You may be more right than you think.
Posted on 08/21/2008 11:17:27 AM PDT by Bulwinkle
Data from the UK Met Office shows that temperatures in the first half of the year have been more than 0.1 Celsius cooler than any year since 2000.
The principal reason is La Nina, part of the natural cycle that also includes El Nino, which cools the globe.
Even so, 2008 is set to be about the 10th warmest year since 1850, and Met Office scientists say temperatures will rise again as La Nina conditions ease......
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Cooling ping
You may be more right than you think.
The usual, “yes it’s cooler, but it’s only temporary”.
Warm years are never temporary, always proof of an impending catastrophe.
August 16, 2008
"Right now the so-called summer of '08 is on pace to produce the fewest days ever recorded in which the temperature in Anchorage managed to reach 65 degrees.
That unhappy record was set in 1970, when we only made it to the 65-degree mark, which many Alaskans consider a nice temperature, 16 days out of 365.
This year, however -- with the summer more than half over -- there have been only seven 65-degree days so far. And that's with just a month of potential "balmy" days remaining and the forecast looking gloomy."
"In terms of "coldest summer ever," however, a better measure might be the number of days Anchorage fails to even reach 60.
There too, 2008 is a contender, having so far notched only 35 such days -- far below the summer-long average of 88.
Unless we get 10 more days of 60-degree or warmer temperatures, we're going to break the dismal 1971 record of only 46 such days, a possibility too awful to contemplate."
Still, according to a series of charts cobbled together Tuesday evening by a night-shift meteorologist in the weather service's Anchorage office, the current summer clearly has broken company with the record-setting warmth of recent years."
"Consider:
• 70-degree days. So far this summer there have been two. Usually there are 15. Last year there were 21. In 2004 there were 49.
• 75-degree days. So far this summer there've been zero. Usually there are four. It may be hard to remember, but last year there were 21. In 2004 there were 23."
13 above avg temp days
7 avg temp days
32 below avg temp days
FWIW
Let’s hope not. Millions will starve to death. Global cooling is to be feared. Global warming is a great boon to life.
The only thing that cools the globe is heat radiation out to space. La Nino and El Nino only move heat around. If extra global warming heat really exists it must be somewhere.
But... but... but... but...what about global warming
(Don't ask why. You wouldn't understand.)
13 above avg temp days
7 avg temp days
32 below avg temp days
About the same here in central Florida.
ALSO...
In July and August we have had 2 record highs since 2000 (1 in each month)
AND
We have had 18 record lows since 2000.
Perhaps I should not have given away my snow blower when I moved here.
OT, that’s an interesting bird. Looks like a cross between a chickadee, a goldfinch and a wasp.
Thanks for the post.
That’s an interesting link.
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