Karmen Y asked:
I know what global warming is. What I don’t get is why the Earth is turning colder now that the icebergs are melting. Someone please help me!!
Thank you all who answered. Unfortunately, I’m still confused. What I’ve noticed is that the weather is starting to become colder, for example: Ontario, Canada had received a snow storm with the most snow out of past 60 years. I don’t understand how melting icebergs in the north could have affected that. Please leave a reference of your source of information. Thank you once more to all!
I know what global warming is. What I don’t get is why the Earth is turning colder now that the icebergs are melting. Someone please help me!!
Thank you all who answered. Unfortunately, I’m still confused. What I’ve noticed is that the weather is starting to become colder, for example: Ontario, Canada had received a snow storm with the most snow out of past 60 years. I don’t understand how melting icebergs in the north could have affected that. Please leave a reference of your source of information. Thank you once more to all!
Tags: Climate | Melting Icebergs
July 29th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
global warming is untrue
July 31st, 2008 at 11:23 pm
it disrupts the flow of the ocean currents messing everything up
August 1st, 2008 at 10:46 am
Because the whole “Global Warming” crap is just that. BS!
August 3rd, 2008 at 4:05 pm
al gore did it
August 6th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
In some places it is colder than normal and in some places it is irregularly hot. The temperatures get screwed up and it varies country to country.
August 7th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Global Warming doesen’t just warm up the climate. It messes it up too. So that’s probably why. And it causes Arctic fronts so it blows the cool wind from the Arctic to temperate climate ranges. So that’s why some think Global Warming doesen’t exsist.
August 9th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
mea t…global warming is happening…
the reason why the world would cool is because the icebergs cool the warmer waters surrounding them ad it also interfereres with the jet currents warm and cool ones.
August 11th, 2008 at 8:45 am
Greenhouse gas emissions that create a blanket of pollutants in the sky. This creates a barrier so the sun’s rays does’nt have a chance to warm up the climate.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Try telling everyone is KS right now that global warming is a fact. They’ll probably slap you.
Nothing says horrendous climate change for the warmer like the worst ice storm in decades crippling half the mid-west.
Al needs to give that trophy he won back.
August 16th, 2008 at 11:49 am
It is like when you put an ice cube in a glass. The water becomes cooler, and turns the air cooler around the glass, even though you turned the thermostat up a degree.
August 17th, 2008 at 4:35 am
because someone is telling us it is!
August 17th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
equal and opposite reaction, any action or event has an equal and opposite consequence, if it is hotter in some places in the summer, it will be colder in other places in the winter, the planet is doing its best to sequester the co2, but we have thrown too much into the system, causing inclement weather: droughts in some places where ther should be monsoons, and floods in places where there should be drought. humans have thrown a very large wrench into the system that cycles the earths weather, so its gonna be all screwy for a while.
August 20th, 2008 at 4:13 am
its caused by gasoline and carbon menoxide
August 23rd, 2008 at 3:13 am
I personally think that there is non such thing as global warming.
If you look at the ice bergs melting, it causes the water levels to rise but really could someone explain how that would work if we live far from the icebergs. We can only hit the ozone layer but how can that affect the whole world if the smoke and feums from earth rise up only hitting a certain area but how can that affect the world?
August 25th, 2008 at 11:35 am
The earth isn’t turning colder now. It’s getting warmer and the water is getting warmer. There was a theory that a shift in the major warm/cold currents caused by water from the glaciers going flooding the oceans would cause the weather patterns to change. That’s pretty much been debunked now and it seems that we’re all in for a warmer ride on this planet. There’s a direct relationship between our weather patterns, and the ocean currents. It’s a lengthy explanation and I don’t have that much knowledge. I suggest you take a geography course in your local college to learn more. Best wishes and Merry Christmas!!!!
August 27th, 2008 at 8:27 am
whatch “an incovienient truth” according to the movie earth itself has a thin layer of co2 over it lets say 2 sun rays go to earth, 1 bounces off the layer and heats earth and the other one leaves earths…with the co2 polution the layer is thicker therfore the 2 rays stay and heat earth more instead of 1 stay and 1 leave both stay and heat up earth and icebergs melt…i dont know about the cold…
August 27th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
The answers is simply this:
Yes, the icebergs are melting. Wouldn’t you think that it would have to be getting warmer for that to happen? Not necessarily. You see, the main cause for global warming is pollution, along with cutting down trees. Anyway, the pollution we’re making obviously isn’t just floating away in space. It’s gathering and collecting in the atmosphere. And the effect of that is the sun’s rays have to fight the pollution and dust in the air to get to the earth, to make it hot/warm. Since the sun’s rays have to struggle to heat the earth because of pollution, the climate is slowly getting colder.
I hope that answers your question,
Happy holidays!
zoe
August 28th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
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August 29th, 2008 at 4:57 am
Glad you added the edit. I was almost as confused by your original question as you were asking it.
It might help you to understand that Global Warming is better described as “excess energy in the biosphere”; it isn’t all about temperature.
The excess energy being stored in the oceans due to AGW is immense (1.3 BILLION 1MegaTon atom bombs per 1 degree C rise) and this energy affects the water cycle. This in turn affects weather patterns which become more extreme. The hot days are hotter and the cold days are colder. It snows and rains more at one time, but less frequently (i.e. drought or flooding, all or nothing scenarios). Heat is a driving force for many natural processes which convert heat to other forms of energy. For example heat makes water evaporate which makes clouds which create static electricity which creates lightning.
I hope that helps you understand a little better that it doesn’t just mean that temperatures go up. The energy may be converted to other forms.
August 30th, 2008 at 1:35 am
The climate isn’t colder, it’s warmer by a fraction of a degree (on average over many years), not enough to notice from one year to the next, and it won’t necessarily be colder any single year (year to year variability hasn’t vanished) but over the course of many years you might start see more intense storms, as explained below.
Some of those storms will be in winter, so you’ll get lots of snow. That doesn’t mean it’s colder, just that your receiving more moisture (more intense storms). Over decades you may notice your snow season getting shorter at the ends. That tends to mess up birds, trees, etc. and over time many may find themselves living in the wrong climate.
The 100-Year Forecast: Stronger Storms Ahead
As Earth gets warmer, large regions will experience heavier rain and snowfall as weather becomes generally more intense, according to a new study.
“The models show most areas around the world will experience more intense precipitation for a given storm during this century,” said lead researcher Gerald Meehl of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
A warmer world will also mean a wetter one.
“On average the global precipitation increases in a warmer climate,” Meehl told LiveScience.
The increase in rain and snow will be on average about 10-20 percent, Meehl said. The more intense storms will most likely happen in late autumn, winter, and early spring. The largest increase in precipitation will occur over land in the tropics where the atmosphere is warming quickest.
Based on computer models, Meehl and his colleagues expect that the regions most likely to experience the more intense storms are places where large masses of moist air converge. These regions include northwestern and northeastern North America, northern Europe, northern Asia, the east coast of Asia, southwestern Australia and the south-central regions of South America.
The reason for the increase in storm intensity is that as the planet warms, the temperatures of the atmosphere and of the ocean surface go up as well, leading to increased evaporation and an increased capacity for the air to hold moisture. As this soggy air moves from ocean to land, the storms that form are heavier with rain or snow.