Originally Posted by
ItsJustMe
Global warming does not mean that it gets warmer everywhere. It means that more energy has been added to a chaotic system, which results in disruption and could easily result in some areas being much hotter and some being much colder. When it says "average temps will increase 2 degrees this decade, it could easily be that some areas increase 10 degrees while others decrease 20, and storm frequency or intensity increases.
Except for the fact that the total global average temperature has dropped over the lest 10 years.
In the last year our global avg temp is lower then it was in 1988. A .5 degree drop.
I am old enough to remember the "Global cooling scare of the 70's". Yes The temp changes and it is part of the normal process of this planet. Yes one ice cap is receding but guess what the other cap is growing much faster then the one that is receding.
Man has made little if any effect on the temperature.
Ever find a sea shell in a desert? That's from climate change from well before we discovered fire and our total man made CO2 emissions were literally from our A$$ and our decaying corpses.
Fixing pollution is a good thing so I do like policy that address pollution that but this whole "Global warming" mess is just hysteria that is being capitalized on at the detriment to western civilizations economy's.