Looks like our month long flirtation with a new ice-age is over.Climate change is making a comeback! In your face, delayer-1000s! And as Jon Stewart -- or the Pope -- might say, damn you, polluters! But where is the news coverage? This is just more proof (as if we needed it) that the media is fundamentally conservative.
Let's start with the temperature. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies has their monthly global temperature dataset out through Feb. 2008 (it starts in Jan. 1880). January was only 0.12 degrees C above the 1951-1980 mean (for that month) and a full 0.74 degrees C colder than Jan. 2007 (the warmest January record).
A tongue-in-cheek posting from Gristmill, but for this bit:
Each of the past three years has seen an unusually early start to tornado season. One would expect to see a shift in tornado activity earlier in the year in a warming climate, along with an earlier than usual drop off in activity in late spring. We can see that in both 2005 and 2006 that tornado activity dropped off much earlier than usual, and it will be interesting to see if 2008 follows a similar pattern. Note that there is a very high natural variability in tornado numbers, and the record for fewest ever January and February tornadoes was set just six years ago in 2002, when only four twisters occurred. It will be at least ten more years before we can say with any confidence that a warming climate is leading to an earlier peak in tornado season.
Media Mogul Ted Turner knows all about it.
Don't worry, global cooling will be back. It's going to unseasonably nippy somewhere tomorrow.
ReplyDeletesurface temps dude, surface temps.
ReplyDeletecheck out the atmospheric temps and we are chilly willy again.
Have you stopped shoveling yet ?
when the majority of the atmosphere is cooling down . . . you to can be a denier.
http://www.ecoworld.com/blog/2008/03/12/co2-global-warming/
Typical dumbass liberalism at it's worst...
ReplyDeleteTHE SKY IS FALLING!!!
THE SKY IS FALLING!!!
THE SKY IS FALLING!!!
We can make it stop if you give us money!!!!!!!
How can a Connie be so miserable and surly on a Sunday morn? Aren't these people going to Church anymore?
ReplyDelete...oh right. I forgot that most of them are retarded.
Never mind.
Dion is currently pondering a tax designed to cool the temperature of the planet.
ReplyDeleteOh sure there's a lot of theories, logical gymnastics and religious like belief systems in between.
But at the end of the day, the left is telling us that Canada needs to raise taxes to stop the entire earth from warming.
Ten years ago the "experts" were saying that by now low lying parts of New York city (and other coastal cities) would start to go under water?
ReplyDeleteThey were talking about Canadians no longer experiencing winter as we knew it. That our kids would have to ask us about what "winter was like" daddy.
Well, that was ten years ago, and just this morning my ten year old nephew asked me what winter was like when I was a kid and I told him "pretty much like this, though not usually this cold."
The problem with "sky is falling" predictions is that when they don't come true, those believing the predicting end up looking like idiots.
When they keep on prediction even though the sky isn't falling, they stop looking like idiots and they just start to look pathetic.
Alberta already has such a tax. B.C. and Quebec too. Why not take such a thing natural (although that isn't what Dion is suggesting at the moment).
ReplyDeleteThe problem with "sky is falling" predictions is that when they don't come true, those believing the predicting end up looking like idiots.
ReplyDeleteWhen they keep on prediction even though the sky isn't falling, they stop looking like idiots and they just start to look pathetic.
Yeah, and furthermore, they end up looking like idiots.
And for those concerned about the Arctic . . . THE ICE IS BACK !!!
ReplyDeleteNorthern hemisphere sea ice coverage is at nearly 14,000,000 square kms, dramatically higher then a year ago.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/
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This is nearly 750,000 square kms more ice then a year ago! I'm sure the press will be reporting this good news soon, right? ;)
I know, I know, you will say the ice isn't thick enough to please the polar bears; still, this is a positive development.
- Paul S
Don't you think you deniers need to put more energy into denying the crash of the financial economy?
ReplyDeleteThat's really slacking off lately. I'm seeing far too much unexuberant reporting in the financial press these days. Why, just last week, I saw the word "recession."
"This is nearly 750,000 square kms more ice then a year ago! I'm sure the press will be reporting this good news soon, right? ;)"
ReplyDeleteWow! That's amazing, Paul!
So, that's what, the second lowest winter ice extent ever recorded?
arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seasonal.extent.1900-2007.jpg
Gawd, your trolls are dumb, BCL.
lenny, only a dour warmer like yourself could find the bad news in a 750,000 square km increase in ice coverage. More ice now then there was in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
ReplyDeletehttp://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/current.area.jpg
With warmers, it's all bad news all the time.
- Paul S
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- Paul S
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ReplyDeleteWith warmers, it's all bad news all the time.
ReplyDeleteI don't think so. If anything, it's a refreshing break from nimrods such as yourself who are boring us to death with your constant lies and half-truths with regard to reality.
Reality is fun and rationalism is comforting, Paul S. You should try it some time.
So if a tornado in Atlanta is proof of global warming, is it then also proof that there is NO global warming when a tornado DOESN'T hit Atlanta?
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ReplyDeleteSo if a tornado in Atlanta is proof of global warming, is it then also proof that there is NO global warming when a tornado DOESN'T hit Atlanta?
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of the Highly Compartmentalized Minds (.pdf file) of the wingnut:
"As I said earlier, authoritarians’ ideas are poorly integrated with one another.
It’s as if each idea is stored in a file that can be called up and used when the authoritarian wishes, even though another of his ideas--stored in a different file--basically contradicts it. We all have some inconsistencies in our thinking, but authoritarians can stupify you with the inconsistency of their ideas. Thus they may say they are proud to live in a country that guarantees freedom of speech, but another file holds, “My country, love it or leave it.” The ideas were copied from trusted sources, often as sayings, but the authoritarian has never “merged files” to see how well they
all fit together."
So based on that, anonymous, this is precisely what you should think. In fact, I don't think you can see it any other way.
You could actually read the post and understand the point being made about the onset of tornado season, but, well...
I recommend The Authoritarians by Canadian researcher Bob Altmeyer. It's available online for free and it's very readable.
"Alberta already has such a tax. B.C. and Quebec too. Why not take such a thing natural (although that isn't what Dion is suggesting at the moment)."
ReplyDeleteThere's quite an obvious reason why this thing isn't going national. And that reason is Ontario. If McGuinty were to bring in his own carbon tax regime, it would get the business community to pressure the feds to create a coherent national policy and harmonize the four different regimes that would exist in the four largest provinces.
But, we all know McGuinty is not likely to bring in a carbon tax next Monday, and Ontario Liberals, rather hypocritcally, will more likely than not continue to berate Harper for doing nothing on the climate change file. Other provinces have moved, even Alberta, what's Ontario's excuse?
Ti-guy, you probably think a tornado in Atlanta is evidence that Harper intends to make abortion illegal. AND further proof that the CIA controls the weather . . .
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