I'm all for warmer winters and warmer still summers! I could live without WI being so darn snowy and cold, and I lkie smmer being hot! unlike this year though, I didn't feel like we even had a summer! and don't tell me to move somewhere else, my spouse wouldn't go with me and since I love them I guess I'll just stay here and complain. Btw, I think global warming, now called climate change is just a stupid farce the greenies are touting to get attention!!!HA HA!!!!

It is much safer to predict what will happen in 40 years than to predict what will happen next year.

This "new" study would be more believable than the last (that all seem to echo the same) if they also predicted this past summer would have been cooler than normal.

But guess what they didn't see that coming. So that was just a mistake in their "data" or they overlooked it. Either way they are sure about the next 50 years...

Why do they( the press) not state the truth about how our planet has cooled almost a whole degree since the "Great Al Gore" was in office?. Well, lets see. the FCC (which is a gov. org.) will not allow it because there will be mass chaos at every grocery store due to the threat of world wide starvation (anyone notice the corn crop this year, pretty sad if you ever walk through a field) Thats why you NEVER hear a lick about where the planet is headed. The scariest part of it all? It could only take a matter of ten to 20 years years!!!

So what is it, http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=2...
Complete opposite in another paper.

mooshoo:
the sky is falling, the sky is falling.

You gotta love crap being spoon fed to you all the time! No matter how much CO2 we pump into the atmosphere, it will NOT warm our planet. Study your science people. The earths rotation around our sun is eliptical, NOT a perfect circle. Guess what part of the orbit it is entering now? Combine that with the slight variation in the earths tilt on its axis and you get what we had 10,000 years ago!!! And its right on time. Anybody care to notice the lack of energy the sun is discharging lately?? Or that the artic sea ice has increased 500,000 square miles more than last year. How about the countless thousands of cold and record maximum low temps shattered so far this year. All this article is is more B.S. the politicians are feeding you, us. And you NEVER see it in the headlines. You can all go to Iceagenow.com just to see how bad "Global Warming" really is. Btw, the site in not a government run site!!

So the summers will be warmer too?

At last..some good news!! I am going to go drive my SUV some more.

The earth's rotation on its axis is a constant. The sun has been around for billions of years. We are putting C02 and greenhouse gases into the atmosphere at unprecidented levels for the last 200 years. Pete is only here on earth for 75 years if he is lucky. Its your progeny that will suffer the consequences of 200 years of mankind's activities releasing 200 million years of sequestered carbon.

Warmer winters sounds good to me.

maybe its just the world doing what it always does. constantly changing climates all over the world. incase no one is aware. where there are deserts there once was rain forrest and vice versa. things change, people need to stop trying to stop nature from doing it thing.

i say, lets start passing laws "just in case" this happens. that way we can stifle business making the cost of everything go up. then in forty years, when we're still having "average" winters (those that vary from slightly warmer to slightly colder year in and year out)we can look back and say, "what the hell were we thinking!"

justme46, no matter what overall climate change takes place, there will always be individual variations in annual weather patterns. For instance, we will continue to have an El Nino/La Nina hemispheric cycle.

I have to laugh about this as I remember when the snow was up to the telephone pole crossbars?
When I had snow banks that we built forts in.
Now it is going to get colder again?? Well that
happens and it will get warmer again too.
Isn't that something old timers tell their grandkids? And I walked miles to school too.
Well I'll be!!!!

I predict that there will be a new prediction that is published every year for the next 100+ years that claims an increase or decrease in local or worldwide temperatures due to human or non-human activities. GRANT PLEASE!

Janesvillean, then why did we have such a cool summer? Just asking.

This is one study by one group of scientists using an extremely small data set. There's virtually no other study out there that shows such a marked warm up in such a short amount of time. 4-9 degrees in 50 year is unprecedented with numerous scientists already coming out stating that 1-3 degrees is more likely.

There's hardly anything you can say to demonstrate your lack of understanding more telling than "warmer winters sounds good to me". The agricultural industry is going to be severely affected, and it's likely to decrease precipitation in the Great Lakes region, leading to a decline in available fresh water supplies. Warmer winters may mean less heating energy, but summer cooling energy usage will increase, outstripping available power generation. Trees and other foliage will die as Wisconsin changes to a more southerly planting zone, and new invasive species will appear without predators. Maybe climate change is part of the natural history of the earth, but we know that it has the capability to cause widespread extinctions, and we know that its effects will be impossibly expensive.

so! that sounds good to me, keep on burning those old tires!