Murdock: The chills of Global Cooling

Scripps ^ | 7/9/09 | DEROY MURDOCK, Scripps

[Bulwinkle]

As cap-and-trade advocates tie their knickers in knots over so-called "global warming," Mother Nature refuses to cooperate. Earth's temperatures continue a chill that began 11 years ago. As global cooling accelerates, global-warmists kick, scream, and push their pet theory -- just like little kids who cover their ears and stomp their feet when older children tell them not to bother waiting up for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve.

Consider how the globe cooled last month:

-- June in Manhattan averaged 67.5 degrees Fahrenheit, 3.7 degrees below normal -- the coldest average since 1958. The National Weather Service stated July 1: "The last time that Central Park hit 85 in May...but not in June was back in 1903."

-- In Phoenix, June's high temperatures were below 100 degrees for 15 days straight, the first such June since 1913. In California's desert, Yucca Valley's June average was 83.5, 8.5 degrees below normal. Downtown Los Angeles averaged 74.5 degrees, five below normal. .... more>>>>

[Bulwinkle]

Cool stuff!!!!

[Sudetenland]

Whereas in Houston we are melting.

[Reeses]

Whereas in Houston we are melting.

Temperatures are mostly controlled by clouds, or the lack of them. In CA when they have summer wildfires, many times the particulates and evaporation from the fire cause clouds which cool large areas. The savings in air conditioning costs probably more than offsets the cost of the wildfire.

[OldDeckHand]

When I left Ohio a couple of weeks ago, we still had not yet turned on our air conditioning this year. I understand from family and friends, it's still unseasonably cool there.

I'm in HI right now, and it's been in the low '80s, where I guess the high 80s are the norm, although it's warmer today and forecasted warmer for the week. It's all anecdotal to be sure, but this seems to be a very cool year given all the "world is ending" prognostications of late.

[SECURE AMERICA]

South Central Pennsylvania.
July 10. This morning we actually had to get up around 3:30amand close the windows it was that cool.
High Temperature:
Actual: 80°F
Normal: 86°F
Low Temperature:
Actual: 50°F
Normal: 62°F

50 degree in July and they are trying to sell us global warming? Guess we are not part of the globe....

[newfreep]

1977 global cooling bump....again!

[OldDeckHand]

"1977 global cooling bump....again!"

Well, they're both partly right. It's going to warm, and it's going to cool - probably even freeze. But, there's not a damn thing anyone, and certainly not Barack Obama, can do about it.

Where I live, Central Ohio, was once at least partially covered by a glacier several hundred meters tall. That glacier may possibly return one day - people are going to need some big-a$$ snow-blowers.

[Pontiac]

So, to defeat so-called "global warming," there is no need for the $864 billion Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill, the Kyoto Protocols, elaborate new regulations, or United Nations guidelines. Instead, let the cold times roll.

But global warming is not the true purpose of the cap and trade bill.

The real purpose is to generate tax revenue and destroy a hated industry(s).

[freekitty]

You omean their scam is about to fall apart. I hope so.

[freekitty]

Yep we sure are; but we haven’t had a hot summer for a while; so it is probably expected.

[NELSON111]

Temperatures are mostly controlled by clouds, or the lack of them.

Not really. A combination of lower, middle and upper air patterns, available moisture, subsidence and lift impact temps...among other things. It is those which imfluence the development of clouds. Clouds and temps are a by-product of what is going on in the atmosphere.

High pressure aloft causes the air to sink and warm. This is contraindicated for cloud development. High pressure aloft is why it is so hot over Texas right now...not the lack of clouds. The lack of clouds is just a symptom of that high pressure.

There are plenty low 90 partly cloudy days around here. Same amount of clouds...but when the upper high is somewhere else...we aren't 100+.

As far as savings in AC costs vs costs to fight wildfires: Not even close. I've worked with NIFC and the costs to fight these fires is in the tens of millions.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[wolfcreek]

We live north of Austin and have had little or no rainfall and close to record temps everyday for a while now.

A friends who lives 40 miles west of Waco, (about a hundred miles north of here) still has the hot temps but, has received almost as much rain in the last 2 weeks (7.5 in.) as we've gotten ALL YEAR!

I really does matter where the high pressure sits and where you do.

[devolve]

[jesseam]

Monday in central Montana we had a rain/snow mix. Currently the outside air temp is 66 degrees F.

[newfreep]

Hey! I’m in Dayton where we have suburb (Moraine) named after the residue the glacier left behind when it melted. Liberals have zero common sense.

[Walrus]

Most telling on that Time magazine cover: the subhead reading “51 things YOU can do to MAKE A DIFFERENCE.”

That is exactly how Al Gore and the liberal media is selling global warming, the current crisis du jour. They insinuate that YOU can MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

Horse puckey! Attempting to reduce CO2 levels is a completely worthless exercise and, no, you CANNOT “make a difference.”

[newfreep]

Does anyone know the date of the TIME "global warming" issue? Too fuzzy for my eyes to decipher.

PS - love that polar bear chasing the palm trees!

[devolve]

SAME TUNE, DIFFERENT LYRICS

The media, nevertheless, love reporting unsupported scare scenarios. Last April (2007), the cover of Time magazine declared, "Be worried, be very worried." Amid lots of scary pictures of deserts, floods, and hurricanes, it said, "Global warming is already disrupting the biological world, pushing many species to the brink of extinction and turning others into runaway pests. But the worst is yet to come."

BUT SHOULD WE TRUST TIME MAGAZINE?

On July 24, 1974, Time published an article titled "Another Ice Age?" that read, "... the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."

It's not just Time magazine that's unreliable on global warming. The popular press features possible crises on their front pages all the time, because bad news sells and they are in the business of selling copies of their publications and generating ad revenue, not reporting the truth about complicated subjects. As they say in the business, "if it bleeds, it leads."

These are the same guys who told us Alar, saccharin, Red Dye #2, dioxin, a hole in the ozone layer, electric power lines, and cell phones were all causing cancer epidemics, and that Y2K would shut down the nation's electric grid and banks.

REPEATEDLY PROVEN WRONG

They were wrong on every one of these issues. Cancer rates in the United States for the non-elderly population have been falling since 1970, and more recently for the total population including the elderly, and more recently still, even the absolute number of cancer deaths is now falling.

Somehow, the false predictions always appear in banner headlines on page 1, but the retractions appear on page 37, next to ads for septic tank pumps.

The major media will wake up eventually, and in 2010 or 2020 they will once again be trying to sell newspapers and magazines by predicting global cooling. The point is, nobody should trust the mainstream media to tell us what's going on in the global warming debate.

[Reeses]

Clouds and temps are a by-product of what is going on in the atmosphere.

I agree, but I'm talking about the effect of clouds on the climate, not their cause. What I am trying to say is the total energy that originally gets into the climate is most strongly influenced by the amount and type of clouds that exist. Because clouds are reflective, they act as an iris controlling how much sunlight can get in, and as a blanket controlling how much heat stays in. Weather is caused by uneven heating, mostly from uneven clouds. This is important for the purpose of climate management because if we mastered how to make and dissipate clouds we could set the climate to be 20 degrees warmer or cooler at will. If we kept Texas overcast through summer days, it would be at least 20 degrees cooler. I'm not saying we should actually do that, but knowing how short circuits the plan to passively and expensively try to manage the climate through CO2 control.