How can we have what they call Global Worming? when almost every year we here of someone having a coldes year in recorded history

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• Well you%26#039;re right bout one thing. The term global warming doesn%26#039;t exactly hit the cat on the nose. It%26#039;s not about the general warming of the climate so much. Technically we are still in a warming period (or deglaciation period) which is a natural event that occurs frequently in geologic history. We are suppose to be in a glaciation period (or cooling period) according to the predictions. A lot of people think that this has to do with human activity since industrialization. I do believe we have an influence, and that we effecting the natural process. The extent of our influence, or if it really even matters in the end is questionable. There is also something important people are forgetting here... You don%26#039;t need a hotter temperature for the sun%26#039;s energy to melt the glaciers faster. You just need a defect in the protective layer in our Stratosphere. What the green house gases do is destroy that layer, and cause the glaciers to melt alarmingly fast, without the temp necissarily rising. This is a %26quot;global warming%26quot; occurance and will cause our climate to %26quot;act%26quot; warmer without actually being warmer... Messege to take home: even though the term %26quot;Global warming%26quot; seems confussing, it is in a general sense happening, and we will not know how big it will be until the near future. 0% 0 Votes . Or for a more reader-friendly account, see the ABC news article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200... .
  
  Atmospheric issues may be difficult for the average person to understand, but when the international scientific community comes together and makes it clear that governments must act on certain issues to protect our common good, it is to our own benefit to take action to prevent problems from getting worse. The International Panel on Climate Change (http://www.ipcc.ch/) has been warning us for decades about climate change, and while we had the start of some promising international cooperation with the Kyoto Protocol, the refusal of a few key signatories (most notably the USA) to put the agreement into force has effectively killed the international effort. Why is the USA so opposed to taking action to reduce CO2 emissions? Because our lifestyle is completely dependent on burning fossil fuels. Per capita CO2 emissions in the USA are more than 10x what they are in China, for example. It%26#039;s pretty small for the USA to then refuse to cooperate in international agreements because developing countries such as China which already have 90% fewer emissions per person, are not at present part of the agreement.
  
  Looking back to the Montreal Protocol, it was started by the Vienna Convention, which included only 20 nations. After these leaders made the commitment, eventually almost every other nation signed on, and today only five nations are not party to the agreement (Andorra, Iraq, San Marino, Timor-Leste and Vatican City).
  
  It%26#039;s just so sad that the USA has been holding back international cooperation on such an important issue. Bachelor of Science in Environmental Planning 17% 1 Vote