Date: Wed Feb 27 2008 - 06:48:39 EST
Has anyone seen this?
John
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Blog: Science Temperature
<http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Widescale+Global+Cooli
ng/article10866.htm> Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
Michael Asher <http://www.dailytech.com/ContactStaff.aspx?id=44> (Blog)
<http://www.dailytech.com/blogs/~masher> - February 26, 2008 12:55 PM
http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Coolin
g/article10866.htm
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World Temperatures according to the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction.
Note the steep drop over the last year.
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
<http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8U3RFHO0&show_article=1> in all
recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years
<http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=332289> , with
places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels
of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota
<http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8UO7SJ00&show_article=1> , Texas,
Florida, Mexico, Australia
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071219/COMMENTA
RY/10575140> , Iran, Greece
<http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6157497&maindocimg=6154941&
service=6> , 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
<http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/january-2008-4-sources-say-
globally-cooler-in-the-past-12-months/> . 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.
Scientists quoted in a past
<http://www.dailytech.com/Solar+Activity+Diminishes+Researchers+Predict+Anot
her+Ice+Age/article10630.htm> 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.
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