Oh really?.......the source you quote "Wunderground.com" shows 1936 as being the warmest summer ever in the USA......
That is not the point. The table in the USA today article also shows 1936 as still being the hottest summer ever. So what? The fact remains 7 out of the last 10 years have set records and are the hottest years on record. Climate change/global warming is not about single one off events, like 1936. It is about global climate change trends, all over the world. The recent climate changes in the Arctic have been incredibly startling.
Whereas "Skeptical Science" shows 1934....
Other places show the years 1885 to 1950 being warmer than now.....
Skeptical Science agrees with the USA today article about the past decade being the hottest on record.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/2001-2010-A-Decade-of-Climate-Extremes_WMO.html
I don’t know where those “other places” are but they are wrong and do NOT agree with the scientific data.
It is interesting to observe that NASA and the Weather Bureau continually "adjust' their numbers to jibe with the current zeitgeist.
If information doesn't fit .....they 'correct' the findings until it does.
Where is your evidence for “adjusting” numbers. Please provide links to the articles and scientific data.
New data comes in all the time and new predictions are being made from them. The IPCC is about to publish it’s next report. The predictions will be updated based on the data since the last report a few years ago. But one thing is certain. They will continue to say climate change IS happening because of global warming.
Whenever a hole is poked in the global warming argument...the first thing G/warmers say is " well....it 's not really about warming...it's about climate change".
It is about both. Climate change triggered by global warming.
As you can see by looking around the planet.......there has been some mighty "climate change " in the past. As in the case of the Sahara desert, which was proven to be a lush fertile area in the past.
Or the Arctic itself....where sedimentary records show that it was once tropical.....
Or Greenland or England......Greenland being a place where farming was a mainstay...and England where at one time it was so warm they grew Grapes there continually.
Seafever, you think the climate scientists are stupid and don’t know this? This silly argument is debunked by science right here in Skeptical science.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-change-little-ice-age-medieval-warm-period.htm
The time scales you are talking about span millions or thousands of years. Of course the Antarctic was once tropical. The continent itself was in a different position on the earth’s surface!!
And yes the Arctic was tropical…..55 million years ago!! And guess what? That happened due to an extreme climate change event that pumped a lot of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5034026.stm
The Sahara has dried and expanded over the past 10,000 years or so. The climate change the scientists are warning us about now because of overwhelming evidence and data is happening in a 150 year time frame or less!!
Sealevels.......there are places on this planet where the mean sea level has actually decreased......which goes against the G/warmers theory that melting ice will raise the sea levels....but they are of course the first ones to say " oh...well.....the water is actually evaporating faster now"
Don’t understand what you are getting at. Mean sea level means exactly that. It is the average sea level over the whole earth. And mean sea level is indeed rising as we would expect.
Please provide links to your claimed observations, which in any case cannot refer to mean sea level but must refer to local variations……
Some say the planet is hundreds of millions years old........
if you stretch that time line out lineally.......the years 1930 to 2013, or 1885 to now would not even show up on the graph , the period being so tiny.
It is not “some say”, like a religious prophecy or similar nonsense. There is overwhelming and irrefutable scientific evidence from physics, geology, cosmology, paleontology, and chemistry that the earth is millions of years old. About 4.3 billion years to be precise.
And of course the period you quote is tiny in comparison. But that is why the changes occurring are so frightening. The climate of the earth has NEVER changed so much in 150 years. All previous climate changes happened over thousands or millions of years, in natural cycles. This change is one “forced” by human fossil energy consumption activities.
The climate is never constant or fixed......it has fluctuated from day one hundreds of millions of years ago to now.
Of course but again go here to understand the difference between what you are talking about and what is happening now.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-change-little-ice-age-medieval-warm-period-basic.htm
So "climate change " is a norm........not a sudden panic-filled event. (it could be a panic-filled event...depending on what the climate-change does to you in the way of a weather situation or geological anomaly)
Of course it IS a panic filled event. I repeat; the climate of the earth has NEVER changed so much in 150 years. All previous climate changes happened over thousands or millions of years, in natural cycles. This change is one “forced” by human energy consumption activities. Just take a look at what is happening in the Arctic for goodness sake and to the people and wild life living there.
It is happening right here in North America!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...kan-village-disappears-underwater-decade.html
Volcanic eruptions are part and parcel of climate change too.......and no amount of "carbon tax" or other human "fix it" solution is going to change when and where a volcano erupts....or when an earthquake takes place.
Of course eruptions have an effect, both locally and globally, depending on the size and duration. Again climate scientists do in fact know that!! But this argument in no way refutes the changes that are being wrought by anthropogenic causes or is a reason for doing nothing. If carbon taxes reduce fossil fuel consumption that is a good thing. And BTW earthquakes have absolutely no impact on global climate.
