The Great Global Warming Swindle

[Lissa]

So how do you explain the large rise in world temperatures in the past 50 to 60 years given that the Earth is s'posed to be ending a mini-warming phase that started 10k years ago and the Earth should be returning to an ice age? How do you explain the wild weather seen throughout the globe with each year getting worse than the last?

I dunno about you Ashock, but I have seen first hand the increased temperature changes between when I was a child and now, coming up on 50 years, where the area where I have grown up had seen worse drought conditions, warmer winters with less precipitation with occasional bad storms than end up making things worse.

Simply Ashock, what I've seen with my own eyes tells me that humans are having a detrimental effect on the climate. I likewise follow the scientific method where observations are catalogued, compared, and hypotheses drawn and the information points to Humans causing these temperature rises.

If you want to talk about what you've seen, that's fine. I have not seen that. Also, dont forget that the weather patterns do go through natural cycles. That is a documented fact.

Now, in my life in the US, I've lived about the same number of years in NY and in LA, with the last half being in LA. I can tell you that the weather here seems to have gotten colder in the winters and seems like it has gotten a bit cooler in the summers. Rarely do I see temps of over 100 now, as compared to let's say 15 years ago, when we had weeks of over 100 in a row.

Either way, personal experiences when it comes to weather are not really strong enough evidence, unless you actually document everything and I've not.

Well, according to the following from Climate Stations for Los Angeles, Los Angeles has been showing a general increase in mean temperature since 2000.



From 2000 to present, 5 below average mean temperatures and 11 above average mean temperatures. If we now remove the data for less than a degree in difference we see 2 below years and 6 above years. Likewise, those above years have shown up more in the last ten year (since 2006) than the below years (which occurred before 2006).

Los Angeles has been in a major drought which would cause another side effect. It may feel cooler, but it's actually hotter because drier air holds less moisture making it effectively feel cooler.

The facts show that there's been an increase in the average temperature in Los Angeles over the past 15 years (most of it coming more recently and most of it being even higher). What seems to be the case and the fact of the case are two different things and the facts bear the opposite of the seems.