Posted on 05/17/2018 6:00:22 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
Inconvenient Science: NASA data show that global temperatures dropped sharply over the past two years. Not that you'd know it, since that wasn't deemed news. Does that make NASA a global warming denier?
Writing in Real Clear Markets, Aaron Brown looked at the official NASA global temperature data and noticed something surprising. From February 2016 to February 2018, "global average temperatures dropped by 0.56 degrees Celsius." That, he notes, is the biggest two-year drop in the past century.
"The 2016-2018 Big Chill," he writes, "was composed of two Little Chills, the biggest five month drop ever (February to June 2016) and the fourth biggest (February to June 2017). A similar event from February to June 2018 would bring global average temperatures below the 1980s average."
Isn't this just the sort of man-bites-dog story that the mainstream media always says is newsworthy?
In this case, it didn't warrant any news coverage.
In fact, in the three weeks since Real Clear Markets ran Brown's story, no other news outlet picked up on it. They did, however, find time to report on such things as tourism's impact on climate change, how global warming will generate more hurricanes this year, and threaten fish habitats, and make islands uninhabitable. They wrote about a UN official saying that "our window of time for addressing climate change is closing very quickly."
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The cooling is due to man made climate change.
Too much CO2 and H2O in the atmosphere is reflecting too much sunlight away from terra firma and causing cooling. (or something like that.) Excuse #345a for prohibiting fossil fuels, pulled from the stack of cards classified as “use in case of global cooling due to greenhouse gases”
No science is necessary, the science is settled.
Musk is saddened by the news.
The problem with surface level temperature is the data points. Much of it is estimated and most of the warming comes from areas they don’t have actual readings, its effected by urban heat, etc. In other words, its easy to screw with the surface data.
Must be the cause of the unprecedented hysterical increase in over the top hyperbolic global warming scare stories that seem to be released with a machine gun lately
If it gets cooler, it must be global warming.
Now hand over your cash, reduce your standard of living and hand over all power to the government.
The Demonrats in New Mexico are running on the usual far-left agenda: Support planned parenthood, oppose Trump and support 100% renewable energy (i.e. More slice & dice wind turbines and roasted birds). Of course they conveniently overlook that over one-third of state income is derived from oil and gas drilling, production and refining, and their “progressive” agenda (i.e. Higher taxes on businesses, support for homeless, empathy for the criminals) just drives away those that want to relocate to the state.
How soon before the media predicts an ice age?
The climate change government funding junkies are already out ahead of this — they changed the name from “Global Warming” to “Climate Change.” Thus, ANY change can be the basis for asking for more government grants.
There is always something wrong. They will now use the new one that came out in the last 10 years which they call “Climate Change”.
Sent this to Rush.
I’d also note, atmospheric data used to be the gold standard in measuring temperature due to no bias and better quality reading, until it started showing significantly less warming than the land readings, and the CAGW crowd started attacking it as less credible.
or something
You are correct about atmospheric data being the gold standard, but probably because it was so useful, Obama’s NOAA turned off the low-atmosphere channel. That doesn’t mean that the high-altitutde channels can be used to show global cooling when “global warming” means the low altitudes keep the warmth that used to be lost to the high altitudes (and eventually space).
"This is the standard source used in most journalistic reporting of global average temperatures."
In Houston we had almost 4 months of uninterrupted Spring weather.
That is unheard of.
Of course, that ended last week, and now it all sucks.
I’m not positive what he’s referring to, since he doesn’t link to GISS properly, and doesn’t precisely state what he’s referring to. (Right there, that’s fishy.) But the upper-altitude GISS is the one that I find that’s declining.
Land + Ocean surfance temps down vs 2016.
Seasonal cycle TTM average down vs 2016.
I didn't see exactly where he is getting his data, though.
>> Must not be looking that hard... I didn’t see exactly where he is getting his data, though. <<
What is it with FReepers and the continual need to put people down? You can’t find his data, either. So why attack me?
The charts you provide are interesting... they show the temps down slightly off of monthly peaks... but these are just typical fluctuations, no great significant or long-term trend.
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