On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:34:06 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Jan 15, 2:42*pm, BAR wrote:
wrote:
On Jan 15, 2:30 pm, John H wrote:
Al Gore says global warming is a planetary emergency. It is difficult to
see how this can be so when record low temperatures are being set all over
the world. In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming, but
from cold weather hazards.....

http://tinyurl.com/5u3qtl

How does people dying from cold (which happens every year) determine
that there is no global warming? Also, again, specific, immediate
changes in climate (called weather) is very different from global
warming. I thought you understood this.

If global warming is occurring then the global temperature should be
occurring Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. Yet, these past few years we
have broken many Winter records on the cold side. You global
warming/climate change officianados need to get your story straight.

The "global temperature" IS "occuring Winter, Spring, Summer and
Fall." BUT what some fail to understand is that the mean average
temperature IS rising. That doesn't mean that you can't still have
cold periods. Honestly, I don't see how intelligent people can't
understand that!

Is the Earth heating up? Will it get so hot that Winter becomes Summer
and Summer becomes hell?

Could be.

Climate change is just the seasons. You can preach a coming ice age then
when that doesn't occur preach reverse course and start preaching global
warming and when the data doesn't support that switch to climate change
which is the normal cycle of the seasons.

Wrong.

Since the mid-19th century, the mean global temperature has increased by
0.7 degrees Celsius. This slight warming is not unusual, and lies well
within the range of natural variation.