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Weird weather around the world
In the middle of the desert, snowflakes are falling. Of all places, it was snowing this morning in Baghdad, which made headlines in publications like the New York Times and TIME Magazine. Some people interviewed said they've never heard of snow in Baghdad while others say it's been at least forty years.That alone is a strange enough incident. But get this. It's spring-time in New York City. How's that for topsy turvy. This week, when New Yorkers should have been bundled up in their wool scarves and rubber boots, they've been walking around in t-shirts.
Is this another ominous sign of global warming? As someone who's grown up in snowy states, I seem to remember winters a decade ago being much colder--and snowier (hope that's a word)--than what's been going on the last couple years. Or is this just my already fuzzy memory?
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bill Jun 18th 2009 1:13PM
Hi i'm from ct. and we haven't had a full day of sun in 128 days, tornado's in the west are real bad, and 3 weeks ago we got a torado in ct. witch is very rare, can the north atlanctic flow be slowing down? i see more cold fronts this spring pushing down from the north, more than i ever seen , or is god getting mad at humanity for all the vile acts you decide.
Justin Glow Jan 11th 2008 5:05PM
Last week it was in the 70s where I'm at, and we had 15 or so tornadoes in one day. In January.
But this week it's back down to the 40s.
John Jan 11th 2008 5:22PM
When it last snowed in Baghdad in the 1960s, was global warming to blame? Whenever you hear of the record temperatures for winter's day and they tell you that the last time it was this warm was in the 1930s, was global warming to blame?
Everytime it snows in Jerusalem (about every decade) I read the same surprised headlines. People also forget that the stories of brutally cold winters in New England and huge snowfalls in London occurred during what scientists called 'The little Ice Age" that wasn't normal either.
Julia Jan 12th 2008 1:19AM
There has been global warming since the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century. The "little ice age" took place during this time period. See a coincidence?
John in Michigan, USA Jan 12th 2008 6:18AM
I'm sorry, but Julia is incorrect. Prior to the 1940's (World War II) the human contribution to greenhouse gases was negligible, according to the *all* the IPCC reports.
Also, so far, the total amount of global temperature change (from all causes, human and natural) is LESS than 1 degree C. The change is too small to sense it from anecdotal data ("it feels warmer outside" or "gee, the weather is odd"), you can only measure it statistically.
All of the above is the mainstream scientific consensus, although the newspapers won't report it.
My opinion is similar to the other poster named John, which is that current warming (which stopped in 1998!) is not too different from previous, historical warming periods during which the human influence was undetectable.
BJ May 8th 2008 1:42PM
If Global Warming is such a farce, how do you explain the melting glaciers? How do you explain evidence from ice cores and tree rings that show the last decade of the 20th century to be the hottest in a thousand years? I stopped questioning a global warm up after I learned about glaciers that are thousands of years old that are melting off at alarming rates. If this type of warm up was business as usual, those glaciers would have melted off long ago. Also, there's been evidence that shows a Universal Warming not just Global.
Lets go from "Ok" to "Why?" Jun 26th 2009 6:16AM
No one said Global Warming isnt happening. Most of the planets in our Solar system are warming up. I mean even mars has melting Icecaps (Look for yourslef, research) so do you think we're responsible for Carbon in space?
Global warming is a NATURAL accurance, Blaming it on us means they get to tax the crap out of us. And really think about this, they moan moan moan, blame us, fine us, tax us. But has it solved anything? Or just made a small group of people very rich...
We're forced to recycle, Guilted into turning our appliances off, and riding bikes instead of using the Cars that THEY sell to us, ive even heard some places are blaming CHILDREN for Co2. And Cows, because of Methane.... All of these applications assure one thing, PROFIT. Blame us, Scare us, Tax us.
You can't throw money into the Atmosphere to scare away the heat. If we instead sent the money into means of Dealing with the change in weather rather then trying to point the finger. Im sure many lives could be saved...
Its time we started to questioning what we're told. If we did everything the covernment said they would have us working 24/7 paying untold taxes and never asking "Why?" (A close friend of mine pays 40% Income tax already!!!! he loses WAY over a grand every month!! and he works in a factory risking his life to earn it every day!) When comman sence says "Hmm that doesnt sound right" its usually not..
ITS ALL ABOUT PROFIT