Is it fair to ask about "Global Warming" during record snows in Las Vegas & New Orleans?

Sure, it's fair to ask any question at any time. It might be stupid and/or ignorant, but it's fair!

The extremely cold weather now gripping the US is a direct result of AGW. The oceans are warming,and evaporating more water. That changes the path of the jet stream. Now it is going straight north, into the Arctic. It then dips due south, carrying polar cold with it. That is wreaking havoc all across the US. Last week, it was warmer in Barrow, Alaska, then it was in most of the northern US. That is the jet stream pumping warmer air into the Arctic.

If you want to try a simple experiment to see this in action, try this....

Get some frozen corn or peas. Dump them in a bowl. Add cold water,wait a few minutes. What happened to the frozen veggies?

They all froze together ,along with a lot of the water. That is what is going on in the current weather. As the poles get warmer, the cold spreads southward, freezing as it goes. If it is normally -5, and it warms to +28, the ice may not melt, but the cold is now covering a much larger area. As the Earth goes through it's normal seasons, the effects of AGW will become more and more evident, and deadly !

Today in Seattle ,we are expecting a friggin hurricane ! Sustained winds over 70 miles an hour with gusts over 90! Temps will be in the teens, with a foot of new snow ! Normally, it's in the 40's with rain.

The ever widening parameters of severe weather records is a clear indicator of AGW. How cold is too cold? How much rain is too much?

Each year, we get stronger, and stranger weather. It won't take much more adversity before modern life becomes very difficult. Seattle is going to be at a standstill for days after this storm. The one last week was a record breaker, now here comes a worse one ! Whats next?

Hi J S!!

NO, it does not matter if glaciers are crushing your house, global warming based on 100 years of speculation and observation is real...

Lots of people participated in the Global Warming "scientific consensus." The group includes, but is not limited to, people like....Jim Hansen, Al Gore, Ban Ki Moon, Joesph Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Stephanie Miller, Barbara Boxer, Roosh Limboosh, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Lynn Woolsey, Carol Migden, Dianne Feinstein, Leon Trotsky, and Hank the Angry Drunken Eco-Dwarf. These folks are much smarter than all of us combined and when they say anthropogenic C02 (ppm) X (fudge factor) = global climate, they are right, even if they express climate in terms of degrees C.

"Was Dr. Hansen simply lucky to predict ongoing cold weather (with the hotter phase of the El Nino Southern Oscillation not returning until '09/'10), or was his prediction right?"

I do not see any signs of El Nino, so how can you say he got this prediction right. As for his weather predictions in January of the La Nina once it had hit, any amateur meteorologist could have done that. Now of he had predicted this downturn in temperatures two years ago, I would have given him credit.

Yes its Global warming. With the polar ice caps melting especially the north pole the air flow and jet streams are being altered. Since ice mass is declining there is more evaporation and precipitation entering the atmosphere.

OK, let's simplify the logic a little bit. My roommate Rich was listening to his favorite radio program on the way to work one day and Rush was talking about consensus, so Rich decided to do a little experiment. He stopped at the hardware store and bought a thermometer, which he hung up over his station at work. For three months, beginning in September, he measured the temperature at his work station at the end of the work day, then again the following morning. In September, the daily average was 87 degrees at the end of the work day and 64 the following morning. In October, the daily average was 84 degrees at the end of the work day and 61 degrees the following morning. In November, the daily average was 77 degrees at the end of the work day and 59 the following morning.

As you can see, Rich's work activities did not result in rising temperatures after an eight hour period for three consecutive months. This proves conclusively that mankind's activities do not affect the climate.

I heard a similar theory from a professor but I believe his source of info was nasa (as well). According to my professor we're just experiencing a global cool down after a warm up

Global warming doesn't necessarily mean "increase in temperature." It means "greenhouse gasses screwing up the ozone layer, melting glaciers, and screwed up weather." Remember the movie The Day After Tomorrow? Huge snow storm that killed everyone. Global warming.

No! you are really putting some believers on the spot.

They might have went through the same brainwashing that one person I know. He thinks that whenever record snow or cold happens it is just another sign of Global warming. He tried to explain it to me but, common sense kept me from seeing it his way.

It is a scientific fact that everything and anything is caused by global warming. Therefore, anything that happens proves global warming.