hurricanechaser

Getting Off the Political SoapBox and going back to science and what we really need to worry about.

Look at the Sun. Look at how fast we cool down when were not facing it and how fast we warm up when we are facing it. I took meterology classes back in college and the book and everything I've ever observed proves to me that the sun is generating our weather and causes ice caps to melt and ocean levels to rise.

But what we really should be worrying about is the Electo Magnetic energy that Nuclear reactor can spit out. A strong solar flare can knock out everything. No more GPS satellite navigation, no more Weather satellites to tell us when the next Hurricane is due to arrive. Electrical grids will go down, no more VORS, good luck trying to land at night when the entire country is blacked out. I hope all of you keep brushing up on your dead reckoning in case it happens tomorrow.

All i'm really worried about is the Sun, cause its the only thing that matters when it comes to the majority of our weather.

Oh and by the way. Trying asking your grandparents if they think its been warming up over the past 50 years. My Grandma is always complaining about how cold it is

AKASHA

Then what cost are you on board? Yea everyone's on board as long as it doesn't cost them anything. Its always about the money and that is a real problem. You're not on board at all so don't say it.

snippercr

Because Global Warming is a misnomer and there has been push to "Global Climate Change" but I guess it just doesn't roll off the tongue as well. Due to the climate change (human or not) the hot to get hotter, the cold to get colder, the wet to get wetter (gigitty) and the dry to get dryer.

Personally LOVE when I hear people say "This is the coldest winter ever! Global Warming is bull!" because it does two things: It shows the misnomer of the name "warming" and also illustrates their ignorance of climate shifts (again, whether or not caused by humans). Even the most rudementry climatology class would enlighten people what the effects of a climate shift can do to weather patterns and atmospheric trends - cold getting colder, wet getting wetter (g-g-g-gigity!), etc.

hurricanechaser

That is so true...... like I said before I took classes on this stuff and I also fly in this stuff. And some people don't understand air masses and how they move. I'm talking about continental air masses being drier and martime masses that are wetter. I live in new england where we get
mainly martime mass weather from the atlantic. But every now and then the continental polar mass over canada will dip down south into new england and ppl complain how cold it is.

On the flip side, every now and then the maritime atlantic air mass will dip into Greenland and Canada and a poor polar bear gets stranded cause the warm air melts the ice.

It goes both ways but taxing people over CO2 emissions is bull**** if you ask me.

hurricanechaser

What is an air mass?

An airmass is a large (usually thousands of miles across) volume of air that has horizontally uniform properties in terms of temperature. Airmasses acquire their properties from spending days to weeks over the same part of the Earth: say over northern Canada, the North Pole, the tropical Pacific Ocean, etc. Polar airmasses become very cold, especially in the winter, because relatively little sunlight shines on the poles of the Earth. A "continental polar" airmass will be somewhat colder and less humid (from being over very cold land) than a "maritime polar" airmass, which has been somewhat warmed and moistened by the ocean. A "tropical maritime" airmass will be very warm and humid. A "tropical continental" airmass usually covers much of the United States in the summertime. Other airmass types include "arctic", "equatorial", and "monsoon".

On average, warm air masses tend to flow poleward, and cold air masses tend to flow equatorward, helping to cool the tropics and warm the polar regions.

and that is why the polar bear couldn't make it back home Mr. Al Gore