Posted on 08/28/2007 2:02:07 PM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
WASHINGTON - "We have met the enemy, and he is us," the comic-strip character Pogo said decades ago.
A new analysis of last year's near-record temperatures in the United States suggests he was right.
Warming caused by human activity was the biggest factor in the high temperatures recorded in 2006, according to a report by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
In January, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center reported that 2006 was the warmest year on record over the 48 contiguous states with an average temperature 2.1 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal and 0.07 degree warmer than 1998, the previous warmest year on record.
In May, however, NOAA revised the 2006 ranking to the second warmest year after updated statistics showed the year was actually .08 F cooler than 1998.
(Excerpt) Read more at home.peoplepc.com ...
And what the devil is normal; and normal for what period of years, months, decades, centuries?
***sheeeesh***
Hottest ever? Not here.. we’ve had a few hot muggy days, but not even remotely the hottest ever, in fact its been a very mild summer this year.
A fryin', we're all gonna die, Al Goron Ping
I know and I’m getting tired of this global warming nonsense.
De plaaaaaaaaaaants.............dey are keeeeeeeeeeling us.......
Fixed headline.
They are going to lie either way. It’s making Gore too much money.
New Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming Fears
In January, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center reported that 2006 was the warmest year on record over the 48 contiguous states with an average temperature 2.1 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal and 0.07 degree warmer than 1998, the previous warmest year on record.
Excuse me?
When the temperature jumps all over the place, what is normal?
I understand Mean, Median etc.
WHAT is NORMAL other than variation?
Odd.
That NOT what NASA says..... But then again, NASA corrected the data it released. So where did THIS record come from? Averaging all the lower 48 states somehow?
Me too. How am I supposed to know what to wear?
From the link above:
“We wanted to find out whether it was pure coincidence that the two warmest years on record both coincided with El Nino events,” Martin Hoerling of NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., said in a statement.
His study looked at the effects of El Nino in the past as well as the effects of the release of gases such as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by human industrial activities.
The analysis of past El Nino events in the 20th century found that the result was a slightly colder than normal annual average temperature over the 48 contiguous states.
To double check that, the researchers conducted two sets of 50-year computer simulations of U.S. climate, with and without the influence of El Nino. They again found a slight cooling across the nation when El Nino was present.
Then they looked at the effect of the increased greenhouse gases - which are given that name because they can help trap heat from the sun somewhat like a greenhouse traps heat.
They ran 42 different tests using complex computer models to simulate changes in the atmosphere under various conditions and concluded that the “2006 warmth was primarily due to human influences.”
We haven't needed our French-made air-CONditioner on one time all summer!!! Our whole-house fan has made sound, restful sleep a pleasant possiblity for which we are very thankful!
We would be even MORE thankful if all this bogus boolchit implying that man's economic activity is the sole cause of whatever warming there is, WOULD STOP!!!
We RESENT BOGUS SPECULATION passing it'self off as somehow scientific analysis with such self-righteous certitude as exhibited by Algore!!! (and all his duped dudes)
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Prove that and these guys could be $100,000 richer.
Waiting...
> Hot Year Blamed on Greenhouse Gases
So exactly what caused the dust bowl years of the 1930s which were even hotter?
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