Earth to Al Gore
A twelve-month long drop in world temperatures erases global 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.
Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.
The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January “was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average.”
China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century. Temperatures in the normally balmy south were so low for so long that some middle-sized cities went days and even weeks without electricity because once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them.
Question, should Al have to give back the Oscar and the Nobel
PeachPeace Prize?You conservatives don’t know the difference between weather and climate.
Glen:
I know you think you’re kidding, but that’s about it. Wake me up when you show me the article where groups of scientists united behind the idea that because of global warming, we’d never have another cold winter, or that it wouldn’t snow any more.
You anti-AGW people sure do love knocking down straw men, don’t you?
Consider this quote:
You’re probably thinking that this is some sort of post hoc explanation proffered to divert attention away from recent anomalies. Except that it was written by Carl Sagan, who died in late 1996, over 11 years ago. Then as now, monied interests try to cast doubt on the science. Then as now, the doubt they try to cast betrays a fundamental failure to understand the science in the first place.
In the meantime, several of his 1996 predictions ring eerily true.
Tgirsch, when I saw that this post had three comments, I thought “hey I bet this post got Tgirsch going. Wonder what he said.” Heh!
You conservatives don’t know the difference between weather and climate.
Who decides what is weather and what is climate. Lord Gore?
The guy Michael Asher at DailyTech dot com if full of bullshit and is a career denialist charlatan. Champion of straw graspers like Glen and #9
He is the blogger that was principal in pushing the so-called NASA climate error. He is disingenuous and shows limited understanding of the science. His assertions contain several errors.
The data set in question is for the US, not the Earth.
Both the old and new datasets show a generally upward trend (although with a bump during the dustbowl years), and both plots are nearly the same.
Instead of mentioning that, he chose to emphasize that 1934 appeared warmer than 1998. He did not mention anywhere that before the revisions, 1998 had been in a statistical tie with 1934 (+1.24 degrees vs +1.23).
He noted ” After the revision, 5 of the 10 warmest years on record now all occur before World War II.” (in the US - meaningless)
Globally, the top 11 warmest years all occured in the last 13 years.
Unfortunately, he didn’t note that before the revision, 4 of the 10 warmest years occurred before World War II. Â In fact, only 1 year dropped out of the top ten because of the revisions.
Off to the races
The story began rapidly spreading through the conservative blogosphere. In most tellings, it contained the following conservative propaganda:
a) NASA was forced to admit an error. (Truth: NASA promptly corrected the error and acknowledged it)
b) The revised data were dramatically different than the unrevised data (false)
c) The uncorrected data were a big part of the case for global warming (wildly false. As noted, worldwide temperature records are far more important. And direct temp measurements are only a part of the reason we think the world is warming.)
d) The Mainstream media are burying the story (ahh, there isn’t a story to report)
This is how conservatives - politically motivated science deniers further their agenda on their fellow ignorant.
links have apparently been disabled??
http://www.sciencedaily com/releases/2007/12/071213101419.htm
Damn it is cold. Where is the Global Warming today?
If Number 9 were in Arizona on a day when it rained, he would deny he was in the desert, too…
How long did it take for the scientist to figure out the earth was not flat? How could they all be wrong?
Gore is a QUACK!
They figured out the world was not flat long before there even were scientists, as we understand the term.