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
Bdaman:
what do you think about this thought:
Global climate change is rather scary to most/some people and the idea of not being in control of their destiny is too much for them. They feel better by thinking man is causing the change. If man is doing it, he can undo it. Problem solved and we are no longer at the mercy of nature.
What they don’t seem to understand is that man adapts to nature or adapts nature to man. With that being said, I wonder if we could control another ice age? Could be dam glaciers or re-direct them where we want them to go?
Seems to me those are the questions we should be asking.
James M.,
It’s cold in my refrigerator.
Bdaman:
Stop with all the facts, you are making your point. Anyone who cant see it is either on crack, another planet or is using AGW as a means for population control.
I would like to know how someone can take the temperature readings and say they are the result of global warming? Climate change yes, certainly. Is it government money or something else?
How bout this
2010’s world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzards
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20101219/D9K734E81.html
Anecdotal evidence, scientific data and or well done study
Is this anecdotal or scientific data.
Earth’s orbit around and orientation toward the Sun change over spans of many thousands of years. In turn, these changing “orbital mechanics” force climate to change because they change where and how much sunlight reaches Earth. (Please see for more details.) Thus, changing Earth’s exposure to sunlight forces climate to change. According to scientists’ models of Earth’s orbit and orientation toward the Sun indicate that our world should be just beginning to enter a new period of cooling — perhaps the next ice age.
http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/big-questions/what-are-the-primary-causes-of-the-earth-system-variability/
You mean studies like these
When asked to act as an expert reviewer on the IPCC’s last two reports, Dr. Nils Axel-Morner was “astonished to find that not one of their 22 contributing authors on sea levels was a sea level specialist”
Until 2003, the IPCC’s satellite-based evidence showed no upward trend in sea level, so they used an increase of 2.3mm in one Hong Kong tide-gauge to adjust the entire global sea level up 2.3mm
The IPCC’s claim that the Himalayan glaciers were melting was based off of a phone interview with a non-scientist. They were forced to retract the claim
The IPCC claim that global warming was led to increased natural disasters was based on an unpublished report that had not been subject to peer-review. They were forced to retract the claim
The IPCC’s claim that global warming was going to lead to deficiencies of up to 50% in African agriculture was based on a non-peer-reviewed and non-scientific paper. They were forced to retract the claim
The IPCC’s claim that “up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation” was based on a non-peer-reviewed and non-scientific paper. They were forced to retract the claim
Bdaman,
You clearly don’t understand the difference between anecdotal and scientific data. Outlying anecdotal evidence doesn’t disprove a well done study.
The coldest temperature ever recorded away from Antarctica was -90F at Ojmjakon, Russia in 1933. Temperatures are forecast to get close to that again tonight at -79F
In 1933, the cold was due to a lack of CO2 – but the current cold is due to trapped heat from massive amounts of anthropogenic CO2.
http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/24688.html?MR=1
The end of November and start of December were the coldest in central England since records began in 1772 (Christopher Booker, December 12). So much for global warming.
In Roman times, wine was made from grapes at Hadrian’s Wall, while in the 18th and 19th centuries, Britain was a much colder place than in the 20th century, with frost fairs taking place over the Thames.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/8212467/Whatever-the-weather-climate-alarmists-blame-mankind.html
It’s ‘the hottest year on record’, as long as you don’t take its temperature
The GISS record has in recent months been diverging wildly from the others. While three have shown global temperatures dropping sharply, by as much as 0.3C, the GISS figures (based, despite the link to Nasa, on surface temperatures) have shot up by 0.2C.
Real Science demonstrates that the parts of the world which GISS shows to be heating up the most are so short of weather stations that only 25 per cent of the figures are based on actual temperature readings. The rest are simply conjectured by GISS.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/8211948/Its-the-hottest-year-on-record-as-long-as-you-dont-take-its-temperature.html
For whoever brought up the Russian heat wave or thought it was due to global warming NOAA concluded that
“Despite this strong evidence for a warming planet, greenhouse gas forcing fails to explain the 2010 heat wave over western Russia. The natural process of atmospheric blocking, and the climate impacts induced by such blocking, are the principal cause for this heat wave.”
Hows this for propaganda
Since the Industrial Revolution, the need for energy to run machines has steadily increased. Some energy, like the energy you need to do your homework, comes from the food you eat. But other energy, like the energy that makes cars run and much of the energy used to light and heat our homes, comes from fuels like coal and oil – fossil fuels. Burning these fuels releases greenhouse gases.
When Do You Send Greenhouse Gases into the Air?
Whenever you …
# Watch TV
# Use the Air Conditioner
# Turn on a Light
# Use a Hair Dryer
# Ride in a Car
# Play a Video Game
# Listen to a Stereo
# Wash or Dry Clothes
# Use a Dish Washer
# Microwave a Meal
… you are helping to send greenhouse gas into the air.
http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/change.html
There’s only one way to save the planet. Go back to dirt roads and grass huts.
These same people want you to believe that the cold is being caused by the same thing that lead them to believe enough in warmth that they made these statements. People in Britain aren’t buying it, they’re buying pitch forks.
March 2002:
“According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
David Parker, at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Berkshire, says ultimately, British children could have only virtual experience of snow. Via the internet, they might wonder at polar scenes – or eventually “feel” virtual cold.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
You don’t see this in record heat
London mortuaries filling up, cold spell sees record deaths in capital.
Overall the government claims that 15 per cent of all deaths in London are related to the cold weather, this is likely according to statisticians and health experts to increase by a further 10-15 per cent in the next months.
http://www.thelondondailynews.com/london-mortuaries-filling-cold-spell-sees-record-deaths-capital-p-4934.html
Coldest December since records began as temperatures plummet to minus 10C bringing travel chaos across Britain
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1339149/Big-freeze-Temperatures-plummet-10C-bringing-travel-chaos-Britain.html#ixzz18YEhk6vM
“You have worked to ensure the preparedness of our transport network for winter weather. These plans have generally proved effective but on Monday we were faced with an unprecedented challenge.”
A heavy snowfall on Monday – which appeared to take the authorities by surprise – caused the closure of the M8, M9 and A80, as well as gridlock on many other routes across Scotland.
Thousands of vehicles were abandoned and hundreds of people were stuck in their cars overnight.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11976328
Buddha: They seem to overlap with the birthers. lol.
James M.,
I too would be interested in the data on overlap between creationists and climate change deniers. Hopefully some ambitious sociology grad student will pick up the ball and run with it. 😉
Slarti: “Okay, now you’ve pissed me off. Not by your feeble attacks on ‘evil libruls’ (those barely even amused me), but by putting me and Bob on the same side! (as the regulars here know, Bob and I have been somewhat antagonistic towards each other in the past…) Since Bob has answered your comment himself, I would just note that the best description of your attempt at argument here would be ‘screwed the pooch’, in my opinion.”
Actually, we agree on most topics; just as Buddha and I are in agreement on most topics.
I simply have no tolerance for the common denominator regarding your alleged ‘objectivity;’ e.g. as found in your ‘analysis’ of Obama embracing and expanding the tyrannical policies of Bush.
BBB,
It’s a myth that educated people thought the Earth was flat. Eclipses and ships disappearing over the horizon are both pretty clear evidence that the Earth is round.
G’night all.
BBB,
Sorry to sneak in a last comment…
I’m not a joiner – I believe that controlling pollution and raising revenue through taxation of pollution is the most viable solution to the problems of degradation of the sustainability of our environment and our national debt. I acknowledge the cost, but believe that it would be cheap at twice the price, so to speak. If you’ve got a better solution I’m all ears…
I would also note that the ancient Greeks knew the world was round (masts visible on the horizon before the bodies of the ships), so there was never a scientific consensus that the world was flat.