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.
Hey birdbrains, go outside!
1) stupid liars
2) damn liars
3) statisticians
We had such a foolish example of such in college where a statistician on be half of my sociology class proved that Fundamentalist Christians where not highly intelligent from bogus survey of college attendees from Ivy league schools. I challenged the result of the professor and made him amend that conclusions to read that Fundamentalist Christians smart enough to avoid Ivy League schools. The class cheered because we weren't an Ivy School.
More ignorant propaganda from AP. The Earth has been cooling since 1998. There was no “super hot 2005”. It is a lie.
2005 wasn’t that one of the times Hansen got caught “cooking the books” using September’s temperatures for October.
Even the head of the UN IPCC has acknowledged the world has been cooling.
What data was given to these folks? The true data belie the notion of the last decade being the warmest on record. To the contrary it shows lower temps all around. More junk science by those with an agenda
Yes it's true and where any data wasn't available they got the computers to fill in the missing data and then handed it to the statisticians.
There has been so much cherry-picking of the data that it better be made public and subject to testing otherwise it should be ignored. There has been enough fiddling of the data ( Vide: Yamal tree ring data) that no set of experts can be trusted without complete independent verification of the data.
Idiots. Or rather: they think we are.
You know how to get a "hockey stick" graph line showing an "undeniable trend"? Extract over 265 data samples and use the 3 of them that best tend to prove your hypothesis. That is the precise genesis of "Global Warming". Sane people and real scientists call that a "scam".
They are using the fraudulent NOAA Jim Hansen data only, so of course they found no cooling trend as the numbers (like the super hot 2005) are BS
If they were to use the RSS, UAH or even the Hadley they would have come up with the real answer.
More realistic numbers from the Hadley 
Using real numbers, you don't need PHD statisticians to find the cooling trend, because any 6 year old can spot it
That was quite a funny line coming from the article. AGW is all about cherry picking the data.
When the next ice age comes, billions will die of starvation within the first year.
There’s no significant evidence whatsoever for global warming caused by human activity. Obama just can’t back off of a position when he’s wrong, and I would bet that his staffers are giving him all kinds of incomplete, incorrect, and biased analysis about global warming theory.
The White House has a big problem with all the extreme, poorly researched positions that Obama took back during his election campaign to appeal to “progrssives” and the moonbat base of the democrat party. He got way out on a limb on climate change, health care, and withdrawal from Iraq, and now he’s finding it difficult to climb back in off that limb and take less extreme positions. That’s what happens when politicians are just concerned about getting elected and have no interest in finding the truth.
Not to mention all the people unable to outrun the advancing ice!
Oh my god! It's global climate...stasis! That'll make movies like 'The Day After Tomorrow' awful dull. Damn! No one is going to make any money off of global stasis.
LOL...the links to the data are right at the bottom of the story and show that it's not cherry-picked!
Oh, yeah, that 1998 is not a statistically anomaly...nope... </sarc>
Global Milding causes Global Mildew, which is what will kill us all if we don’t act now and embrace Change.
No, as it's hotter now than it was 10 years ago, despite the supposed "cooling trend." The "cooling trend" is really just a reduction in the warming trend, not actually getting cooler.
Forget the cooling debate: the AP's hired staticians have just determined there is no global warming either. Do they realize that?
LMAO, best one of the day (so far)!
your graph is nearing three years old; with that bias, the Tigers make the playoffs.
The 1934 spike is not impressive in your graphs; I wonder what happened to it?
The green indicates ‘09 is expected to come in pretty warm; as US has been cool, I wonder where the hot spots have been?
We have a winner. 1998 is the proof the earth is hotter than ever, now how dare you use it to show it was an anamoly. And yes I know 1933 was hotter, and probably the 1300s.
El Nino and La Nina cannot heat or cool the total global temperature. They only circulate heat and create no new energy of their own. If they cause one thing to get warmer, something else must get cooler. If global warming heat exists, it must be hiding somewhere. If it can't be found then it does not exist.
As it is cooling down in the Northern hemisphere, it's warming up down under.
Let's legislate away the change of seasons and keep the world at THE optimal temperature.
HELP! Our oceans are dangerously close to draining off the edge of the world.
Makes as much sense as putting a panicked caption on a photo of a polar bear and proclaiming the damned iceberg melted right out from under him.
And looking at the chart, why was the x-axis selected to be +/- 0.9 degrees? If it had been +/- say 5 degrees, our trend would appear to be almost a flat line and nothing that would look like a trend.
And beyond that, the data purports to be "global average temperature. I'm still trying to find out where they stick a probe to get any global measurement. We know of course that they use a very few actual measurements, most from the US, and most of them 'cooked' by Jim Hansen's magical mystery algorythims before they get plugged into the database.
Truth is, no one has a clue if the earth has has warmed or cooled over the last 150 years. All they can speak with any authority for are a handful of spots on the globe where some semblance of consistent records have been kept over that time.
Why could I not bring up any “climate.uah.edu”? That is the only set whose method (satellite) looks like it might have a chance of not showing bias due to manmade heat islands (that is worse than cherry picking — that is sitting under a cherry tree and having the cherries fall on you), and even there I would have to check on the specific geographic sites.
I don't know...it came up fine for me. Do you see the graph I posted from there via an IMG link?
Can you get the data from here?
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