Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling ( From Feb 2008 - Century of warming gone)

Daily Tech ^ | February 26, 2008 12:55 PM | Michael Asher (Blog)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

No....checking now.

OK,...that’s good....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See #20,...data changed again....

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Lesson....choose the years you are plotting carefully....

The Earth has it's own rhythm...

Now what about those sunspots....?

[DBrow]

Yes, I chose dates carefully to make my point. Plus, it makes sense because the trend line just covers the cooling period.

You can make your own charts at that site. I dl the data and make charts in excel or Kaleidograph that show the Earth cooling as CO2 continues to climb. “But how can that be!”

Plus, when you make a chart there the URL is linkable.

Warming is always caused by people, cooling is always natural and temporary (for a Warmist).

hence my plan to praise Algor for saving us now that the Earth is finally cooling. If everyone praises him publicly, how will he respond?

http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti/from:1900/to:2010/plot/wti/from:1900/to:2010/trend

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Nice work....

I am not that patient...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From Link at #19:

The surprising real story about this year’s Northeast passage transit: The media botched it

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First, let’s get our bearings. Unlike the Northwest passage, which traverses the icy north above Canada, the Northeast passage is an entirely different route, shown on the map in red.

Source: UK Register graphic

From The Register: Also called the Northeast Passage or North Sea Passage, it’s a trade route that in summer months links the North European and Siberian ports to Asia, around the Arctic Circle. Orient-bound traffic heads east, then South via the Bering Strait. The route offers significant gains over the alternatives via Suez or the Cape, it’s shorter, quicker and cheaper. But until technological advances in the early 20th Century it was considered too hazardous for commercial operation.

There was quite a bit of hoopla a couple of weeks ago over two German merchant ships that transited the Northeast passage. It all started with one company press release:

The merchant ships MV Beluga Fraternity and MV Beluga Foresight arrived this week in Yamburg, Siberia. Ownership is Beluga Group Shipping Gmbh. From the company website: “During the passed days which led through the East Siberian Sea, the Sannikov Strait and the Vilkizki Strait as northernmost part the Beluga vessels were part of a little convoy behind the Russian Atomflot-ice breakers “50 let Pobedy” and “Rossia”.”.

Icebreaker & Merchant ship - from the company website

“We are all very proud and delighted to be the first western shipping company which has successfully transited the legendary Northeast-Passage and delivered the sensitive cargo safely through this extraordinarily demanding sea area”, Niels Stolberg said, President and CEO of Beluga Shipping GmbH, after the masters Captain Aleksander Antonov and Captain Valeriy Durov had notified that they had dropped anchor at their port of destination. “To transit the Northeast-Passage so well and professionally without incidents on the premiere trip is the result of our extremely thorough and accurate preparation as well as the outstanding team work between our attentive captains, our reliable meteorologists and our engaged crew”, said Stolberg.

One newspaper is making the most of this “first ever event”, according to a story in the UK Register:

The Times has liberally papered London underground carriages with a fascinating new ad campaign. One poster shows a ship navigating some treacherous icy waters, with the accompanying copy reading:

Climate change has allowed the Northeast Passage to be used as a commercial shipping route for the first time.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And from the Independent:

A triumph for man, a disaster for mankind

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Two ships are finishing the first commercial navigation of the fabled North-east Passage. It is an epic moment – but also a vivid sign of climate change in the Arctic

By Tony Paterson in Berlin

Saturday, 12 September 2009

It has been one of the elusive goals of seafaring nations almost since the beginnings of waterborne trade, but for nearly 500 years the idea has been dismissed as an impossible dream. Now, as a result of global warming, the dream is about to come true.

Within days, a journey that represents both a huge commercial boon and a dark milestone on the route to environmental catastrophe is expected to be completed for the first time. No commercial vessel has ever successfully travelled the North-east Passage, a fabled Arctic Sea route that links the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific far more directly than the usual southerly cargo route. Explorers throughout history have tried, and failed; some have died in the attempt.

But early next week the German-owned vessels, Beluga Fraternity and Beluga Foresight, are scheduled to dock in the Dutch port of Rotterdam. It is the culmination of a two-month voyage from South Korea across the perilous waters of the Arctic, where an unprecedented ice-melt has at last made the previously impassable course a viable possibility.

The new route could transform Russia's economic fortunes. Throughout history, the country's search for a warm-water port that would provide sea routes open year-round has dominated the geopolitics of the region. But the economic advantages are balanced by the disastrous environmental news that the transit represents.

"This is further proof that climate change is happening now," said Melanie Duchin, Arctic Expedition leader on board the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, who added that the development put greater pressure on world leaders to agree a major emissions cut at their Copenhagen meeting in December. "This is not a cause for celebration but cause for immediate action," she said.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That is a great website....for others:

Seeing the Wood for Trees

Welcome to WoodForTrees.org. This site hosts some C++ software tools for analysis and graphing of time series data, and an interactive graph generator where you can play with different ways of analysing data.

Climate data

These tools could in theory be used for any time series but the main rationale for their existence is for analysis of historical climate data. The idea is to allow you to go to the source data and look for answers to questions like:

• Has the Earth got warmer recently?
• Is it still getting warmer?
• Is CO₂ the only explanation for what has happened?
• Are there solar cycles involved?
• Are there other influences we don't understand yet?
• If so, how much do they account for?
• What is likely to happen next?

It's not the place of this Web site (or anyone else) to tell you the answers, even if I could! This is just a tool to help you dig into the data to help you form your own opinions. Whatever you decide the most important thing is that you learned what the issues in analysis are and how to test your ideas against real data.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Whoops....from the Wood for Trees:

Indeed, as a life-long Green I think a shift to a efficient and sustainable way of life is a Good Thing whether or not CO2 is a significant problem in and of itself.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Now what is the Sun doing.:

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Some coronal activity (October 2, 2009)

SOHO's C2 coronagraph caught two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) over about three days (Sept. 26-29, 2009), something we have not seen for many months. The larger event (shown in the still) blasts out to the left of the Sun, followed by a smaller event off to the right near the end of the clip. CMEs are solar storms that eject over a billion tons of matter at millions of miles per hour. The source of the first event appear to have been a eruptive prominence seen from the perspective of STEREO (Behind) The Sun has been sporting two sunspots over the past week or more, again an indication of a more active Sun than we are used to seeing over the past two years or more.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

In case you haven’t seen this.

[DBrow]

I don’t have a problem with this. I used to read Whole Earth Catalog and it was full of ideas for low-impact, sustainable lifestyle stuff.

If this guy wants to advocate that sort of life good for him, some of it actually makes sense if you wish to try it. I don’t see that he’s a green Statist trying to force you to put solar panels up and have a methane digester.

He does us a great service by collecting a wide variety of environmental metrics, and making it available to us all, so that we are on a par with NTY and The Glob and the LAT when it comes to fact resources.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good points,....I agree.

[BOBTHENAILER]

The charts don’t LIE. Great post. This’ll be even more dramatic when they add this year’s temps to the picture.

[Marine_Uncle]

I wonder how many Senators and Congressmen/women are going to swing to the honest side of the house as we experience earlier autumns, colder winters with more snow and rain in this hemisphere as well as the rest of the world.
US Senator Inhofe of Oklahoma is one of few thus far that is taking up an active role.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Watching the BB game with the Rockies there in Philly...

what's the temp?

[Marine_Uncle]

Currently (5PM EST) around 63 degress F. Very windy. Night temps have been dipping into the high and mid 50's for the most part. Probably another week or two and I will being hearing about frost warnings for point not far north of the city.
We had a shortened summer that started quite late just as most of the northern states and few days that reached above 90F.
In short a cool spring and summer.

[DBrow]

See 10, and especially 11. the links I put on 11 allow you to have your own custom charts of temperature, CO2, solar, sunspot, and more.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest.

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[grey_whiskers]

Thanks, Ernest.

For the nonce, the link in the sentence:

"UPDATE: that comparison has been done here"

does not work for me.

Cheers!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I am getting lazy about fixing up links....go to the first link above the line of astericks....