NASA: 2004 saw record warming

Los Angeles Times ^ | 02-10-2005 | Andrew Revkin

[boris]

This article will not be on their website until tomorrow.

[RexBeach]

Boy, I'm breaking out the T-shirts! God, it's hot in here!

[thulldud]

It gets hot at NASA every year at budget time.

[Paloma_55]

But the global average continued a 30-year rise that is "due primarily to increasing green-house gases in the atmosphere," said Dr. James E. Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, in New York.

Here is the key phrase in the entire piece. The guy exposes that he has an agenda.

Later, the story touches on the fact that this guy's objective in life is to study the effects of man on the environment. If he were to conclude that man has no effect, his job would be done and then what would he be famous for?

I get such a kick out of this garbage.

EVERYTHING cycles in nature. The period, amplitude, and frequency of the cycles may vary, but everything cycles. To think the temperature of our planet would stand still is ludicrous and ignores the last ice age and subsequent melting that occurred long before human beings were generating greenhouse gasses.

If he wants to study something, he should look at the frequency, magnitude, and phase of solar flare activities and how they correlate to atmospheric warming and ozone depletion. I can't help but believe that increasing the temperature of the SOURCE of global warming would have a bigger impact on global temperature than the thickness of the blanket..although both are factors.

[EagleUSA]

To think the temperature of our planet would stand still is ludicrous and ignores the last ice age.....
======
I am not sure how we educate these "scientists" or did these guys get mail-order degrees?? To listen to them, you would think that the earth was formed yesterday....or are these just shills for the Kyoto mob??? Just buy them a basic earth sciences book -- we might get rid of them that way.

[martin_fierro]

[Monterrosa-24]

So not only does NASA track global temperatures but they trace the rise to tailpipe emissions. That is pretty impressive. Now if they could just keep the shuttles from cracking up.

[Always Right]

Particularly high temperatures were measured over Alaska, the Caspian Sea region of Europe and the Antarctic Peninsula, while the United States was unusually cool.

The US has been warming much slower (perhaps even cooling) than the rest of the world for a while. Most of the difference is because our stations are better maintained and controlled, and I think there probably are some places that intentionally fudge their figures up.

[DJ Taylor]

In the past, these reports of temperature increases in the atmosphere have conveniently neglected to report that the temperature increases in the atmosphere have been a result of temperature increases at ground level. Global warming proponents try to hide this fact because if temperatures have risen as a result of the greenhouse effect, the atmosphere would have warmed first. It will be interesting to see how these “scientists” will dance around this issue when the full report is released.

[beltfed308]

Oh crap! We are doomed again!

I suggest that these jerk weeds take and look at a farmers almanac. Pretty funny how the almanac can predict weather cycles when there were no talking heads back then. Usually it is as accurate if not more so than the weather channel.

As another poster pointed out. The agenda can be seen especially with the new 2006 CARB law near.

[skimbell]

Yada, yada, yada...oh, and by the way, the sky is falling!

[Flightdeck]

In very very small type at the bottom: "Research funded by the Environmental Liberation Front and Sierra Club."

[Falcon4.0]

Must be budget time again.

[The Great RJ]

.....measurements began around the world in the 19th century.

In climatological terms little more than 100 years of reliable data cannot establish any real trends. A warmer 2004 may be just an aberration or the previous 100 years could have been colder than the long term average. The environmentalist wackos will certainly use these figures to predict doom for the world, but scientifically this is only a blip on the chart that cannot be interpreted as a long term trend.

[Tanniker Smith]

Cool. Last year, we barely used the swimming pool because the temp in NYC rarely got into the 90s. Pool, BBQ, pool, BBQ, Pool, BBQ, Pool, shower, sleep, repeat.

TS
(yes, I am a teacher, how did you guess?)

[AaronInCarolina]

Particularly high temperatures were measured over Alaska, the Caspian Sea region of Europe and the Antarctic Peninsula, while the United States was unusually cool.

Can someone please explain to me why, if man is so responsible for the warming of the planet, that the most extreme climate changes occur in places where man and his influence are thousands of miles away from (north and south poles)? And when you do explain that, please explain why Mars is seeing similar polar warming (where man is way far away from unless you want to put the blame on a couple of mars rovers)!!!

[olezip]

In the story of "Chicken Little" the little chicken pointed to a bump on his head as proof that the sky was falling. He had many believers and followers as he worked his way to tell the King. However, a wise old owl actually asked Chicken Little exactly where did he get the bump on his head? [It happened to be under an apple tree with a bruised apple on the ground]. Are our scientists "Chicken Littles" going about saying that carbon dioxide emissions are the cause of the global warming? For argument, let's accept for the moment that we are on the "up" side of warming cycle.

Is there no "wise owl" to ask about the lack of consistent correlation of carbon dioxide emissions with global warming? What about the little noticed or reported correlation that the sun is a bit hotter; and that the sun has produced an extraordinary volume of sun spot activity during the current solar cycle? In addition to more energy being broadcast to the earth, the extra radiation has an effect on cloud formation; clouds affect climate. What about the effects of biomass burning and soot in the atmosphere? The paper appears to focus only on data that seems to support a single cause -- carbon dioxide emissions. Is this more junk science?

[massgopguy]

The Polar Ice Caps on Mars will melt in 1,000 because Mr. Sun is burning its Hydrogen Fuel at an expotential rate. Wait until it starts burning Helium and becomes a Red Giant.
Also China and Russia report 20 year lows in temperature.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

OH NO THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING.... GLOBAL WARMING GLOBAL WARMING.... WE ARE ALL GONNA DIIIIIIIIIE!!!!!! <--sarcasm

NOT!

I will start to worry when the sea level rises and inch.