Not just the cover... check the depths...
Posted on 12/20/2008 9:02:49 AM PST by Signalman
Winter officially arrives with Sunday's solstice. But for many Americans, autumn 2008's final days already feel like deepest, coldest January.
New Englanders still lack electricity after a Dec. 11 ice storm snapped power lines. Up to 8 inches of snow struck New Orleans and southern Louisiana that day and didn't melt for 48 hours in some neighborhoods.
In Southern California this week, a half-inch of snow brightened Malibu's hills while a half-foot barricaded highways and marooned commuters in desert towns east of Los Angeles. Three inches of the white stuff shuttered Las Vegas' McCarren Airport that day and dusted the Strip's hotels and casinos.
What are the odds of that?
Actually, the odds are rising that snow, ice and cold will grow increasingly common. As serious scientists repeatedly explain, global cooling is here. It is chilling temperatures and so-called "global-warming."
According to the National Climatic Data Center, 2008 will be America's coldest year since 1997, thanks to La Niña and precipitation in the central and eastern states. Solar quietude also may underlie global cooling.
This year's sunspots and solar radiation approach the minimum in the sun's cycle, corresponding with lower Earth temperatures. This echoes Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist Dr. Sallie Baliunas' belief that solar variability, much more than CO2, sways global temperatures.
Meanwhile, the National Weather Service reports that last summer was Anchorage's third-coldest on record.
"Not since 1980 has there been a summer less reflective of global warming," Craig Medred wrote in the Anchorage Daily News. Consequently, Alaska's glaciers are thickening in the middle. "It's been a long time on most glaciers where they've actually had positive mass balance," U.S. Geological Survey glaciologist Bruce Molnia told Medred October 13.
Similarly, the National Snow and Ice Data Center found that Arctic sea ice expanded 13.2 percent this year, or a Texas-sized 270,000 square miles. Across the equator, Brazil endured an especially cold September. Snow graced its southern provinces that month.
"Global Warming is over, and Global Warming Theory has failed. There is no evidence that CO2 drives world temperatures or any consequent climate change," Imperial College London astrophysicist and long-range forecaster Piers Corbyn wrote British Members of Parliament on Oct. 28. "According to official data in every year since 1998, world temperatures have been colder than that year, yet CO2 has been rising rapidly."
That evening, as the House of Commons debated legislation on so-called "global-warming," October snow fell in London for the first time since 1922.
These observations parallel those of five German researchers led by Professor Noel Keenlyside of the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences. "Our results suggest that global surface temperature may not increase over the next decade," they concluded in last May's "Nature," "as natural climate variations in the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic (man-made) warming."
This "lull" should doom the 0.54 degree Fahrenheit average global temperature rise predicted by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Vatican of so-called "global warming." Incidentally, the IPCC's computer models factor in neither El Niño nor the Gulf Stream. Excluding such major climate variables would be like ESPN ignoring baseball and basketball.
So, is this all just propaganda concocted by Chevron-funded, right-wing, flat-Earthers? Ask Dr. Martin Hertzberg, a physical chemist and retired Navy meteorologist.
"As a scientist and lifelong liberal Democrat, I find the constant regurgitation of the anecdotal, fear-mongering clap-trap about human-caused global warming to be a disservice to science," Hertzberg wrote in Sept. 26's USA Today. "From the El Niño year of 1998 until January 2007, the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere near its surface decreased some 0.25 C (0.45 F). From January 2007 until the spring of 2008, it dropped a whopping 0.75 C (1.35 F)."
As global cooling becomes more widely recognized, Americans from Maine to Malibu should feel comfortable dreaming of a white Christmas.
Baghdad is pretty damn cold.
And so it begins-the Global Cooling articles!
Not just the cover... check the depths...
I measure these by how far they bury the lead. 6 grafs deep on an article dispelling global swarming? Kinda pathetic. Maunder II should be front and center. It will be soon enough.
We need to bring back gas-guzzling SUVs to save the planet!
Stay warm — stay safe!
We got ten inches of snow last night. I’ve been shoveling for hours.
“As serious scientists repeatedly explain”
Yep.
Let ‘em freeze in the dark!
An epithet hurled at the Northeasterners who demanded the US petroleum production industry shut down altogether.
Coming true at last.
And the joke is, the carbon dioxide concentration of the atmosphere will FALL in coming years, because the now colder oceans will absorb additional quantities of CO2, almost to the starvation point for green growing plants.
Then a REAL crisis will loom, if we do not gear up our consumption of “fossil” energy.
Won’t make any difference to the illiterati.
From what I've read on other forums, this is false. La Nina happened LAST year, not this year.
Does anyone know the truth on the 2008 "La Nina"?
More moisture on the way into the West Coast next week too,, damn, may have to back out of a trip to Reno for Christmas, the forecast is for another good storm mid-week .. the temps should be warmer so some of it may be rain and not snow.. but I don’t own a shovel .. sooooo. I do have chains tho.
I should have stayed in Lapaz until april...
Al Gore: Did I say global “warming?” What I meant is that mankind is producing global “COOLING!”
“the illiterati.”
LMAO
We should call it "The Inconvenient Minimum".
Increasingly, I've had people here (MA) shoot back with, "Well, these winters are certainly getting colder and snowier than I ever remember 'em! There's no doubt our climate is changing! It's shame Bush refused to do anything about it, but I'm sure glad Obama takes this stuff seriously!!"
It would be amusing if it weren't so scary.
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