Has global warming stopped?

do I need to send Al Gore over there to your place to smack the silly right out your head? I will. Don't make me do it.

The article claims that, "There has been no net increase in global temperatures in 2007," though how they know this is quite beyond me.

In order to establish a statistically meaningful trend, the signal in your data must be greater than the noise (the noise is the "random" part of the data). Since temperatures fluctuate well over 15ºC over the course of a year, any trend would need to be larger. However, the upward trend in global temperatures scientists speak of is approximately 0.007ºC per year. Any trend you managed to locate in a year's worth of data would fail statistical significance tests. That is, you might be able to find a negative trend in the data, but it would be showing cooling in the noise, not the signal.

Of course, the article doesn't even go that far, does it? contends that 2007 was an especially cold year due to a few cold snaps. This can easily be proven false by looking at the National Climate Data Center's analysis of 2007 (the Jan-Nov period, since Dec. isn't over yet). According to it, 2007 is shaping up to be the 4th warmest on record since accurate surface temperature readings were first taken.

Global warming does not cause the hole in the ozone, and the ozone hole does not significantly contribute to global warming. You people need to read a freakin' book and educate yourselves on the subject, and not just spout off about things you have no idea about.

NO, this is ridiculous. So, apparently some people believe that global warming should be noticeable in only 6 years? The theory behind global warming is non refutable, how long it will take is.

No. It has not stopped. In fact it is still and effect. Carbon emissions in the air is really affecting the climate of the world. Later you will notice that sea level s have risen to a point where floods conquer the coastline areas. Thats why Al Gore and other conservatives of nature are fighting to reduce the carbon in the air.

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I hope this answers your questions.

hmm, is your head on right?! the bush administration is denying the truth about global warming. To answer your question, NO it has not stopped, it's not gonna stop until ppl get it straight that burning fossil fuels causes climate change, DUHH!!! it's like if you go under a blanket. your body heat, is trapped in the blanket, in this case green house gases. ppl need to find an alternative fuel!!! i didn't buy 2 solar panels just for a bunch of dumb asses to hide the "myth" about global warming, it is no longer a myth, it's a crisis. And if we don't fight it, our children are gonna be the ones to pay for it!!!

hat article is appalling

not only does it totally lack sources and misrepresent scientific data

but it completely fails to mention, let alone take account of, El Nino and La Nina.

1998 was the warmest year on record , 2007 is set to equal its temperature. BUT in 2007 La Nina has been in its Cooling phase, whereas in 1998 it was not. Without La Nina 2007 and years past would have been much warmer.

Uh..... is this a trick question? Why don't you read more than one source? Where I was educated, they taught us to read a range of sources and think for our own selves. Do you believe or let yourself be influenced so very easily by every thing or the first thing that you read? How do you choose what you read? Or do you read what your ma and pa influence you, or your church or synagogue or mosque influence you to read, or what the state or corporations influence you to read? I don't mean to be smart, just honestly wondering how you come to think the way you seem to think.

Yes and no. Depends on when you ask this q. when you read it, and when you answer it.

Also depends on the season, the time of day or night, and what else is happening in the solar system and universe and galaxy.

And it depends on our Creator and the Higher Power. Or it does not.

If everything you can see is covered by snow, and your power lines are down, I suppose you could be forgiven for thinking that "global warming" had stopped.

It is far too early to say. Look at the graph at

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/recenttc_... You can interpret this for yourself but it seems to me that the trend line (blue) might have leveled off but you will see that it has done this before - for about fifteen years (1960-75) - but then resumed the rise.

It stops here every night the sun goes down.