Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/05/2008 5:15:23 PM PST by Lorianne
This year is set to be the coolest since 2000, according to a preliminary estimate of global average temperature that is due to be released next week by the Met Office. The global average for 2008 should come in close to 14.3C, which is 0.14C below the average temperature for 2001-07.
The relatively chilly temperatures compared with recent years are not evidence that global warming is slowing however, say climate scientists at the Met Office. "Absolutely not," said Dr Peter Stott, the manager of understanding and attributing climate change at the Met Office's Hadley Centre. "If we are going to understand climate change we need to look at long-term trends."
Prof Myles Allen at Oxford University who runs the climateprediction.net website, said he feared climate sceptics would overinterpret the figure. "You can bet your life there will be a lot of fuss about what a cold year it is. Actually no, its not been that cold a year, but the human memory is not very long, we are used to warm years," he said, "Even in the 80s [this year] would have felt like a warm year."
And 2008 would have been a scorcher in Charles Dickens's time - without human-induced warming there would have been a one in a hundred chance of getting a year this hot. "For Dickens this would have been an extremely warm year," he said. On the flip side, in the current climate there is a roughly one in 10chance of having a year this cool.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
It was quite warm during the Roman occupation of Britain. Those chariots sure kicked up a lot of CO2.
. “If we are going to understand climate change we need to look at long-term trends.”
Translation: “There’s still tons of money to be made off of this!”
"You see" he went on to explain, "billions of years ago the earth was dust in empty space that gravity later formed into the solar system. Empty space is very cold, so today the earth is much warmer than that empty space. Therefore, global warming. QED".
Science!
Means nothing to Liberal/Eco’s, they will go ahead with there tax on every thing that expels CO2 to live.
Just like Al Gore predicted...best example of Global Cooling yet...
Yes, in Dickens’ the climate was cold. But earlier in history the Romans had vineyards in Britain.
Baby, they have vinyards in Erie, Pennsylvania which is close to a snowbelt capital and more vinyards in Maine.
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Up here in the Great White North, 2008 will be no match for 2009 the way things are going this year, but I should be glad it’s only 11 degrees instead of -5.
In early December.
Hey! Is this for real? Let me know whether I need my kid gloves or my brass knucks, OK?
Mr. Sun is very quiet right now.
Now remember, the Global Warmists covered their a$$es by stating that “global warming” is taking a “five year hiatus.”
Dickens lived during the Little Ice Age, not long after the Maunder Minimum. I would hope we are warmer than that.
There’s really no legitmate explanation for how the warming can take a hiatus. El Nino, el Nina, PDO , whatever only affects the distribution of the heat. If AGW greenhouse gases behave as the warmies claim, the heat has to exist somewhere; in the atmosphere, the ground or the oceans.
The atmosphere has not warmed (radio sondes/microwave sounding units), the oceans have not warmed (measure sea-level-stable/declining), and terrestrial temps have not increased since about 2001.
So where’s the heat? (In the imaginations of the warmies perhaps?)
Its in Mr. Hansen’s charts !!!
I meant to stick a “/sarc” tag on that.
These eco-freaks will still be crying “global warming” when the coming glaciers squash them or turn them into “dumbcicles”.
"The planet has a fever. If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor. If the doctor says you need to intervene here, you don't say, 'Well, I read a science fiction novel that told me it's not a problem.' If the crib's on fire, you don't speculate that the baby is flame retardant. You take action." Al Gore
Wait, does the baby have a fever or is the crib on fire?
from http://www.bigbluecarbon.com/kidz.asp
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