canada and eventually, the United States. Furthermore, the United States is just one country in the world. Did you know a lot of the other countries in the world are actually having above average temperatures? That's how those occurrences are deceiving.

EDIT: I agree with PheonyxXx. Global warming and global cooling are natural processes that we have no influence over.

Actually, I just saw that they think it's the El Nino causing this. Therefore, it has nothing at all to do with Global Warming. If you want an explanation of what the El Nino is, I can give it, but I would rather not have to do so.
 
I love it when people who know absolutely nothing about the subject discuss pretty difficult scientific subjects. If your knowledge of the subject comes from television, especially the more conservative channels, that's probably even worse...

PheonyxXx, the guy you speak of seems to have no scientific credentials, to start a weather channel you do not need a degree in climatology, not even a degree in meteorology (which is what I'd expect him to have), all you need is money.
But remember, the study of weather is meteorology and whilst it does have a lot of things in common with climatology, there are some key differences. One of these is that global warming is not a meteorological event. This also means you can't look out of your window and conclude that the Earth is cooling because it's snowing.

Colder winters and hotter summers are indeed the result of a change in climate, let's not forget that the latest summers have been some of the hottest in recorded history.

But anyhow,
1st of all, yes, we exhale CO2, HOWEVER, we also pump massive amounts of CO2 in the air through burning fossil fuels, something which is pretty drastic and pretty recent. Breathing is not the cause of the rise in CO2 levels, I'd expect even very misinformed people to at least know this...

2nd of all, climatology is very difficult, but there are some very distinct patterns. Whilst CO2 has never before been the cause of global warming, it has always provided a chain reaction. The sun has historically been the cause of climate change, but studies of the sun's radiation levels in recent years do not seem to indicate any increase, so there must be something else. Scientists have also been able to rule out a lot of other possibilities (clouds levels and whatnot), the only existing correlation between the current global warming and something we know can have an effect on the Earth's temperature is CO2. The recent rise in CO2 levels seems to be caused by man, so we can only conclude that the recent global warming is due to our behavior.

Al Gore, however, greatly exaggerates the speed of global warming, as well as some of the effects, if you want to know more, instead of turning to an inconvenient truth, it might be better to turn to someone a little more scientific. Potholer54 on Youtube has a pretty nice series about global warming if you're interested.

Thank you for your time, here, have a cartoon:
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dmaster said:
I've heard Global Warming can be temperatures in both extremes (extreme hot and extreme cold), so something like this is out of the ordinary really. If you deny Global Warming, you're obviously not seeing the real facts and proof that have been around for years.

dmaster out.

Warming = warmer temperatures
Cooler temperatures as well as warmer temperature would simply imply a shift in heat, not an increase.

What facts? Maybe the fact that "scientists" have been using only three data points, two of which get it from the remaining one? Or things like Climategate, where they used horribly mangled models and doctored the results?

Or maybe that cows produce more CO2 than humans, even if you include our machinery? Or that, even if it's happening, the sea level would rise a grand total of about 3 cm in a century. Or that we (at least the USA) has been reducing the amount of emissions it's producing, greatly because it's wasteful, anyway, so that means that if you want to slow or halt the melting of the oh, so great melting bane of life (read: ice) that you should probably attack from that front, since your method involves killing the economy, which is bad enough right now, even here, let alone places like Africa. Perhaps you should think of the economy, first.

But hey, if you want to make a difference, your way, perhaps you should stop using cars, computers, etc.. Don't eat vegetables or meat from the supermarket, because they increase the amount that farmers will make, therefore causing more CO2 to be produced. (Hey, plants have to respirate, too, you know.) Go out into the wild and wear no clothes, because they're bad for the environment. Live like a Stone Age man, hunting every day with a spear, not knowing if you're likely to be the victor. Or maybe you should suffocate yourself, so you emit fewer greenhouse gas, and such. (Not saying you should, just saying what your argument requests)

But hey, this is all part of that old decadely (um decade's fake adjective form?) scare. As I recall, in the 1960's, we were going to die from overpopulation. 1970's was commies (although, that was real, for once) 1980's, was global cooling. 1990's was pollution killing us by 2010. (Funny, I don't think I'm dead...) 2000's global warming. 2010's will probably be climate change, as that's what seems to be leading right now. (no, I am not from the 60's but my parents are)

Then again, that's history right? And history never repeats itself, right? Hey, no one has ever wanted a utopia aside from modern USA, right? And communism has never once, tried to destroy the non-commies with ugly means, such as Political Correctness or the Great War, right? WWI and the Peloponnesian War? What are you talking about? I'd give more examples, but I don't want to get far off topic, here.

What's my point? All of this is a scam so that politicians can advocate something to reduce the blow of global warming, and it may or may not work but either way, it helps people feel good about themselves, for possibly doing something about something that probably doesn't even exist. Only one time has it been real, and it does go back further than the 60's. Trying to stop each of these things hurts the economy. Unless you have better reasoning than "look at the facts" (Which I'm sick and tired of hearing. Unless you can actually show facts and no one has refuted them, unless you gave a counter-argument, I do believe that you are in fact using the same tactics as the communist party: overwhelm without reason) and never show them, don't believe it. If you've got time, wait until it should be apparent. Otherwise, we will reduce ourselves to the Stone Age because of the stupidity of a bunch of people. And people have hurt their economy before. The Renaissance used slaves instead of steam, for example. And unless people can resist it, we will keep cycling, until we are forced to die, because we will be at the mercy of nature, with no opposite pull, since the effective leaders of society will be encouraging this idiocy. The very method that we speak to each other has taken millions of years to develop. I don't want those years to go to waste. To be covered by the dust of time. It's O.K. if you believe in Global Warming. But since you can't prove it, don't impose it on others. Don't destroy society, all because you think that it will wipe us out. Unless you can actually show undeniable proof, wait for counter-arguments, etc., don't predict doomsday.

Wow. It's been a long time since I got into an argument about this stuff. I guess I went a little overboard.
 
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I'll just let Spoon handle that one. Data has been shown over plenty of years so that's all I'm saying about that. No comment on anything else (so that means I'm a Communist? ._.)

dmaster out.
 
I don't get it, is Calling_Porcupine a troll, or just really passionate about the topic?

To me it seems more like the former, because being sarcastic when making a point only works when you're, y'know, trolling.

No comment on the topic at hand. Extremes on both sides are stupid and have flimsy arguments. For now, I guess I'll back Spoon, because they're cool and they have a picture, because I am too lazy to do more than skim long posts that are uninteresting.
 
It's called climate change. It was never just warming. Only reason why that's what everyone thinks it is because the media made it that way.
 
Meaty said:
Lol but no in all seriousness, it was never Global Warming necessarily, it's Global Climate Change.

Thank you, Pandamore. Somebody gets it.
 
Calling_Porcupine, you know what'll actually send us back to the stone age? Distrust in science like you seem to be prophesying. I'm still against debates about difficult scientific problems between people who do not possess the knowledge to do so. I'm not a climatologist, you're not one either, so debating your "facts" seems rather pointless. Though I have serious doubts about some things you said:

Cows produce more CO2? If you mean methane, another greenhouse gas, then yes, they do tend to produce a lot of that, but CO2? Cows breathe not only more than humans, but also produce more CO2 in doing so than all cars and factories as well? I find that pretty hard to believe...

"1980's, was global cooling". In real life, there were more than twice as many scientific papers which concluded that the earth would start warming or was already warming. Yes, there was this article in, what was it (the New York Times?, definitely not a scientific magazine) back then, which said something about global cooling and which is used in like every debate between an actual climatologist (weird how there's practically a global consensus amongst these dudes who actual know what they're talking about, huh. Must be a conspiracy!) and some conspiracy theorist.

BTW, if one of your scares (being communism) was actually true, how is it that by history repeating itself this one has to be false? How come scares come in decades anyways? I never know there was this kind of regularity between so very different things.
Also, wouldn't you agree that the scare of today is terrorism?

So this is a political scam? Wow, they actually went around and paid every climatologist, rigged the global weather statistics, and nobody found out? Awesome.
Or, let's turn the table, global-warming-denialsm is a political scam, none of it is backed up by science, which makes it a lot more plausible and cheap, and the politicians actually gain something out of it if they have shares in or get paid by oil companies, which actually have a decent reason for wanting people to stop caring about global warming?
Aren't conspiracy theories fun?

But yeah, it's probably those hippie-liberal-communists and their "let's make the world a better and healthier place"-agenda.
 
This is extraordinarily entertaining. I'm glad dmaster didn't close this when he got called a communist, as per our suggestions.

Popcorn time is now.
 
You guys need to stop paying attention to politicians and start paying attention to the scientists that are studying this stuff. The scientific community is pretty much in agreement that the earth is getting warmer. I'm sorry, but this is an area where it's silly to say "well in MY opinion it's not real", or "in MY opinion it's all a scam" because this isn't an area where you can have an opinion. Science isn't about opinions, it's about facts and data supporting those facts.

However, Global Warming can't really be blamed for this snow, as it's not really some "event" that you can say "yes, this is Global Warming". Perhaps this event is being strengthened by it, but it's not caused by it.
 
I am going to back spoon on this topic. The only thing that can oppose the argument that we are creating climate change is the 'Holocene period'. But my science professor said that at the time the sun was flaring up and had spots. Something like that, this was like 2 years ago lol.
 
Ok, so everyone says lets listen to th scientists, only real scientists studying this are in the US. There have been multiple scientists that used to work for the government that have said that the gov greatly changed their findings to promote what ever it is that they wish. I read that in a magazine that had an interview with one of the said scientists.

2ndly, all global warming reports seem to point to the polar ice caps melting and flooding the world. So lets say their lies are true and the ice caps melt. What happens when you put an ice cube in water? the water level rises. Now lets look at what the "science" says, the ice melts, what happens to the water level? The water level decreases. So how are we all going to be flooded?

Global warming is a natural event, not man made like the science leads us to believe. And there has been studies that have shown that there is more ice in the north pole than there has the past 10 years. And all the propaganda is saying that its all melting away.

And heres another link of interest...

http://www.h2oaccess.com/articles.php/20090206
 
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