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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Global Warming Alert: U.N. Forecasters: Global Temperatures to Decrease
2008-04-04
Average global temperatures in 2008 are forecast to be lower than in previous years, thanks to the cooling effect of the ocean current in the Pacific, U.N. meteorologists say.

The World Meteorological Organisation's secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, said it was likely that La Nina, an abnormal cooling of sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, would continue into the summer.

If the forecast holds true, global temperatures will not have risen since 1998, prompting some to question Global Warming climate change theory.

A small number of scientists doubt whether this means climate chamge global warming has peaked and the Earth has proved more resilient to greenhouse gases than predicted, but Jarraud insists this is not the case and notes that 1998 temperatures would still be well above average for the century.

"When you look at climate change you should not look at any particular year," he told the BBC. "You should look at trends over a pretty long period and the trend of temperature globally is still very much indicative of chamge warming."

"La Nina is part of what we call 'variability'. There has always been and there will always be cooler and warmer years, but what is important for global warming climate change is that the trend is up." Forget the mini-ice age, climate change only counts when temps go up.

Experts at the U.K. Met Office's Hadley Centre for forecasting in Exeter said the world could expect another record temperature within five years or less, the BBC reports, probably associated with an episode of El Nino
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#9  that's quite enuff wiener, your act stinks so
shadUP!
Posted by: RD   2008-04-04 22:24  

#8  You Conservative Scoffers just haven't studied the Global Warming Theorem at all, or just skipped over the hard parts!

If you Unbelievers would just work on your Gaea Attitudes, you would GRASP that as Temperatures Decrease all over the Globe, The next Waves of Warmth are just around the Corner!

And Global Warming Scientists, from all over the World, have Proven the Global Warming Theorem by rigorously taking inventory of each others feelings, including Al Gore's!

Yep, for you math guys and gals, more simply put:

The Square of the Global Warming Period, heated by the Sun, is Proportional to the Cube of the Pollutants which are OOZING FORTH from the PlanetÂ’s Inhabitants.

SEE I told ya!

You Pro Military Types make me sick because you just don't care that Silence moves faster when it's going backwards!

Ima Harrumphed!
Posted by: Global Warming Wiener   2008-04-04 19:43  

#7  "Northern hemisphere warms up after cooling in the last few months"

That would be "winter" followed by "spring," Phil. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-04-04 18:36  

#6  March 2008 temperature data just out. Northern hemisphere warms up after cooling in the last few months, but southern hemisphere and tropical temps continue to fall. Both are close to record lows for the satellite record period.

Combine this with the record increase in sea ice over the last year, and 2008 looks like being the year the AGW hysteria died (to the tune of American Pie).
Posted by: Phil_B   2008-04-04 17:39  

#5  I hear there's a big sale this weekend at Al Gore's House of Carbon Credits. C'mon in and have your picture taken with his Nobel Peace Prize...
Posted by: tu3031   2008-04-04 17:08  

#4  Remoteman.. Nope! Were going to cut down the rain forest to grow corn for ethanol; all the while we will watch the Chinese drill for oil off-shore of Floridan and the Polar Bears will eat the Caribou at ANWAR. In the meantime the Dems will increase fuel taxes to buy Algores carbon credits while sympathizing with the "poor" that now have to ride bicycles to work (if they haven't quit or been fired because the employer went bust due to soaring overhead).

Smile, it could be worse.
Posted by: tipover   2008-04-04 15:41  

#3  What about global dimming (due to pollutant particulates in the air that, combined with water vapor, reflect the sun's rays). It just has to be having an effect. I know it because I saw it on NOVA and there were all these nasty pictures of smokestacks and cars and factories and other really bad man-made stuff


Whatta bunch of frickin morons. You want to do something for the environment??? Reduce pollutants (not CO2), manage worldwde fisheries and stop cutting down the rainforest. All directly controlled by human activity, thus all can be quickly impacted by changes in same.
Posted by: Remoteman   2008-04-04 14:36  

#2  "Mr. Gore! Mr. Gore! What does this mean?"

"It's very simple, my boy. Either global warming is going to melt the ice caps and kill all the polar bears, or it's going to bring on a new ice age and the polar bears will come south and eat us. Either way, we're doomed unless we give up technology and revert to a hunter-gathere existence. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to catch a Lear Jet to my next bing speech."
Posted by: Mike   2008-04-04 12:28  

#1  1998 was in itself "a variability", with the winter being the end of a very strong El Nino, and the end of the year the start of a mild, but long La Nina.

There have been three mild El Ninos since 1998.

The current La Nina is the first since 2001.
Posted by: DoDo   2008-04-04 12:09  

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