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A Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow
Ponca City, We love you writes "NPR reports that with snow blanketing much of the country, the topic of global warming has become the butt of jokes; but for scientists who study the climate, there's no contradiction between a warming world and lots of snow. 'The fact that the oceans are warmer now than they were, say, 30 years ago means there's about on average 4 percent more water vapor lurking around over the oceans than there was... in the 1970s,' says Kevin Trenberth, a prominent climate scientist. 'So one of the consequences of a warming ocean near a coastline like the East Coast and Washington, DC, for instance, is that you can get dumped on with more snow partly as a consequence of global warming.' Increased snowfall also fits a pattern suggested by many climate models, in which rising temperatures increase the amount of atmospheric moisture, bringing more rain in warmer conditions and more snow in freezing temperatures."
...under a layer of ice, did the wooly mamoths drive SUVs?
and even *if* the earth is warming, who are we to say that "right here and right now" is the "right" temperature for the earth?
The only measurable data that we have only goes back about 150 years, and even then its been manipulated as exposed by climategate. Temperature probes placed by asphault parking lots or by air conditioner vents have been scewing the data for years.
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Actually, when it bounces back up it is due to inertia but thanks for playing.
Inertia that was originally provided by gravity.
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Here's a thought, even if the world temperature IS rising, thermometers have only existed since the 1500's, mercury since 1724, and the Fahrenheit scale itself has gone through something like a half dozen revisions. You are assuming that instruments from 100 years ago ACROSS THE FRIGGING PLANET are all calibrated and accurate, because YES since global warming is a game of single degrees, ACCURACY COUNTS!!!!!! If everyone's thermometer was 1 degree off (or more!), how the flying fuck do you know, well, anything about the last hundred years in temperature? You're assuming equal scales and a very high level of precision in tools that were still primitive by our own standard today. This alone does not even take into account the further issue that different Fahrenheit scales would cause even more chaos in the results when converted to celsius and kelvin, making the different scales completely indistinguishable, and using a scale based on a much more accurate hypothesis of quantifiable heat. If your data is shit, your results are even less useful
I call bullshit!
That CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and its increased concentration does lead to overall increase in average temperature.
There is no such thing as a greenhouse gas! There are gases that cause a greenhouse effect! CO2 is not even the worst, water vapor is!
Until you get that right, I have no time for you. The normal state of the Universe is Freaking COLD, I for one would rather be warm. There are more reports out that say LIFE will improve with a little warming. So I for one say bring it on, Let the third world have some cheap energy by burning coal and oil. Would you have them suffer with no standard of living increase by charging them for "Green Tech" they can not afford and we should not have to pay for? We can save more people by giving them POWER and WATER then by NOT. NOW who is the HATER?? you freaking AGW nutcases that is who.
Lastly, even if it is TRUE, there is NOTHING you or the INDEED the WHOLE of the EARTH can do about it. DO you get THAT, NOTHING!