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2010 To Be Hottest Year On Record

While every snow flurry or cool snap is often cited as evidence of the folly of “global warming” by critics, scientists at the NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies have released data showing that 2010 now ranks as the hottest climate year on record.

The combined land-ocean temperature readings from NASA’s Goddard Institute indicate that 2010 has surpassed what it identified as the previous warmest climate year, 2005.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data shows that 1998 was the warmest year on record with 2005 close behind. The findings have been released after another failure to reach a significant reductions in emissions in the Cancun summit.

Nations again refused to make the cuts necessary to prevent global temperatures from rising 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit above pre-industrial levels by 2100.

This report comes with the disclosure that a top FOX executive ordered correspondents not to cite global warming statistics and to question the basis for climate change claims.

Source: Washington Post

470 thoughts on “2010 To Be Hottest Year On Record”

  1. Slartibartfast,

    “If your foundation needed repair and the cost to get it fixed was that your salary would be 5% less in 10 years than it would have been otherwise and without the repair you risked a range of catastrophes that included your entire house collapsing would you do it?”

    That would be dependent on your accepting the notice of risk to be reliable and that the steps taken to eleviate that risk would be relatively certain to have an effect. You have accepted the reliability of the notice and have determined that the money spend to remedy the problem will have a significant effect.

    I would like to see a televised debate on climate change in which both sides are premitted to submit their findings. We did it for the OJ trial, but for some reason, something as important as this is not worthy of air time.

  2. Bdaman,

    Hmmm… No response to the link I posted – I guess you’re afraid to actually engage in debate rather than just trolling the thread… Here’s a question: If your foundation needed repair and the cost to get it fixed was that your salary would be 5% less in 10 years than it would have been otherwise and without the repair you risked a range of catastrophes that included your entire house collapsing would you do it? Why would we not want to accept a 5% decrease in GWP (Gross World Production) from what it would have been a century from now as a price to pay to control pollution? Especially if there was every chance that the technology developed in the process would more than offset that cost… The only ones that lose are the polluters. Why are you acting as their apologist?

    By the way, I rarely do more than read the title of the links you post and I hope that everyone else does likewise. Since the possibility exists that you are being paid to waste our time (and stifle debate), I’m not willing to take the risk that merely spending the time to review your links accomplishes your goal. If you truly believe what you say, then your methods have made it nearly impossible for you to convince anyone that you are correct (read ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ if you don’t understand why). Exactly what are you hoping to accomplish here?

  3. Speculation Alert: “New Little Ice Age Cannot Be Ruled Out”
    Wednesday, 15 December 2010 09:16 Rickmer Flor, wetter.info

    Everybody is talking about global warming – but in Germany and also in many other countries around the world people are currently fighting with the adversities of extreme cold. And indeed: “The year 2010 will be the coldest for ten years in Germany,” said Thomas Globig from the weather service Meteo Media talking to wetter.info . And it might even get worse: “It is quite possible that we are at the beginning of a Little Ice Age,” the meteorologist said. Even the Arctic ice could spread further to the south.

    It is already clear: the average temperatures in Germany this year (8.1 degrees Celsius) were 0.2 degrees below the long term measured average of 8.3 degrees. “I fear we will end up still significantly lower by the end of the year”, said Globig. The long-term average is actually the average of all German stations from 1961 to 1990.

    Coldest December in 100 years

    In Berlin, there was an absolute cold record in early December, “For 100 years it had not been as cold as in the first decade of December,” said Globig. This also applied to other regions. But why is it so cold just now? Might it have anything to do with climate change? “I’m very sceptical”, replied Globig. A few years ago when we had a period of mild winters many climate scientists warned that winter sport in Germany’s low mountain ranges would soon no longer be possible anymore because of global warming. “Now they are saying: the cold winters are a consequence of global warming – a questionable implication,” according to Globig.

    “Unbelievable amounts of snow” in Berlin

    Globig appeals to our long-term memory – and recalls a prolonged period of extremely cold and snowy winter in the 1960s and 1970s. Half a meter of snow fell in Berlin in early March 1970, in Potsdam even 70 centimetres. “From today’s perspective, these amounts were unbelievable.”

    Then followed a period of milder years, and „probably the impression spread that there will be no more real winters in Germany”, said Globig. “That was a misjudgment.” People became careless, and as a result the authorities run out of grit in a very short time last winter and this year the airport operators lacked de-icing fluid for airplanes. In the Berlin the S-Bahn traffic came to a halt because of the cold and the high-speed trains did not run either. “Our modern, high-tech world was completely overwhelmed with the winter situation” said Globig.

    Even the last winter was extremely hard

    http://www.thegwpf.org/science-news/2053-speculation-alert-qnew-little-ice-age-cannot-be-ruled-outq.html

  4. Warm Winters Result From Greenhouse Effect, Columbia Scientists Find, Using NASA Model

    ScienceDaily (June 4, 1999) — Northern Climes, Buffeted By Stronger Winds, 7 To 10°F Hotter

    A team of scientists from Columbia University has shown that warm winters in the northern hemisphere likely can be explained by the action of upper-atmosphere winds that are closely linked to global warming.

    Global mean surface temperatures have increased in the range of 0.6 to 1.2°F since the late 19th century. But far more severe warming has taken place over wide regions of northern Eurasia, Canada and Alaska, with temperatures averaging 7 to 10°F warmer in the last 35 years, according to data previously compiled by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City.

    The research, which appears in the June 3 issue of the British journal Nature, offers no predictions on what temperatures future winters will bring, but suggests a continuation of the current trend for three to four more decades.

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990604081638.htm

  5. Skiing is ‘doomed’ … so enjoy it while it lasts
    Alex Hill, the chief government adviser with the Met Office, told The Scotsman there was no future for skiing in Scotland because climate change would see winters become too warm for regular snowfall.
    Mr Hill said: “Put it this way: I won’t be investing in the skiing industry.
    “The amount of snow has been decreasing for the last 40 years, and there’s no reason why it’s going to stop now.”

    http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Skiing—is-.4962678.jp

    Tomorrow’s Premier League match between Chelsea and Manchester United has become the highest-profile casualty from the heavy snow across Britain that wiped out the majority of the weekend’s fixtures.

    Blackpool’s home game with Tottenham – due to take place tomorrow – has also succumbed to the weather, as has West Brom v Wolves.

    Today’s games at Arsenal, Liverpool, Wigan and Birmingham have also been called off.

    Arsenal said in a statement: “Further to a huge deluge of snow in north London starting over the Emirates Stadium at 11.38am, the match referee Lee Mason made the decision at 12.07pm to postpone today’s match. Approximately three inches of snow fell over this half-hour period and there continues to be heavy snowfall with no apparent let-up.”

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/dec/18/liverpool-fulham-wigan-villa-postponed

  6. Jay your the fourth person to post that on this thread. Great rebuttal. If you are directing at me, my comments don’t start of with Fox News is reporting.

  7. All because you’re too dense to realize global “warming” in proper scientific context means “instability”, not just “warmer” or “colder”.

    Thats not what they said. What they said was the more CO2 you put in the atmosphere the hotter THE PLANET will get. The hockey stick graph proves it. They said that Snowfall will be a thing of the past.

    What do we have, Major snowfall around the globe with record cold temperatures two years in a row breaking records of 100 plus years.
    Records for cold out number records for heat.

    But of course they tell us that global warming will lead to stronger and more intense hurricanes, NOT,world wide Tropical Cyclone activity is at historical lows FIVE YEARS in a row.

    Leads to more drought, more rain more this and more of the same.

    CO2 does it all. I can’t wait til they bottle it and I can pick it up at the grocery store. I bet it’s great on clothes seeing how it leads to coral bleaching.

  8. Bdaman,

    Golly gee, Mister, now that you point it out, the fact that it’s cold now does disprove global warming. How could it be warmer on average, if it’s cold now? I sure am glad you’re around.

  9. All because you’re too dense to realize global “warming” in proper scientific context means “instability”, not just “warmer” or “colder”.

    There is a critical misunderstanding here and it’s entirely yours.

  11. What Bdaman posts is not taken seriously by the people here because he has a history of posting easily or previously debunked arguments.

    So again as I started in this thread, we see Manatees,Sea Turtles, millions of fish,thousands of people and herded animals dying because it’s too cold, all the while 2010 is the Hottest on record.

    How anybody can believe that is beyond me.

  12. What Bdaman posts is not taken seriously by the people here because he has a history of posting easily or previously debunked arguments.

    Not in Anyone’s Backyard
    Protect the environment or create renewable energy? A new bill shows they’re far from the same thing.

    California Sen. Dianne Feinstein revived the debate last month with a wilderness designation bill intended to rope off more than half a million acres of Southern California land between Joshua Tree National Park and the Mojave National Preserve, restricting the area to both solar developers and off-road vehicles. Such prime desert land shouldn’t be touched, she has argued, and the accentuated effects of global warming will make that territory increasingly valuable to desert wildlife.

    That kind of reasoning, though, has some energy developers accusing Feinstein of pulling the NIMBY card—wanting renewable energy at any cost, but hollering “not in my backyard” when looking at the map. A valid criticism, perhaps, considering all of the protected land would be in California, even though the Mojave’s prized ecosystem extends into parts of Nevada, Arizona, and Utah.

    http://www.newsweek.com/2010/01/12/not-in-anyone-s-backyard.html#

  13. What Bdaman posts is not taken seriously by the people here because he has a history of posting easily or previously debunked arguments.

    FEDERAL JUDGE HALTS FIRST LARGE-SCALE SOLAR PROJECT ON PUBLIC LANDS
    December 16, 2010 (San Diego’s East County) – Local and statewide activists battling massive energy projects on public lands are praising a decision issued by U.S. District Court Judge Larry Burns yesterday, while the CEO of Tessera Solar says he is “deeply disappointed” in the ruling.

    The federal Judge issued a temporary restraining order halting construction on the first massive desert solar project authorized on public lands—a project that if built, would be one of the largest solar power plants in the world.

    The Court ruled that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management failed to adequately consult with the tribe regarding protection of 459 cultural resources identified at 300 locations on the site in Imperial County. Burns noted that the BLM’s draft environmental impact statement found that the project “may wholly or partially destroy all archaeological sites on the surface of the project area.”

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    So you see we need these projects so bad to save the world environmentalist can’t decide who to save, people or animals.

    If we told you that a poorly regulated energy facility killed thousands of birds this year, you could assume we were talking about BP’s Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico. But we also could be talking about the Altamont Pass wind farm east of San Francisco, which has been killing thousands of migratory birds and protected raptors since the 1980s.

    http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-09-03/opinion/23986938_1_bird-deaths-wind-turbines-altamont-pass

    Which do you choose, save the planet or save the birds.

  15. What Bdaman posts is not taken seriously by the people here because he has a history of posting easily or previously debunked arguments.

    BEIJING: More than 4,000 vehicles and 8,000 people remained stranded Friday as ice blocked a section of the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao freeway caused by a severe cold that swept across southern China, a media report said.

    The temperatures dipped to minus three degrees Celsius Wednesday, bringing the traffic to a halt as ice covered the sections of the freeway in Shaoguan county of Guangdong province, China Daily reports.

    On Thursday, the temperatures dipped further to minus five degrees Censius, prompting the traffic police to declare an emergency.

    The situation worsed Friday as the ice crust got thicker by over five centimeters due to the accumulated snow from the past three days. Meanwhile, police have closed some of the entrances to the freeway.

    http://expressbuzz.com/world/ice-blocks-4000-vehicles-on-china-freeway/232154.html

  16. What Bdaman posts is not taken seriously by the people here because he has a history of posting easily or previously debunked arguments.

    Millions facing fuel rationing over Christmas as heating oil runs low An estimated two million homes, schools and hospitals face fuel rationing over Christmas after MPs warned that supplies of heating oil would hit “crisis” point during the cold snap.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/8199110/Millions-facing-fuel-rationing-over-Christmas-as-heating-oil-runs-low.html

  17. Slarti,

    I’d be sad, but chew toys are like trains. And I’ll stipulate to the feline analogy. Although I am both a dog and a cat person, I am probably more feline in personality. I do so love to play with my food. Muahahahaha.

  18. Buddha,

    I once had an argument with a college roommate where we were literally standing nose to nose and yelling at each other (he had put dirty dishes that were left in the sink by another roommate in my bed). It was kind of a liberating experience.

    Admit it, you’d be sad if someone took your squeaky chew toy away… (truthfully, I view Bdaman more as your catnip stuffed mouse toy myself).

  20. Slarti,

    In re: on the same side as Bob

    Considering the excellent vantage point I had on that matter, I’ll have to say that was pretty funny to put you both on the same side. Some of yours and Bob’s arguments could be used to strip old furniture. I’m surprised Norm Abrams isn’t ringing your phones off the hook. If it’s any consolation, and though it didn’t piss me off, I thought bdatroll being referred to as my nemesis was pretty funny too. Nemesis implies some form of parity, when bda is, has been and always shall be more like my squeaky chew toy than a true nemesis.

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