Move over Cash Cow Global Warming, Daddy’s home!
Posted by: Neocon in Academia, Super Scary Global Warming
Findings that lend credence to the solar variation alternative explanation of Global Warming came out over the last few days. This is a fairly big one, as the temperature confirmation comes from the big boys who have been more or less shouting from the rooftops that if you don’t give Al Gore all your money in exchange for Christmas morning wishes we’ll all die.
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.
This, of course, doesn’t spell good news for anthropogenic global warming alarmists. Where are we exactly on the ten years till doomsday watch, anyway?
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.
Wow, it’s almost as if we don’t really fully understand all the forces at work in our environment. Good thing no one jumped to conclusions rashly and tried to destroy the U.S. economy or anything. Oh wait, they did and still are?
Well, at least we can just start driving more in order to save ourselves, right?
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.
But… but… greenhouse gasses? Halliburton? I thought we- what? At the very least we’ve dodged a bullet by stopping that global warming that was going to kill us all! Thank Gaia!
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.
… are “progressive” environmental-friendly college students jumping out of their windows yet?
Right Truth wonders where’s the Warming, Al?
Gateway Pundit is chilly.
Right Wing News wants that Nobel Prize back.
More Right Truth wondering why Al is still raking in the dough.
Hot Air picks it up.
