Global Cooling!
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.
Meteorologist Anthony Watts compiled the results of all the sources. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C — a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year time. For all 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.
on February 27th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Moderator Note: This comment is being allowed, although it has very little to do with Global Warming
Every person in America who wears a military uniform takes an OATH to swear or (affirm) allegiance to our U.S. Constitution, “We The People…”. Every elected professional, political parasite in our country takes the same OATH of office. They have violated their OATH of OFFICE!
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose or evasion; that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God”.
The spinless, whining mugwumps in D.C. do not have the gonads to vote FOR the Semper Fi Act, the Patriot Act and the Protect America Act. Why? Because the far left Socialist pinkos will not vote for them and the corporate and lawyer lobbyists of the far left will not send them money. This means they means they will lose their positions of power.
Our country has enemies within our gates outside our borders, round the world and those cowards in Washington, D.C. do nothing but profile, subpoena and investigate Republicans and the use of steriods by idiot athletes while our country and our warriors are in danger round the world.
We all know Global Warming is a Democrat pinko, leftist HOAX sponsored by Al Gore who was awarded the Nobel and an Oscar prizes which should be returned. The Atmospheric Scientists have proved the “Inconvenient Truth” is a Socialist HOAX. The awards should be returned.
We all know that POWER is the ONLY thing they are concerned about. They do not give a rat’s @$$ about me, you, our military, our safety, their family or our country. Our U.S. Constitution means nothing to them. Their best lie is:”We support the troops, but not the wars”. RIGHT OBAMA?
John Bolton says, “Surrender Is Not An Option”. Obama’s option is, ‘I will surrender to Al Qaeda in Iraq to appease the Muslim Jihadists round the world and I will have tea with Ahmadinejad, Hamas, Hezbollah, Asad
and smoke a good cigar with my buddies Hugo and Raul if elected’.
‘I will sit down with the people who want to kill ALL INFIDELS in the world who do not convert to Islam during their deadly determination of caliphate to rule the world by their Imam and governed by the Quar`an and Sharia law’.
“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is formidable, for he is known and carries his banners openly against the city, but the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through the alley and heard in the very halls of government itself. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.”
Cicero
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQhjaCgAS80
“Surrender Is Not An Option” John Bolton, Ambassador
http://ussainc.johnmccain.com/Manage/MyTeam/ManageTeam.aspx