Do we have Global Cooling? It's freezing all over the world.?

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Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling

Michael Asher (Blog) - February 26, 2008 12:55 PM

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.

More here: http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

Answer 1

Kinda throws a monkey wrench in global warming doesn't it?  I also heard that the ice caps are now larger than when they were first reported as melting.  We are going through natural cycles and I honestly believe someone may have to give back a Noble prize soon, lol's.

Answer 2

It's freezing all over the world.?

Really!!

I must not have noticed all that ice & snow on my car this morning. In fact I haven't noticed any snow this winter at all, but obviously Fox news knows more than I do. And I thought spring was coming early.

Strange how decades of records of warming can be ignored, but a cold snap in one winter means all that evidence that we need to change our polluting lifestyles is meaningless. and we can go on consuming regardless.

"all the kowledge in the world is of no use to fools"  the Eagles, long road out of eden

Answer 3

Thank you for the great link, it is quite telling and is what common sense told us all along. I was interested in the bit about the only snow in recorded history that fell in Baghdad and the coldest year to date. A record breaking year verified by recording stations.

I don't know if the global warming crowd will be swayed by real data or not but they should be. Its like they have their own belief system that's shrouded by false data and besides it makes them feel important to do something in helping save the planet  Earth, even if its not based in fact.

Answer 4

Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.

The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average."

China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century. Temperatures in the normally balmy south were so low for so long that some middle-sized cities went days and even weeks without electricity because once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them.

There have been so many snow and ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in the past two months that the real estate market has felt the pinch as home buyers have stayed home rather than venturing out looking for new houses.

In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.

And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its "lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.

The ice is back.

Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.

OK, so one winter does not a climate make. It would be premature to claim an Ice Age is looming just because we have had one of our most brutal winters in decades.

But if environmentalists and environment reporters can run around shrieking about the manmade destruction of the natural order every time a robin shows up on Georgian Bay two weeks early, then it is at least fair game to use this winter's weather stories to wonder whether the alarmist are being a tad premature.

And it's not just anecdotal evidence that is piling up against the climate-change dogma.

According to Robert Toggweiler of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University and Joellen Russell, assistant professor of biogeochemical dynamics at the University of Arizona -- two prominent climate modellers -- the computer models that show polar ice-melt cooling the oceans, stopping the circulation of warm equatorial water to northern latitudes and triggering another Ice Age (a la the movie The Day After Tomorrow) are all wrong.

"We missed what was right in front of our eyes," says Prof. Russell. It's not ice melt but rather wind circulation that drives ocean currents northward from the tropics. Climate models until now have not properly accounted for the wind's effects on ocean circulation, so researchers have compensated by over-emphasizing the role of manmade warming on polar ice melt.

But when Profs. Toggweiler and Russell rejigged their model to include the 40-year cycle of winds away from the equator (then back towards it again), the role of ocean currents bringing warm southern waters to the north was obvious in the current Arctic warming.

Last month, Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, shrugged off manmade climate change as "a drop in the bucket." Showing that solar activity has entered an inactive phase, Prof. Sorokhtin advised people to "stock up on fur coats."

He is not alone. Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon.

The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850. Crops failed through killer frosts and drought. Famine, plague and war were widespread. Harbours froze, so did rivers, and trade ceased.

It's way too early to claim the same is about to happen again, but then it's way too early for the hysteria of the global warmers, too.

Answer 5

You are misinformed.  The world is getting warmer, not colder.  If the polar ice caps keep melting, many of our major cities will be under water.  Try to educate yourself.  Watch the film, An Inconvenient Truth, narrated by Al Gore.  He does a good job of telling us the truth.

Answer 6

We had and we caused global cooling in the 70's.  It was caused by the same things that are cauising global warming now.  & the same type of people seem to be making money and getting government grants to study it then as they are now.

Yes I have heard that the ice cap is coming back.

Maybe the earth just does what it wants to like it has for millions of years.

Follow the money!

Answer 7

I, and many people hear you. It gets cold every winter and it gets hot every summer without fail. Some years are worse then others. The hottest years for the US were in the 1930's during the dust bowl and there were NO SUVs around then. Here is the simple, no college degree required truth, with all of the high tech, satellite enhanced, digital imaging technology today the local weatherman can NOT give me a 100% chance of rain. He can only say there is a 50 or 70% chance of rain, yet it does not rain BUT I am expected by the far far left to BELIEVE in Global Warming! They want me to believe that the Polar Bears will drown out if I don't turn off my computer and evil incandescent light!

Answer 8

I'm glad you're going to publish your findings in a well respected ,peer reviewed report. You're a shoe-in for a big fat Nobel Prize! Check this out!....

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0130...

Answer 9

The TREND is definitely still up (data below).

But we are having a below average temperature winter.  That happens, some are above average, some below.  But the AVERAGE winter is still getting warmer.

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2007/

discussed in detail, with confirmation, at:

http://tamino.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/g...

There's a reason this isn't front page news, and it's not some imaginary "conspiracy".

Answer 10

i dont believe that there is such a thing called "glodal cooling" but i do believe that this is caused by global warming.

the global warming is causing the polar ice caps to melt slowly which is introducing much colder water into our oceans. this water is counteracting with the air and they are trying to reach an equalibrium. Since the air isn't gonna get warmer and is strongly effected by the water, it then cools to a temperature suitable to that of the water.

then this air spreads with more air cooling that as well.

Newtons 0th law states that if 2 matters are equal, then the third when introduced will change far more than the first two, but the will reach an appropriate equilibrium.

Answer 11

How is it that people can ignore decades of warming with 1 cold winter? You see, the same thing happened in 2000 and 2002, then 2001 and 2003 temps went up again. Nobody seems to want to talk about that. Point is, yearly data are variable, but displayed together in decades shows an upward trend. Don't believe me, see the data...

Answer 12

its winter. it just happens to be a quite cold one. nothing to do with global warming.

Answer 13

Just saw that on Fox News 1:31 Central standard time AM.

Seems real to me it has been colder this year every where but Europe.

Answer 14

You are misinformed.   It's 52 and sunny here now.   I just came back from the Indian ocean where it was in the 80's.   You're little corner of the world might be freezing, but not everywhere.

You don't seem to understand average temperatures do you?

Answer 15

......You are the first person to point this out.....NOT......

    You are thinking about local weather patterns, and you must also remember that it is winter in the places you have mentioned. If it was snowing in summer in Baghdad then I think you would have a point. However, I am in New Zealand and it is summer here. We are having a drought.

   I am not sure where you got your information that  Australia is having record cold temperatures. I spoke to a friend in Brisbane recently and he told me it was 'rather warm'. Maybe you meant Austria....?

Answer 16

This proves Global Warming is full of sh*t. We have global cooling. Right now its -11 with windchill of -21 yesterday morning in Toronto and the rest of the world is in deep freeze.

If anyone says we have Global Warming right now should have their heads checked out for mental problems.

Answer 17

Yes, The world over is getting cooler and that proves Global warming is real.

That's getting to be how far these jokers have to reach now with the new data.

We knew it was getting scary when anyone that questioned the theory of global warming was labeled as a denier, traitor or some such. That's what the n***s did. There is something much deeper and darker at work here than fear of climate change.

Answer 18

You're overstating the case - the 12 month drop has offset the LATE 20th century warming.    We're where we were in the 1970s, when Newsweek warned us about global cooling.   But the 1940s-1970s cooling had not fully offset the pre-1940 warming.   It's still warmer than it was in 1900.   Now, that's not to suggest that there can be a baseline or that, if there can be, 1900 is it: in 1900 we were emerging from the Little Ice Age, and the case for man-made vs explainable natural warming centers around the "late 20th century warming."    

I don't mean to be a nitpicker but we skeptics have to hold ourselves to the same or higher standards than the standards to which we hold the AGW proponents.

Answer 19

The cooling is because of global warming. Havent you seen the movie "The Day After Tomorrow"?? Global warming will cause mass climate change, places that are warm may be cold and vice versa. Its all due to the polar ice caps melting and effecting the currents in the ocean. The ocean currents determine our clmate, start messing with it and the worlds climates will change.