Wednesday, February 27, 2008

New Records Set for Global Cooling

Al Gore and his disciples in the 'church of global warming' have a problem - how do you keep the faithful, faithful to the cause when they are freezing their collective butts off.

All of the catch phrases that they have used, 'the polar bears are disappearing, the ice is melting at the north pole and we are all going to die in the flood or just plain burn up from the heat' aren't going to sound very convincing when church members are dressed in parkas.

What now - if the world is going to freeze, what about the nut jobs do that are living in tents and eating bark and grubs? hmmm

These scientists actually have facts to back up their claim that solar interference has more to do with global warming then CO2 produced by man. Now, with the cooling trend as a result of a reduction is solar activity, we can look forward to snow until July, then it will warm up for two weeks then turn cold again for the rest of the year - like Minnesota- heh

Stay warm and keep the faith, the battle is joined!

'Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling' World Temperatures according to the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction. Note the steep drop over the last year.

Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming. Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.


No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out nearly all the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.


Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn't itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.

Let's hope those factors stop fast. Cold is more damaging than heat. The mean temperature of the planet is about 54 degrees. Humans -- and most of the crops and animals we depend on -- prefer a temperature closer to 70.


Historically, the warm periods such as the Medieval Climate Optimum were beneficial for civilization. Corresponding cooling events such as the Little Ice Age, though, were uniformly bad news.

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