Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/23/2008 11:26:35 AM PDT by Froufrou
Sunspot activity has not resumed up after hitting an 11-year low in March last year, raising fears that — far from warming — the globe is about to return to an Ice Age, says an Australian-American scientist.
Physicist Phil Chapman, the first native-born Australian to become an astronaut with NASA [he became an American citizen to join up, though he never went into space], said pictures from the U.S. Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) showed no spots on the sun.
He said the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7 degrees Centigrade.
"This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930," Chapman wrote in The Australian Wednesday. "If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over."
Critics quickly pointed out that Chapman may have been "cherry-picking" the data. A strong La Nina formation in the Pacific pushed down January temperatures over much of the Northern Hemisphere from where they had been a year earlier, but average global temperatures are still much higher than the 20th-century average, and the NOAA said last week that last month was the warmest March on record.]
The Bureau of Meteorology says temperatures in Australia have been warmer than the 1960-90 average since the late 1970s, barring a couple of cooler years, and are now 0.3 degrees Centigrade higher than the long-term average.
A sunspot is a region on the sun that is cooler than the rest and appears dark.
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Headline: Bush Solves Global Warming!!!!
AR, you KNOW it will have to be a DEM to solve what a DEM invented!
“If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over.”
Like when you give a party and nobody comes.
How convenient and brave of them. They measure against a known cool period.
Just pump out more CO2 and we’ll be fine...
Oh! What? All of a sudden CO2 DOESN’T raise temperatures?
Funny that...
what is striking is how much of history most of Europe & North America have been covered by glaciers versus warm & livable for just a small amount of history.
You get to bar a couple cooler years when figuring the average ? I thought the average, by definition, includes everything. Who's cheery-picking the data ?
Does this mean that we can expect Gore to alert us of the impending Global Cooling, and the Nobel Committee to award him another Peace Prize?
Projecting their biasis.
I wonder if we can trade our warming “credits” in on cooling “credits”.
Or when you have an election and nobody votes!
Ping to realityville!
I liked it a lot better before there was incessant worrying about things that we can’t do a damn thing about.
Cherry picking shouldn’t be a problem; they do well in the Washington snow, anyway...
If we dissect whatever that theory is about parallel universes, then it makes sense we’d go back through another ice age before going way, way back to the firy swamp inferno we were before the [if you believe it] the nonGore theory of big bang...
I’ve been telling you guys the earth is going to freeze. The warmers want to pull off their scam before nature shows them up for the lying kooks they are.
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