Recent posts on this site have shown a population of people who are willing to comment, but demonstrate their complete misunderstanding of what global warming means.

It doesn't mean that temperatures will necessarily be warmer everywhere on the planet. In fact some locations may even be colder and have more precipitation than on average than in the past. Some areas will be experiencing drought conditions where they had not before.

It has to do with the rising temperature of the world's oceans. The oceans control climate and weather (not the same thing) over the continents.

In simple terms: As the oceans warm, they begin melting the ice caps and ice trapped in glaciers. This in turn dumps a significant amount of cold fresh water into the oceans.

This cold fresh water changes the density, and temperature of the ocean currents which are responsible for climate and weather. The result is that a change of the currents and a disruption climate patterns on a global scale.

Weather patterns become erratic and unpredictable. Tornados in places where they were rare before. An increase in hurricanes and hurricanes forming further south in the Atlantic which means more make it into the Gulf of Mexico. The warmer water means that they will be stronger and wetter than in tbe past.

Some places like the west coast will become drier and suffer more intense drought epidodes. The dryness adds to the increase in forest fires on the West Coast and interior mountains

Some places like the Southern plains will also experience less yearry preciptation and generally colder temperatures. While the Great Lakes and NE coast experience an increased in the number of supercold and wetter snow blizzards.

In closing, yes global warming is real. No you may not see warmer temperatures in your specific geographic location as the climate patterns are shifting due to a general warming of the ocean.