Where do you live, and has it actually gotten warmer there since 1870?

Central valley of california - actually a little bit cooler 3-4 degrees

I live in Berkeley but I haven't lived here long enough to notice any temperature changes. I've only been alive since 1986 too...but according to my half sister this is the coldest and wettest summer she ever remembers in Oklahoma. I haven't been home since May, but every year that I remember the summers in Oklahoma were scorching hot and full of droughts and fires. My sister says that this year it's been raining almost every day, she was wearing jackets well into June and it's still only in the 80s. Normal for this time of year would be 100+ degrees. Last winter was unusually cold there too (the ice storms made the news).

Personally I think that the thermohaline conveyor is beginning to shut down and we might be in for another cold period similar to the Little Ice Age. If this is the case, it would make sense that some regions are still getting warmer while others are getting colder. I've heard that his has been a cool summer for the UK too, which would be the first area to feel the effects of a thermohaline shutdown. I'm curious to see what the scientists record for this year.

North New Jersey and it has definitely gotten warmer. I've been living here for 45 years and at first we used to get 4 to 6 inches of snow a week, every week plus we'd get big storms and blizzards on top of that, we get nothing like that now, yes we do still get storms but not on a weekly basis like before. This year we didn't get any measurable snow until the middle of Feb., the first time that ever happened.

It's gotten warmer in Newport Beach, CA where I live. We have also received less than 3.5 inches of rain the past 12 months. The lowest amount since rainfall amonts were first recorded in the 1870's.

1909 57.330000

1910 59.980000

1911 59.740000

1912 59.680000

1913 59.920000

2001 60.480000

2002 61.860000

2003 74.180000

2004 73.960000

2005 62.040000

I live in Sweden and yes, the statistics shows it has been getting warmer here since 1870.

You need to look at the global average temperature to know if the world is cooling or warming. If the temperature has been decreasing in US it only means that other areas has got an even higher temperature increase than the average raise.

Your question is concerned with LOCAL warming not GLOBAL warming. The real dangers of GLOBAL warming is not that it might get a little warmer where any one person lives, but the possibility of drastically altering the oceans and significantly impacting weather patterns. If you would do a little actual research into the problem you would know this...

Oh, and according to the website you linked to, it is getting warmer where Iive.

I live on Earth and it's definitely getting warmer here!

Ice coverage of our two polls has decreased by 1.2% (a huge amount) in the last fifty years.

This doesn't happen unless the planet is warming up!

The clue is in the name 'Global' warming, nations and regions are irrelevant to the debate.

I live in the upper midwest. I remember the years 1964, 1976, and 1988 being way hotter and dryer than normal. No year since has quite compared to those three.

I don't know about since 1870 cuz I haven't been here that long but just in the last few years, I can tell that the summers are getting hotter and more humid. The winters are also getting shorter and less cold. I live in South Mississippi by the way.

"I'm in Louisville....(listed as Shelbyville in the database) and I'm REALLY more concerned about Global COOLING!!!!"

No you're not, unless you really think Louisville is the entire world.

It doesn't matter if an isolated location is getting a little cooler. You're still going to be hit by the effects of global warming like everyone else. More heat waves, droughts, more severe rain and snowstorms, water shortages, food shortages, stronger hurricanes if you live near the coast, etc.

It's not the slight temperature increase that anyone is worried about - it's the effects that go with that temperature increase.