Global *snicker* warming...teeheehee

[rbell]

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ppened-warmest-year-record.html#ixzz17IbueZTh

Kind of tells it like it is...

Last week at Cancun, in an attempt to influence richer countries to agree to give £20billion immediately to poorer ones to offset the results of warming, the US-based International Food Policy Research Institute warned that global temperatures would be 6.5 degrees higher by 2100, leading to rocketing food prices and a decline in production.

The math isn't complicated. If the planet were going to be six degrees hotter by the century's end, it should be getting warmer by 0.6 degrees each decade; if two degrees, then by 0.2 degrees every ten years. Fortunately, it isn't.

Actually, with the exception of 1998 - a 'blip' year when temperatures spiked because of a strong 'El Nino' effect (the cyclical warming of the southern Pacific that affects weather around the world) - the data on the Met Office's and CRU's own websites show that global temperatures have been flat, not for ten, but for the past 15 years.



They go up a bit, then down a bit, but those small rises and falls amount to less than their measuring system's acknowledged margin of error. They have no statistical significance and reveal no evidence of any trend at all.

More bombshells:

Earlier this year, a paper by Michael Mann - for years a leading light in the IPCC, and the author of the infamous 'hockey stick graph' showing flat temperatures for 2,000 years until the recent dizzying increase - made an extraordinary admission: that, as his critics had always claimed, there had indeed been a ' medieval warm period' around 1000 AD, when the world may well have been hotter than it is now.

Other research is beginning to show that cyclical changes in water vapour - a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide - may account for much of the 20th Century warming.

Can't wait to see how the mouth-breathers who worship Gore, mother earth, and "Everybody But Me Should Live In Huts To Save The Planet" will try to spin this...

 

[Thousand Hills]

Interesting article, liked this tidbit, Last week, halfway through yet another giant, 15,000 delegate UN climate jamboree, being held this time in the tropical splendour of Cancun in Mexico, the Met Office was at it again.

Never mind that Britain, just as it was last winter and the winter before, was deep in the grip of a cold snap, which has seen some temperatures plummet to minus 20C, and that here 2010 has been the coolest year since 1996.

If they were really concerned it looks like they could have had a big teleconference instead of jetting across the world to Cancun, the whole global warming "dilema" is a pure money racket/prestige gimmick in my honest opinion.

Not to hijack your thread, but I recently saw a report on a TV show called Ag Day, the show interviewed some scientists (meterologists I guess) who have noted declining sun spots in the past few years, which would actually signal a period of cooler tempatures. I've tried to do a google search to find a good article on it, but to no avail. Anybody that might have more information or a better understanding please enlighten me.

 

[glfredrick]

Global warming has just about played out its hand. It has been discovered for what it is -- the single largest attempt to redirect the wealth of the world into the hands of 3rd world despots that has ever been attempted.

That is not to say that our world isn't warming just a tad. It is, and likely has been since the ice age, and it has some cyclical periods that we have seen throughout recorded history.

The Maunder Minimum and the little ice age almost devastated Eurpope in the Middle Ages.

Here's a wiki link that explains it fairly well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum

Here is the Hadcrut global climate map for the year 2008. Note the SERIOUS cooling effect, which was duplicated in 2009, and looking like 2010 as well (we're colder than normal for much of the USA right now at Dec. 3).

http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/7390_large_hadcrut.jpg

News report concerning Siberia's "coldest ever winter on record for 2009-2010:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...announcing-winter-Siberia-coldest-record.html

And, we all remember what happened in the USA last year. Just ask the residents of the Eastern seaboard about snow...

We currently have snow on the ground in Louisville, KY. Typically, we're still cutting lawn for the last time of the year this week. Anecdotal, sure, but I track ground temps and weather as part of my job and we're running as much as 6-10 degrees cooler in the winters for the past 3 years now. This summer was brutally hot, but not because of global warming, rather we had an extended locked in high pressure ridge. The rest of the country was cooler than usual, with temps on the beaches in LA the coldest ever.

http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_16730462?nclick_check=1