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.
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 most of 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.
Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn't itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.
Let's hope those factors stop fast. Cold is more damaging than heat. The mean temperature of the planet is about 54 degrees. Humans -- and most of the crops and animals we depend on -- prefer a temperature closer to 70.
Historically, the warm periods such as the Medieval Climate Optimum were beneficial for civilization. Corresponding cooling events such as the Little Ice Age, though, were uniformly bad news.
This article was called "Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming" written by Michael Asher. From site: http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm
4 comments:
I'm with the General Motors chairman... "Global warming is a crock of sh#@"
Why do we even bother talking about global warming? How is this a pertinant or relevant issue in any way? What about real, practical issues like the Iraq War, the economy, taxes?
Why do people waste a single breath on issues that are dead and unchangeable? Social security, campaign finance, and I hate to say immigration. These are issues that are way beyond broken and irrepairable. Why don't we foucs our attention and energy on issues that we can still change?
Global warming is not even worth a response. It's such a non-issue and frankly, I think its a distraction technique.
looks like the libs are wrong again!
...but, but thats not what Al Gore said? He has a movie and everything, telling me that the world is hot. So it must be getting hot right?
-Juniper
(San Francisco, CA)
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