The issues of global warming, climate and weather have been discussed for a long time. Weather can be defined as the frequent changes in aspects as the wind, sun temperatures, and rainfall either on an hourly or daily basis. On the other hand, the averaged patterns in weather changes over a given period of time, probably a decade or more, can be described as climate. In the same context, global warming falls under the changes that have been impacted by climate over a long period of time by human activities and worsening environmental problems (Climate Modeling 101: Climate vs. Weather, 2012).
Realists and scientists argue that the continued rise in temperatures is due to global warming. However, there are people who use Cherry-picked data to argue that the changes in climate are not happening and that instead, global warming is subsiding or it has rather stopped. However, this conclusion is just a lie and a fallacy. Cherry picking is whereby some people selectively pick data, with incomplete evidence, and manipulate it so that it seems to confirm a certain fact or position (Gleick, 2012). In this case, these contrarians have manipulated and suppressed the scientifically collected data in regards to global warming and used it to spread lies that it is not taking place anymore.
According to Gleick (2012), the globe is actually warming and there are facts to show it. The contrarians tend to pick data for certain subsets of years and use it to draw fallacious conclusions that global warming has actually stopped. However, when Realists and Scientists take a look at the long climate trends, they outline that global warming is escalating and human activities have the highest percentage to do with its rise. For example, they used the average temperatures for 2011 which proved to be slightly cooler than those of 2009 and 2010 to conclude that there is global cooling. However, when we look at the last fifteen years, temperatures have actually escalated tremendously.
Scientists have proven that the arctic is heating much faster due to global warming than in the middle latitudes of the earth. As a result, this has created wavy jet streams towards the warming arctic thus creating blocking patterns. According to Berwyn (2016), high climatic blocking pressures have been increasing and they have become anchored in the vast ice sheet found in the arctic. Brown (2016) affirms that as a result, the stagnated warm air over the sheets has caused great melting of the ice leading to seal level rise everywhere. It has thus become a blockage to storm systems from moving to the Iceland leading to their diversion across the Atlantic. On the other hand, the same blocking has led to less ice being formed in the Arctic during winter due to the anchorage of the warm air. Therefore, the jet streams have been attributed to the constant changes of climate in Britain.
References
Berwyn, B. (2016). Wobbly Jet Stream Is Sending the Melting Arctic into 'Uncharted Territory' | InsideClimate News. Retrieved from https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08062016/greenland-arctic-record-melt-jet-stream-wobbly-global-warming-climate-change
Brown, P. (2016). Blocking highs and jet stream kinks | Environment | The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/02/blocking-highs-and-jet-stream-kinks
Climate Modeling 101: Climate vs. Weather. (2012). Retrieved from http://nas-sites.org/climate-change/climatemodeling/page_1_1.php
Gleick, P. (2012). Forbes Welcome. Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/petergleick/2012/02/05/global-warming-has-stopped-how-to-fool-people-using-cherry-picked-climate-data/#150824ae32f1
