See icecap.us for more information. Yes, I'm aware. I certainly do not believe anthropogenic global warming is occurring, and, in fact, the earth has been in a cooling spell since the late 90's, However, I don't think we've seen "dramatic" global cooling quite yet, either. The sun spot issue certainly has my attention raised, though.
Words have meaning and we have to be careful how we describe what is happening so that we don't appear to be raving moonbats on the order of the Warmers. Dramatic cooling, IMHO, would be something like snow in June in Tennessee. Speaking as a pilot and a student of the weather for more than 30 years what we are currently experiencing isn't nearly far enough removed from "average" to remotely be considered "dramatic".....it's just "weather".....
'Speaking as a pilot and a student of the weather for more than 30 years what we are currently experiencing isn't nearly far enough removed from "average" to remotely be considered "dramatic".....it's just "weather".....'
First of all, we're discussing 'climate' not 'weather', and there's a big difference. It's the same mistake the alarmists make when the freak out over the arctic sea ice. Yes, it's a big area. No, changes there don't necessarily mean that the *global* average temperature corresponds.
On the other hand, I'd argue that the weather has been quite dramatic this last winter, including a large number of all-time record low temperatures for a given date, and this spring we're seeing a rash of all-time record "low high" temperatures for a given date. We just had one here last week.
However, we were discussing climate, specifically global average temperature. Check this out:
The 1/2007 to 1/2008 temperature drop was the biggest one-year drop on record. Dramatic enough for me, and depending on how things go with the minimum it may just be the beginning.
Linked from "Sea Level Has Not Risen for Three Years - New Monthly SPPI CO2 Report".