Posted on 06/06/2008 10:29:41 AM PDT by brookwood
The global temperature anomaly (difference from 30-year average) for May, 2008 was -.18 degrees Celcius. This is the lowest anomaly in 8 years. The global average temperature for May 2008, was the coldest for the month of May since May, 1993. It was the 4th coldest in the 30 year history of satellite temperature measurement.
The NOAA’s numbers aren’t out yet
But I’m sure when Hansen & the boys apply their “secret sauce” they will find May to be much warmer and that’s the one that will be reported in the press
Did you not get the memo? Global warming causes temperatures to fall.
I don't know about you — but, that's all the proof I need that global warming is real, and happening faster than we feared.
/not sarcasm — just channeling a Gorebot
If we get any more Global Warming, we’re all gonna freeze to death!..............
So, all the other anomalies were higher?..............
Wish we’d get some of that cooling down here in SC. It’s 98, but then it’s supposed to be during the summer living in the South.
Odd warming trend.
This wouldn’t have happened if Al Gore had been elected President.
The other anomalies were just average.
The Goddard “formula” will be applied to adjust the data set. Result is always up, up, and up.
Facts, we don’t need no stinkin’ facts.
LOL!!...I just thought that was the most ridiculous statement I’ve ever seen..........
Now that we have a significant heat wave moving in on the east coast for the next few days, look for the shriekers to really start coming out in full force once again next week.
See post 8 for a cool real-time graphic that Domandred put up. A sun with very few sun spots. Years ago they predicted this new cycle would begin (the sunspots would start to increase) in the spring of 2007. In 2006 I think they revised it to January-March 2008. We are still bumping along at very low sunspot numbers.
The sunspot numbers have been related to the energy emitted by the sun. The last mini-ice age was in a period (a long period - 60 years or more) where there were little to no sunspots. Obviously a slow start is not a huge worry, but I guess the longer it takes the greater likelihood that the cycle will be a cool one. Also, it would probably take several missed cycles in a row to cause a real problem.
The practice of calling a deviation from average an “anomaly” must stop. To those not versed in science, the immediate assumption is that there is something wrong, when there is not.
Interesting on the surface data (bottom chart). From 1910 to 1945 (35 years) there is a fairly smooth gradual increase in temperature, and then a big drop at about 1945. It bounces around a bit and then we start a fairly smooth gradual increase in about 1960. The last bit of that chart looks a lot like 1945.
The last 20 years of observed warming has reversed in 6 months, which, politics aside, is remarkable and perhaps ominous.
Climate Change is more than ominous, it's a global crisis. We're all going to die. As the princess said, "Help me, Al Gore, you're my only hope." We have to cut global CO2 emissions, cut population growth, and cut our use of fossil fuels in the developed world. We need a global cap and trade system. We need fuel efficiency standards. We need to triple the number of government regulations and recognize homosexual and multi-species marriage. We need all these changes and more immediately, and we need it without any analysis, since we may already be past the tipping point where we are going to enter that final, irreversible Ice Age that will further endanger the polar bear. If their population has changed by a factor of two in thirty years of warmth (okay, it doubled, but that just proves how sensitive the cute white bears are to temperature), imagine the drastic population collapse that will be inflicted by rapid cooling. The sky is falling!!!
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