If the earth has been warming for 100 years, why hasn't Chaska, MN?

maybe it's not

A couple of degrees doesn't sound much does it but nature is very finely balanced. A one degree rise in temperatures can turn ice in to water, it's the trigger that starts migrations, signals hibernation, it's the difference between a dry day and a wet day, a flood and a drought, plants growing or not growing, animals surviving or becoming extinct. If we take freezing point as a baseline then a 2 degree rise in temperature is the same as a 14% rise in temperature, the difference now becomes more apparent. There is a need to act immediately. So far America and Europe have been spared the worst of the effects of global warming and less than half a million people have died as a result. Go to Africa and Asia and it's a very different story. Here many millions of people have been directly affected as a result of famines, floods, droughts, desertification, rising sea levels etc. There is already a massive economic impact. Sir Nicholas Stern the former Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank calculated that global warming is presently costing the world $600 billion a year, a figure that's expected to rise to $4.2 trillion a year of nothing is done. Most of the time we don't notice these costs - $0.10 on a loaf of bread to make up for crop failures, $10 on annual insurance premiums to cover extra losses through floods, $5 on taxes to pay for the cost of fire departments tackling wild fires. These things go unnoticed because they're just one part of a larger cost but when they're all added together the cost is substantial. Global warming made it onto the world stage in 1988, in 20 years we've done almost nothing to prevent it getting worse. We've put it off for long enough, the costs are spiralling, lives are being lost, the damage is mounting. If we don't act now things are going to get much worse.

where did you get the data that shows chaska is cooling?

also global warming is not a farce. study a bit of geology and you will see that warming and cooling of the earth is a cycle of nature. to look at one small town is equivilent of saying the dr. tells me my cancer is spreading but look at my the hair on my big toe doing just fine.

Because "Global Warming" is a farce...

A bunch of climatologists decided in committee that global warming may be happening.....

This kind of climactic change is cyclical.. every 50-80 years it gets warmer, colder, warmer, colder...

I think Mother Nature is a LOT more resiliant than we give her credit for.

IDK, but I'd love to be there now. Its getting pretty warm here in Indy.