Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

That is the problem with the whole Global warming thing.... supporters will blame any abnormalities in our climate on carbon... No matter that a sizable volcanic eruption will add more carbon to our atmosphere in one year than man has in all the years following the industrial revolution...

NOAA has released a report that states that last year's "Flash Drought" has nothing to Global Warming.




http://cpo.noaa.gov/ClimatePrograms/ModelingAnalysisPredictionsandProjections.aspx

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

The effects of global warming are felt more gradually - from one decade to the next. Not from one year to the next. The drought you mention is but a random fluctuation in seasonal rainfall. People who attribute such an event to global warming don't know what they are talking about... they don't really understand the mechanisms of global warming.

ole sarg Loc: south florida

I have a dilemma. I can listen to two guys who have photography as a hobby or the world's scientific community!

Now who would you go with?

PrairieSeasons Loc: Red River of the North

Is the drop in global annual temperature since 1998 due to the mechanisms of global warming?

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

I don't know..... Maybe you should follow the money...

Bangee5 Loc: Louisiana

Go with the two Photographers. They are less likely to lie. The Climate change scientist make a living build on a lie.

infocus Loc: Australia

[quote=Blurryeyed]That is the problem with the whole Global warming thing.... supporters will blame any abnormalities in our climate on carbon... No matter that a sizable volcanic eruption will add more carbon to our atmosphere in one year than man has in all the years following the industrial revolution...

NOAA has released a report that states that last year's "Flash Drought" has nothing to Global Warming.

In my humble opinion the problem with the whole "global warming" and "climate change" debate is that most people see them as the same thing. They are not. Climate change is real. Climate has been changing BACK and FORTH since the planet began (however that happened). But climate change has nothing to do with carbon emissions by mankind and carbon is NOT a pollutant. Look at any pollution report prepared by any weather bureau and you will not see carbon on the list. As for global warming, well we just had the coolest and wettest summer for years albeit with a few (very few) hot days. That may have been caused by climate change but it certainly wasn't global warming.

infocus Loc: Australia

Certainly NOT your "worlds scientific" community. The world's scientific community do not believe in global warming - some scientists do - not the world. In fact the I.P.C.C does not have a scientist on it any more they are politicians and bureaucrats.

Gnslngr

What money should I follow? The trillions of dollars that big oil, big coal, big three (autos), big agriculture, etc. make pushing the idea that the pollution they cause should not be stopped and is not a threat to humankind?

Or are you saying the 3146 climatologists (over 3000 of whom believe the earth is undergoing climate change, and its cause is man) none of whom are in business with the other and who individually make oh, say 90 to 150k a year, are the money I should follow?

TrainNut Loc: Ridin' the rails

Here is a scientific fact for you.
Everyone who eats food dies.
How you interpret the data is up to you.
They thought tomatoes were poisonous.
They interpreted the data wrong.
That is just one example.

BW326 Loc: Boynton Beach, Florida

I read from this source (LiveScience.com) that last year in the US was 'the hottest year on record' ???

So far 2012 is the hottest year on record in the United States, and daily temperature records have been broken all across the country as heat waves and drought — both predicted outcomes of global warming — grip the nation. LiveScience's new Heat Index blog launched July 30 tracks temperature records and extreme weather news until the heat is off.

source .... http://www.livescience.com/21952-record-temperatures-heat.html

BW326 Loc: Boynton Beach, Florida

Good advice .... seems that it's mostly coming from those pesky Koch Brothers ($120 million in the last couple of years to develop a 'climate change denial' network)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/14/funding-climate-change-denial-thinktanks-network

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

The thing is, it takes a large group of trained, highly specialized scientists to collect, organize and understand the data. A non-scientist's "interpretion" of climate data means absolutely nothing.

I'm not sure who the "they" is supposed to represent concerning the toxicity of tomatoes. People collected data to determine if tomatoes are edible?

Nickfh Loc: Cheltenham, UK

To quote (paraphrase) Stephen Fry on QI - The carbon emissions of the Icelandic Volcano was more than compensated for by the reduction in emissions due to all the cancelled Air Flights. As you Americans say "Go figure!"

WNC Ralf Loc: Candler NC, in the mountains!