Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling

[Lil Red]

[url="http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Glbal+Cooling/article10866.htm"]Article here[/url]

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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Various links at the original article, linked above.

[scardella]

[quote name='Office Space']A "Jump to Conclusions" mat: You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor... and would have different CONCLUSIONS written on it that you could JUMP TO.[/quote]

Let it pan out over 4-5 years before we go all crazy on the environmentalists.

[ardillacid]

But it is so fun to harass them. Not to mention easier than most others.

[XIX]

cool.

[Justin86]

[quote name='notardillacid' post='1470781' date='Feb 29 2008, 08:17 AM']But it is so fun to harass them. Not to mention easier than most others.[/quote]

Edited February 28, 2008 by Justin86

[kafka]

it sure felt like global cooling in my neck of the woods this winter

[Dismas]

[quote name='scardella' post='1470766' date='Feb 28 2008, 04:56 PM']Let it pan out over 4-5 years before we go all crazy on the environmentalists.[/quote]
But I have my torch and pitchfork all ready for storming their ivory tower. Too bad we'll need to shovel all the snow out of the way first. I bet they don't have this kind of trouble in Transylvania when mad scientists run amok.

[T-Bone _]

[quote name='Dismas' post='1470829' date='Feb 28 2008, 04:07 PM']But I have my torch and pitchfork all ready for storming their ivory tower. Too bad we'll need to shovel all the snow out of the way first. I bet they don't have this kind of trouble in Transylvania when mad scientists run amok.[/quote]

Won't the CO[sub]2[/sub] from your torch add to global warming, though?

[Fidei Defensor]

Interesting data.

It's worth noting, though, that if global warming is in fact happening, it would lead to global climate change which does not necessarily mean everywhere is getting hotter. Changes in the salinity of the oceans due to the melting of the fresh water frozen in the icecaps would lead to changes in currents which can mean changes in climate - i.e. colder winters, weird weather. But if you look at the icecaps, they are the areas that are warming. Scientists are predicting that the Arctic Ocean may become ice-free before 2015.

[Socrates]

Obviously, this rapid global cooling is another global climatic catastrophe which can only be averted by massive global government socialism!

[jeffpugh]

Apparently there are record levels of ice though

[Fidei Defensor]

... edit. sorry

Edited February 29, 2008 by fidei defensor

[thessalonian]

I'm gonna go to washington next week and get them to put up big heaters everywhere. The sky is falling. The sky is falling. Oh no, we need massive umbrellas. I need to head right down to the appropriations committee.

[T-Bone _]

[quote name='Sacred Music Man' post='1470976' date='Feb 28 2008, 08:16 PM']Apparently there are record levels of ice though [/quote]

There's only one solution: Icy, icy Margaritas for everyone!

[Deb]

[quote name='Lil Red' post='1470705' date='Feb 28 2008, 02:38 PM'][url="http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Glal+Cooling/article10866.htm"]Article here[/url]

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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Various links at the original article, linked above.[/quote]

As usual, Fox news has to toss in its untrue sensationalism, Here is a quote from Anthony Watts who compiled the four sources (all measured in totally different ways but, he added them together):
[b]I wish to state for the record, that this statement is not mine:[/b] [i]“–a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years” [/i]

There has been no “erasure”. This is an anomaly with a large magnitude, and it coincides with other anecdotal weather evidence. It is curious, it is unusual, it is large, it is unexpected, but it does not “erase” anything.



I am personally more concerned about global dimming.