Global Cooling

by BigT | February 28, 2008 at 04:57 am | 459 views | 1 comment

[OPINION]

Oh the weather outside is frightful... Frightfully cold that is.

Maybe I'm being a little premature in saying that global warming, at least as the environmental alarmists make it out to seem, because maybe you carpooling to work once a week is what has saved the polar bears. But I doubt it.

The article points out that maybe, just maybe, fluctuations in Earth's temperature are caused more buy the sun (go figure) than by CO2. Well, this news story will be buried or if it is covered then it will be so to point out how ridiculous right wingers (us) are being because we put so much weight into one year's worth of a temperature anomaly.

But aren't the environmental alarmists the ones who routinely point to record temperatures to prove climate change? Haven't they tried to "prove" global warming by pointing to "weird" weather?

Why can't we do the same thing? Temperatures went down, which wiped out 100 years of global warming. What happens if this trend continues? What happens if five years from now the global temperature is below the level it was 100 years ago? Are we still going to enact sweeping socialistic changes to our economy to stave off an illusionary doom?

My guess - forget that - I know that the left is going to continue to push their statist policies because they have nothing to do with global warming. Hell, they don't even really care about the environment; they're just using it as their reason d'etre for shoving communism down our throats. Anyways, here's the article - enjoy!

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 most of 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.

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politisite

at 12:53 on February 28th, 2008

good stuff:

BigT, I like this story. Hot button issue but very true It's good stuff. Al Gore will take credit as people listened to his advise and the turn around was quicker than expected! Oh let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!