Global Warming Data


Defined Tag: Global Warming Data.
One important strategic question for you to consider: If the global warming data is complex and unclear and we are not sure the global warming phenomenon is even real and also not sure it's caused by humans and also not sure it is harmful, then why waste precious time and resources on proposing solutions for it.  The reason is simple.  Greenhouse gases have been increasing steadily for over a century, but the storm season fluctuations have not correlated well with the global warming data.  Conveniently omitted from their global warming data is the most abundant hothouse gas of all: water vapor.  One also needs to take a look at some of the global warming data statistics scientists have compiled about carbon dioxide, temperature levels and melting ice.

Global warming is not the environmental challenge that most Americans personally worry the most about in Gallup’s March 2007 question.  Global warming skeptics have regularly put forth the theory the comparative warmth of cities via the "urban heat island effect," whereby metropolitan areas register considerably higher temperatures than their surroundings which has skewed the global temperature record.  Climate expert Ben Santer of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, lead author of one of the papers, says that those fairly steady measurements have been a key argument among people asking, 'Why should I believe this global warming hocus-pocus.  Needless to say, the issue of global warming and global warming data has emerged as one of the most contentious scientific debates within the administration.

A number of organizations have developed educational and advocacy programs aimed at helping private citizens and policy makers understand the complexities of climate change science and global warming data.  The report from the National Academies of Science also concluded that "human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming."  Coupled with a report last month from the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Program that found "clear evidence of human influences on the climate system," the new study signals a growing acceptance in Washington of widely held scientific views on the causes of global warming.  Reports like this are a sign that science is back to being released without political spin.

Scientific predictions of the impacts of increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases from fossil fuels and deforestation match observed changes.  There are scientific works that examine not only production of the greenhouse gases by our Earh polluting efforts, but the shading (cooling) effect of the pollution particulate matter we produce.  It is just possible that our overall pollution effect on Earth climate is slight cooling, but while the first part of this post is exact measurement related, this part is not yet clear and further scientific study may prove or disprove it.  The global warming data is clear: global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now, and it is a growing threat to society.  After two decades, the long scientific and political debate over whether human activities are warming up the Earth is finally over.

Surface temperatures have shown small but steady increases since the 1970s, but the tropics had shown little atmospheric heating — and even some cooling.  But the reality is – are the higher temperatures at the surface, in the ocean, and in the air increasing at an unnatural rate.  Temperatures are measured in deviations (anomalies) from a flat long term trend; concentrations are actually measured levels.  When examining the balloon data, Yale University researchers found that heating from tropical sunlight was skewing the temperatures reported by sensors, making nights look as warm as days.  Higher temperatures feed glacial meltdowns, thawing tundra, rising oceans, failing ecosystems, extreme weather, additional GHGs from dwindling reservoirs, extinctions of evermore species, infectious diseases, migration and more.  Global warming data is vital to fully understanding and forming an opinion on this controversial issue.