Global Cooling Chills Summer

[Sinatra]

Thank you Al Gore for saving our planet! It's going to about 80 degrees here in Nashville for the next 3-4 days where the normal for July is 91 degrees!!!!

Thanks again Al!!!!!!

It is shaping up to be yet another lower temps summer/winter across the globe.

Gore is scheduled to visit Melbourne for a climate change conference - Melbourne's temps are about 10 degrees below normal.

Al can't catch a break!

 

[Sinatra]

BAM! Check out all those cold temps!

Cold June in Manhattan well below normal.

Among coldest Junes in Pheonix since 1913.

LA came in at 5 degrees below normal.

Boston almost 5 degrees below normal.

New Zealand climate center releases headline - Temperatures: Lowest ever for May in many areas, colder than normal for all.

Two South African vagrants froze to death.

Chicago had the COLDEST July 8th since 1891.

Yonkers received a snow storm - in JULY.

In Melbourne Australia, temps have been 10 degrees BELOW normal.


Global Cooling Chills Summer 2009 by Deroy Murdock on National Review Online

By the way, the earth's temperature has dropped .74 degrees since Al Gore released an Inconvenient Truth in 2006...

Earth has been cooling folks...

 

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[code1211]

Thank you Al Gore for saving our planet! It's going to about 80 degrees here in Nashville for the next 3-4 days where the normal for July is 91 degrees!!!!

Thanks again Al!!!!!!

In Indy, the average High for July is about 84. It's 71 right now. Tomorrow's high is forcast for less than 70. On Sunday, we get back into the 70's anyway.

I grew up in northern Minnesota. I don't see much of a difference.

 

[Oddball]

Coolest summer in International Falls in recorded history.

 

[edthecynic]

Right.

Global warming is responsible for global cooling.

Good thing ya have all the bases covered.

Except LOCAL cooling is not GLOBAL cooling!!!

 

[edthecynic]

You guys must be stuck in some sort of time warp. Nobody... and I do mean, NOBODY [but the most dense] pretend to say that the Earth isn't warming.

The planet has been slowly cooling since '98.

The numbers from even the most fervent AGW moonbats have shown this.

Seriously guys, EVEN Bill O'Reilly accepts that. EVEN Him.

Bill O'Liely is an asswipe in any language.

1999 to 2008 was the WARMEST decade in the history of direct instrument measurement on both land and sea.

 

[edthecynic]

Right.

Global warming is responsible for global cooling.

Good thing ya have all the bases covered.

Except LOCAL cooling is not GLOBAL cooling!!!

Here's June's measurements.

Climate of 2009
June in Historical Perspective
National Climatic Data Center
16 July 2009

Global Analysis / Global Hazards / United States / U.S. Drought / Extremes
Use these links to access detailed analyses of Global and U.S. data.
Global Highlights:
Based on preliminary data, the globally averaged combined land and sea surface temperature was the second warmest on record for June and the January-June year-to-date tied with 2004 as the fifth warmest on record.
Large portions of each inhabited continent were substantially warmer than average during June 2009. The warmest anomalies were most notable in parts of Africa and most of Eurasia. The most notable cooler-than-average temperatures were present from the southwestern U.S. to the Northern Plains, the Canadian Prairie Provinces, central Asia, and across the boundary of northeastern China and southeastern Russia.

 

[Midnight Marauder]

You guys must be stuck in some sort of time warp. Nobody... and I do mean, NOBODY [but the most dense] pretend to say that the Earth isn't warming

Nobody you've ever heard, because their dissenting voices are squelched.

One example:

“For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?" - Geologist Dr. David Gee, the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.

Another scientist opines, on the squelching of dissenting voices:

“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.

Another, ties it all together:

“Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense…The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” - Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.

Two more opine:

“CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another….Every scientist knows this, but it doesn’t pay to say so…Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver’s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.” - Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.

“The [global warming] scaremongering has its justification in the fact that it is something that generates funds.” - Award-winning Paleontologist Dr. Eduardo Tonni, of the Committee for Scientific Research in Buenos Aires and head of the Paleontology Department at the University of La Plata.

Science? Or religion? Faith-based:

“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” - Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.

There are thousands more. You never hear their voices.

Why does the AGW Church fear debate and dissent?

 

[Midnight Marauder]

Excerpt from a pretty good analytical article:

Climate change knows three realities: science reality, which is what working scientists deal with every day; virtual reality, which is the wholly imaginary world inside computer climate models; and public reality, which is the socio-political system within which politicians, business people and the general citizenry work.

The science reality is that climate is a complex, dynamic, natural system that no one wholly comprehends, though many scientists understand different small parts. So far, science provides no unambiguous evidence that dangerous or even measurable human-caused global warming is occurring.

The virtual reality is that computer models predict future climate according to the assumptions that are programmed into them. There is no established Theory of Climate, and therefore the potential output of all realistic computer general circulation models (GCMs) encompasses a range of both future warmings and coolings, the outcome depending upon the way in which they are constructed. Different results can be produced at will simply by adjusting such poorly known parameters as the effects of cloud cover.

The public reality in 2008 is that, driven by strong environmental lobby groups and evangelistic scientists and journalists, there is a widespread but erroneous belief in our society that dangerous global warming is occurring and that it has human causation.

It remains a matter of faith whether reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, should they occur, will have any measurable influence on climate. My conclusion is that—irrespective of McCarthyist bludgeoning, press bias, policy-advice corruption or propaganda frenzy—it is highly unlikely that the public is going to agree to a costly restructuring of the world economy simply on the basis of speculative computer models of climate in 100 years time. Attempting to ‘stop climate change’ is an extravagant and costly exercise of utter futility. Rational climate policies must be based on adaptation to climate change as it occurs, irrespective of its causation.

 

[Oddball]

Outstanding piece!

 

[Midnight Marauder]

Outstanding piece!

Quadrant is a great publication.

That article by the way, opens with this quote which I'm sure you saw:

The idea that human beings have changed and are changing the basic climate system of the Earth through their industrial activities and burning of fossil fuels—the essence of the Greens’ theory of global warming—has about as much basis in science as Marxism and Freudianism. Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof—of which history offers so many examples—that people can be suckers on a grand scale. To their fanatical followers they are a substitute for religion. Global warming, in particular, is a creed, a faith, a dogma that has little to do with science. If people are in need of religion, why don’t they just turn to the genuine article?

—Paul Johnson

 

[Old Rocks]

The American Geophysical Union's 2008 statement concerning global warming.

AGU: Earth’s Climate Clearly Out of Balance; 50% Reduction in GHG Required
25 January 2008
The Earth’s climate is “now clearly out of balance”, according to a revised position statement by The American Geophysical Union (AGU), and net annual emissions of greenhouse gasses must be reduced by 50% this century to avoid disruptive warming.

The AGU is a global scientific society with a membership of 50,000 researchers, teachers, and students. It hosts one of the largest scientific conferences in the world each year—the AGU Fall Meeting in December. The new position statement revises the statement on the human impact on climate issued in 2003.

Many components of the climate system—including the temperatures of the atmosphere, land and ocean, the extent of sea ice and mountain glaciers, the sea level, the distribution of precipitation, and the length of seasons—are now changing at rates and in patterns that are not natural and are best explained by the increased atmospheric abundances of greenhouse gases and aerosols generated by human activity during the 20th century.

...During recent millennia of relatively stable climate, civilization became established and populations have grown rapidly. In the next 50 years, even the lower limit of impending climate change—an additional global mean warming of 1°C above the last decade—is far beyond the range of climate variability experienced during the past thousand years and poses global problems in planning for and adapting to it. Warming greater than 2°C above 19th century levels is projected to be disruptive, reducing global agricultural productivity, causing widespread loss of biodiversity, and—if sustained over centuries—melting much of the Greenland ice sheet with ensuing rise in sea level of several meters. If this 2°C warming is to be avoided, then our net annual emissions of CO2 must be reduced by more than 50 percent within this century. With such projections, there are many sources of scientific uncertainty, but none are known that could make the impact of climate change inconsequential. Given the uncertainty in climate projections, there can be surprises that may cause more dramatic disruptions than anticipated from the most probable model projections.

With climate change, as with ozone depletion, the human footprint on Earth is apparent. The cause of disruptive climate change, unlike ozone depletion, is tied to energy use and runs through modern society. Solutions will necessarily involve all aspects of society. Mitigation strategies and adaptation responses will call for collaborations across science, technology, industry, and government. Members of the AGU, as part of the scientific community, collectively have special responsibilities: to pursue research needed to understand it; to educate the public on the causes, risks, and hazards; and to communicate clearly and objectively with those who can implement policies to shape future climate.

Green Car Congress: AGU: Earths Climate Clearly Out of Balance; 50% Reduction in GHG Required

 

[Old Rocks]

This has been the second warmest June on record, worldwide. But, at present, we are in a neutral time as far as the La Nina, El Nino cyle goes. We are also coming out of a solar minimum. As we go toward the peak of another solar cycle, and we get a couple of El Ninos, I expect to see the temperature records of 1998 and 2005 shatttered. And the myth of the present "cooling" to suffer the same fate. And then you wingnuts will be back to "its the sun making it so hot". You silly fellows haven't a clue.

 

[Midnight Marauder]

Faith-based evangelical dogma from one of the Church members does not an argument make.

 

[Old Rocks]

Faith-based evangelical dogma from one of the Church members does not an argument make.

I'll call you on that, old man, when the records are broken.

 

[k2skier]

Coolest summer in International Falls in recorded history.

Pay more attention to the winters, and let go of summer for all your talking points, you delusional fools get on a one track regurgitation event.

 

[elvis]

Coolest summer in International Falls in recorded history.

Pay more attention to the winters, and let go of summer for all your talking points, you delusional fools get on a one track regurgitation event.

Fine. We had near-record cold temperatures here last winter.

 

[Epsilon Delta]

You guys must be stuck in some sort of time warp. Nobody... and I do mean, NOBODY [but the most dense] pretend to say that the Earth isn't warming

Nobody you've ever heard, because their dissenting voices are squelched.

One example:

“For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming? For how many years must cooling go on?" - Geologist Dr. David Gee, the chairman of the science committee of the 2008 International Geological Congress who has authored 130 plus peer reviewed papers, and is currently at Uppsala University in Sweden.

Another scientist opines, on the squelching of dissenting voices:

“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.

Another, ties it all together:

“Creating an ideology pegged to carbon dioxide is a dangerous nonsense…The present alarm on climate change is an instrument of social control, a pretext for major businesses and political battle. It became an ideology, which is concerning.” - Environmental Scientist Professor Delgado Domingos of Portugal, the founder of the Numerical Weather Forecast group, has more than 150 published articles.

Two more opine:

“CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another….Every scientist knows this, but it doesn’t pay to say so…Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver’s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.” - Dr. Takeda Kunihiko, vice-chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University in Japan.

“The [global warming] scaremongering has its justification in the fact that it is something that generates funds.” - Award-winning Paleontologist Dr. Eduardo Tonni, of the Committee for Scientific Research in Buenos Aires and head of the Paleontology Department at the University of La Plata.

Science? Or religion? Faith-based:

“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” - Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.

There are thousands more. You never hear their voices.

Why does the AGW Church fear debate and dissent?

All of your opininos except the first one talk about AGW, which is exactly what I'm saying: The debate is whether there is A global warming [as in ANTHROPOGENIC] or whether it is NOT A GW, as in NOT-ANTHROPOGENIC global warming. The fact is the earth is warming and the climate is changing, the debate is whether these changes are ANTHROPOGENIC [man-made] or NOT anthropogenic [non-man-made]. The notion that you can post the temperature in Florida or Virginia or any bumble-fuck place in America does not suffice to silence the GIGANTIC majority of everyone who watches WORLD-WIDE WEATHER.

If you think that the warming of the earth's WORLD-WIDE ATMOSPHERE [not just your fucking idiot bumblefuck american neighborhood] is warming because of NATURAL causes and NOT because we've been pumping the big majority of stored carbon inside the earth's crust into the aforementioned atmosphere, feel free to post and debate. To debate that worldwide temperature trends have shot up for the past 50 years is just stupid. I would guess you would take the latter; arguing that the rise in temperature WORLD-WIDE is a product of naturally occuring phenomena, and NOT man-made phenomena. So start with those threads, and don't waste our time trying to deny the reality of things.

 

[Annie]

Right now my outdoor thermometer reads 56F. I went and checked what Tom Skilling has regarding our temps this summer:

Skilling Central - WGN

First July 17 in 53 years to reach no higher than Friday's 70 degrees
What a summer! Many Chicago area residents are just shaking their heads -- some pleased by the lack of heat, others disappointed at the failure of hot weather to gain a foothold here. Extremely rare mid-summer lake-effect rains were pouring down on sections of La Porte and Berrien Counties in Indiana and Michigan Friday evening -- just the latest meteorological twist in a summer of topsy-turvy weather across the region.
July has slipped to the coolest to date here in 42 years -- its 68.7 degree average temperature running nearly 5 degrees behind the long-term (138-year) average. Friday's 70-degree high was the first time in 53 years a July 17 temperature failed to rise above 70 -- you'd have to travel back to a 64-degree high 85 years ago to find a July 17 that was cooler. In Rockford, Friday's 67-degree high broke the record for the date, becoming the coolest July 17 high on the books. The reading was Rockford's fourth record-low daytime maximum to fall since June 30.

July's average Chicago highs rank among the two lowest in 50 years at O'Hare
The average high for July's first 17 days has been 77.5 degrees -- the second coolest in the 50 years of O'Hare Airport weather records dating back to 1959. Only 1967's 76.2-degree tally has been cooler.