lately i have grown tired of reading and hearing all the media hype surrounding global warming. yeah, i don’t question it’s happening. however, i do question to the extent that it’s being regarded as “man’s doing.” people fail to realize that the earth goes through warming and cooling periods on a persistent basis; it has to in order to sustain the balance. nature fights back–the earth won’t continue to warm!
for example, as i have read from numerous articles across the web our current la nina that is moderate/strong and is approaching record-setting anomalies. just look at how nino3.4 and nino4 are approaching or surpassing -2 by early march:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/lanina/images/nino34SSTMon.gif
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/lanina/images/nino4SSTMon.gif
normally, el nino/la nina cycles peak in the middle of the winter season across the northern hemisphere (dec/jan). the current one won’t peak until march or perhaps april!. this is simply nature’s feedback in response to the overall increase in global temperatures… cool the oceans first since that is the primary heat source for the globe. a major cooling like this taking place in the pacific ocean has major implications as it removes a major heat source region.
we had something similar happen in the 1950s, there was a moderate/strong la nina (not as strong as the current one is forecasted to get)… look at the us weather following it. there were long periods of much cooler than normal temperatures across most of the us when it was warmer than normal prior and during it. the western us is first to feel the effects of the pacific temperature fluctuations, thus they will cool/warm first which eventually shifts east. there was even buzz about the next ice age coming about!
and wow… we have had the 1950s showing up as analogs multiple times to the weather pattern we are approaching in the 6-10 day period:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/short_range/tools/gifs/500hgt_comp_sup610_c.gif
coincidence?
basically, the warmer it gets globally the more difficult it is to get any warmer as there is limited amount of heat energy available, unless somehow the total available heat energy increases somehow. we won’t continually get warmer and warmer…. that’s not logically possible (limited energy) and the earth will snap back to fight it off. thus, there is only so much water vapor the atmosphere can possibly hold before you get condensation, which means that as the arctic regions warm… there will be much more precipitation in those areas. arctic regions will likely remain below freezing causing all the precipitation to fall as snow. more snow falling over and over thus leads to the rebuilding of the snow pack and glacial formation back in those regions who have seen a reduction over the last decade.
sure we are most likely be aiding in some of the warming, but completely human-induced? seems like a pretty big sham to me!