I tried a version of this question earlier...was advised I don't know anything because global warming and climate change are very different animals. Well, unless global warming has to do with the earths core getting hot, I believe we have people dealing in symanitic riddles. Here is Malibu, CA under snow...probably due to "Global Warming".
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Like every other superstitious matter of faith, Global Warming is so nebulous that literally every conceivable phenomenon can be and HAS BEEN used to "prove" it.
If it's hotter it's global warming, if it's colder it's global warming.
More rain? Less rain? Earthquakes? Shark attack increases? Shark attack decreases? ALL proof of global warming.
No, I'm NOT kidding or exaggerating. For virtually EVERY news story with a plausible science-y angle, you can bet someone has linked it to global warming.
Anyway, the Goracle's crowd is shifting their language to "climate change" since our planet is manifestly NOT warming and has been in a cooling trend long enough that it will quite soon be blindingly obvious.
You should note the curve is following EXACTLY the forecasts made by the "global warming holocaust deniers."
You should also note that the IPCC examined several computer models and picked the very worst, least accurate, most consistently WRONG model with which to make their forecasts. It actually makes LESS ACCURATE predictions than a random number generator.
In all seriousness, the global warming/climate change alarmists have all kinds of WRONG built in to their "science," while the Earth just keeps doing exactly what the "crazy warming deniers" predict it will do.
It did snow in Malibu and has once or twice the past 30 yrs, but that picture is not of Malibu, its El Mirage. I was under the impression that global warming is causing the climate change, but to be honest I don't think anybody knows for sure. Something is happening thats for sure.
It is easiest for me to explain what the differences are between "Global Warming" and climate change. Then you can decide if one has anything to do with the other and why.
Climate change : The collective patterns of changes that occur on the surface of the Earth as a result of several different phenomena ranging from solar activity to underwater volcanoes that ultimately affect the environment by causing atmospheric and oceanic fluctuations which impact the climate by causing local or regional changes in temperature, humidity, precipitation, and other meteorological conditions.
Global Warming : A title given to a theoretical idea proposed by some scientists which suggests that mankind will cause a catastrophic net increase in global temperature such that most coastal cities will be destroyed from flooding as the planet's ice caps melt and the sea level rises. The idea is that mankind will accomplish this disaster by releasing too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere largely by burning fossil fuels (coal,oil). In addition, the theory proposes that along with the coastal flooding from the sea level rise, we will also endure super powerful weather systems that we currently do not have a large enough scale to measure. For instance F-6 tornadoes or category 7 hurricanes. F-6 tornadoes and category 7 hurricanes currently do not exist. Many politicians have made use of this theory to promote their own domestic political agendas by using it to instill a sense of fear in people over the future of our environment.
This is what I know about both terms. I personally don't think one has anything to do with the other in reality, but that is my opinion. I see one term as a scientific explanation of a natural process of the Earth, and the other as an unproven theory used by politicians to scare people into submitting to an agenda of social engineering, higher taxes, more centralized and larger government, and less freedom overall.
You decide.
I've read your question and everyone's answers and I think I can contribute.
Global Warming is so called because of steady and significant 'global' climatic changes. The United States is only a small part. But with climate change, it brings much unusual weather, not just warmer weather. Some have referred to the condition as Global Weirding.
As for cooling 'trends', that is not at all the same as 'Global Cooling', which no body of Science nationally or internationally, has said is occurring, on the contrary.
But I think this information below will explain everything (2010 will be a whole new year)...
If Global Warming is real, why does it not seem like it in the United States?
While contigious United States temperatures for 2008 is average... Global Temperature Average end of winter this year, was the 2nd highest since records began in 1880 according to United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Despite above average snowpack levels in the U.S., the total Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent was the fourth lowest on record for March, remaining consistent with boreal spring conditions of the past two decades, in which warming temperatures have contributed to anomalously low snow cover extent.
La Niña effects contribute to some of the cooling observed since record temperatures in 2006. The cold phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, occurred in March, but moderate La Niña conditions remained across the tropical Pacific Ocean but La Niña cold phase is showing signs of weakening.
Through the emerging Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), NOAA is working with its federal partners, more than 70 countries and the European Commission to develop a global monitoring network that is as integrated as the planet it observes, predicts and protects.
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080417_...
If the earth is not 'cooling' and Global Warming hasn't gone away like some people suggest, then when can we expect to get noticably warmer again?
According to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which monitors global climatatic change, the most likely timing of the next El Nino will be in 2009 or 2010. But whatever year it occurs, it is a pretty safe bet that the next El Nino will help carry global temperature to a significantly higher level.
Competing with the short-term solar and La Nina cooling effects is the long-term global warming effect of human-made GHGs. The latter includes the trend toward less Arctic sea ice that markedly increases high latitude Northern Hemisphere temperatures. Although sea ice cover fluctuates from year to year, the large recent loss of thick multi-year ice implies that this warming effect at high latitudes should persist.
Based on these considerations, it is unlikely that 2008 will be a year with an unusual global temperature change, i.e., it is likely to remain close to the range of (high) values exhibited in 2002-2007. On the other hand, when the next El Nino occurs it is likely to carry global temperature to a significantly higher level than has occurred in recent centuries, probably higher than any year in recent millennia. Thus we suggest that, barring the unlikely event of a large volcanic eruption, a record global temperature clearly exceeding that of 2005 can be expected within the next 2-3 years.
In other words, despite cooling factors such as the ongoing La Nina and our position at the lowest point on the solar irradiation cycle, global temperatures remain high (and the five-year running average continues to climb) because of anthropogenic forcing factors, and unless there is a major volcanic eruption like Pinatubo in the new few years, we can expect that the next el Nino will bring new global high temperature records.
http://mises.org/Community/blogs/tokyotom/archive/...
Here's the global warming section of the forum. This question is better suited for people who frequent that portion:
Every time algore gives a global warming speech, it gets cold and snows.
With the polor bears starving and the ice melting, should not algore give a speech at the north pole?
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NO SUCH THING AS GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!! Last year I said they'd have global cooling, sure enough.
good question