Posted on 12/17/2007 11:43:27 AM PST by dangus
In 2000, when scientists declared that the Earth's temperature was rising, much anxiety ensued, even though the increase was only half of a degree over sixty years. In just the past year, however, the Earth's temperature has reversed, yielding back one-half of that increase.
The past month's (November's) global oceanic data from the National Climatic Data Center has now been released, and the Earth's oceans surface is .2548 degrees warmer than the 1880-2007 average. That's down from .5250 last year and .5597 roughly a decade ago.
There have been drops of roughly a couple tenths of a degree previously, in spite of the general warming trend. But such drops, blamed on "La Ninas," have occured immediately following temperature spikes. What makes this current La Nina unusual is that the current temperature drop follows an imperceptibly small temperature spike.
As a result, the cold snap is pulling down even the six-year running average of temperatures.
This does not mean that the warming trend has necessarily reversed itself; there have, indeed been declines in running averages even longer than that during this decline. In fact, a cooling trend lasted from the 1940s through the 1970s.
However, unable to justify drastic temperatures with fears of the temperature rising a single degree or less next century, the global-warming doomsday-preachers have been asserting that the surge in global warming in the late 1990s indicated an acceleration of global warming.
The notion of such an acceleration seems difficult to reconcile with the new data: The world's oceans were warmer during warm spells of the 1940s.
Actually, the arctic ice cap is freezing again, it’s already reached the amount of ice it should have in February.
Rush mentioned this today on his show and the article is around here somewhere???
I call BS on Glowbull Climate Warming Change.
That huge thermonukular hydrogen bomb thingy in the sky is all I need to know about warming and cooling.
It’s not as easy as you might think. You need to make your measurements relative to a specific measure... How do you keep your measuring stick still? The truth is there is only one measurer of global temperature... and there is an 800-year lag. The oceans expanding today have as much to do with the little ice age as they do with current temperatures.
If we are going to have global cooling won’t we all have ice cubes?
(It is so confusing, Ditter is all in a dither)
OK. So why should we care? And what does this have to do with the so-called "global warming" story? I am surmising that seas and oceans rise and fall over the eons just as temps rise and fall. So?
I recently read that 97% of all greenhouse gasses is simply water vapor. The other 3% is composed mainly of naturally occurring gasses, and man made CO2 comprises only a tiny fraction of one percent of that 3 percent. It seems highly unlikely to me that such a relatively minuscule percentage of all greenhouse gas could be responsible for significantly altering the temperature of the entire planet.
But if it does alter it so be it, I don't see how we can afford to go back to living at a stone age existence level just because we are losing a few hundred square miles of beach frontage to a 7 inch rise in the global sea level every century or two.
BTW, how can you be excited about the new data if you think that the only measure lags by 800 years? There have ways of averaging out those variations. work from the national snow and ice data center suggests about half of the global sea level rise is from net ice melt.
The land is rising in some places and sinking in others. If you measure with tide gages where it is sinking, then the sea level appears to be rising.
Nor do I. I am concerned that too many people in positions of influence and power are taking it WAY to seriously. It may be something to keep an eye on but to get into a state of apoplexy as Algore has become is insane. But I repeat myself. :-))
That’s right. We humans, like the other living creatures and plants on the planet have to adapt to the various changes that Mother Nature provides. Those who think that polar bears can’t move a few miles further north each year if the temperatures slowly rises are either very stupid or deceitful.
It’s a moneymaking scam!
I WANT A TRIP TO BALI RIGHT NOW!!!
It’s possible that the seas were higher due to the warmer temps which prevailed prior to the Roman-era cooling, but there’s also plenty of quakes which have caused subsidence and sudden rises. The connection between quakes and tsunamis was understood by the time of Thucydides at the latest, and of course, Poseidon’s nickname was “Earthshaker”. :’)
Sea levels are governed by the temperature of the entire ocean. I was referring to Sea Surface Temperatures.
Bump
OK everyone... on 3... stop breathing that deadly CO2.
I farted
They use quartz crystal thermometers . The frequency of oscillation is extremely temperature sensitive.
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