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Global ocean temperatures "plunge"
from data gathered by the National Climatic Data Center ^ | 12/17/07 | Dangus

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalcooling; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; globalwarmingisbs
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To: Jemian
I'm not sure I agree with the adjectives and nouns in the sentence, but the idea is correct.

I recall alarmist "population explosion" extrapolations made during the 60's. We can find other examples of people being alarmist over extrapolated trends

41 posted on 12/17/2007 12:26:30 PM PST by PapaBear3625
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To: meowmeow

s.m.i.l.e.


42 posted on 12/17/2007 12:27:34 PM PST by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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To: Constitution Day

Oh noes indeed.


43 posted on 12/17/2007 12:30:36 PM PST by NeoCaveman ("The most expensive thing we pay for is ignorance" - El Rushbo)
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To: dangus

So THIS is why the Arctic is refreezing!


44 posted on 12/17/2007 12:30:41 PM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: PapaBear3625
Notice how they’ve stopped using the phrase “global warming”, and the new phrase is “climate change”? They’re now covered whichever way the data goes

Maybe they should just start calling it "manbearpig" instead.

45 posted on 12/17/2007 12:31:33 PM PST by NeoCaveman ("The most expensive thing we pay for is ignorance" - El Rushbo)
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To: PapaBear3625
Notice how they’ve stopped using the phrase “global warming”, and the new phrase is “climate change”? They’re now covered whichever way the data goes

Hang on my ursine cousin. What if the temp stops changing?

Its a given that they will claim its all our fault, but what will they call it?

I'm guessing "global climate stagnation". You heard it here first.

46 posted on 12/17/2007 12:31:53 PM PST by AndyTheBear (Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
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To: edcoil
In 1996 Nature Magazine showed how a new ice age was forming and that it would be far more destructive then warming. If you get carbon credits for heating, what will Al Gore sell for cooling? Ice cubes?

LOL! Iced tea. It worked for him at the Hacienda Heights fundraiser in California. He'll claim to be a patriot, by having you throw your teabags into the chilly water.

47 posted on 12/17/2007 12:32:17 PM PST by PGalt
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To: JamesP81
Algore will be deeply saddened, of course.

He and his global warming followers will just make up some new satistics to dupe the suckers for this stuff. ;-)

48 posted on 12/17/2007 12:33:31 PM PST by Allegra (Greetings from a kinder, gentler Iraq. God bless US and Coalition Forces.)
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To: dangus

Yeah . . . well, it’s an indication of SOMETHING happening!


49 posted on 12/17/2007 12:35:46 PM PST by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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To: Eternal_Bear

Good point IF all they were measuring were Atlantic temps. However these are global ocean temps, so your comments have no merit whatsoever.


50 posted on 12/17/2007 12:36:47 PM PST by milwguy (........)
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To: dangus

every time there is a winter, it is all GWBush’s fault.

If Santa Claus slips and falls on a snowy roof, its because Daddy bought an evil SUV.


51 posted on 12/17/2007 12:39:17 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: dangus
Stop global warming...cooling... change!
52 posted on 12/17/2007 12:39:24 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Eternal_Bear

If the oceans get hot, its due to global warming! If the oceans get cool, it’s due to global warming! You AGW acolytes are ridiculous.


53 posted on 12/17/2007 12:39:29 PM PST by expatpat
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To: pabianice

Any good leftist would tell you that not calling Gore on his carbon footprint is a “good investment” in the future of the earth, because he’s doing so much to “raise awareness”.


54 posted on 12/17/2007 12:41:17 PM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: KarlInOhio

Good point, but I make it 4400 lbs, more than 2 tons.


55 posted on 12/17/2007 12:42:10 PM PST by expatpat
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To: dangus; NormsRevenge; SunkenCiv; xcamel; blam

This is serious....


56 posted on 12/17/2007 12:45:39 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: dangus

So in other words, temperatures can move up and down in normal cycles?

What would really scare me would be global cooling. That would be a very bad thing for most of Europe.
I think I saw a study that linked the worst periods in European history with long periods of cooling.

When you look at the latitudes of Europe, much of it is comparable to Canada.


57 posted on 12/17/2007 12:46:15 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland ("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
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To: MrB

Yeah, a lib friend of mine (who has the biggest SUV around short of a Hummmer) told me it was not what we do individually, it’s what we do politically.


58 posted on 12/17/2007 12:47:00 PM PST by expatpat
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To: Eternal_Bear; expatpat
"This is actually proof that the ice caps are melting. Lot of very cold water off Greenland now which is affecting the Gulf stream. If the Gulf Stream is slowed or stopped all together, expect a mini Ice Age in Europe."

Hate to break it to you but the entire Arctic Ocean is frozen solid right now. And the low ocean temps are due to La Nina.

Daily Sea Ice

59 posted on 12/17/2007 12:47:26 PM PST by avacado
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To: pabianice

Explain how 1,200 lbs of Jet A gets converted to 40 tons (80,000 lbs) of carbon dioxide in a hour? I think you need to correct your graphic. My estimate is that 1,200 lbs of Jet A would produce to about 470 lbs of carbon dioxide (at standard altitude & temperature).


60 posted on 12/17/2007 12:47:37 PM PST by RC51
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