Widescale Global Cooling

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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.

DailyTech - Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling


hmmmmmmmmmmm..........................

 

[Bill]

Yah but........ just because it snowed in Baghdad for the first time in 10,000 years, that's isn't evidence for my theory.

 

[laminar]

It's also a La Nina year....

 

[island_sands]

Yep, we had 6degC one morning in Dubai this winter. Extremely rare indeed. It will be interesting to see how the oceans react. Corals will act more favourably if the water cools down a bit.

 

[Oldsarge]

My daughter the geography grad student has been forcasting this for a couple of years, now. For some selfish reason, I like her being more right than the BBC!

 

[shoutatthesky]

We have had the hottest summer here in New Zealand since 1999. I think it is the trends over the years that paint a more realistic picture than just one years weather events.

 

[BatRay]

Yeah. The difficulty is in deciding how many years' worth of data will give us a reasonably predictable trend. According to data collected over the last 50 years, the temperature will increase by 4 to 9 degrees before 2100. Personally, I don't think that'll happen, and the recent cool temperatures prove that we can't even predict a warming trend.

Interesting article, Roy.

 

[Lockedin]

Yeah. The difficulty is in deciding how many years' worth of data will give us a reasonably predictable trend. According to data collected over the last 50 years, the temperature will increase by 4 to 9 degrees before 2100. Personally, I don't think that'll happen, and the recent cool temperatures prove that we can't even predict a warming trend.

Interesting article, Roy.

Are you saying that we are not as smart as we think we are?!?

When I was a kid (70's) it was the new ice age that we worried about. Then my Dad let me read a sci-fi novel called "The Hab Theory", a work of fiction expounding apocalyptic Pole Shift theory (unbalanced ice caps cause the Earth to tumble). Kinda funny, in a fatalistic way. Somehow, this reminded me of that. Here's the Wiki link:

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_shift_theory]Pole shift theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Roy, is your avatar a Kendo student?

 

[BatRay]

Yep! What's funny is that no one can point to a definite warming trend, so the alarmists have thrown out global warming and are beating their drums about 'climate change. You can't really argue that climates sometimes change, but it often happens over thousands of years. A fifty-year trend may be as fleeting in the grand scheme of things as the popularity of bell-bottom pants.

 

[Bill]

Rivers used to flow on Mars. Sea level used to be 30-40 meters lower. The usual magnetic pole reversal is 10,000 years behind schedule. It's about time for another meteor strike. After a lifetime of increasing sun spots, cycle 24 is very late and I can't remember how to clear my ears at 50 meters. The end must be near. IMHO
P.S. Do you think that 'the government' will save us?