I know that I will get some environmentalist upset by this title, so I will apologize in advance. I think I am just very angry by the fact that it’s April 21st, and it’s COLD! I mean, it’s almost winter weather cold. I find this to be pretty unacceptable.
North Eastern Weather
Living in the North East, I always heard how wonderful it is to have 4 seasons. That’s what the North Easterner’s boast about! They’ll say “I could never move out of the area. I would miss the 4 seasons”. But I got to tell ya…we don’t seem to be having 4 seasons anymore! I’ll go as far as saying that we only have TWO seasons. Summer and Winter. And the majority of those two seasons I have to believe falls to Winter, so this is when I have to ask….Should we really be worrying about global warming?
Personally, I think it’s actually getting colder year after year. This year, the cold set in at the end of October, and so far it seems to be continuing through April. What is that about? 7 months of cold?? That’s over half the year! So what now? We get a week or two of mild weather and then we jump straight into the hot summer days. Personally I would be happy with the 3 seasons. Spring, Summer and Fall, but it looks like Winter is dominating.
So this post is really just a rant about my hatred for the weather we are currently having. I have never really lived anywhere but the North East, but do you think that the weather has been changing elsewhere too? Feel free to comment here about anything weather related. I know there is nothing I can do to change it, but sometimes it just feels good to complain!
Ice caps are melting at alarming rates and the wild life in those areas are suffering for it. There is obviously something going on. Global warming or not, the pollution in the environment is without a doubt adversely affecting the planet.
All that aside I think if you look at weather patterns for the last twenty years you will see warm spells and cold ones. We hadn’t had a tough winter in years, and this seems to be our time for a cold spell.
It sucks. But I guess that is part of living in the North East.
In addition:
People don’t really understand Global Warming. It isn’t about everywhere having warmer weather.
Global warming is an increase in the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes).
When you look at the average temperature of the earth’s atmospehere for the last 100 years, you can see a significant increase.
The theorizing comes in when you look at the global climate and the changes that we have seen over the last few decades. Our climate is changing, the 4 seasons is becoming more like 2. Just like the GW and environmentalist community predicted would happen 20 years ago.
Increasing global temperature will cause sea levels to rise and will change the amount and pattern of precipitation, probably including expansion of subtropical deserts. The continuing retreat of glaciers, permafrost and sea ice is expected, with the Arctic region being particularly affected. Other likely effects include shrinkage of the Amazon rainforest and Boreal forests, increases in the intensity of extreme weather events, species extinctions and changes in agricultural yields.
The latter is not theory, it is fact. It is already happening.
It would lead to us having colder weather, not warmer weather and in other parts of the world they would have warmer versus colder.
We have industrialized and bastardized the planet over the last 100 years like it has never seen before and we have to stop.
How’s the view atop that ole soapbox sol?
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Soapbox? I did point out in my first post that it is totally possible it is just another cold weather pattern. I also stated that climate change’s affects are THEORIZED. Meaning theory, not fact.
Meaning that isn’t necessarily Ie. Global Warming/Climate Change that is making all these things happen. In the grand scheme of things it could collectively be completely unrelated to greenhouse gas emissions but to ignore the changing atmosphere and the changes to the climate of the planet as a whole is ignorant and stupid. To ignore the pollution of the planet would also be incredibly dumb. I think everyone can agree on that.
I can agree to that. Things do need to change. I’m just upset that it’s still cold:( That makese me sad.
Quoting Sol-
“When you look at the AVERAGE (my emphasis) temperature of the earth’s atmospehere for the last 100 years, you can see a significant increase.”
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“It would lead to us having colder weather, not warmer weather and in other parts of the world they would have warmer versus colder.”
I’m sorry, I’m am not specifically a mathematician. But I can do this one in my head though- if some people get warmer weather, and some people get colder weather, the average WILL be a net change of ZERO.
I guess we both agree that no, we do not understand!
The effects of Global Warming is getting much stronger these days. We should concentrate more on alternative energy to reduce carbon emissions.