Its been freezing cold with lots of snow where I live. Doesn that prove global warming is a hoax?
There are always cold spells and warm spells going on in one place or another. But even where weather is cold, what’s considered “typical” is changing. For example, the heavy snow that struck Colorado and Kansas at the end of 2006 was actually more characteristic of that area’s autumn or spring weather than a typical December. Globally, Earth’s natural processes don’t follow a linear pattern, so the global average temperature may be slightly cooler or warmer from one year to the next. Different parts of Earth’s ecosystem also respond to the greenhouse effect in different ways. The oceans, for example, hold more heat and respond to atmospheric chnages more slowly than land masses do. Average temperatures of the land, oceans, and atmosphere also vary from year to year as well as from each other. To examine long-term warming, climate scientists look at large areas and longer time periods. The maps below help illustrate the global nature of climate change.
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