Is the northeast heat wave an indirect result of the gulf oil spill?

No however terrible the effects of the accident that has caused the Gulf oil spill are proving to be for the people of North America, climate is not a product of it. Yes there is considerable controversy about the causes of "climate change" that is affecting the whole world. Average temperatures did increase substantially between 1971 and 1998 all over the world.

But since then they appear to have stabalised and scientists' predictions they would continue to increase annually during the first ten years of the millenium have been proved totally wrong. This merely illustrates how mankind can never get on top of precise causes and effects on the sciences of climate and weather forecasting. But many scientists still contend temperatures will continue to go up and the problem needs to be addressed.

But although many meteorologists and scientists are insistent that the increase in greenhouse gases and CO2 output all over the world and the destruction of parts of the world's rain forests are the key causes that need to be addressed, others maintain the real cause is over population of the world and that is what needs to be addressed. Others maintain human activity is not responsible for climate change, but it is due to increases in solar activity and there is no way humans can control that, so we just have to accept it is continuing and address that in appropriate ways, such as in moving populations out of exposed areas. The accident that caused the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is also contended by some to be due to human activity in respect of the insatiable demand for oil, caused by human needs and that is the issue that needs to be addressed.

But no body of scientific opinion appears to be seeking to contend that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is in any way producing any further change in world climate. Nor is the Gulf of Mexico the worst such incident. The oil spillage situation in Nigeria is far worse, but that gets absolutely no publicity by the US media.So let us try to analyse the scientific basis of "heatwaves".

Basically in meteorology a heatwave is caused by atmospheric barometric pressure, prevailing wind direction and the jet-stream which together can cause air temperature and sea temperature to reach a certain mean level and for this to be maintained for a prolonged period. This has been happening in certain years since time immemorial. But none of these will be affected in the short term in any way by any changing in the chemical and physical composition of the sea in the Gulf of Mexico.

The unusual weather pattern of this year affecting the United States is anyway not isolated. Last winter was unusually cold throughout the whole of the Northern Hemisphere including all of Europe, Russia and the Far East and similarly heatwaves are occurring at present in various parts of the Northern Hemisphere far away from the Americas. Berlin the capital of Germany for example has also been having a heatwave over the past week with some of the highest day time air temperatures ever experienced there, and that certainly has absolutely nothing to do with anything occurring in the Gulf of Mexico either.

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