Global Warming

[randybpt]

How ironic that the same government that is pushing global warming down our throats. Now have the most snow ever recorded. Wonder if gore has made a snowman.

[wxdata]

Here's an interesting read. In my opinion, the "it's all man's fault" group's directive of "if you don't side with us, then you're our enemy" has hurt both sides of this issue.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/scien ... rming.html

[TexasMetBlake]

Very interesting! I find myself in the same boat as many other tv meteorologists. The atmosphere is far too complex for any one model to accurately predict what the future holds. The smallest of errors today is magnified hundreds of times a century down the road. There's just no conclusive evidence in my opinion that shows we are the problem. CO2 is such a minute gas in the atmosphere. It makes up a VERY small percentage (.038%)! Water vapor, the king of green house gases, makes up a much larger percentage--1% on average.

For a thesis, I thought about looking at pressure patterns. Since temperature is related closely to pressure, why not look at ASOS' readings from selected stations and seeing if a pattern emerges. See if an a given average pressure in 1950 had increased or decreased over time. It was just an idea and not sure if it can be done. I'm going to talk this over with my professors and a few local tv mets I know to get their opinion.

[desiredwxgd]

Having done my undergrad in environmental science I can tell you (as you already know) global warming is a touchy subject. Having spent the better part of 5 yrs studying this here’s my thoughts on the subject:

Are some places warming? Yes. Are some ice caps melting? Yes. Is the Earth warming as a whole? NO! While true there are places around the globe that are warmer what many “scientists” (or wanna be scientists [politicians, film-makers, etc.]) don’t mention is that the Earth as an average is cooler or at the very least neutral when compared to past data. I’m inclined to agree with a cooling trend myself and actually believe that before we see a significant “global warming” the planet will see an ice age first.

Another thing that boggles my mind is the topic of “greenhouse gasses”. What these “scientists” fail to mention is that they are naturally occurring gasses. We need these gasses to survive. For example, CO2 (carbon dioxide). Without it, guess what? The plants aren’t able to go through photosynthesis and make C6H12O6 (glucose) (energy or fuel for the plants), they don’t produce O2 (oxygen) which we must have and the plant dies. Now we have no O2, the animals don’t feed and if we were to survive without O2 it really wouldn’t matter because our food sources are dying. Now I will admit that we have caused an increase in CO2 levels which do “trap” or absorb” heat but as to what extent I think only time will answer that.

Anyway, just a quick thought on this.

[wxdata]

This is something that Dr. Frank had said in many of his talks- an increase in C02 is not necessarily a bad thing. A 'greening' of the planet is not a bad thing. I've written this before but if the atmosphere were a one hundred dollar bill, C02 is only one penny of that.

[unome]

Joe Bastardi discusses the issue on Colbert: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colber ... a-ekwurzel

[wxdata]

Here's another view point on the winter temperatures. NOAA/NASA say this winter was very warm globally, Bastardi says not so fast.....

http://www.accuweather.com/video/757175 ... g_bastardi

[TexasMetBlake]

This is hilarious. Houston gets love, too...twice!

http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2010 ... rologists/

[Ptarmigan]

Earth's climate changes all the time and for many reasons, from current changes, atmospheric patterns, solar patterns, and continental drifts. If we lived in a supercontinent like Pangaea, the climate would be much warmer.

[wxdata]

Here's an interesting video from Joe Bastardi. He contrasts the forecasted global temperatures to what really has happened.

http://www.accuweather.com/video/813366 ... g_bastardi