Posted on 04/30/2008 3:23:03 AM PDT by chessplayer
A cool-water anomaly known as La Niña occupied the tropical Pacific Ocean throughout 2007 and early 2008. In April 2008, scientists at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that while the La Niña was weakening, the Pacific Decadal Oscillationa larger-scale, slower-cycling ocean patternhad shifted to its cool phase.
Unlike El Niño and La Niña, which may occur every 3 to 7 years and last from 6 to 18 months, the PDO can remain in the same phase for 20 to 30 years. The shift in the PDO can have significant implications for global climate, affecting Pacific and Atlantic hurricane activity, droughts and flooding around the Pacific basin, the productivity of marine ecosystems, and global land temperature patterns.
According to Josh Willis, JPL oceanographer and climate scientist, These natural climate phenomena can sometimes hide global warming caused by human activities. Or they can have the opposite effect of accentuating it.
(Excerpt) Read more at earthobservatory.nasa.gov ...
I lived North of 60 for decades — I still laugh at Victorians’ reaction to a bit of snow (although they are now “fellow Victorians’). I actually don’t mind seasons.
Thanks! You were right!
I can't understand why Canada wants a new global warming tax. If warming happens Canada stands to benefit immensely. What makes them want to pointlessly cut off their own nose to spite America?
Neither do I — except for political expediency. The first goal of any politician is to get reelected & the MSM has brainwashed a lot of people into fearing AGW.
In the far north, where I used to live; when asked about global warming, most people would respond: “bring it on!”.
Most of the country was buried under an ice sheet over a mile thick, for tens of thousands of years. A little bit of global cooling would be far, far worse for us than even a lot of global warming.
We have a “carbon tax” here in B.C. now — brought in by our right-of-centre coalition provincial government (right of our centre that is). Some members of the government are probably true believers — for the rest, I think that they just wanted to neutralize the issue politically. It's actually proven to be a brilliant move — because the Opposition(socialist) NDP has come out against it, while the Green Party can only sputter that they thought of it first.
Meanwhile, the tax has introduced a little reality into the whole global warming debate. Most people used to think that a combination of good intentions and low-wattage light bulbs would solve the “problem” — or perhaps that, along with more transit buses, and eating less meat. (These are all suggestions from letters to the editor.) Now, people realize that this madness is going to cost actual money & they are becoming more skeptical. I call the tax the “least-bad” solution — because at least a tax leaves us with more choices than the alternative bans and mandates; plus it is transparent.
“Global warming” hoax BUMP!
Truly a man confident of his science and its predictive ability.
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