Things About Global Warming You May Have Not Considered.

Here is the latest in the Lefty's effort at defending the notion of radical, man-caused global warming. The map and article were posted at Mother Jones here.

Mother Jones is a Left leaning publication that is agenda driven. The article, well written as it is, is typical and predictable. Mother Jones is not a "warming"site. It is a political blog. Go to Watts up with that? for a non-partisan review of the warming issue. Also, I have taken time over the years to collect information and reference sites on the subject, that merit your attention. That effort can be found at All About Global Warming.

As to the map, itself. If folks would actually study such information with a critical review in mind, their conclusions would be more qualified than before.

It is true that warming does occur, but to what rate, to which region(s), during which seasons of the year and what time of day?

That last consideration might catch some of you off guard, but if night-time temperatures are increasing more than day-time temps, scientists (in a recent televised debate) tell us the effect is to increase the growing season. That's a good thing.

Secondly, if increases in warming have more to do with extending the average temp of a particular season of the year, well, that can be good, also. Here in the Central Valley of California, where I have lived for several decades, I have noted the fact that our summers are not as hot, on average, but the duration of our summers has lengthened. Over the past 10 years, there has been almost no Fall season, here. Summer, this year, for example, began in May, as usual, and, today, October 21, the forecast is for 75-80 degree weather through the end of the month. 20 years ago, freezing weather began in early October. This year, that is not going to happen until sometime in November.

Note: understand that I am fully aware that this is an anecdotal summary with large regions of our nation experiencing much colder weather than “usual” as well as increased snow fall totals (i.e. Colorado with its 250 inches of snow fall, last year). With this in mind, we ask the obvious question, is warming global or regional?

Beside the regional/anecdotal comparison I just mentioned, take a look at the map in this post. Note that the two polar ice caps are not included. Without including these two “blue” zones, temp averages would appear to be higher than they are if we are averaging a "global" temperature model. On the Mother Jones map, there are no “blue” regions, when we know, as a matter of fact, “blue” zones exist.

Secondly, temperature increases are far greater in the European/Russian/Chinese regions of the world than they are in the highly industrialized United States, India/Pakistan, the Asian Peninsula or all of the regions south of the Equator.

Third and speaking of the Equator, if one super-imposes the Equator onto the map, warming is more pronounced in the northern region than in the southern region.

In Africa, where the population has scarcely heard of the “industrial revolution,” warming seems to much more an issue than in the United States where the Revolution was invented. There is, also, almost no warming in the northern region of Australia. Why the stark deferential between regions in that country?

All this is to say that “Warming” is not as well defined as the alarmist would have us believe. Further, an argument can be made that it is neither “global” nor necessarily detrimental.