Cold winters are a sign of GLOBAL WARMING!

(The Antarctic air streams, of course, stray into more NORTHERLY latitudes!)

Yes, the Earth has been warming since the last ice age. Yippy skip. The claim though, is that CO2 from the industrial revolution is what caused it. Yet the warming trend, since the last ice age, started BEFORE the industrial revolution. Finally, if the cause is CO2, and CO2 levels have continued to increase over the past 20 years (and they have), then it would be impossible for the global temp to decrease in the past 2 years (which it has). The bottom line is, CO2 is not, nor ever has been, the cause of global warming.

The "weather" changes four times a year in most places. What's happening in many places today isn't "weather change" it's CLIMATE CHANGE. It's unfortunate the term "global warming" was used so much from the beginning because the accurate term is climate change although the overall result is global warming. Annie

Climate changes four times a year in most places. We call those changes "seasons". Do tell me oh wise one, what kind of winter does NOT prove global warming? Apparently a cold winter proves global warming and so does a warm winter. People who believe in this garbage will jump on anything to claim it supports their ultimately flawed theory.

The evidence that GLOBALLY the temperature is rising is incontrovertible and, as you say, is accepted by every scientist worthy of the name. Unfortunately, some of the evidence was shown some years ago to have been "tampered with" under the instigation of certain political and commercial interests who, presumably, wielded a very attractive funding package and needed to base their particular platforms on 'evidence' which was doctored to suit their particular interests. Most of the responses here, sadly, show the influence of this propaganda in some way or another. Trying to argue the case for global warming with such people merely brings up more of the same misinformation and partial information with which they have been fed. I'm afraid that US Americans, in particular (but not as a whole), seem to be more guilty of this than the rest of the world. Most of us, no doubt, tend to be biased somewhat (however little we realise it) towards what our politicians and governmental policies have asked us to consider important but the US, especially, appears to encourage a gay abandon in the face of what everyone else in the world accepts as solid fact.

I think renaming it "Climate Change" was just a way for them to blame EVERYTHING on people since they realized that people were catching on to the fact that the global climate has actually been decreasing for years now.

Not really a name change as science was calling it climate change as Global Warming would be the effect of a massive event such as a thermo nuclear war then right after it would be a thermo nuclear winter caused by the Suns radiation being blocked by clouds. Also what has decreased the temp of the Planet is the Volcanoes that have been happening as they don't warm up the planet. Due to the Ash and material that is released it actually decreases the temp despite the Co2 released. As CO2 and other green house gases increase what will happen be that 90% or so of the scientific community that is in on the subject of Climate Change is correct our seasons will become more dramatic so super cold in the winter and super hot in the summer. The main worry is that with the temp of the oceans water warming up then it could cause hurricanes to hit higher and also grow stronger than seen before which would do tons of damage to the United States and other countries that are affected by Hurricanes. There is also the chance that if the Ice Capes melt that the Alantic Ocean Current will stop which will cause it to get a whole lot colder. I am not really an expert in the Environment as well in school I mostly focused on Biology and Physics and not the Climate. So not really a field of science I know a lot about sadly above is only what I have been able to catch.

By the way, I remember about 30 years ago one of the fast food chains put a marketing push on green/fresh air. The gave away little pine trees to plant, in a Styrofoam cup! What a joke!