Saint Louis here.. I must say, that yesterday was cool here. I remember going to a store, and walking in thinking, why do they have their a/c on? It's chilly outside!

AN iceage would be cause by climate change if the GULF STREAM WAS INTERUPTED AND COOLED CAUSING ALL GLOBAL TEMPS TO DROP SINCE THE WARM WATERS THAT MOVE WARM TEMPS AROUND THE WORLD WOULD BE NOMORE.

The evidence clearly shows that there is global warming. The average *global* temperature has risen for decades - I don't remember when it began. Probably it started right after the Industrial Revolution, when coal burning became widespread.

For a new ice age, you'd have glaciers advancing. The earth's glaciers are retreating. We're losing our ice shelves in Antarctica. Permafrost layers throughout the world are melting for the first time in centuries, or longer. Tropical and temperate plant life and wildlife are moving to what were colder zones as these zones become warmer.

The only reason there appears to be any controversy about global warming is because the scientific knowledge about it was suppressed by the Bush Administration, which hoped to forestall any legislation that might hamper big business (in particular, Big Oil).

What is in doubt is not whether the world is getting warmer, but whether the activities of humans has much to do with it. IF that question is answered in the affirmative, then the next question is whether there is a thing we can do about it at this late date.

Global warming does *not* mean that temperatures throughout the world will uniformly increase. It means that overall the temperature will increase. This has been happening. There can be areas of cold, even record-breaking cold. It is expected that the weather will become much more chaotic as various systems try to respond to the increase of heat (as they'd do responding to a decrease. Any significant change, up or down, will produce unusual weather).

The temperatures of a few cities isn't enough to prove or disprove global warming. Temperatures on land are not as important in determining climate, as temperatures in the oceans. The oceans are warming. Marine life (such as the coral reefs) is dying as a result of temperatures being too high.

But you can't say, "Feels pretty cool around here; no global warming". It's not quite that simple.