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Global Warming comes after the icecaps melt beyond a certain ecological tipping point.
So yeah, we're not 100% accelerated down that path yet.
The correct term for today is "Climate Change". The wild swings between extreme colds and extreme heat is due to the nature of the specific heat of the water molecule as it phase changes from a solid (ice at the poles) to a liquid (rising ocean levels seen everywhere today along lowlying coastal areas).
Due to the water molecule's relatively high specific heat (the amount of energy any substance needs to phase change from solid-liquid-gas-plasma), as ice melts it draws in enormous energy that would be felt as regional cold snaps that are unusual (like the cold fronts coming down and gripping the East more frequently in Winter). It also causes cooler than normal temperatures in normally hot regions (as has been happening more often now in the South and Southwest at odd times during Summers).
Climate Change is what you should fear. By the time actual significant Global Warming arrives on its heels (as the ice caps continue to melt and our atmosphere changes for the worse.), you'll be more concerned about how everyone is dying from starvation and the massive wars resulting from that chaos to be worried about silly things like semantics.
Try an experiment: put an ice cube on your counter to mimic the ice caps at the polls. Put a little fan blowing across it as it melts (it will melt much faster this way too). Notice the temperature of the air even a bit distant from the ice/fan. A bit cooler, isn't it? That's how Global Warming with ice caps melting feels at first...cooler...oddly...alternating with pockets of warmer and warmer air when that nice coolness isn't blowing your way at that minute..
Enjoy. Because that is exactly what's happening to the planet.
The numbers of the specific heat of the water molecule are not and cannot be manipulated. The effects I mentioned are happening as I described them. We have areas in Summer that are much cooler than normal for the South happening. And we have unusual cold snaps even for the norm in the East in Winter. And we also have bursts of extreme heat in areas that are abnormal.
This is part of the reported weather. Consult your almanac for details in the changes over the last several decades.
These numbers are not being fudged, the nature of the water molecule is immutable. The experiment anyone can try with an ice cube is repeatable, and easy, and can be done right on anyone's kitchen counter.
Cooler Summer temperatures in the South in Summer and increasing cold snaps in Winter shouldn't make you rest easy. You should be crapping your pants. This is the weird "Pre-phase" of actual Global Warming, once reached, will be a terribly predictable pattern indeed. It will include fewer and fewer "unexplained" episodes of cooling trends until finally ...
So yeah, we're not 100% accelerated down that path yet.
The correct term for today is "Climate Change". The wild swings between extreme colds and extreme heat is due to the nature of the specific heat of the water molecule as it phase changes from a solid (ice at the poles) to a liquid (rising ocean levels seen everywhere today along lowlying coastal areas).
Due to the water molecule's relatively high specific heat (the amount of energy any substance needs to phase change from solid-liquid-gas-plasma), as ice melts it draws in enormous energy that would be felt as regional cold snaps that are unusual (like the cold fronts coming down and gripping the East more frequently in Winter). It also causes cooler than normal temperatures in normally hot regions (as has been happening more often now in the South and Southwest at odd times during Summers).
Climate Change is what you should fear. By the time actual significant Global Warming arrives on its heels (as the ice caps continue to melt and our atmosphere changes for the worse.), you'll be more concerned about how everyone is dying from starvation and the massive wars resulting from that chaos to be worried about silly things like semantics.
Try an experiment: put an ice cube on your counter to mimic the ice caps at the polls. Put a little fan blowing across it as it melts (it will melt much faster this way too). Notice the temperature of the air even a bit distant from the ice/fan. A bit cooler, isn't it? That's how Global Warming with ice caps melting feels at first...cooler...oddly...alternating with pockets of warmer and warmer air when that nice coolness isn't blowing your way at that minute..
Enjoy. Because that is exactly what's happening to the planet.
The numbers of the specific heat of the water molecule are not and cannot be manipulated. The effects I mentioned are happening as I described them. We have areas in Summer that are much cooler than normal for the South happening. And we have unusual cold snaps even for the norm in the East in Winter. And we also have bursts of extreme heat in areas that are abnormal.
This is part of the reported weather. Consult your almanac for details in the changes over the last several decades.
These numbers are not being fudged, the nature of the water molecule is immutable. The experiment anyone can try with an ice cube is repeatable, and easy, and can be done right on anyone's kitchen counter.
Cooler Summer temperatures in the South in Summer and increasing cold snaps in Winter shouldn't make you rest easy. You should be crapping your pants. This is the weird "Pre-phase" of actual Global Warming, once reached, will be a terribly predictable pattern indeed. It will include fewer and fewer "unexplained" episodes of cooling trends until finally ...
