The Warming Earth Blows Hot, Cold and Chaotic

Wall Street Journal ^ | JANUARY 2, 2009 | ROBERT LEE HOTZ

[basil]

LOL!

[SunkenCiv]

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[Entrepreneur]

Uh, why exactly should I be worried?

[cogitator]

Thanks, well-written article. Excerpted:

Despite the ups and downs of annual temperature swings, though, the planet has grown steadily warmer in recent decades, affecting everything from New England winters and the Siberian spring to western droughts and tropical cloud cover. That's according to eight new government and university climate studies presented last month during a meeting in San Francisco of the American Geophysical Union, an international scientific society of 50,000 researchers who study Earth and its environment.

The note on Christy was also interesting, considering who Christy is. Christy (and Spencer's) analyses are usually the lowest trends of the three groups doing atmospheric temperature trending with satellite data.

[this_ol_patriot]

You are as dishonest as the day is long, in the Artic summer that is.

Why didn't you show this one from the winter. You may notice that the polar icecap is actually thicker in 2008 than 1980.

[Entrepreneur]

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.

Hansen looked at the sun. He said it doesn't affect temperature, though it can provide enough energy to replace all fossil fuels.

Hansen and Gavin then factored the sun spot information through the GISS temperature adjustment models and found that there were fewer sunspots 100 years ago and many more now. In fact, 2008 was a record according to the adjusted data. Headlines will soon reflect that in the WaPo, LaPo, and tawdry grey lady.

[Tarpon]

So what happens when the sun goes out?

[Entrepreneur]

So what happens when the sun goes out?

Michael Mann smooths the data showing that the sun is brighter than anytime in the last 10 gazillion years.

Algore gets the sun/temperature/CO2 correlation backwards, gets on a forklift as part of a Laurie David production, and declares CO2 to be the cause of solar decay.

Hollywood, the UN, GISS, and the MSM fawn accordingly.

[Justa]

" there were fewer sunspots 100 years ago and many more now. In fact, 2008 was a record according to the adjusted data."

2008 was not a record year for sunspots in any sense. But it was a lower than average solar minimum.

The only records I know associated with the sunspots was some record (all time) low temps in many places.

It's unfortunate that the author blows his credibility by citing GISS numbers which exclude Siberian temp stations beginning in the mid-'90s, hence the "historical increase in global temperatures". Shameless.

[Tarpon]

How about Earth and everything in the solar system turns into a snowball. It's not like we need the sun for anything useful.