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are we in global warming or global cooling? it seems the scientists or the media change this around every now and then, which in turn they now call it just clim

are we in global warming or global cooling? it seems the scientists or the media change this around every now and then, which in turn they now call it just climate change.

dundercoder 10y ago
I don't know if there truly is an actual consensus in the scientific community, but it is true that an aggregate warming of the earth as a whole will cause some hot spots to become cooler, and some cool spots to warm, some deserts to recover, and some wet regions to loose their rainfall. "Change" is a good word.
- greglindahl 10y ago
  In particular it's the case that some of Antarctica has been cooling: http://www.asoc.org/advocacy/climate-change-and-the-antarctic http://www.asoc.org/advocacy/climate-change-and-the-antarcti... Change is a good word, except when it causes the general public to be confused about what the average is (warming.)
  - Diederich 10y ago
    Sea ice coverage in Antarctica is interesting. Until the last couple of years, it's been at all-time highs, but it has crashed big-time: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/ http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-i... click over to Antarctica.
- astrodust 10y ago
  The trend is warmer. The local effects are highly variable as weather patterns are severely impacted by these changes. Warmer means more energy, and more energy means more chaos.
flukus 10y ago
The consensus has been on warming for as long as any sort of consensus has existed, about 40-50 years now. If you'd done the slightest amount of investigation you'd know this and wouldn't be parroting the standard science-denier line.
Tagbert 10y ago
"Global Cooling" was briefly proposed in the 70's to explain why temperatures seemed to have gone down from WWII to them. It was later attributed to aerosols from pollution blocking some sunlight. It was never a consensus on the climatologist community but got attention due to news articles that missed the details and ambiguity of the proposal. It often gets brought up by climate change deniers and that may be why you think you've heard about it more than once. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling

are we in global warming or global cooling? it seems the scientists or the media change this around every now and then, which in turn they now call it just climate change.

dundercoder 10y ago

I don't know if there truly is an actual consensus in the scientific community, but it is true that an aggregate warming of the earth as a whole will cause some hot spots to become cooler, and some cool spots to warm, some deserts to recover, and some wet regions to loose their rainfall. "Change" is a good word.

greglindahl 10y ago
In particular it's the case that some of Antarctica has been cooling: http://www.asoc.org/advocacy/climate-change-and-the-antarctic http://www.asoc.org/advocacy/climate-change-and-the-antarcti... Change is a good word, except when it causes the general public to be confused about what the average is (warming.)
- Diederich 10y ago
  Sea ice coverage in Antarctica is interesting. Until the last couple of years, it's been at all-time highs, but it has crashed big-time: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/ http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-i... click over to Antarctica.
astrodust 10y ago
The trend is warmer. The local effects are highly variable as weather patterns are severely impacted by these changes. Warmer means more energy, and more energy means more chaos.

flukus 10y ago

The consensus has been on warming for as long as any sort of consensus has existed, about 40-50 years now. If you'd done the slightest amount of investigation you'd know this and wouldn't be parroting the standard science-denier line.

Tagbert 10y ago

"Global Cooling" was briefly proposed in the 70's to explain why temperatures seemed to have gone down from WWII to them. It was later attributed to aerosols from pollution blocking some sunlight. It was never a consensus on the climatologist community but got attention due to news articles that missed the details and ambiguity of the proposal. It often gets brought up by climate change deniers and that may be why you think you've heard about it more than once. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling