标签: global warming

I'm in a bit of a quandary at the moment. On the one hand I have an un-reasoned, un-researched believe that Global Warming is real and is happening NOW! For example look at the way the polar ice sheets are melting and the way in which glaciers around the world are evaporating away.   On the other hand I went to England in Jan 2010 to visit with my mom who was having a pacemaker installed, and they were having the worst snow for years and years... of course that was until this Christmas that's just passed, when it was even worse. Even here in Huntsville Alabama we got 8" just a week or so ago.   Of course the climate is a hugely complex beast. The arid and temperate bands tend to move around over time. Ten thousand years ago, for example, what we now know as the Sahara Desert was a lush, tropical paradise.   And then there are some folks who think we're heading into another Ice Age. And others who say that the carbon dioxide we're pumping into the atmosphere (that would promote global warming) is actually offsetting the onset of the ice age.   And there are so many things that can go wrong, or at least change in ways that will almost certainly be unfortunate for many of us, like the deep ocean currents stalling or changing direction, or a reversal of the Earth's magnetic field, or the super volcano under Yellowstone Park letting go...   Still, you have to laugh (as they say), so I must admit that I really enjoyed an animation I just saw in which Global Warming is explained (or not as the case might be).    

I'm in a bit of a quandary at the moment. On the one hand I have an un-reasoned, un-researched believe that Global Warming is real and is happening NOW! For example look at the way the polar ice sheets are melting and the way in which glaciers around the world are evaporating away.   On the other hand I went to England in Jan 2010 to visit with my mom who was having a pacemaker installed, and they were having the worst snow for years and years ... of course that was until this Christmas that's just passed, when it was even worse. Even here in Huntsville Alabama we got 8" just a week or so ago.   Of course the climate is a hugely complex beast. The arid and temperate bands tend to move around over time. Ten thousand years ago, for example, what we now know as the Sahara Desert was a lush, tropical paradise.   And then there are some folks who think we're heading into another Ice Age. And others who say that the carbon dioxide we're pumping into the atmosphere (that would promote global warming) is actually offsetting the onset of the ice age.   And there are so many things that can go wrong, or at least change in ways that will almost certainly be unfortunate for many of us, like the deep ocean currents stalling or changing direction, or a reversal of the Earth's magnetic field, or the super volcano under Yellowstone Park letting go...   Still, you have to laugh (as they say), so I must admit that I really enjoyed an animation I just saw in which Global Warming is explained (or not as the case might be).