Santa Rosa Mountains
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), http://www.ipcc.ch/ in their latest report, states the “linear warming trend over the 50 years from 1956-2005is nearly twice that for the 100 years from 1906-2005.” Their observations show that it’s “very likely” that Northern Hemisphere temperatures are now higher than any 50 year period in the last 500 years, and “likely” the highest in the past 1,300 years. Another nugget is “of the more than 29,000 observational data series, from 75 studies, that show significant change in many physical and biological systems, more than 89% are consistent with the direction of change expected as a response to warming”. Fairly compelling evidence that warming is occurring, and it’s probably warming at a faster rate now than it was 100 years ago. At this point, there doesn’t seem much use in debating if it’s happening. More importantly, the question should be what’s causing it. Some of the warming could be attributable to warming trends of the planet, but how much of the warming is human caused?
The problem might lie in the “greenhouse gasses” we emit as an industrialized world. As the IPCC points out, “the annual carbon dioxide concentration growth rate was larger during the last 10 years (’95-’05) than it has been since the beginning of continuous direct atmospheric measurements” . Unless I read the report wrong, it would appear the IPCC and I agree the overall temperature of the atmosphere is indeed warming at a rate faster than first thought. What I wanted to know was there a connection between what I observed and global warming, or was there some other reason that could explain it?
The problem might lie in the “greenhouse gasses” we emit as an industrialized world. As the IPCC points out, “the annual carbon dioxide concentration growth rate was larger during the last 10 years (’95-’05) than it has been since the beginning of continuous direct atmospheric measurements” . Unless I read the report wrong, it would appear the IPCC and I agree the overall temperature of the atmosphere is indeed warming at a rate faster than first thought. What I wanted to know was there a connection between what I observed and global warming, or was there some other reason that could explain it?
