Do You Think Global Warming is Warming the Winter? [POLL]
It's one of the warmest winters on record. Think it's due to global warming?
Paul Douglas, meteorologist and founder of Weather Nation, was calling January "Marchuary" because in most places it felt more like March. And now in March, some days have felt more like late April. The gist of why it is happening, according to this article on Discovery News, is The Discovery article adds that "As for what's ultimately beneath the weather rut we're in, climate change is a tempting target," but Jeff Weber, a climatologist at the University Corp for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, points out that "we just can't say whether global warming is to blame for a sample size of one winter. Also, there isn't enough long-term data on La Nina to know whether two in a row is out of the ordinary or not." According to a recent survey…
Andy Koenigsberg
3:18 pm on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Impacts have only been conclusively demonstrated at the Cretacious-Tertiary boundary (aka, the dinosaur killer). There is no evidence for impact generated extinctions elsewhere in the geologic record as iridium has not been found above background levels at other boundaries. At the time of Snowball Earth - levels were very low, according to the works I have read - so from that perspective - I … more ›