Correlation between global warming and weather?

"global warming" is a stupid argument, "Climate Change" is not. The earths temperatures fluctuate over periods of years. Could be tens, hundreds, thousands, or millions of years but they fluctuate from cold to hot, back to cold, and repeat the cycle over and over again. "Global Warming" is the argument that man has caused the recent rise in temperatures (from the late 1800's or from the 1970's depending on the study) and that we are the cause for this whole period of warming. Funny, just yesterday I read an article that the warming cycle stopped in 1995 and there has been missing proof and botched evidence since then... Anyway, if you look at large graphs of the actual "climate change" that goes on here on earth, you will see that we are not even at the top of our warming cycle. The earth has actually been quite a bit warmer than it is now (even though it was a few million years ago) and it may take another million years or more to get up to that point. Then we will probably see the decrease in temperatures back down to an ice age, which, in fact, there was a mini ice age during the dark ages due to a number of things such as a volcano erupting in South America.

There is also another argument that there may even be an ice age coming up in the next 60 years! But who really knows? Warming and cooling is caused by so many different factors, that most of the "proof" out there is really just speculation and people trying to forecast the future. Has your local T.V. weather guys been wrong when forecasting the temperatures or the weather for the week? I am almost certain that they haven't. They may have been close most of the time, but sometimes, they are waaaay off. Another thing that is believed to cause temperature change, are "sunspots" on our sun. So with all of these variables, how do scientists really know what is going on? They don't have sensors that measure everything, that are placed all around the earth every square foot apart! And how reliable is each sensor? some are better than others, and all will wear out over time. So what do we really know about our planet at all? The new huge amounts of snow prove that there is climate change going on, because we didn't see it last year, but it also doesn't disprove anything.

Another thing to consider, is why would scientist want you to believe that humans are the cause and that we need to fix it? Well, a simple answer is where do you think funding for these scientists and universities come from? Some of it is private, but most universities around the world rely on government funding. So, if you can get more money from the government for your research, then you are set! I think the "global warming" scam is just one way to get ignorant tax payers to pay the government, to fund the research on the subject. The researchers can use the money for their "global warming" research and they will probably use it for other things as well, both good and bad for humans. Then again, am I just speculating on what they are doing???

Naturally people will tell you that there is. The reality is that climate change is both slow and subtle. Climate is in effect the total of weather variation over a very long time, the range of parameters and various statistical measures of temperature etc.. The theory (hypothesis strictly) is that since the heat accumulated each day needs to be returned to space somehow and the amount radiated out has dropped then convection currents must increase. But this is a day by day effect and if it works then there is no increase in global temperature. Naturally only extreme weather events could be linked to global warming, not other natural disasters and unfortunately there is no real indication that these clusters of storms are anything new. It is next to impossible to detect changes in climate in the short term, only changes in weather patterns. The trouble in admitting that global warming has occurred (at least up until1985) and it certainly appears to have since 1700; is that some people then say that that proves that man is responsible and that it will dramatically change the climate. Now man may well have contributed to the various warming and cooling events that we have seen but not all of it and the links to climate are better than science fiction , just. I could generate a graph but I would be just messing with your head, you would be surprised how much of that goes on.

It isn't global warming or cooling or climate change, it's the El Nino current. You probably think I'm crazy, but check out the NOAA link. It actually explains it. I live in Washington where we are affected whenever there is an El Nino. We have warmer rainy weather the years there is a current and deep snow during regular years. For whatever reason, this year it is especially strong and has pushed jet streams into unusual places, so places that usually don't get cold or snow got a surprise this year. I don't know why weather people or newscasters don't bother to explain it, it really isn't a secret.

I'm not sure where you are, but if you are in the east or southeast it's because 2010 is a strong El Nino year. El Nino causes drier and warmer weather than usual in the pacific northwest and colder weather in the east and southeast. It's associated with warmer than average temperatures in the Pacific and that affects weather from the Pacific islands to Africa. El Ninos have been known to occur for over 300 years, but in the last couple of decades they've become much more frequent; this is at least the fourth one since 2000 and there were four or five in the 90s. Coupled with a decrease in La Ninas (the cooler Pacific temperature counterpart), this trend suggests that there is warming.

I am getting equally annoyed by global warming deniers who claim the snow in DC proves it's a hoax and believers who claim no snow in Vancouver proves it's true. Both are oversimplifications. I think most people are smart enough to understand that the Gulf Stream causes the British Isles, Scotland in particular, to be warmer than their latitude would suggest. Sure, phenomenon like El Nino and the effects of rising sea temperatures are much more complicated but it's a lot of the same principles. Apparently politicos and the news are too stupid to get it or they think we're too stupid to get it.

It's the most snow where YOU are.

Find some news about the Olympics, and you'll learn they didn't get their usual snow in Vancouver.

One of the effects of global warming is increasingly wacky weather (which is what we've been having for years).

The change to Earth's temperature has led to there being more H2O in the atmosphere (hence, more snow), and has made the jet stream take huge, unusual dips (which is why the snow is further south than usual).

I have been wishing major news organizations would explain all this to people. The insane weather is further evidence the scientists have been correct about global climate change -- even though it seems counter-intuitive that warming leads to more snow and cold.

The overall, average temperature of the Earth is increasing -- changing weather patterns all over the place.

I haven't been there in a while,but you might try looking at

http://www.newscientist.com/ -- go to the Instant Expert: Climate page. (This computer is too old and clunky, and freezes on sites that have fancy stuff on them, so I can't get the direct link for you.)

A slow, long-term average increase in surface temperature of a planet would be expected to cause wider and wider swings in localized weather patterns on the surface of that planet. So if Earth was warming (which it appears to be), we should expect records to be broken more often than in the past for both "hottest" and "coldest" days for any particular locality.

Weather is cyclical. When I was kid, I remember snow up to my knee caps for most of the winter and it sure was cold. That was forty years ago. If weather wasn't cyclical, then how could the Old Farmers Almanac predict this months heavy snows and blizzards?

Its Global climate change and just because the polar ice caps are all 75% gone, the drastic changes are getting worse, because of air and water currents all over the globe so expect record cold winters and record hot summers, and no its not all caused by Humans, its the Sun and Earth cycles a lot of it

The whole debate by the left to nationalize our lives will re-package the global warming into things like: global warming is causing the cold weather because...whatever sounds plausible that day. There are millions of GW Lemmings out there along with millions that profit off the spin-off of same like books, movies, government grants, ETC.

Global warming causes climate change.

Weather is not climate.