In researching articles, it's easy to come across the same things over and over again...but that is probably a message in itself that these issues will not go away. The article I came across that stood out was the issue of temperatures COOLING during Global Warming, as opposed to WARMING. In Manitoba this past year we experienced a cooler summer with some extremely hot days. Our fall temperatures dropped to near 40 below near the beginning and then temperatures increased abnormally. (and then back down for a while and so on...) People would say "so much for global warming" but my thoughts were "this is what we've done". People are fooled by these cooler temperatures, but they are still from our polluting ways. Air pollution has caused La Nina to extend longer than it should...going from lasting about 1 year, to lasting 2 years. Even though it has been cooler it's not slowing down Arctic Ice melt and the threat of extinction for the Polar Bear population (that is a whole other blog for another time...). People are only concerned with local weather patterns when we should be focusing on the global patterns and how they will be dramatically effecting us.
If you want a bit more info you can check out the link to the blog/article at :
Than, Kerr. (2009, January 5). North America's Cooling Due to Natural Causes in 2008? Retrieved January 11, 2010, from http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100105-natural-cooling-north-america-2008/
Alara
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