Re: Global warming at it again...

Voter wrote: 
On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 00:25:49 GMT, Christian Williamson wrote:


"Record Low Temps Seen in Parts of U.S."
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/07/D8EBMGIO0.html

I wish it would hurry up and heat up. I'm tired of the cold. 


Your post exposes your ignorance in regard to global warming.

Briefly: the rise in temperature (as little as 1 degree F) in certain areas
of the earth can cause a decrease in temperatures in other parts of the
earth.

Once you understand how the earth is heated and cooled, you will understand
how global warming can have an impact.

Ah, yes, another global warming expert. Notice what the scientists said just 30 years ago:

http://www.globalclimate.org/Newsweek.htm
FROM
Newsweek
April 28, 1975 	Studies
Facts & Figures
Selected Links
Weather
Health
The Cooling World

   There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have
   begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a
   drastic decline in food production-- with serious political
   implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food
   output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The
   regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing
   lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number
   of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas -- parts of India,
   Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia -- where the growing
   season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.

   The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to
   accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to
   keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season
   decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall
   loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons
   annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the
   equator has risen by a fraction of a degree -- a fraction that in
   some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most
   devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters
   killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars'
   worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.

   To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the
   advance signs of fundamental changes in the world's
   weather. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the
   trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather
   conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the
   trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the
   century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the
   pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic. "A
   major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments
   on a worldwide scale," warns a recent report by the National
   Academy of Sciences, "because the global patterns of food
   production and population that have evolved are implicitly
   dependent on the climate of the present century."

   A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National
   Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a
   degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere
   between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia
   University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in
   Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a
   study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the
   amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental
   U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972.

   To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and
   sunshine can be highly misleading. Reid Bryson of the University of
   Wisconsin points out that the Earth's average temperature during
   the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during
   its warmest eras -- and that the present decline has taken the
   planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average. Others
   regard the cooling as a reversion to the "little ice age"
   conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and
   northern America between 1600 and 1900 -- years when the Thames used
   to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and
   when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New
   York City.

   Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a
   mystery. "Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at
   least as fragmentary as our data," concedes the National Academy of
   Sciences report. "Not only are the basic scientific questions
   largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to
   pose the key questions."

   Meteorologists think that they can forecast the short-term results
   of the return to the norm of the last century. They begin by noting
   the slight drop in overall temperature that produces large numbers
   of pressure centers in the upper atmosphere. These break up the
   smooth flow of westerly winds over temperate areas. The stagnant
   air produced in this way causes an increase in extremes of local
   weather such as droughts, floods, extended dry spells, long
   freezes, delayed monsoons and even local temperature increases --
   all of which have a direct impact on food supplies.

   "The world's food-producing system," warns Dr. James D. McQuigg of
   NOAA's Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment, "is much
   more sensitive to the weather variable than it was even five years
   ago." Furthermore, the growth of world population and creation of
   new national boundaries make it impossible for starving peoples to
   migrate from their devastated fields, as they did during past
   famines.

   Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any
   positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to
   allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular
   solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering
   it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create
   problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see
   few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to
   take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the
   variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of
   future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more
   difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the
   results become grim reality.
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