sky of mind
Thursday, 12 October 2006, 1:32 pm
QUOTE(soon2b @ Thursday, 12 October 2006, 12:29 pm) [snapback]75485[/snapback]
"Global warming" can be a misnomer and temperatures in your backyard may sometime be cooler than usual. Global climate change is probably a better term. The average temperature of the Earths' surface is unquestionably rising and dramatic evidence of warming in the arctic, not Chicago, offers the best evidence.
Unusual fluctuations in local weather may or may not be a condition of global warming.
The ONLY measurable aspect of global warming that has any real and solid validity, is the planatary yearly mean average temperature. If the average temperature varies, this variable will effect local weather in different and very complicated ways. The most powerful computers on the planet still have problems calculating the possibilities.
Global warming is real. Your cold snap may or may not be an aspect of this reality.