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... but this blog's headline and story confirms what I thought was a logical turn of events.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/jan/06/cold-snap-climate-sceptics
The fact that it's a cold wintery winter, doesn't mean global warming is happening. (let's not go to the subject of whether its caused by man or not, we won't get to the answer anytime soon)
In my imaginary logic, and yes this is just plain guesswork since I'm no expert, but then again, who is? The fact that we had a warm summer and a very cold winter, only proves that extremes are occurring. Because just about everything on earth is a neverending equation that keeps balancing on a wobbly stick. If it's hot somewhere (large space between wobbly molecules floating up), it's bound to be very windy and cold elsewhere as the molecules try to be evenly spaced out on the planet.
In the 3rd year I think of our IT studies we got lessons in things like Oscillation. Things that oscillate throw most of their remaining energy into the opposite direction to compensate to achieve a nice quiet state without movement. You can't just "stop", because stopping means putting energy into moving the other direction, and depending on how much friction you'll have, it will oscillate and not simply stop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_compensation
So let's imagine we could put "weather" into a oscilloscope and watch it's movement. We'd probably see wide large amplitude oscillating signal, and the more energy we put into it when it arrives at the peak to descend, it will only get worse. If we put energy into the opposite direction as its still either rising or descending, we'll still see an oscillating pattern as "weather" tries to end up in that statistically impossible goal of reaching momentum at pt 0. And when I say impossible, I mean it's very unlikely it's ever going to happen. This is not because we ourselves put so much into moving this frequency. It's because there are quite a number of factors that influence the weather either one way or the other.
That said; climate, global warming? Probably somewhere in there. Climate is a measured long term pattern, so we can't say we suddenly have a different climate, that'll take some time to measure and prove. It's not relevant either, if you don't like you should move to another country, but don't go whiny if it's not all that you expected - and it won't.
Global warming? The last chart up to recent years seemed to be pretty clear about it that it's happening. With the recent observation of increase in sunspots however, who really can say for certain what's happening. With the data only going till the 1600's, who can really say it's either man influenced or not.
Does it matter? Maybe for people who want to know everything to write a nice essay about it. For me it's just one of those things to just take a stand at what you think is right and fair, and that doesn't include a plan to keep using fossil fuels and excessive chemical exhausts being burned and mixed around with those little molecules our lungs so fancy...
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