[The Spac]

Since the weather here is getting crazier every year I was wondering if it's the same everwhere else?

[achtung]

Yea it's a lot wetter here.

I think Bush found Bill Clintons old weather control machine.

[Bobboau]

we had a freaky warm winter, but the summer hasn't been too hot, exept for today, today it was just a mother ass fcuker of a hot day, I sat in my car and when I got in I could feel the effect of the moisture quickly evaporateing from my flesh, like the effect you get when you step into one of those dry soanas.

[Ford Prefect]

It's tropical here. Hot and humid, with regular evening thunderstorms. I wish it were like this for more of the year.

[Rictor]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4634595.stm

Booyah.

[TrashMan]

Weather going completey crazy during the last 20 years or so.
Not even the oldest ones in the town remeber bizzare weather shifts like this...
Before it was like an atomic clock - you knew precisely waht to excpet and when.. now, it's totaly unpredicatable..

[Hippo]

Originally posted by Ford Prefect
It's tropical here. Hot and humid, with regular evening thunderstorms. I wish it were like this for more of the year.

Same here... Oh wait

[aldo_14]

Freezing cold (<10 degrees most days) up till a couple of weeks ago, now it's spiked to between 20-25 with occasional storms, and we've not had snow at christmas for several years now.  So the weather is a bit ****ed up round my way.

[redsniper]

Soon it'll be hitting 100F (~40C) here every day without fail. Oh and humidity... no one here has room to talk about humidity unless they live in the Amazon basin or something. Anyway, when we were fishing in northern Canada a couple years ago my dad and I joked that we should buy property there since with rising sea levels and temperatures it would be nice tropical beachfront property in a few years.

[Nico]

Opposite here, we've had snow around chirtsmas this year, and it's been freaking hot for the last couple weeks. It's been awfully hot around the end of april, begining of may too, iirc. Two or three days ago, the whole day has been a heat storm (lots of lightnings, no rain, so heavy it was difficult to breathe ~~). I hate that, I like rain, I want rain!

[WeatherOp]

It's back to normal here in Alabama, mid 90s with dewpoints in the 70s. Weve been spoiled here the past few years with Mild summers.


And Hurricane season is getting started, two TS in June, looks to be another big season.

[Kosh]

It hardly rained at all last winter, and it has been raining a lot during June and the Spring. Usually it is the opposite. I wonder what the hell is going on with our weather......

[Mongoose]

It's just about normal here (southeast PA); the average for this time of year is around 83, and we've had a few hot and sticky days in the high eighties.  I believe we're looking at somewhat of a cooldown tomorrow.  The last winter/early spring were unusually wet and cool, but the last two months have been somewhat drier than usual.  Nothing really out of the ordinary, though.

[EtherShock]

We maybe had a few of those nice, sunny spring days in May, but not nearly as many as we normally do, lots of cloudy/rainy days, as if it was April. Then all the sudden, it's summer when June rolls along. I used to think Jersey was turning into Florida, but now I'm not so sure. It's only poured once. The climate is slowly changing though, probably faster than it should be.

[Andreas]

Last summer it mostly rained in here (I live in Vasa, on the west coast of Finland). Contrast to that, the summer before that was one of the hottest that I remember. And the summer before. Now the temperature has kept mostly at ca.15*C, and there have been no heatwaves, thank God, I can't stand temperatures above 25*C at all. As EtherShock said, the trend seems to be more cloudy and rainy than before.

[The Spac]

Here in Sydney it hasn't really been hot during the summer. It also rained heaps.

For Winter it has been raining heaps too, so it hasn't really been cold.

Although we are in the middle of a drought because the rain is just on the coast.

[DeepSpace9er]

Global warming was a huge right wing conspiracy to cause lots of hurricanes to smack flordia so that the locals would be happy when bush got a chance to give them billions in relief aid so that they would vote for him and push him to victory. It was planned years ago when they found out that flordia would be tough to win. So they built all these huge secret government facilites to generate greenhouse gases and they detonated these high explosives in the antartic to break ice off to melt to cause global warming. Now that nothing can be done and we are all going to die, they are denying it every happened.

Actually i dont believe a damn thing i just said but im sure somebody does. There is so much contradicting evidence on the part of the scientific community that the only 'evidence' they have of globabl warming is that the temperatures in certian climates which havent changed very much in the last 50 years of recording are slightly changing. In planetary terms, 50 years is a split second compared to thousands. Its just political bs imo.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by DeepSpace9er
Actually i dont believe a damn thing i just said but im sure somebody does. There is so much contradicting evidence on the part of the scientific community that the only 'evidence' they have of globabl warming is that the temperatures in certian climates which havent changed very much in the last 50 years of recording are slightly changing. In planetary terms, 50 years is a split second compared to thousands. Its just political bs imo.

Sort of the point of noting such a large change in a geological instant like 50 years is highlighting the likelihood of human involvement.  Although they can study, for example, ice cores going back thousands of years (IIRc you can measure carbon/etc levels in the atmosphere from ice, and also I think from absorption into rocks).  

Also the acidity levels of the ocean (increasing), the rate of melting in ice caps/glaciers (again something you can measure using the ice cores), changes in weather patterns (weather records can go back centuries), changes in coral reefs (affected by CO2), and soforth (which I can't remember offhand). For example, ice cores recovered from Himalayan glaciers indicate that this century has been the warmest in 1,000 years, and there is factual evidence that over the last 50 years the average rate warming (the planet has been warming since the ice age, at a steady rate) has increased drastically.

Essentially enough evidence to indicate a climatic change.  Whilst it is true that climatic change is a natural part of the earths history (ice age, for example), I believe most scientists can put a strong correlation between the rate of change and the direct atmospheric effects of human industry/activity.  Thanks to both historical evidence of climate vis-a-vis human output, and also through understanding & simulating the effect of stuff like increased CO2 levels (past computer simulations of the effects global warming upon the oceans have been verified with actual observation, for example, or measure the loss of artic ice sheets and corresponding drops in the salinity of ocean water).

The simple reason  global warning is regarded as a political issue is because the highest polluting countries are selfish.  It's more politically expedient to preserve the economy of a country than it is to examine the consequences to the entire world in 20,30,40 etc years and act proactively.

[IceFire]

We're breaking records here....ones that were set 100 years ago or more in some cases.

The hottest I've seen the thermometer at in the last few weeks was 36.9c.  I've never see that...and we have both a digital and an old mercury thermometer that both said the same thing so I don't doubt that we hit it.  The air quality is bad, the temperatures are high, and the province is warning brownouts or rolling blackouts to prevent another Blackout 2003 from happening - with Hydro on strike, however, this could get bad.

So yes, weather is exceptional.  Last year it was very cold all summer long.  This year its very hot so far.  Something is definately going out of whack here.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by DeepSpace9er
Actually i dont believe a damn thing i just said but im sure somebody does. There is so much contradicting evidence on the part of the scientific community that the only 'evidence' they have of globabl warming is that the temperatures in certian climates which havent changed very much in the last 50 years of recording are slightly changing. In planetary terms, 50 years is a split second compared to thousands. Its just political bs imo.

Then your opinion is rather badly informed.

What contradictory evidence is there? Post links. To accredited journals or at least press reports that used them. Every single reputable climatologist states that the Earth has gotten warmer.

There is a lot of political BS involved but it's all coming from the people who deny that it is happening. None of them have any qualifications in the field but they are arrogant enough to say that they know better than people who do.