People walk around a crater near the northern Latvian town of Mazsalaca. A telephone company Monday said it had dreamed up a purported meteorite strike in Latvia as a publicity stunt. (AFP/Ilmars Znotins)
Posted on 10/26/2009 12:55:40 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book.
Only one problem: It's not true, according to an analysis of the numbers done by several independent statisticians for The Associated Press.
The case that the Earth might be cooling partly stems from recent weather. Last year was cooler than previous years. It's been a while since the super-hot years of 1998 and 2005. So is this a longer climate trend or just weather's normal ups and downs?
In a blind test, the AP gave temperature data to four independent statisticians and asked them to look for trends, without telling them what the numbers represented. The experts found no true temperature declines over time.
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soon to be Hopenhagen attendees .. on our dime via the UN.
Global Cooling Deniers!
Global warming good, global cooling bad. The current global climate is in a state of global warming and has been for thousands of years. Global cooling means an ice age, which is the most common global climate state.
People walk around a crater near the northern Latvian town of Mazsalaca. A telephone company Monday said it had dreamed up a purported meteorite strike in Latvia as a publicity stunt. (AFP/Ilmars Znotins)
Oxymoron?
All just part of the Grand Cycle of Life here.. but all them fellas with degrees need to impress chicks somehow. ;-)
Obama said it, so it's probably not true.
WTF!? The AP is MAKING news and then reporting it. How soon before the AP starts killing people and claims there is a serial killer on the loose?
Since 1998, temperatures have dipped, soared, fallen again and are now rising once more.
It seems to me, this same thing has been going on for the most part of the last hundreds of millions of years. But now we call it Man Made Global Warming.
Your claim assumes the current configuration of the continents, with the Panama isthmus closed off, among other things.
But you do make a good point that is described in the article that cherry-picking the data isn’t the right approach.
In a blind test, of course statisticians are going to say it’s not a cooling trend. The only way to overcome the statistics and emphasize cooling is to have a preconceived notion about the data and specifically select it.
Furnish this data to the public as well as information about where it came from. I smell cherry picking.
AP controlled the data. That's far from blind or unbiased.
Could it be the “warming” and “cooling” have canceled each other out?
So the AP selected the data to be given to them? Presumably all temperature data from the beginning of the world . . . just to make it fair?
oct 20 piece. from down under
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,20797,26234743-952,00.html?from=public_rss
just posted a thread
‘Proof’ humans cause global warming
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371337/posts
A group of independent statisticians also found that there was no true temperature increases over time, also. They do not want to talk about that aspect of their findings.
It is o.k. to use 1998 to show the climate is getting hotter but you are not allowed to use the year 1998 to show that the climate is cooling.
Might this be coming from standard national weather service reports? Usually these readings come from airports. As these swaths of dark pavement grow over time, so do the associated heat islands.
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