Why don't you give people the chance to respond to you before you dismiss them?

Pfft. That's what I thought.

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From my understanding, to raise the Earth's average atmospheric temperature, each year will have to be hotter and hotter than the last. I'm talking about record breaking highs.

I don't know if Nature has been doing that in the past few months or so though.[/SIZE]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

Yup!

Whats happening with weather in the States now is a result of El Nino.

You have no clue how the science works, apparently. This one study may be based on a single core, but its not like this is the only one that has ever been done.

I am el nino!

Bill wins the thread.

That has to be the most... awesome thing I've seen all day...

Okay, seriously. I'm twenty-five. When I can say "We don't have winters like we used to when I was a kid.", that's not cool. When I can say "We don't have winters like we used to about seven years ago.", that's really screwed up. I wouldn't be worried about it if the weather patterns followed some kind of pattern other than the pattern where they become increasingly erratic as the years pass. Back in my younger years, I remember how things used to be a bit more predictable from year to year. You could expect snow to stick around for a while, for thunderstorms to appear in a certain window, and there was always a good solid week of sub-zero temperatures about this time in January. Ebb and flow, man. No, it wasn't like clockwork. But you could more or less loosely depend on it. Now, there's damn tornadoes showing up in spring, thunderstorms moving in to fall, the snow never stays around, we'll get the block of sub-zeroes a month early, (or late, or not at all), and my father saw a damn night-crawler by the side of the road on New Year's Eve. IN WISCONSIN. Does this tell me the planet is warming up? Maybe. But what it definitely does tell me is that something is happening, and fast. What's the cause? Damned if I know, but there's a good chance that at least part of it has something to do with humanity. Yes, it's just my tiny microcosm, but it still causes concern. I say that Wuss pretty much hit it on the mark. Really, what IS wrong with erring on the side of caution? Besides, we all know that internal combustion engines cause things like smog and acid rain, and when last I checked, those weren't really too healthy for us.

I guess what I don't understand is why the hell people approach this thing as a holier than thou issue when we should really be looking at it as a public health issue.

He can't even find the temperatures. So I was right.

Man, you're such a jerk.

Did you even read my post or the articles?


Here is a pretty picture to make it clear for you, Freelancer.

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