Is Global Warming Real?

The whole story is right now 120 Comments long. This is a comment thread between me and a PhD in astrophysics. Google his book "The Many Faces of the Sun." Video: Al Gore and New York Times have teamed up to explain the current cold weather extremes the world has been having for the last ten years. New York TImes: Global Warming is Causing Cold Weather author of "The Many Faces of the Sun

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[AlaskaFreeman]

The whole story is right now 120 Comments long. This is a comment thread between me and a PhD in astrophysics. Google his book "The Many Faces of the Sun."

[AlaskaFreeman]

You cite a few local weather extremes, meanwhile other parts of the globe are suffering heat waves. You forget to mention those. While it was unusually cold in the eastern US, western Europe, and Australia, the climate was setting record temperatures in Canada, Greenland, Russia, Asia, Africa. Check it out at the NOAA NCDC website - climate monitoring - look at the monthly maps global temperature maps - a sea of large red dots warmer than average with a few blue dots cooler than average

[AlaskaFreeman]

@drkstrong From Alaska to Las Vegas to Florida to New York and then to England and all over two year period, I think that’s an area of about 50,000 square miles. Hardly local! .

[AlaskaFreeman]

@drkstrong More red dots then blue. Wow, did you go to climate school in England too. Temperatures fluctuate constantly all throughout history. That is a Fact. There is no way to prove which factor is or is not having an effect on the climate. That’s the problem. My point is, unless you have some kind of proof one way or the other, shut up.

[AlaskaFreeman]

@drkstrong

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[AlaskaFreeman]

@AlaskaFreeman "temperatures fluctuate constantly all throw-out history": TRUE ." There is no way to prove which factor is or is not having an effect on the climate" UNTRUE. Each factor has a specific finger print (Sun, CRs, GHGs, Ocean currents, Oscillations) you can match the nature of the warming with the fingerprint and eliminate everything except GHGs or th ebulk of the warming in the last 50 years - even the most sceptical climatologists agree on that.

[AlaskaFreeman]

@drkstrong There is no science formula out there that can prove for a fact what future temperatures are going to be. There are also, a million deferent variables that could be making the world hotter and there is a million-billion deferent factors that could be making the world colder.

[AlaskaFreeman]

@AlaskaFreeman Global temperatures change for a variety of reasons - local temperatures change for even more reasons. You are talking about 1 place at one time - I am talking about 85% of the worlds glaciers are retreating - that does not leave the deniers much wiggle room does it?

[AlaskaFreeman]

@AlaskaFreeman According to NOAA NCDC for November 2010 (latest data available) the % of the US that was classified as very cold or record cold (i.e. well below average temperature) was only 0.63% - about 20,000 sq miles. leaving the other 3.3M sq miles to be average. Whereas the average classified as very warm for the year so far has been about 20% area which is equivalent to about 700,000 sq miles (data from NOAA NCDC - climate monitoring - state of the climate - national overview - areas).

[AlaskaFreeman]

Again me From Alaska to Las Vegas to Florida to New York and then to England and all over two year period, I think that’s an area of about 50,000 square miles. Hardly local!