Posted on 12/08/2009 8:18:08 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Global Warming Is Not Slowing, Says Weather Agency By ANDREW C. REVKIN and JAMES KANTER
COPENHAGEN Despite recent fluctuations in global temperature year to year, which fueled claims of global cooling, a sustained global warming trend shows no signs of ending, according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public on Tuesday.
The decade of the 2000s is very likely the warmest decade in the modern record, dating back 150 years, according to a provisional summary of climate conditions near the end of 2009, the organization said.
The period from 2000 through 2009 has been warmer than the 1990s, which were warmer than the 1980s and so on, said Michel Jarraud, the secretary general of the international weather agency, speaking at a news conference at the climate talks in Copenhagen.
The international assessment largely meshes with an interim analysis by the National Climatic Data Center and NASA in the United States, both of which independently estimate global and regional temperature and other weather trends.
Mr. Jarraud also said that 2009, with some uncertainty because several weeks remain, appears to be the fifth warmest year on record.
Addressing questions raised about the reliability of climate data after the unauthorized release of e-mail messages and files from a British climate research unit that provides data to the global weather group, he said there was no evidence that the various independent estimates showing a warming world were in doubt.
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I've NEVER heard of a Black ice warning in this area ever.
Ten miles east if Helena, Mt., at 0700 today it was minus 30 degrees, at 1000 we have warmed up to minus 22 degrees. (Not wind chill)
This might answer why.
“Anthony Watts is a meteorologist who was surprised by how local conditions affect the reliability of the 1,200 U.S. weather stations. Along with more than 600 volunteers, he found that almost all the stations violate the governments standards by being too close to heating vents or surrounded by asphalt.”
ENRON on nuculer power. Spelling on porpoise.
They can’t (records dating back 150 years)wow what ended the ice age? when man was still in the cave yep must have been burning all the wood that did it.
Today, for the 234th consecutive day there were more lighning strikes than ever before in Texas. The world will be destroyed by lightning unless you rollerskate to work for the rest of your life.
Guys I work with all agree.
That's because it doesn't really exist, you tit-mouse!!!!
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