What has happened to global warming?

Question

The WMO recommends that data should be in 10 year periods and up to 2000 as the latest period, until the 2010 results are released.

If we look at the data from the 4 well respected indicators, HadCRUT, RSS, UAH, and GISS global temperature sets all show sharp drops in the last year. Also the last 10 years shows that 3 of the show a flat trendline.

The drop in Temperature from Jan 07 to Jan 08 is an average of -0.6405. Drop about another .5C, and we’re basically back to where we were in the mid-late 1800s when the Little Ice Age ended. January 2008 was cooler than January 1932, even after all the downwards adjustments they have applied to the old data.

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/giss-jan08.png

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/uah-monthly-anomaly-z.png

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/rss-msu-2007-2008-delta.png

http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/hadcrut-jan08.png

Answer 1

Just one below average winter, which doesn't mean a thing.  It happened in 1982, 1991-1992, 1999-2000.  EVERY TIME global warming came back stronger than ever.  Proof.

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

discussed in detail, with confirmation, at:

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

As long as we keep making greenhouse gases in enormous amounts, global warming will dominate in the long run.  It's simple physics.

http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/di...

"we were going through a long period of gradual warmth"

I can't understand where that statement comes from, it doesn't agree with the data.  We'd been slowly decreasing a little for 10,000 years (with a slow few warming "blips", like the MWP), until the last 100 or so.  Then we started to increase VERY rapidly.  Note that this graph (taken from the peer reviewed literature) reads right-to-left.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Holoc...

Answer 2

Global warming is a load of c**p and has been hijacked by politicians and the media to scare people and make money.

Answer 3

It was a bad term to use, the earth has climate change and we were going through a long period of gradual warmth. Anthropogenic Global Warming  is what caused the emotional reaction by those who believe humans are to blame and we have to take action.   It was poorly presented in and dramatized to much and hopefully everyone learns a lesson from it.  

We still all have a responsibility to use are resources wisely and take care of our environment.

Answer 4

its already happening the world warming up at a fast rate

Answer 5

global warming is a fake! nvr has been one....

i mean before i didn't think it was true, then its been snowing in april, in kansas!

so yeah, its g*y

Answer 6

You'll always have someone count the chickens before they hatch. Nothing has happened to GW, unless one considers those trying their best to obscure the science. The temperature has decreased before and gone back up, but you didn't mention that, now did you? If you're going to tell a story, tell the WHOLE story and not only what on the surface looks as if it proves your point. Otherwise, you're nothing but a politician.

This is a NASA graph showing El Nino and La Nina as it relates to global temperature.

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

Answer 7

Global Warming...Global Climate Change??

The Earths weather has been changing forever...With or without people... Global Warming"caused by man" was/is only a theory... has never been proved... but when people like Al Gore,,, say it over and over and over again... people begin to think its true...

B

Answer 8

I do agree that it is a fake