Posted on 08/19/2009 7:59:14 PM PDT by neverdem
WASHINGTON — Has Earth's fever broken?
Official government measurements show that the world's temperature has cooled a bit since reaching its most recent peak in 1998.
That's given global warming skeptics new ammunition to attack the prevailing theory of climate change. The skeptics argue that the current stretch of slightly cooler temperatures means that costly measures to limit carbon dioxide emissions are ill-founded and unnecessary.
Proposals to combat global warming are "crazy" and will "destroy more than a million good American jobs and increase the average family's annual energy bill by at least $1,500 a year," the Heartland Institute , a conservative research organization based in Chicago , declared in full-page newspaper ads earlier this summer. "High levels of carbon dioxide actually benefit wildlife and human health," the ads asserted.
Many scientists agree, however, that hotter times are ahead. A decade of level or slightly lower temperatures is only a temporary dip to be expected as a result of natural, short-term variations in the enormously complex climate system, they say.
"The preponderance of evidence is that global warming will resume," Nicholas Bond , a meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle , said in an e-mail.
"Natural variability can account for the slowing of the global mean temperature rise we have seen," said Jeff Knight , a climate expert at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Exeter, England .
According to data from the National Space Science and Technology Center in Huntsville, Ala. , the global high temperature in 1998 was 0.76 degrees Celsius (1.37 degrees Fahrenheit) above the average for the previous 20 years.
So far this year, the high has been 0.42 degrees Celsius (0.76 degrees Fahrenheit), above the 20-year average, clearly cooler than before...
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Also: “Many scientists agree, however, that hotter times are ahead.”
It is down to ‘many’ now.
Anyone dumb enough to still be falling for the global cooling/global warming/climate change bullsh** really needs to get some help. They aren’t only gullible, they’re dumber than a bag of hammers.
So many lies and distortions, so I'll just address the one above: It is criminal intellectual dishonesty to characterize a complete retracement of all the increase in temperature for the past 30 years as merely "slightly lower temperatures," and/or as "dip to be expected" in spite of the massive increase in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide over that same period.
They will still be crying “masking” when we all freeze to death. Give it up already global warmers, your theory is junk and you know it. Just admit it, become conservatives and enjoy Truth for a change......sheesh.
Cmon, moonbats, it is a LOT more satisfying to be on the side of reason and logic than on the side of flaming imbecilic raving emotion. Al Gore is a fraud, Harold Hill has nothing on him. Stop being idiots....NOW!
War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.
These druids will never stop until they are stopped.
Challenge to Warmers: Find a prediction, prior to 1998, that we’d enter a decade of cooling. How good are the models then?
Second challenge: That the cooling would be .12 degrees per decade! That’s unmistakably relevant.
www.woodfortrees.org gives you access to three global temperature databases, the ones climate scientists use.
All cooling is natural and temporary, all warming is caused by Industrial Capitalism and the obvious solution is to end Industrial Capitalism before it kills us all.
The Sun has nothing to do with Earth’s climate, how could it?
My electric bill for the past two moths has been 20% lower this summer than last year due to the AC not having run as much.
That is funny, in the 1990's a decade of high temperatures was more than enough to convince global warmers that the earth's temperature is rising out of control. They fully expected temperature increases to keep accelerating. Hey, but now a decade long cooling trend is expected natural variations. How can any of these idiots actually have a degree in science?
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/sunspots/
note the absence of sunspots today.
Mauder Minimum Redux.
Everybody knows a global cooling trend is evidence of global warming. We’re all doomed!
McClatchy numbnuts should acknowledge that all the BS about ‘tipping points’ ‘things being worse than we thought’ and all the the projections of global warming from 10 years ago are essentially garbage that should never have been inflicted on the world.
good. I’ll even give credit to obama for cooling the earth if he’d just leave us alone
BFL
it’s a liberal theory and cannot be falsified by the data.
The stimulus? It’s working! if we didn’t have it, the unemployment rate would be worse! It must be! We can never challenge our premises!
If Zero can’t be cool, what good is he?
They couldn't see it coming but now that it is happening they somehow know that it is only temporary and it is expected based on the models.
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