70 degrees at 10 PM on February 23rd.

[Jim Schue]

Last winter was bitter cold.

 

At times, but not the entire time. And it still skipped spring and rolled right into summer.

[Jim Schue]

I've never felt that we've had TRUE winters and I've been around NKY for almost 3 decades. We are hit or miss with most of the time getting missed more so than not. We have season's and our winters usually consist of everyone hoping for snow not the other way around. I can just about count on my hand the number of "Big Snows" we've had and I can also count about the same ammount of April snows.

 

I dunno if you want seasons move to the true midwest, the Dakota's, Kansas, west Illinois etc. Honestly when you think about it KY is almost the same as Mississippi, thunderstorms, flooding, maybe a tornado and ice but it's relatively calm around here and the current weather is just part of a pattern not some big global warming trend that will destroy generations to come. We had ice ages prior to our moder technology and I don't this it was because of our over use of fossil fuels or too many planes in the sky.

 

We used to have proper seasons here, and we still should. I don't want to move anywhere else.

[Jim Schue]

I've got a hunch the folks in Europe don't think there's much to the Global Warming theory.

 

Our unusually warm weather has more to do with El Nino (or is it El Nina this time?) than Global Warming.

 

But why do we seem to be having so many non-typical winters? It can't be some little Hispanic kid's fault every time, can it? For 30 some years now?

[leatherneck]

I'd venture a guess that we haven't had unseasonably warm winters over each of the last 30 years. Here's a link to the cause of El Nino: http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/prednino/overview.php. I scanned it quickly and didn't see global warming listed as a cause but perhaps I missed it.

 

And again, the folks in Europe sure don't think there is a global warming unless by global, we mean the globe except for Europe.

[Run To State]

I'd venture a guess that we haven't had unseasonably warm winters over each of the last 30 years. Here's a link to the cause of El Nino: The El Niño Phenomenon: From Understanding to Predicting. I scanned it quickly and didn't see global warming listed as a cause but perhaps I missed it.

 

And again, the folks in Europe sure don't think there is a global warming unless by global, we mean the globe except for Europe.

:thumb:

[Run To State]

But why do we seem to be having so many non-typical winters? It can't be some little Hispanic kid's fault every time, can it? For 30 some years now?

Blame the sun. It's natural cycles, that is.

 

One interesting theory of how this works has recently been discovered by Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark. The temperature of the Earth, he argues, is regulated by the intensity of solar radiation. Lower solar radiation means more cosmic rays, more clouds, and a cooler Earth, while higher solar radiation means fewer cosmic rays, fewer clouds, and a warmer Earth. Add in the El Nino and El Nina effects LN spoke of and there you have it. It's just a natural cause.

[bballfamily]

Yep, global warming is definitely a myth.

 

I have been looking at the record highs for Jan and Feb. The record highs for northern Ky are scattered over the last 100 years. Has there been global warming for the hundred years? I would say there just are some weather extremes over time that have nothing to do with global warming.

[swamprat]

OH MY GOD! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!

 

Somebody want to pass me another cold one?

[True blue (and gold)]

Blame the sun. It's natural cycles, that is.

 

One interesting theory of how this works has recently been discovered by Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark. The temperature of the Earth, he argues, is regulated by the intensity of solar radiation. Lower solar radiation means more cosmic rays, more clouds, and a cooler Earth, while higher solar radiation means fewer cosmic rays, fewer clouds, and a warmer Earth. Add in the El Nino and El Nina effects LN spoke of and there you have it. It's just a natural cause.

 

If I may, "hypothesis" not "theory."