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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling

2008-02-27

Al Gore spoke all over the world last year, right?

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 nearly all 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.

Posted by:Steve White

#8 AlanC, you are referring to Arctic sea ice. Essentially frozen sea water. If it all melted, it would have precisely zero effect on sea levels.

Posted by: phil_b 2008-02-27 17:47

#7 Someone help me out here. The green-meanies have been screaming about how we're all gonna drown cause the polar ice is melting in 50, 12, 23, 47, years.

But I just read that the amount of ice in the arctic is back up this winter. Doesn't this mean that their dooms day clock has to start over now?

There seems to be something Sisyphusean about the whole thing. Like maybe Momma G. ain't listening to her supplicants.

Posted by: AlanC 2008-02-27 16:11

#6 It wont phase ethe climate nuts one bit, they'll have some lame-ass quasi-scientific excuse for it. They'll say it's just a symptom of radical climate change brought about by global warming, the end result of global warming or some other such horseshit.

Posted by: Elmusoter Pelosi2279 2008-02-27 14:25

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Now,,, I,,, deal,,, in,,, sun,,, spot,,, insurance.

Posted by: Al Gore 2008-02-27 09:14

#4 Not at all science fiction-ish. Well, maybe to Paris Hilton.

Anyway, if the sun doesn't snap out of its doldrums, it gonna be damn cold for a while. I always thought Al had a base near the sun.

Posted by: DarthVader 2008-02-27 07:11

#3 OS, I follow the GW debate closer than most and I'm a regular at Climate Audit.

I buy Svaalgard's argument it's not direct solar irradiance, which leaves an indirect solar effect - I.e. Svensmark's solar magnetic field's effect on cosmic rays and the consequent effect on cloud cover.

I realize this sounds science-fictionish to many people, but I find the argument persuasive. Especially give the plunge in temps during the current solar minimum.

Posted by: phil_b 2008-02-27 04:21

#2 OWG "BUUUUUUUURRRRP, I'M MADONNA" MADONNA's Daddy "feeling so cold" > God help the world iff he suffers from a heart attack, stroke, or serious acid reflux???

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-02-27 02:07

#1 Considering that warming was also seen on Mars and Saturn, its probbly safe to say the major factor is solar.

Man-made global warming is a hoax, as is CO2 being the cause of anthropogenic warming. Its a correlated stat (and only barely at that), not causative one. Its neither necessary nor sufficient.

Solar activity is.

Posted by: OldSpook 2008-02-27 02:05

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