The Warming Earth Blows Hot, Cold and Chaotic

Wall Street Journal ^ | JANUARY 2, 2009 | ROBERT LEE HOTZ

[decimon]

Subtle Rises in Temperature Make for Wild Weather; 'Exceptionally Unusual' Becomes the New Normal

SAN FRANCISCO -- Three independent research groups have concluded that 2008 was a comparatively cool year on planet Earth -- a feverish chill on our warming world.

The year's average global temperature was the 9th or 10th warmest since reliable record-keeping began in 1850, and the coldest since the turn of the 21st century, according to separate surveys by the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization, NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, and the U.S. National Climatic Data Center. Each used slightly different methods to rank 2008 based on world-wide land and sea-surface temperatures through November.

[decimon]

Blowing Hotz and cold.

[decimon]

Exceptionally Unusual ping.

[basil]

Well—are we all gonna die or what?

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam Me to Planet Gore !

[Tarpon]

In the end the sun will win. If the current solar trends continue, it will soon be so cold, the glaciers growing so fast, the sea ice stacked so high, the driveways not shoveled, that Al Gore will be the last person left on the planet that doesn’t know Al Gore is a kook.

[cripplecreek]

Global climate fluctuation is gonna kill us all....

....well, unless we can figure out what kind of space technology those cave men were using to survive.

[Uncle Miltie]

The weather is variable!!!

Oh no, we’re all gonna die!!!

[decimon]

Well—are we all gonna die or what?

You, yes. Me, or what.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Great post! LOL

[randog]

...no one knows whether this temperature drop heralds a lasting retreat from global warming or a temporary dip.

But a couple of warm days in the summer will lead to global warming hysteria headlines.

[decimon]

But a couple of warm days in the summer will lead to global warming hysteria headlines.

Unless that's worn thin. I think more people have been tuning out to this stuff. I hope so.

[SIDENET]

Last year, the Atlantic hurricane season was the fourth most active in 64 years

[Yo-Yo]

Well—are we all gonna die or what?

Guaranteed.

[Paladin2]

"NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies"

The only space those folks study is the vast, empty space inside their craniums.

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off

Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown

GREENIE WATCH

Ping me if you find one I've missed.

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Uh-huh.

[LiberConservative]

Butbutbutbutbut I saw the documentary "The Day After Tomorrow". It's supposed to happen! Global warming will start an Ice Age in the entire northern hemisphere. The Royal Air Force will FREEZE SOLID INSTANTANEOUSLY!!! Folks in NY City will be forced to burn books in their library!! Really. Honest. I SAW THE G-DAMN DOCUMENTARY!!!!!! Is NOBODY LISTENING?! GOD HELP US!!!!

/hysteria

[Zeppo]

"Ice loss is happening faster than the climate models are showing."

Translation:

The climate models are wrong, but that will not stop us from using them as long as the money keeps rolling in...

[vbmoneyspender]

while global land temperatures in October were the warmest for that month in more than a century, government weather records show.

That part of the article is wrong. October was only warm if NASA is allowed to selectively apply the Gregorian calendar to Siberian temperature records.

[vbmoneyspender]

Whoever wrote this article is putting out alot of misinformation - ice loss isn’t happening at records rates. In fact, I belive the reverse is true - i.e. ice gain occurred at records rates in the past 3 months.

[ExTexasRedhead]

With corrupt Liberals in the White House and Congress, who cares what the weather does. We’re doomed regardless. Our enemies will be at our front door, we’ll be penniless, Congress will have forced worthless or no health care, freedom will be stolen, what more could clueless Obama robots want?