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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Global Warming Alert: Scientist predict Global Cooling
2008-04-07
They can't seem to make up their minds, Global Warming, Climate Change, Glaobal Climate Change, or Global Cooling. How about we call it what it is "Global Scam".
They don't have to make up their minds. Oceania has always been at war.
The world will experience climate change global cooling this year, according a leading climate scientist. The head of the World Meteorological Organisation said La Nina - the weather phenomenon which is cooling the Pacific - is likely to trigger a small drop in average global temperatures compared with last year.

The prediction - which follows a bitterly cold winter in China and the Arctic - is prompting some sceptics to question the theory of global warming climate change. The news that the earth appears to be cooling would seem to contradict most experts who say that climate change global warming is melting ice at the Poles

The REAL inconvenient truth: Zealotry over climate change global warming could damage our Earth far more than climate change. However, the World Meteorological Organisation insists that this year's cooling has nothing to do with global climate change.
Now there' a new wrinkle "Global Climate Change".
In fact, this year's temperatures could still be way above the average - and it is possible that 2008 will exceed the record year of 1998 because of global warming induced by greenhouse gases.

La Nina typically lasts for 12 months. In recent months it caused one of the coldest winters in memory in China, and brought torrential rains to Australia. While La Nina can affect weather around the world, it is usually less of an influence than El Nino. In an El Nino year, the Pacific warms up.

Michel Jarraud, the World Meteorological Organisation's secretary general, said La Nina was expected to continue into the summer, depressing global temperatures by a fraction of a degree.

But he said temperatures in 2008 would still be well above average for the last 100 years. The Met Office predicts that 2008 will be around 0.4C warmer than the average for 1961-1990.

It said temperatures are influenced by a range of variables - including changes in the sun's output, pollution and weather cycles such as La Nina. But most scientists argue that the long-term temperature rises since 1880 can only be explained by carbon dioxide from human activity.
Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC

#10  Only idiots would take 30 years of data and try to predict from that. But then, 75% of the worlds people are idiots.
Posted by: newc   2008-04-07 22:47  

#9  it is possible that 2008 will exceed the record year of 1998 because of global warming induced by greenhouse gases

Yeah right. Take a gander at the bottom graph at this link - it's the monthly temps and we're back to the mid '90s (so far). In fact, the last two months have temps similar to 1877.

Right, that's eighteen seventy seven.

The next three years should be interesting.
Posted by: KBK   2008-04-07 21:09  

#8  Agreed - see this as a tide-turning year, working against Gore and his sorry-ass ilk.
Posted by: Frank G   2008-04-07 21:02  

#7  The problem is Frank, they will try to take us down with them.

We are not the cause, the sun and other factors are. Spend the money on researching crops that are hardy to heat or cold and don't need much water for crying out loud and shut the fuck up.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-04-07 20:50  

#6  expect increasingly hysterical pronouncements of "could" and "may" as the Glowball Warming Grant-Whores try to defend their cult against facts. The Consensus™ may become less consensusy frayed, leading to excommunication and slurs...

as long as they go down without implementing their economic destruction to assuage their moralistic guilt, I'm OK with the bloodletting
Posted by: Frank G   2008-04-07 19:47  

#5  Sorry - above post is me. Looks like SUNSPOT CYCLE 24 + LACK THEREOF has been causing OWG Skynet to have glitches of late.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-04-07 19:11  

#4  "This year's cooling has nothing to do wid global climate change ... ...@, > IOW, WORLD PERTS STILL DON'T KNOW WHATS GOING ON WID OUR SUN = GOD + DEEP SPACE, + CANNOT CONFIRM OR DENY THE EMPIRICAL RELIABILITY = UNRELIABILITY OF THEIR OWN MODELES AND THEORIES, ETC - YOU KNOW, WHY THEY KNOW EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING, ERGO KNOW NOTHING.

Must be nice to unilater make important decisions and binding conclusions for a lot of people = entire Planet widout having to explain anything, seek opinions, nor be held responsible for any detrimental outcome(s), etc.
Posted by: Omomosh Jones7386   2008-04-07 19:04  

#3  But most scientists argue that the long-term temperature rises since 1880 can only be explained by carbon dioxide from human activity.
First of all, it may be many "scientists", but it is not most scientists.
Second, How do they know that the only influence is man made carbon dioxide? CO2 is not the major green house gas in the atmosphere - water vapor is.
Third, most of the climate models make simplifying assumptions so that they are tractable. Unfortunately, it is likely that those assumptions also make them invalid. The interactions between and among solar radiation, ocean temperatures, land mass, pollution and dust in the atmosphere, ice pack, glacier melt (or not), and other minor factors like CO2, are not well understood or modeled.
Posted by: Rambler in California   2008-04-07 18:53  

#2  Phil:

It's Bush's fault the Sun Spots are gone and it's letting in more Cosmic Rays bombard the Earth and increase the Hygroscopic Nuclei thus causing more clouds and global cooling.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC   2008-04-07 18:52  

#1  We are back to no sunspots. Maunder or Dalton type minimum is looking increasingly likely. Little Ice Age Mk II here we come.
Posted by: phil_b   2008-04-07 18:47  

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