In warmer world, even Inuit buy air conditioners

[cygonaut]

With signs that the world is warming, even Inuit peoples of the far north are ordering air conditioning.

Source

 

[5stringJeff]

Hopefully, fewer people will freeze to death in the far North.

 

[Hobbit]

So it's a warm summer. We've had these before. And as the article states, the building was designed to hold in heat. Combine that with an unusually warm summer and a whole bunch of windows and it's no surprise they need a little AC.

Didn't we just finish an unusually cold winter? Was that caused by global warming, too?

 

[RyzinEnagy]

So it's a warm summer. We've had these before. And as the article states, the building was designed to hold in heat. Combine that with an unusually warm summer and a whole bunch of windows and it's no surprise they need a little AC.

Didn't we just finish an unusually cold winter? Was that caused by global warming, too?

What a lot of people don't understand is that if you have one cold winter or one cold summer that you can't really tie that to global warming. Global warming deals with the warming of the climate in general, and climate is measured over a long period of time. Just because you got a lot of snow or an unusually cold winter does not disprove global warming at all. Weather on a scale of days or months is affected by so many other things.

 

[Annie]

What a lot of people don't understand is that if you have one cold winter or one cold summer that you can't really tie that to global warming. Global warming deals with the warming of the climate in general, and climate is measured over a long period of time. Just because you got a lot of snow or an unusually cold winter does not disprove global warming at all. Weather on a scale of days or months is affected by so many other things.

Nor do statistics confirm the existence of global warming. Interesting how the proponents never factor in cyclical nature of warming/cooling.

 

[Hobbit]

What a lot of people don't understand is that if you have one cold winter or one cold summer that you can't really tie that to global warming. Global warming deals with the warming of the climate in general, and climate is measured over a long period of time. Just because you got a lot of snow or an unusually cold winter does not disprove global warming at all. Weather on a scale of days or months is affected by so many other things.

Nor does an unusually warm summer prove global warming. However, the fact that the average global climate has risen by less than 1 degree in the last half century and the fact that most glacial shelves are growing speak volumes.

 

[RyzinEnagy]

Nor do statistics confirm the existence of global warming. Interesting how the proponents never factor in cyclical nature of warming/cooling.

Yeah, El Nino is one big thing that can warm you up or cool you down unusually for an extended period of time.

 

[RyzinEnagy]

Nor does an unusually warm summer prove global warming. However, the fact that the average global climate has risen by less than 1 degree in the last half century and the fact that most glacial shelves are growing speak volumes.

I don't really get how a rise of 2 degrees will melt a lot of the shelves, it isnt like it's 30 degrees all winter in the Arctic and Antarctic...it's a whole lot colder than that...and ice cannot melt when it's less than 32 degrees.

 

[Annie]

Yeah, El Nino is one big thing that can warm you up or cool you down unusually for an extended period of time.

Again, a naturally reoccuring phenonema. One theory of Native Americans in the Americans is over the frozen Bering Straits.

 

[manu1959]

So it's a warm summer. We've had these before. And as the article states, the building was designed to hold in heat. Combine that with an unusually warm summer and a whole bunch of windows and it's no surprise they need a little AC.

Didn't we just finish an unusually cold winter? Was that caused by global warming, too?

anyone know the year of warmest summer on record?

also isn't it great that they can afford airconditioners....during the blow job years they had to leave the windows open and get west nile

 

[RyzinEnagy]

Again, a naturally reoccuring phenonema. One theory of Native Americans in the Americans is over the frozen Bering Straits.

That could also have roots in other natural phenomena, such as the absence of sunspots which could cool the earth for a long time, like what is thought to have caused the Little Ice Age.

Too many processes besides that happen on this Earth to say that it's just extra carbon dioxide that is warming up the Earth. And even further, there are probably other processes that we don't even know about for us to make a judgment. People in the 22nd century will probably laugh at what we thought and what we debated now.

 

[Annie]

That could also have roots in other natural phenomena, such as the absence of sunspots which could cool the earth for a long time, like what is thought to have caused the Little Ice Age.

Too many processes besides that happen on this Earth to say that it's just extra carbon dioxide that is warming up the Earth. And even further, there are probably other processes that we don't even know about for us to make a judgment. People in the 22nd century will probably laugh at what we thought and what we debated now.

I'll agree with that. I guess that is the quandry, do we over analyze our impact on earth? Rather than the 'Age of Aquarius' have we turned to the 'Age of Narcissim' where it's all about us?

 

[RyzinEnagy]

anyone know the year of warmest summer on record?

also isn't it great that they can afford airconditioners....during the blow job years they had to leave the windows open and get west nile

that all depends on where you are

 

[Said1]

Nor does an unusually warm summer prove global warming. However, the fact that the average global climate has risen by less than 1 degree in the last half century and the fact that most glacial shelves are growing speak volumes.

Isn't that unfreeking real???

Being a geography student, that has to be one of my favorite counter arguments ever.

 

[manu1959]

that all depends on where you are

no it doesn't

 

[RyzinEnagy]

I'll agree with that. I guess that is the quandry, do we over analyze our impact on earth? Rather than the 'Age of Aquarius' have we turned to the 'Age of Narcissim' where it's all about us?

That's what it seems like. It's mostly people pushing their political agenda who scare us into believing we really will destroy the Earth in such a short period of time. Until we actually see proof of that happening it's all hearsay.

 

[RyzinEnagy]

no it doesn't

yes it does, what is some place's warmest summer could have been a cooler than average summer for another...

 

[Said1]

That's what it seems like. It's mostly people pushing their political agenda who scare us into believing we really will destroy the Earth in such a short period of time. Until we actually see proof of that happening it's all hearsay.

I'm not an extremist or anything, but Canada's prime agricultural land is being sucked up by urban sprawl. Given the population of this country, that's pretty scary - and non-political.

 

[RyzinEnagy]

I'm not an extremist or anything, but Canada's prime agricultural land is being sucked up by urban sprawl. Given the population of this country, that's pretty scary - and non-political.

hahahahahaha

 

[manu1959]

yes it does, what is some place's warmest summer could have been a cooler than average summer for another...

warmest summer on record is an average of all temperatures from all temperature stations around the world......