Last year wipes out ALL global warming!

[AlpineJunkie]

This just came out that the last 12 months of huge global temperature drops completely erases the last 100 years of global warming.

http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature...ticle10866.htm

World Temperatures according to the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction. Note the steep drop over the last year.Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.

No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out nearly all the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn't itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.

Let's hope those factors stop fast. Cold is more damaging than heat. The mean temperature of the planet is about 54 degrees. Humans -- and most of the crops and animals we depend on -- prefer a temperature closer to 70.

Historically, the warm periods such as the Medieval Climate Optimum were beneficial for civilization. Corresponding cooling events such as the Little Ice Age, though, were uniformly bad news.

[Albert Gore]

UN-FUCKING-POSSIBLE.

just ask my butthurt buddy Witherspoon, it's anthropogenically impossible.

Why wasn't I consulted on this article? Hmmm?

[iceman]

You win, I'm gonna go buy an Escalade tonight.

[Jer]

What are we gunna do to combat the GLOBAL COOLINGS!!!?

Will there be a movie?

Will there be a concert?

Where can I buy some carbon debits?

I'm completely serial here, you guys. The climate is changing and we humans need to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!

[AlpineJunkie]

I'm completely serial here, you guys. The climate is changing and we humans need to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!

I also heard that the super massive blackhole in the center of the Milkay Way galaxy will one day gobble us up so while we are controlling/combating nature we should also take care of that too.

[Albert Gore]

Fuckn'A right it's changing. You can bet your sweet ass that if this cooling nonsense takes hold I'll be leading the charge there too.

Me and my homosexual ex-lifepartner Witherspoon, that asshurt excuse for a climatologist.

You know why the earth might cool? Huh? You know why? Global fucking warmings that's why. If you wouldn't let your SUV run in the driveway for days on end the earth wouldn't get so fucking hot which would cause stronger hurricanes, which would cause katrina, which would cause a new ice age which would cause more tornadoes which would cause John fucking Kerry to blame said tornadoes on global warmings which would cause blizzards which would cause endless winter. You want that?!?! huh? You want that?

Fuck, pay attention kids.

[Jer]

I saw a show last night about swarming locusts. Jesus Christ! Is there any end to the disasters which are lining up to kick our asses in the next decade??

WE'RE FUCT!!! GAME OVER, DUDE - GAME OVER!!!!

[AlpineJunkie]

I also read recently in another article (might have been here for all I know) that they have been miscalculating why the ice caps have been melting all this time. Apparently it had nothing to do with global warming but with underestimating the affect wind has in moving the warmer ocean currents into the ice caps which is what has been happening.

[Jer]

Apparently it had nothing to do with global warming but with underestimating the affect wind has in moving the warmer ocean currents into the ice caps which is what has been happening.

Oh - that's just great! Now the giant penguins with tentacles instead of wings will get thawed out and kill us all!!

[Mach Looney]

The Daily Tech article is mistaken. From the GISS website:

"Climatologists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City have found that 2007 tied with 1998 for Earth's second warmest year in a century."

"As we predicted last year, 2007 was warmer than 2006, continuing the strong warming trend of the past 30 years that has been confidently attributed to the effect of increasing human-made greenhouse gases," said James Hansen, director of NASA GISS."

[Jer]

Yeahbut - is the JIZZ gunna save us from the giant tentacled penguins??

I THINK NOT!!!!!!!!!!

[Jer]

I can estimate the quality of this thread by the proportion of posts that aren't automatically ignored.

Not counting mine, that's 18%.

Sounds like an overestimate, actually.

[BmillsSkier]

David,

no offense, but isn't it kinda dorky to calculate the percentage of posts in a particular thread that aren't on your ignore list? Just asking. Don't put me on your list now

seriously though, you never responded in the other thread with the same article that this thread posted. how did you get your kid to vote at such a young age?

[Blurred]

David Witherspoon=pedantic super douche dumbfuck who thinks he's smart, and the biggest advocate of GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been telling you you're an idiot for years, now you have proof, and get this..... A LINK!!!!!!!!!

[Jer]

I can estimate the quality of this thread by the proportion of posts that aren't automatically ignored.

Not counting mine, that's 18%.

Sounds like an overestimate, actually.

If you simply ignore the giant tentacled penguins, the giant tentacled penguins win.

[Tipper]

David Witherspoon=pedantic super douche dumbfuck who thinks he's smart, and the biggest advocate of GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been telling you you're an idiot for years, now you have proof, and get this..... A LINK!!!!!!!!!

Oh my, I'm blushing. Albert is not going to like this at all! He likes to think he holds that title!

[summit]

I *heart* scientific debate (tear)

[axebiker]

Ignore that article. It's propaganda from that GODDAM George W. Bush and his total control over the liberal media!!

I'm freezing... I gotta go turn the heat up a bit.

[Blurred]

Ignore that article. It's propaganda from that GODDAM George W. Bush and his total control over the liberal media!!

I'm freezing... I gotta go turn the heat up a bit.

Just buy an SUV and leave it running...errrr, wait, apparently that doesn't work. Nevermind.

[mr_gyptian]

You win, I'm gonna go buy an Escalade tonight.

There you go half-assing it again. Nothing for the wife?

[Blurred]

Nothing for the wife?

That's where you cum in.

[Jer]

David,

no offense, but isn't it kinda dorky to calculate the percentage of posts in a particular thread that aren't on your ignore list? Just asking. Don't put me on your list now

It's no use ignoring someone if they don't know they're being ignored.

Don't put me on your list now

No worries. It's reserved for tendentiously tedious idiots, weak trolls, and unimaginative attempts at klever aliasing. Like Tipper.

seriously though, you never responded in the other thread with the same article that this thread posted. how did you get your kid to vote at such a young age?

All ya gotta do is poke the screen a few times. I just took his binky away until he'd flailed at it enough.

I *heart* scientific debate (tear)

I find it nearly impossible to take the 'tards seriously anymore, but even the old battle-scarred bottom-feeders at TTips are rising to this one.
Any serious takers here??

[DisArray]

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HEY MENTAL RETARD

Fuck you!!!

[Jer]

This message is hidden because DisArray is on your ignore list.

TGR does have its advantages.
The juvenile ranters can make fools of themselves without restraint, and the rest of us can ignore them without effort.

[grrrr]

It is amusing to see all of the "I just became an expert because I read an article" posters busy in one place. Keeps them out of trouble.

Right now I'm watching the summer forecasts - if it holds up, it could be a good fire season.