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by Anonymous on November 11th, 2008

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Do you think that the earth will ever be really warm or hot all year round due to global warming and the ozone layer depletion?

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  • by Mr_Natural Abstractor of the Quintessence on February 14th, 2009

    Mr_Natural Abstractor of the Quintessence

    No, the earth does not need to get really warm in order to cause catastrophic changes for us. The last estimate I heard was that 1/2 degree per decade will cause massive flooding. Humans will never feel such a subtle change. It's like drifting down a river, ignoring the folks on the bank shouting, "Waterfall ahead!" The drifters don't see a problem until they go over the edge.

    From the WSJ:

    "Overall, the world's atmosphere warmed by 0.72 degrees Fahrenheit during the past 30 years, according to a comprehensive analysis of monthly satellite temperature readings by John Christy, head of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, which was released last month.

    "But on the hot plate of planet Earth, that warming isn't evenly distributed. Changing sea ice, ocean currents and winds mute or accelerate regional temperatures changes by redistributing the heat in the atmosphere.

    "A quarter of the globe warmed at least one full degree Fahrenheit since the satellite readings started in 1978. The warming was most pronounced in northern latitudes. A few isolated areas in Antarctica actually cooled by at least half of one degree Fahrenheit.
    . . .
    "After analyzing 40 years of wintertime data, researchers at the University of New Hampshire found that seasonal temperatures in the northeastern U.S. had risen about 0.42 degrees Celsius per decade, from 1965 through 2005.

    The warming was most pronounced in the region's coldest months of January and February, they reported in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. The number of snow days each winter dropped at a rate of 8.9 days per decade and annual snowfall decreased by about 1.8 inches per decade, the researchers reported.

    So many subtle changes in so many different places, building up decade after decade, add up to something more than the weather's natural variation."

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123085070980447477.html

    Sorry for the long quotation, but maybe it will make it easier for some to get the information.

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  • by Intelligentsia on February 14th, 2009

    Intelligentsia

    It will consistently get hotter, unless we all realize what a horrid thing is occurring. But, sadly, many will not notice until it affects their own lives, and threatens life as it is.

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  • by jin jang on February 14th, 2009

    jin jang

    Eventually that will happen,sooner that later.Since the icebergs are melting at an alarming rate,and the ice caps that reflect the heat of the sun are growing smaller,the ocean heats up.This affects the winds and will create less rain,more heat and drought on land masses.We have already seen for years the ozone layer that protects us from harmful rays of the sun is already depleted.

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  • by mr. Bill on November 11th, 2008

    mr. Bill

    Nope! 30 years ago they were talkng about another ice age so give it time. The earth has been in cosnatnt change long before we humans came around. The only difference we did not have people like Al Gore making money off of it. Mr Bill

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  • by andthenitsgone on February 14th, 2009

    andthenitsgone

    Global warming is a lie.

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  • by Anonymous on November 11th, 2008

    Anonymous

    No, global warming does not even exist.

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