Global Warming

no1important · Post by **no1important** » 13 Mar 2005, 13:11

I live a part of Texas that doesn't get cold. Here, we only have two seasons (Damn Hot and Hell). However, this past Christmas it snowed and everything froze over for the first time in over a hundred years. Not even the grandparents around here can remember a time when it snowed. That was an awesome experience for all of us because it was the first time most of the city, myself included, had seen snow.

Not much evidence of global warming here. Even now in the middle of spring break it's still a little chilly. The sun does seem brighter this year, though.

Post by **Jon** » 14 Mar 2005, 03:49

Wow, welcome back no1.

Milankovitch cycles would suggest why the sun is brighter this year /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

Ms. DNA · Post by **Ms. DNA** » 14 Mar 2005, 19:38

Hi there, no1important! Welcome back.

Grrrr. Snow. I wish we got a decent snow this year. It's snowed way more than usual this year, but it always happens when it's too warm to accumulate. Grrrrr.

lilgamefreek · Post by **lilgamefreek** » 14 Mar 2005, 22:11

Here in drought ridden southern cali, we experianced rain a month or two early. And it rained...
hard.

beeurd · Post by **beeurd** » 20 Mar 2005, 06:33

It seems like everything is used as evidence of global warming, but can also be attributed to just simple abnormal weather conditions resulting from nothing spectacular. We have had snow this month, and people are like "oooh noes! its because of global warming!", but we have had snow this late before (years ago) and I don't remember anyone moaning about global warming then.

rextheovermind · Post by **rextheovermind** » 25 Mar 2005, 04:55

It's a whole combination of things, but the two biggest are probably that:

a) Another Ice Age is approaching.
/cool.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="B)" border="0" alt="cool.gif" /> The poles are switching (i.e. North becomes South and vice versa).

But I think you guys already covered this in the above.

No, it probably is not humans that have done this, as much as we like to glorify ourselves, our carbon dioxide output really doesn't do much except make the air where we live really... nasty. Oh, and the hole in the ozone above the Antarctic is very natural too, because all of the oxygen that would make the ozone is trapped in the ice, unlike the rest of the world where it is made from the breakdown of water molecules.