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World warming unhindered by cold spells: scientists
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Posted on 02/25/2010 4:15:23 AM PST by Sub-Driver
World warming unhindered by cold spells: scientists By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia Thu Feb 25, 1:26 am ET
SINGAPORE (Reuters) The pace of global warming continues unabated, scientists said on Thursday, despite images of Europe crippled by a deep freeze and parts of the United States blasted by blizzards.
The bitter cold, with more intense winter weather forecast for March in parts of the United States, have led some to question if global warming has stalled.
Understanding the overall trend is crucial for estimating consumption of energy supplies, such as demand for winter heating oil in the U.S. northeast, and impacts on agricultural production.
"It's not warming the same everywhere but it is really quite challenging to find places that haven't warmed in the past 50 years," veteran Australian climate scientist Neville Nicholls told an online climate science media briefing.
"January, according to satellite (data), was the hottest January we've ever seen," said Nicholls of Monash University's School of Geography and Environmental Science in Melbourne.
"Last November was the hottest November we've ever seen, November-January as a whole is the hottest November-January the world has seen," he said of the satellite data record since 1979.
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Really now?
To: Sub-Driver
These guys don’t know when to shut up. Total destruction of their careers and reputations must now be done.
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posted on
02/25/2010 4:17:41 AM PST
by
DarthVader
(Liberalism is the politics of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
To: Sub-Driver
Global warming unhindered by ice age.
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posted on
02/25/2010 4:19:56 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin!)
To: DarthVader
gather their “research” papers and “data” and beat them with it until they cry “uncle”. that’s what to do with them. what a bunch of anti-science, unethical losers they are.
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posted on
02/25/2010 4:20:31 AM PST
by
hal ogen
To: Sub-Driver; Genesis defender; markomalley; Carlucci; grey_whiskers; meyer; WL-law; Para-Ord.45; ...
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posted on
02/25/2010 4:22:57 AM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(Warmists as "traffic light" apocalyptics: "Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds."-Monckton)
To: DarthVader
These guys dont know when to shut up. Total destruction of their careers and reputations must now be done.
Indictment, and prosecution for FRAUD, followed by very long prison sentences, on conviction, could help.
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posted on
02/25/2010 4:23:52 AM PST
by
wita
To: Sub-Driver
New Reports Show Global Cooling Trend
Originally printed at http://www.nbcaugusta.com/weather/news/16011587.html
New scientific studies suggest a trend that may have started in the late 1990s. The earth may be cooling.
The Hadley Centre for Climate Change, part of the UK Met Office, tracks global temperature and shows a big drop in global temperature anomalies since January 2007. Based on the HadCRUT3 system of observed temperatures, global surface temperature anomalies have been trending down since 2001. January 2008 had the coldest anomaly since 1995.
Temperature anomaly is the difference between observed temperature and the average temperature for the same time over a period of years.
Meteorologist Anthony Watts compiled the HadCRUT3 temperature grids to make this intriguing plot of trends since 1988. Note the large drop in global temperature anomaly over the past year

Closer to home, Dr John Christy of the University of Alabama, Huntsville, uses NASA data to track global temperatures. His latest report suggests that compared to seasonal norms, January 2008 was the coldest month since July 2006 and the coldest January since 2000.

Anecdotal evidence of the cooling trend is noted by record season snowfall totals and low temperatures over large portions of the northern Hemisphere. Please visit the NOAA Climate website for more information.
http://www.nbcaugusta.com/internal?st=print&id=16011587&path=/weather/news
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posted on
02/25/2010 4:25:46 AM PST
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: Sub-Driver
Understanding the overall trend is crucial for estimating consumption of energy supplies, such as demand for winter heating oil Hello?
If more "winter heating" is needed, then it's not getting warmer, is it?
And if less is needed, why is it so important to estimate it?
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posted on
02/25/2010 4:26:55 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Sub-Driver
Take the names of the scientists down... they will be rounded up and prosecuted in the coming years... stand with gore... go to jail.
LLS
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posted on
02/25/2010 4:27:12 AM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
To: steelyourfaith
Sheesh!
I read ONE of the links ('Acne") and found this little gem in the first paragraph:
Climate change [..] is defined as increase in average temperature of the air and ocean nearest to the earth. Climate change not only increase the temperature,
"Change" = automatically "increase".
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posted on
02/25/2010 4:30:15 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
THE ACQUITTAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE by Jeffrey A. Glassman, PhD
ABSTRACT:
"Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere [historically] is the product of oceanic respiration due to the well-known but under-appreciated solubility pump. Carbon dioxide rises out of warm ocean waters where it is added to the atmosphere. There it is mixed with residual and accidental CO2, and circulated, to be absorbed into the sink of the cold ocean waters. Next the thermohaline circulation carries the CO2-rich sea water deep into the ocean. A millennium later it appears at the surface in warm waters, saturated by lower pressure and higher temperature, to be exhausted back into the atmosphere. Throughout the past 420 millennia, comprising four interglacial periods, the Vostok record of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is imprinted with, and fully characterized by, the physics of the solubility of CO2 in water, along with the lag in the deep ocean circulation.
Notwithstanding that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, atmospheric carbon dioxide has neither caused nor amplified global temperature increases. Increased carbon dioxide has been an effect of global warming, not a cause. Technically, carbon dioxide is a lagging proxy for ocean temperatures. When global temperature, and along with it, ocean temperature rises, the physics of solubility causes atmospheric CO2 to increase.
If increases in carbon dioxide, or any other greenhouse gas, could have in turn raised global temperatures, the positive feedback would have been catastrophic. While the conditions for such a catastrophe were present in the Vostok record from natural causes, the runaway event did not occur. Carbon dioxide does not accumulate in the atmosphere."
http://www.rocketscientistsjournal.com/2006/10/co2_acquittal.html
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The graph above represents temperature and CO2 levels over the past 400,000 years. It is the same exact data Al Gore and the rest of the man-made global warmers refer to. The blue line is temps, the red, CO2 levels. The deep valleys represent 4 separate glaciation/ice-age periods, approximately 100,000 years apart. Look carefully at the historical relationship between temps and CO2 levels (the present is on the right hand side of the graph) and keep in mind that Gore claims this data is the 'proof' that CO2 has warmed the earth in the past. But does this data indeed show this? Nope. In fact, rising CO2 levels all throughout this 400,000-year period actually *followed* temperature increases, lagging behind by an average of 800 years! So it couldn't have been CO2 that got Earth out of these past glaciations. Yet Gore continually and dishonestly uses this same data as "evidence" of a *positive* historical correlation between CO2 and temps. Furthermore, and importantly, the subsequent CO2 level increases (due to dissolved CO2 being released from warming oceans) never did lead to additional warming, the so-called "run-away greenhouse effect" that Al Gore and company continue warning us about. In short, there is little if any evidence that CO2 had ever led to any significant global warming when the levels were within 10-15 times of what they are today. -etl
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"The above chart shows the range of global temperature through the last 500 million years. There is no statistical correlation between the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through the last 500 million years and the temperature record in this interval. In fact, one of the highest levels of carbon dioxide concentration occurred during a major ice age that occurred about 450 million years ago [Myr]. Carbon dioxide concentrations at that time were about 15 times higher than at present." [also see 180 million years ago, same thing happened]:
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=010405M
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So, greenhouse [effect] is all about carbon dioxide, right?
Wrong. The most important players on the greenhouse stage are water vapor and clouds [clouds of course aren't gas, but high level ones do act to trap heat from escaping, while low-lying cumulus clouds tend to reflect sunlight and thereby help cool the planet -etl]. Carbon dioxide has been increased to about 0.038% of the atmosphere (possibly from about 0.028% pre-Industrial Revolution) while water in its various forms ranges from 0% to 4% of the atmosphere and its properties vary by what form it is in and even at what altitude it is found in the atmosphere.
In simple terms the bulk of Earth's greenhouse effect is due to water vapor by virtue of its abundance. Water accounts for about 90% of the Earth's greenhouse effect -- perhaps 70% is due to water vapor and about 20% due to clouds (mostly water droplets), some estimates put water as high as 95% of Earth's total tropospheric greenhouse effect (e.g., Freidenreich and Ramaswamy, 'Solar Radiation Absorption by Carbon Dioxide, Overlap with Water, and a Parameterization for General Circulation Models,' Journal of Geophysical Research 98 (1993):7255-7264).
The remaining portion comes from carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, ozone and miscellaneous other 'minor greenhouse gases.' As an example of the relative importance of water it should be noted that changes in the relative humidity on the order of 1.3-4% are equivalent to the effect of doubling CO2.
http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/
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Water Vapor Rules the Greenhouse System
Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse effect (4). Interestingly, many 'facts and figures' regarding global warming completely ignore the powerful effects of water vapor in the greenhouse system, carelessly (perhaps, deliberately) overstating human impacts as much as 20-fold.
Water vapor is 99.999% of natural origin. Other atmospheric greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and miscellaneous other gases (CFC's, etc.), are also mostly of natural origin (except for the latter, which is mostly anthropogenic).
Human activities contribute slightly to greenhouse gas concentrations through farming, manufacturing, power generation, and transportation. However, these emissions are so dwarfed in comparison to emissions from natural sources we can do nothing about, that even the most costly efforts to limit human emissions would have a very small-- perhaps undetectable-- effect on global climate.
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html
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Water Vapor Confirmed As Major Player In Climate Change
ScienceDaily (Nov. 18, 2008) Water vapor is known to be Earth's most abundant greenhouse gas, but the extent of its contribution to global warming has been debated. Using recent NASA satellite data, researchers have estimated more precisely than ever the heat-trapping effect of water in the air, validating the role of the gas as a critical component of climate change.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081117193013.htm
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posted on
02/25/2010 4:44:24 AM PST
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: steelyourfaith
Please add me to your ping list. thx
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posted on
02/25/2010 4:51:47 AM PST
by
marvlus
To: Sub-Driver
but it is really quite challenging to find places that haven't warmed in the past 50 yearsTry the last 15 years. They always pick a timeframe that supports warming when many others do not.
To: Sub-Driver
What a bunch of liars! Are people really dumb enough to buy this? Seriously, and the solution is higher taxes and crippling the US economy. People would have to be REALLY dumb to buy this BS. It is completely Orwellian.
To: HospiceNurse
but it is really quite challenging to find places that haven't warmed in the past 50 yearsIt's called summertime you bozos.
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posted on
02/25/2010 5:08:02 AM PST
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(Most university "science" amounts to squandering tax dollars in unoriginal ways.)
To: marvlus
Most stars are VARIABLE stars,to some degree. It appears that the sun has variability with an extrememly long period, in addition to the obvious 11 year cycle. It is the nature of variable stars for the frequency of variability to gradually increase over time. The final "pulse" is often going nova, or red gigantism. The only problem is that humans are obviously responsible for stellar variability, so we must get a "sun tax" to control it. Where IS ALGORE ?
Suppose the star is in the swelling phase. Its outer layers expand, causing them to cool. Because of the decreasing temperature the degree of ionization also decreases. This makes the gas more transparent, and thus makes it easier for the star to radiate its energy. This in turn will make the star start to contract. As the gas is thereby compressed, it is heated and the degree of ionization again increases. This makes the gas more opaque, and radiation temporarily becomes captured in the gas. This heats the gas further, leading it to expand once again. Thus a cycle of expansion and compression (swelling and shrinking) is maintained.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_star
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posted on
02/25/2010 5:10:11 AM PST
by
Huebolt
(Democrat = (national socialist) = NAZI)
To: NaughtiusMaximus
It would be nice if a “journalist” would respond: can you name a place that hasn’t cooled in the last 50 years?
To: marvlus
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posted on
02/25/2010 5:33:32 AM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(Warmists as "traffic light" apocalyptics: "Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds."-Monckton)
To: KansasGirl
Look who’s in the WH and I think you’ve answered your own post.
It took many people with the same “attributes” you describe to put him there. Those are the type of people who “buy this”.
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posted on
02/25/2010 5:42:44 AM PST
by
SZonian
(There are times when we have to tell loved ones truths that hurt. We do so because we care for them.)
To: Sub-Driver
World warming Scientists' need for more funding unhindered by cold spells: scientists There ... fixed!
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posted on
02/25/2010 5:47:24 AM PST
by
The Duke
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