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The Warming Earth Blows Hot, Cold and Chaotic
Wall Street Journal ^
| JANUARY 2, 2009
| ROBERT LEE HOTZ
Posted on 01/02/2009 4:55:14 PM PST by decimon
Subtle Rises in Temperature Make for Wild Weather; 'Exceptionally Unusual' Becomes the New Normal
SAN FRANCISCO -- Three independent research groups have concluded that 2008 was a comparatively cool year on planet Earth -- a feverish chill on our warming world.
The year's average global temperature was the 9th or 10th warmest since reliable record-keeping began in 1850, and the coldest since the turn of the 21st century, according to separate surveys by the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization, NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, and the U.S. National Climatic Data Center. Each used slightly different methods to rank 2008 based on world-wide land and sea-surface temperatures through November.
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TOPICS: Science; Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; climatechange; weather
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Blowing Hotz and cold.
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posted on
01/02/2009 4:55:17 PM PST
by
decimon
To: xcamel; steelyourfaith
Exceptionally Unusual ping.
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posted on
01/02/2009 4:56:15 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
Well—are we all gonna die or what?
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posted on
01/02/2009 4:56:40 PM PST
by
basil
(Outlaw gun free zones!)
To: decimon; Defendingliberty; Genesis defender; WL-law; Normandy; TenthAmendmentChampion; FrPR; ...
To: decimon
In the end the sun will win. If the current solar trends continue, it will soon be so cold, the glaciers growing so fast, the sea ice stacked so high, the driveways not shoveled, that Al Gore will be the last person left on the planet that doesn’t know Al Gore is a kook.
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posted on
01/02/2009 4:58:42 PM PST
by
Tarpon
(America's first principles, freedom, liberty, market economy and self-reliance will never fail.)
To: decimon
Global climate fluctuation is gonna kill us all....
....well, unless we can figure out what kind of space technology those cave men were using to survive.
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posted on
01/02/2009 4:58:46 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: decimon
The weather is variable!!!
Oh no, we’re all gonna die!!!
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posted on
01/02/2009 4:59:05 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Most Animals protect their babies. Palestinians kill their babies.)
To: basil
Wellare we all gonna die or what?You, yes. Me, or what.
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posted on
01/02/2009 4:59:27 PM PST
by
decimon
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
01/02/2009 5:02:08 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(For more information on America's "new direction" read The Road to Serfdom. by Friedrich A. Hayek.)
To: decimon
...no one knows whether this temperature drop heralds a lasting retreat from global warming or a temporary dip.But a couple of warm days in the summer will lead to global warming hysteria headlines.
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posted on
01/02/2009 5:03:37 PM PST
by
randog
(Hope is a bad business plan.)
To: randog
But a couple of warm days in the summer will lead to global warming hysteria headlines. Unless that's worn thin. I think more people have been tuning out to this stuff. I hope so.
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posted on
01/02/2009 5:06:28 PM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
Last year, the Atlantic hurricane season was the fourth most active in 64 years
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posted on
01/02/2009 5:07:00 PM PST
by
SIDENET
("It was a different time, you understand." - Wallace "Suitcase" Jefferson)
To: basil
Wellare we all gonna die or what? Guaranteed.
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posted on
01/02/2009 5:10:03 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
To: decimon
"NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies"
The only space those folks study is the vast, empty space inside their craniums.
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posted on
01/02/2009 5:12:19 PM PST
by
Paladin2
(No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
To: decimon; OKSooner; honolulugal; Killing Time; Beowulf; Mr. Peabody; RW_Whacko; gruffwolf; ...
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
GREENIE WATCH
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
Uh-huh.
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posted on
01/02/2009 5:12:45 PM PST
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: decimon
Butbutbutbutbut I saw the documentary "The Day After Tomorrow". It's supposed to happen! Global warming will start an Ice Age in the entire northern hemisphere. The Royal Air Force will FREEZE SOLID INSTANTANEOUSLY!!! Folks in NY City will be forced to burn books in their library!! Really. Honest.
I SAW THE G-DAMN DOCUMENTARY!!!!!! Is NOBODY LISTENING?! GOD HELP US!!!! /hysteria
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posted on
01/02/2009 5:16:14 PM PST
by
LiberConservative
("I, you know, can see, you know, upstate, you know, from my house, you know.")
To: decimon
"Ice loss is happening faster than the climate models are showing."Translation:
The climate models are wrong, but that will not stop us from using them as long as the money keeps rolling in...
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posted on
01/02/2009 5:22:40 PM PST
by
Zeppo
To: decimon
while global land temperatures in October were the warmest for that month in more than a century, government weather records show. That part of the article is wrong. October was only warm if NASA is allowed to selectively apply the Gregorian calendar to Siberian temperature records.
To: Zeppo
Whoever wrote this article is putting out alot of misinformation - ice loss isn’t happening at records rates. In fact, I belive the reverse is true - i.e. ice gain occurred at records rates in the past 3 months.
To: decimon
With corrupt Liberals in the White House and Congress, who cares what the weather does. We’re doomed regardless. Our enemies will be at our front door, we’ll be penniless, Congress will have forced worthless or no health care, freedom will be stolen, what more could clueless Obama robots want?
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