Reply #1: Its all in the ocsillations (sp)

[Sirius_on]

I am a total weather freak. I love to talk about it and read about it. So I know quite a bit. While some people may think the earth is warming do to certain issolated events, its really not or at least proven. Some areas in Europe during the past winter were so far below normal that thousands froze to death.

The Eastern United states has been in a period of below normal temps since October of 2002. Where I currently live, we have had 10 consecuative months of below normal temps. In January we average about 29 degrees as a daily high and some days this winter never got about 5.

The reason for the intense storms during April and May were caused by a increased snowfield within the heartland of Canada. The intense winter cold that was produced by a increased depth in snow cover in the heartland of Canada produced many cold fronts that staled out over the middle of the U.S far later into the season then normal. Many attributed the increase in storms to global warming where as most meteorologists knew the real reason.

Another mistaken fact that leads many to global warming would be isolated urban heat islands. While the region within a city is indeed warmed over the past 100 years, its 100% proven that the concrete within the city itself is to blame. The over abundance of concete has lead to a 5% increase in tempatures within city limits over the past 100 years. Many of the tempature stations used for measuring temps happens to fall within these urban heat islands themselves. Thus skewing global warming frenzy.

While I am sure that the burning of fossil fuels has lead to many pollutions that are not exactly good to breathe, it has spared the earths weather and left it generally untouched.