Global Cooling

[G8trGr8t]

Meanwhile, the National Snow and Ice Data Center has acknowledged that due to a satellite sensor malfunction, it had been underestimating the extent of Arctic sea ice by 193,000 square miles - an area the size of Spain. In a new study, University of Wisconsin researchers Kyle Swanson and Anastasios Tsonis conclude that global warming could be going into a decades-long remission. The current global cooling "is nothing like anything we've seen since 1950," Swanson told Discovery News. Yes, global cooling: 2008 was the coolest year of the past decade - global temperatures have not exceeded the record high measured in 1998, notwithstanding the carbon-dioxide that human beings continue to pump into the atmosphere.




There is no shame in conceding that science still has a long way to go before it fully understands the immense complexity of the Earth's ever-changing climate(s). It would be shameful not to concede it. The climate models on which so much global-warming alarmism rests "do not begin to describe the real world that we live in," says Freeman Dyson, the eminent physicist and futurist. "The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand."



http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/03/08/wheres_global_warming/

They better hurry up and pass that carbon tax before the truth comes out.

Any bets on what the carbon tax (higher energy costs) is going to do to the little bit of manufacturing we have left?

[swardboy]

Ah crap, now I like a gator....

[Harry Beanbag]

Here come the posts telling us how Freeman Dyson, Kyle Swanson, and Anastasios Tsonis are incompetent hacks...

[Curly Bill]

Here come the posts telling us how Freeman Dyson, Kyle Swanson, and Anastasios Tsonis are incompetent hacks...

...in all fairness to our ever on duty, always eager and ready to defend the liberal dogma brethren of SF.com, they could refer to the above as partisan hacks instead. ;)

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Johnny Mack, havbe you been named a carbon tax collector, yet?

[G8trGr8t]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/apr/02/20060402-112828-5298r/

Newsweek 1975

Earth is freezing. All climatologist agree that drastic action is needed. Melt the arctic before all of the wheat freezes and man is faced withs tarvation. What a joke, to the tunes of hundreds of millions per giggle.


To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world's weather. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic. "A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale," warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, "because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century."

A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972.

To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earth's average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras -- and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average.

Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the "little ice age" conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 -- years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.

[G8trGr8t]

Ah crap, now I like a gator....


:) You could do worse. :)