The Global Cooling Page

Record snowfall, unusual icing and brutally cold weather.

The global warming scare has lost a lot of traction in the last few years because there is no evidence of drastic warming and no evidence that human activity can cause or prevent global changes in climate.  It is especially difficult to get people interested in global warming theories during record-breaking cold weather. Obama's new world order.  Global warming is the greatest fraud of our time.  The overwhelming scientific evidence shows that, ratherthan getting hotter, the Earth's temperatures are cooling.  Increasing numbers of leading scientists are challenging the flawed computer models used by eco-alarmists. All-time October low recorded in Bavaria.  Meteorologists on Tuesday morning [10/20/2009] recorded the lowest ever October temperature in Germany, as the mercury dipped to a chilly -24.3° Celsius in Bavaria's Berchtesgaden national park. Frosty weather hits North Carolina.  The metro region of Charlotte, N.C., faced a frost advisory Monday [10/19/2009] as a local airport set a record with a temperature of 30 degrees, meteorologists say. Cold first half of October in Minnesota:  1875 record shattered by 5 degrees.  October 2009 is going down in the record books in many ways.  The normal high temperature for the first two weeks is supposed to be 63 degrees.  This year the high temperature was only 47 degrees.  That ranks as the coldest first two weeks of the [sic] October.  The previous coldest was 52 degrees in 1875. Snow Falling the World Over as Ski Resorts Open Early.  More fresh snow has been falling in the Alps and across the Northern Hemisphere, including in Alaska, California, Canada, the Indian Himalayas and the Japanese Alps.  More new snow is expected later this week in Europe and conditions on the Alpine glaciers are reported to be excellent. CO2, Climate Forcing and Climate Models.  Enough data has already been released to unequivocally prove scientific fraud.  All of the global temperature datasets that include the actual physical measurements of the global temperature clearly demonstrate that there was a rapid rise in global temperature from around 1910 to about 1942, followed by a slow drop in global temperature from 1942 to 1975, at which time the world reverted to warming which all global temperature datasets clearly show ended after 1998, with a cooling trend that is still continuing. Three Decades Of Global Cooling.  As a Colorado Rockies playoff game is snowed out, scientists report that Arctic sea ice is thickening and Antarctic snow melt is the lowest in three decades. Whatever happened to global warming? ... It seems that ice at both poles hasn't been paying attention to the computer models.  The National Snow and Ice Data Center released its summary of summer sea-ice conditions in the Arctic last week and reported a substantial expansion of "second-year ice" — ice thick enough to have persisted through two summers of seasonal melting. Obama's Theorems.  A number of eminent scientists, along with environmental advocates such as Mr. Gore, lecture us that global warming as a manmade phenomenon is unimpeachable.  But this month Americans are shivering through one of the coldest Octobers in memory, whether in Idaho, Colorado, or Michigan.  They understand that over the last decade average global temperatures did not spike; in fact, they slightly decreased. Sugar beets shivering in Montana.  Some Montana and Wyoming farmers are getting nervous as cold, wet weather is keeping them from bringing in a record sugar beet crop. How freezing temperatures are starting to shatter climate change theory:  In the freezing foothills of Montana, a distinctly bitter blast of revolution hangs in the air.  And while the residents of the icy city of Missoula can stave off the -10C chill with thermals and fires, there may be no easy remedy for the wintry snap's repercussions.  The temperature has shattered a 36-year record.  Further into the heartlands of America, the city of Billings registered -12C on Sunday [10/11/2009], breaking the 1959 barrier of -5C. The BBC's amazing U-turn on climate change.  I think the BBC wanted to slip this one out quietly, but a Matt Drudge link put paid to that.  The climate change correspondent of BBC News has admitted that global warming stopped in 1998 — and he reports that leading scientists believe that the earth's cooling-off may last for decades. Friendly Reminder from the BBC:  There's Been No Global Warming Since 1998.  After running through the facts, the article concludes:  "One thing is for sure.  It seems the debate about what is causing global warming is far from over.  Indeed some would say it is hotting up." A big chill on global warming.  Something important is happening when even the BBC is compelled to ask, as it did this week, "What happened on global warming?"  The British news organization has heretofore insisted that the scientific consensus was cemented long ago that global warming is real and is mainly caused by human use of carbon-based fossil fuels.  Put simply, what has happened is global temperatures have dropped every year since 1998, recent peer-reviewed research has uncovered the decisive influence of hot and cold cycles in the oceans on land temperatures, and growing numbers of scientists with unquestioned credentials are stepping forward to question the conventional wisdom. Biggest news you've never heard:  Earth isn't warming.  How do you reconcile the early snow in Minneapolis, ski resorts already opening in Nevada, and that August chill in North Dakota with expert warnings about a warming climate?  You don't.  Why?  The Earth isn't warming right now, is why.  It may even be cooling down somewhat.  Five major climate centers around the world agree that average global temperatures have not risen in the past 11 years, according to the BBC.  In fact, in eight of those years, global average temperatures dipped a tad. What happened to global warming?  This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.  But it is true.  For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. Sceptics welcome BBC report on 'global cooling'.  Under the headline 'Whatever happened to Global Warming?', the BBC has reported that the warmest year recorded globally was 1998, and for the last 11 years no increase in global temperatures has been observed. Global cooling has arrived.  Global warming is dead.  There is now irrefutable scientific evidence that far from global warming the earth has now entered a period of global cooling which will last at least for the next two decades.  Evidence for this comes from the NASA Microwave Sounding Unit and the Hadley Climate Research Unit while evidence that CO2 levels are continuing to increase comes from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. Cooling Down the Cassandras.  The [New York] Times reported that "scientists" — all of them? — say the 11 years of temperature stability has "no bearing," none, on long-term warming.  Some scientists say "cool stretches are inevitable."  Others say there may be growth of Arctic sea ice, but the growth will be "temporary." ... Warnings about cataclysmic warming increase in stridency as evidence of warming becomes more elusive. Inconvenient Truth About Cooling May Retard Efforts to Fight Warming.  Despite the fact that any skepticism about global warming and the responsibility of humanity for this rise in temperatures is now considered proof of insanity, the [New York] Times reported that it appears more than likely that "global temperatures have been relatively stable for a decade and may even drop in the next few years."  This must come as quite a shock to an American public that has been relentlessly propagandized on this issue and convinced that the end of civilization as we know it is just around the corner. U.S. Media Ignoring About Face by Leading Global Warming Proponent.  Imagine if the Pope suddenly announced that the Catholic Church had been wrong for centuries about prohibiting priests from marrying. Would that be considered big news?  Of course.  And yet something like that has happened in the field of global warming in which a major scientist has announced that the world, in contrast to his previous belief, is actually cooling. More about media bias pertaining to environmental issues. Global warming alarmists out in cold.  It's snowing in April.  Ice is spreading in Antarctica.  The Great Barrier Reef is as healthy as ever.  And that's just the news of the past week.  Truly, it never rains but it pours — and all over our global warming alarmists.  Time's up for this absurd scaremongering.  The fears are being contradicted by the facts, and more so by the week. Global warming is so last century.  There has been no global warming this century.  None. ... Alan Carlin, in a report for the Environmental Protection Racket — whoops, Environmental Protection Agency — that they attempted to suppress, says:  "Fossil fuel and cement emissions increased by 3.3 percent per year during 2000-06, compared to 1.3 percent per year in the 1990s.  Similarly, atmospheric C02 concentrations increased by 1.93 parts per million per year during 2000-06, compared to 1.58 ppm in the 1990s.  And yet, despite accelerating emission rates and concentrations, there's been no net warming in the 21st century and, more accurately, a decline." Cold facts dispel theories on warming.  For more than a decade public opinion on human-caused global warming has been moulded by pronouncements from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and its army of acolytes.  Arguably the zenith of acceptance was the IPCC's fourth assessment in early 2007 followed soon after by the release of the Al Gore movie An Inconvenient Truth.  The accompanying recognition by way of an Academy Award for the movie and awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize jointly to Gore and the IPCC only heightened awareness of the message.  During more recent months it is not overstating the case to say that there has been a perceptible shift in public opinion. A Primer on Global Warming.  All four major global temperature-tracking outlets (Hadley UK, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, University of Alabama-Huntsville, and Remote Sensing Systems Santa Rosa) have released updated information showing in 2007 global cooling ranged from 0.65°C. to 0.75°C., a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years.  This occurred in a single year.  NASA satellites measuring global temperatures found 2008 to be the coldest year since 2000 and the 14th coldest of the past 30 years. Alarmists Abandon Air Temps, But Oceans Also Show Cooling.  There has been a change in direction by global warming alarmists, as shown by "Synthesis Report — Climate Change:  Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions," published in Copenhagen and released in June.  In that report, those claiming there is a human-induced global warming crisis have abandoned air temperature as a measure of global climate and switched to ocean temperature.  The change in focus from air temperature to ocean temperature was predictable given the sustained decline in global air temperature over recent years. A Cooling Trend Toward Global Warming.  While the primary promoters of the warming hoax have not "broken and run" yet, there is much evidence that there is an increasing tide of defectors and that climate catastrophists have completely run out of dry powder.  Satellite data from NASA shows no increase in average global temperature since 1998, a year when El Niño caused a worldwide spike having nothing to do with carbon dioxide. Snow falls in western ND, in June.  Snow has fallen in Dickinson in June, the first time in nearly 60 years the city has seen snow past May. In New York, It's the Summer That Isn't.  It's a gross, grungy, disgusting summer-in-the-city tradition:  the muggy 90-degree day or, worse still, the 99-degree day.  But this summer has been conspicuously different in New York City.  Not one 99-degree day in Central Park.  Not a single day that the temperature even approached 90.  For just the second time in 140 years of record keeping, the temperature failed to reach 90 in either June or July. July sets 85-year Illinois record as coolest.  Last month was Illinois' coldest July since 1924.  Preliminary data gathered by researchers at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign shows the average temperature last month was 70.4 degrees.  That's 5.3 degrees below normal.  Climatologist Jim Angel says the previous record, set 85 years ago, was 71.5 degrees. In the middle of August: Ice choking the Northwest Passage.  Warmist doctrine has it that the Northwest passage (through Arctic waters to reach the North Pacific from the North Atlantic) should be clear sailing anytime now.  In fact, according to the Ottawa Citizen:  "...the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center is predicting another near-record meltdown by the end of this year's summer thaw."  Unfortunately for them, reality is not cooperating. June hasn't been this nice since ... 1913.  Meteorologists are reluctant to call a month "nice."  They have their data and their science and typically do not describe the weather in such subjective terms.  Except now, because the data prove it. ... Thursday [6/18/2009] was the 14th consecutive day to stay below 100 degrees.  That's the longest stretch of its kind in any June since 1913. Crops under stress as temperatures fall.  In many parts of the world recently the weather has not been too brilliant for farmers.  After a fearsomely cold winter, June brought heavy snowfall across large parts of western Canada and the northern states of the American Midwest.  In Manitoba last week, it was -4°C.  North Dakota had its first June snow for 60 years.  There was midsummer snow not just in Norway and the Cairngorms, but even in Saudi Arabia. The Editor says... Crops are always under "stress."  So what? Chicago has its coolest July 8 in 118 years.  Wednesday's [7/8/2009] paltry 65-degree high at O'Hare International Airport (an early-May-level temperature and a reading 18 degrees below normal) was also the city's coolest July 8 high in 118 years — since a 61-degree high on the date in 1891. The chills of Global Cooling.  As cap-and-trade advocates tie their knickers in knots over so-called "global warming," Mother Nature refuses to cooperate.  Earth's temperatures continue a chill that began 11 years ago.  As global cooling accelerates, global-warmists kick, scream, and push their pet theory — just like little kids who cover their ears and stomp their feet when older children tell them not to bother waiting up for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. Why The Cool Summer?  Back in 1997, El Niño was blamed for everything from horrible weather to the Indians losing the World Series.  It became the catch-phrase for everything.  So far, this summer, temperatures have been noticibly (sic) cooler than in summers past.  Rainfall is down at bit too.  Is El Niño the big reason for this? Global cooling hits Al Gore's home.  It was delightfully appropriate that, as large parts of Argentina were swept by severe blizzards last week, on a scale never experienced before, the city of Nashville, Tennessee, should have enjoyed the coolest July 21 in its history, breaking a record established in 1877.  Appropriate, because Nashville is the home of Al Gore, the man who for 20 years has been predicting that we should all by now be in the grip of runaway global warming. Global temperatures 'have plunged .74°F since Gore released 'An Inconvenient Truth'.  The latest global averaged satellite temperature data for June 2009 reveals yet another drop in the Earth's temperature.  This latest drop in global temperatures means despite his dire warnings, the Earth has cooled .74°F since former Vice President Al Gore released "An Inconvenient Truth" in 2006. ... In addition, New peer-reviewed scientific studies now predict a continued lack of global warming for up to three decades as natural climate factors dominate. The Bleak Winter's Behind Us, but What's Ahead?  Scientists have not been able to measure any increase in global warming since the end of 1998.  That, despite their lunkheaded computers forecasting the opposite.  During the past two years, temperatures have actually dropped by more than 0.5 degrees Celsius.  Button up!  I mention all this because 1) it is always amusing to kid Mr. Gore and 2) the price tag for Prophet Obama's climate plan has just jumped to $2 trillion. Global warming's no longer happening.  So far this month, at least 14 major weather stations in Alberta have recorded their lowest-ever March temperatures.  I'm not talking about daily records; I mean they've recorded the lowest temperatures they've ever seen in the entire month of March since temperatures began being recorded in Alberta in the 1880s. We'll Pry Global Warming From Their Cold, Dead Hearts.  This is the winter of environmentalists' discontent.  They desperately want the earth to be warming to prove Al Gore's truth inviolate and they are going to make you pay thousands of dollars for it no matter whether it's true or not.  But the weather has been inconveniently cold. 'Snow and freezing winds' puts Edmonton's Earth Day on ice.  Earth Day celebrations in the Albertan capital that were planned for Sunday [4/26/2009] have been postponed because of the cold weather.  Organizer Janice Boudreau said exhibitors and entertainers had been pulling out all week as forecasts announced snow and freezing winds.  "They did it last year, but they didn't want to do it again," she said.  "This is supposed to be an enjoyable experience for everyone." Global Cooling Report:  The Weather News You Didn't See.  A list of 100 recent news items about global cooling. Arctic temperature is still not above 0°C — the latest date in fifty years of record keeping.  The average arctic temperature is still not above (take your pick) 32°F 0°C 273.15°K — this the latest date in fifty years of record keeping that this has happened.  Usually it is beginning to level off now and if it does so, it will stay near freezing on average in the arctic leading to still less melting than last summer which saw a 9% increase in arctic ice than in 2007. The Real Climate Deniers.  For most of the United States and much of the world, this has been one of the colder autumns in well over a decade, with reports of unseasonable snowfalls and plummeting temperatures from the American Great Plains to the Alps of Europe and into the inner reaches of Asia.  Even China's official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its "worst snowstorm ever" in October.  In the U.S., the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years.  In fact, it's likely that 2008 will go down as the coldest year since in the United States since 1997. Climate Crisis = Logic Crisis.  This latest hypothesis is a violation of the most basic of the laws of logic:  the principle of non-contradiction.  Something cannot be both A and not A.  The weather cannot get colder while the climate gets hotter anymore than the earth can be flat while the world is round.  This is not science, or logic; this is unabashed nonsense.  Yes.  Climate science has come to this:  We are now being told, in effect, to ignore the data and believe the hypothesis. 'Snowiest winter season Green Bay has seen in well over 100 years'.  At 87.7 inches of snow to date, the season is second to none since 1900.  It makes last year's winter of 87.4 inches a distant memory, and the winter of 1922-23 has slipped to third place in the record books from 1900 to date. Explorers On Global Warming Expedition Stranded in North Pole by Cold Weather.  Three global warming researchers stranded in the North Pole by cold weather were holding out hope Wednesday as a fourth plane set off in an attempt deliver them supplies.  The flight took off during a break in bad weather after "brutal" conditions halted three previous attempts to reach the British explorers who said they were nearly out of food, the Agence France-Presse reported. Annals of Global Warming [and Cooling].  Is there a cycle in climate hysteria that requires nutters to oscillate between proclaiming that the world is getting too hot and proclaiming that, on the contrary, it is getting too cold?  And if you are a paid-up climate hysteric, how do you know which side to champion on a given day? Senators Debate Global Warming Policy Despite Global Cooling Evidence.  Democratic senators told CNSNews.com on Tuesday that despite a recent study that shows global temperatures have been dropping since 2001 and that projects the globe will continue to cool for the next several decades, they think the United States should continue to push forward with aggressive action to curb climate change. The Editor says... Full speed ahead, Senators!  To hesitate now would be an admission of error, and we can't have that. Frustrated Warmists Pull Another Cool Fast One.  Continued global cooling has forced clamoring climate alarmists to move the goal posts — again.  A study released yesterday confirms that global temperatures have remained flat since 2001 "despite rising greenhouse gas concentrations" and predicts they may cool for another 30 years.  Needless to say, that won't silence any of the blowhards attacking George Will's February assertion that "there has been no recorded global warming for more than a decade." Where's global warming?  The United States has shivered through an unusually severe winter, with snow falling in such unlikely destinations as New Orleans, Las Vegas, Alabama, and Georgia.  On Dec. 25, every Canadian province woke up to a white Christmas, something that hadn't happened in 37 years.  Earlier this year, Europe was gripped by such a killing cold wave that trains were shut down in the French Riviera and chimpanzees in the Rome Zoo had to be plied with hot tea.  Last week, satellite data showed three of the Great Lakes — Erie, Superior, and Huron — almost completely frozen over.  In Washington, D.C., what was supposed to be a massive rally against global warming was upstaged by the heaviest snowfall of the season, which paralyzed the capital. Snow falls in western ND, in June.  Snow has fallen in Dickinson in June, the first time in nearly 60 years the city has seen snow past May.  National Weather Service meteorologist Janine Vining in Bismarck says there were unofficial reports of a couple of inches of snow in Dickinson on Saturday [6/6/2009]. Lake Superior is freezing over.  Lake Superior last froze over in 2003.  It has now, again, frozen over.  The frequency of freeze overs has historically been around once every 20 years.  Now, in the last decade, we have seen two freeze overs. A blizzard -- in late March? Blizzard shuts down parts of Wyoming, South Dakota.  A blizzard shut down major highways Monday [3/23/2009] in Wyoming and South Dakota, and meteorologists said one mountainous area might get as much as 40 inches of snow.  Mount Rushmore National Memorial closed because of the icy, blinding weather in South Dakota's rugged Black Hills. Near the end of March... Storm piles more than two feet of snow on Kansas.  A storm has buried parts of Kansas in more than two feet of snow and knocked out power to at least 17,000 homes and businesses.  The same storm also dumped heavy snow on parts of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. Global Cooling Sends Gulls South.  Bird enthusiasts are reporting ivory gulls, which usually make their home in the high Arctic, are being seen for the first time in decades in the United States.  Separate sightings of ivory gulls this January in Gloucester and Plymouth, Massachusetts are luring bird watchers from as far away as Florida, Maryland, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The Gore Effect:  Driving snow froze the hopes of organizers of "the biggest global warming protest in history" Monday in Washington.  With the government on a two-hour snow delay and the speaker of the House unable to attend because her flight was grounded by inclement weather, shivering protestors gathered on the west front of the Capitol, the latest victims of a climatological phenomenon known by the scientific community as the Gore Effect.  The Gore Effect was first noticed during a January 2004 global warming rally in New York City, held during one of the coldest days in the city's history.  Since then, evidence has mounted of a correlation between global warming activism and severely cold weather. Is It Me, Or Is It Hot In Here?  In the middle of the worst spring blizzard of the past thirty years, and with temperatures in the twenties, some of those sharp minds who have "settled" the global warming debate held a protest.  I kept thinking of that line from the old folk song "Oh, Susanna":  the sun so hot I froze to death." ... Both Steven Biel of Greenpeace and the website for Capitol Climate Action said it was the "largest act of civil disobedience for climate change" in the history of the United States." ... Both of these sources claimed the crowd to be 3000.  Really?  That's it?  That was the biggest global warming protest, ever?  There were more people than that in my freshman college biology class. Excuse Me, Your Leftism is Showing.  On March 2nd there was a demonstration in Washington D.C.  It was billed as the largest demonstration for green power/global warming awareness/stop dirty coal/let's all go live in a tepee, ever held.  It was attended by — are you ready for the number? — 2,500 people.  That was the largest one ever!  This demonstration was covered by every major television and news service.  No station or alleged newspaper gave any coverage to opposing opinions.  Ironically there was a blizzard that day another fact which, to the best of my knowledge, was not noted by any major news outlet. Pelosi Snowed-Out of Global Warming Rally.  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had to cancel an appearance Monday [3/2/2009] at a global warming rally in Washington, D.C., that was hit by a snowstorm because her flight was delayed, her office told CNSNews.com.  Brianna Cayo-Cotter, the spokesman for the Energy Action Coalition that held the rally, told a group of reporters that she had been in contact with Pelosi and that her flight had been delayed because of inclement weather. Global Warming:  On Hold?  Earth's climate continues to confound scientists.  Following a 30-year trend of warming, global temperatures have flatlined since 2001 despite rising greenhouse gas concentrations, and a heat surplus that should have cranked up the planetary thermostat. Obama Talks Global Warming to Shivering Crowd.  Following a year predicted to be the "hottest in a century" that turned out instead to be the coolest in a decade, you'd think that — given the extraordinarily glacial locale — the supposedly brilliant future leader of the free world would have appreciated the hysterical disconnect in his words. Climate Confusion.  As a new president takes office and elevates global warming alarmism to official federal policy, much of America is experiencing record low temperatures. Global Warming Freeze?  President-elect Barack Obama recently declared his intention to mitigate global warming by enacting a cap-and-trade policy that would reduce carbon emissions 80 percent by the year 2050.  But the last two years of global cooling have nearly erased 30 years of temperature increase.  To the extent that global warming ever existed, it is now officially over, says David Deming, a geophysicist and adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis. Debate Over; It's Freezing.  I've been informed, quite forcefully, that "climate change" can induce weather to warm, make it colder and, miraculously, produce whatever climate condition we happen to be experiencing at that very moment.  So I wholeheartedly concur with my environmentalist friends:  Climate does indeed make weather fluctuate.  The day Waxman delivered his statement, the National Weather Service issued a warning for Chicago about the wind chill index being somewhere in the vicinity of 25 to 40 below zero. Change You Can't Believe In.  [Scroll down]  For starters, the rapidly expanding number of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) dissenting international scientists, many rising from within the alarmists' own ranks, has thoroughly shredded the misleading fallacy of "consensus."  And a full decade sans warming and concluding with pronounced cooling despite ever-rising atmospheric CO2 levels has left Green House Gas (GHG) force-feeders with frosty egg on their faces.  Remember the sea ice that doomsters warned would soon be gone?  It's now at the very same level it was in 1979. It's time to pray for global warming.  At December's U.N. Global Warming conference in Poznan, Poland, 650 of the world's top climatologists stood up and said man-made global warming is a media generated myth without basis.  Said climatologist Dr. David Gee, Chairman of the International Geological Congress, "For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming?"  I asked myself, why would such obviously smart guy say such a ridiculous thing?  But it turns out he's right.  The earth's temperature peaked in 1998.  It's been falling ever since; it dropped dramatically in 2007 and got worse in 2008, when temperatures touched 1980 levels. Facts debunk global warming alarmism.  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that October in the US was marked by 63 record snowfalls and 115 lowest-ever temperatures.  Over the past few years, similar signs of colder than usual weather have been recorded all over the world, causing many people to question the still fashionable, but now long outdated, global warming alarmism.  Yet individual weather events or spells, whether warmings or coolings, tell us nothing necessarily about true climate change. Ice Age or global warming?  It looks more like an Ice Age than global warming.  There is so much snow in Oslo, where I live, that the city authorities are resorting to dumping truckloads of it in the sea because the usual storage sites on land are full.  That is angering environmentalists who say the snow is far too dirty — scraped up from polluted roads — to be added to the fjord. Flint's 95-year-old record low falls as 19 below zero hits city.  Here's the bad news:  Flint broke a 95-year-old record early Wednesday morning when the temperature plummeted to a frigid 19 below zero.  The previous record?  Minus 10, set in 1914, according to the National Weather Service.  Here's the even worse news:  We won't seeing relief in the next few days. Al Gore And Climate Ka-Ching:  The trend in the world's oceans — as shown by measurements taken by a fleet of 3,000 high-tech ocean buoys first deployed in 2003 — is toward cooling.  As Dr. Josh Willis, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, noted in a separate interview with National Public Radio, "there has been a very slight cooling" over the buoys' five years of observation.  As Joseph D'Aleo, the Weather Channel's first director of meteorology, told National Review Online's Deroy Murdock that the slight warming trend "peaked in 1998, and the temperature trend the last decade has been flat, even as CO2 has increased 5.5%. The Day After (Inauguration).  The temperature at Denver International Airport dropped to 18 below zero on Sunday, breaking the previous record of 14 below set in 1901.  White Sulphur Springs, Mont., reported 29 below to the National Weather Service, breaking the record of 17 below set in 1922.  Meanwhile, ice storms ravage the Northeast and the upper Midwest.  This is not a local phenomenon.  Hong Kong had the second-longest cold spell since 1885.  Cold in northern Vietnam destroyed 40% of the rice crop and killed 33,000 head of livestock.  The British Parliament debated climate change as London experienced the first October snow since 1934. Warmist hysteria intensifies as temperatures plunge.  It snowed in Houston Wednesday tying a record for the earliest appearance of the white stuff in the city's history.  There were rare snowfalls in Southern Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi Thursday.  They're expecting possible record-breaking cold in the Pacific Northwest.  Record cold in Montana.  Record cold in Denver.  Supposed to snow in the San Francisco Bay Area Monday.  And the AP thinks we're running out of time to solve global warming. Cold, Hard Facts:  James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and global warming alarmist, is Al Gore's favorite scientist, part of that mythical global warming "consensus" that says we are doomed and man is the culprit.  On Nov. 10 he announced that last month was the hottest October on record and we were still doomed. ... Christopher Booker, writing in the U.K. Telegraph, reports that Hansen apparently has been spreading disinformation all his own to come up with a conclusion that flies in the face of empirical evidence we can see with our own eyes.  Hansen's claim of the hottest October ever came after reports of unseasonal snow and record low temperatures. Global Warming Update:  'Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age'.  As Democrats and their president-elect — with invaluable assistance from their media minions — continue spreading climate hysteria in order to raise taxes and redistribute wealth, a possibly inconvenient truth has just been presented to the international community:  "The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science." Brrr!  Bitter cold grips Minnesota.  The thermometer said it was 38 degrees below zero.  The National Weather Service said the wind chill was -58. For the first time in years, the western part of Lake Superior freezes over.  If the big lake seems to have an unusually placid appearance off Duluth's shores these days, it's because you're looking at ice.  The western tip of Lake Superior has frozen over in December for the first time in recent memory, and that could mean a long season of ice angling that hasn't been seen in years. 2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved.  All over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare.  Last winter, as temperatures plummeted, many parts of the world had snowfalls on a scale not seen for decades.  This winter, with the whole of Canada and half the US under snow, looks likely to be even worse.  After several years flatlining, global temperatures have dropped sharply enough to cancel out much of their net rise in the 20th century. Baby, It's Cold Outside.  Al Gore may believe in global warming, but I suggest that he have a word with his fellow environmental catastrophists at the U.K.'s Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research.  Since the end of 1998, global warming has ceased.  In fact, it is getting colder out there.  2008 was possibly the coldest year of this young century.  During the past two years, temperatures have dropped by more than 0.5 degrees Celsius. Cool 2008 warms climate debate.  While the official figures are not yet in, 2008 is widely tipped to be declared the coolest year of the century.  Whether this is a serious blow to global warming alarmists depends entirely on who you talk to.  Anyone looking for a knockout blow in the global warming debate in 2008 were sorely disappointed. Truly inconvenient truths about climate change being ignored.  For most of the past seven years, those temperatures have actually been on a plateau.  For the past year, there's been a sharp cooling.  These are facts, not opinion:  the major sources of these figures, such as the Hadley Centre in Britain, agree on what has happened, and you can check for yourself by going to their websites.  Sure, interpretations of the significance of this halt in global warming vary greatly, but the facts are clear. Hell Freezes Over.  On Friday [12/19/2008], the Las Vegas Sun reported that eight inches of snow had hit the Las Vegas Valley.  The 3.6 inches that had already fallen as of late Wednesday near McCarran Airport added up to the most snow recorded for the area in December since they began keeping records 70 years ago.  The white powder even dusted Malibu as a winter storm hit parts of California. Snow and freezing weather threaten to shut down Britain.  Arctic blizzards are set to cause a national shutdown on Monday [2/2/2009] as forecasters warn of the most widespread snowfall for almost 20 years. Skiers enjoy heavy snowfall despite dire predictions.  Just three years after the ski runs were blemished with soggy patches of mud and grass, Alpine resorts are enjoying the best snow of a generation, despite predictions that changing weather patterns had doomed the sport UK snowstorm worst in 18 yrs.  The British capital ground to a halt on Monday after the worst snowstorm in 18 years caused hundreds of flight cancellations and virtually shut down public transportation.  Shops, schools and courts shut down and long trails of commuters trudged through the streets, looking for scarce taxis or ways to work after more than 10cm of snow fell overnight. Record snowfalls draw skiers to snap up holiday bargains.  Despite the strength of the euro, British bargain hunters are heading to the snow-covered mountains of Europe to enjoy the best start to a skiing season for more than 20 years.  Record snowfalls and an oversupply of accommodation caused by the credit crunch have prompted a last-minute rush to snap up savings worth hundreds of pounds. Branch Gorevidians Explain Harsh Winter.  This time of year, especially under the conditions much of the country is experiencing, we see people who are digging out from under tons of snow who are mocking "global warming." ... But a good global warmist wouldn't win an episode of Eco-Fear Factor unless he or she could explain how global warming can indeed bury us in snow (because, as you know, it never snowed before global warming started a few years ago). Will Nature Soon Cool Hot Debates?  Measurements by four major temperature tracking outlets reported that world temperatures dropped by about 0.65°C to 0.75°C during 2007, the fastest temperature changes ever recorded (either up or down).  The cooling approached the total of all warming that occurred over the past 100 years, which is commonly estimated at about 1°C.  Antarctic sea ice expanded by about 1 million square kilometers — more than the 28-year average since altimeter satellite monitoring began. Snow blankets London for Global Warming debate.  Snow fell as the House of Commons debated Global Warming yesterday — the first October fall in the metropolis since 1922.  The Mother of Parliaments was discussing the Mother of All Bills for the last time, in a marathon six hour session. Cold streak sets new record -- Saskatoon experiences 24 consecutive days of -25°C or lower.  How's this for cold comfort?  Saskatoon's deep freeze is likely the longest streak of low temperatures below -25 C that has numbed this city since record-keeping began in 1892. Record Snowfall Slams Las Vegas.  A rare snowstorm blanketed the Las Vegas Valley on Wednesday, delaying flights, causing widespread fender-benders and canceling events.  More than 6 inches of snow fell in parts of the valley, forecasters said.  The rarities continued Wednesday night with the Clark County School District's announcement that students are getting a snow day on Thursday.  It's the first snow day for Clark County students since 1979 ... . Storm forces closure of icy Eiffel Tower in Paris.  A winter storm brought blankets of snow across Europe today, forcing the closure of an icy Eiffel Tower in Paris and causing flight cancellations. Seattle paralyzed by chance of snow.  Schools throughout greater Seattle closed Wednesday at the mere threat of snow late in the day, a symptom of the city's deep phobia of the white stuff and near-complete inability to deal with any significant snowstorm.  Even though Seattle is the nation's northernmost major city, snow is a rarity here, and the city is ill-equipped to clear the streets of its hilly neighborhoods. Rare snow covers New Orleans, other areas.  A rare snowfall blanketed south Louisiana and parts of Mississippi Thursday [12/11/2008], closing schools, government offices and bridges, triggering crashes on major highways and leaving thousands of people without power. Ice Skating Down the Bayou.  I know, I know:  Extreme winters are a sign of "climate change."  Except mild winters are also a sign of climate change.  Whatever truth there is to global warming, it isn't inconvenient.  It's the most easily adaptable "crisis" ever discovered.  Not only is it supported by the only scientific theory to be confirmed by contradictory data, but its adherents don't have to worry about defending themselves, because as Barack Obama recently said, "The science is beyond dispute." Feeling cold, thinking hot.  Treasurer Wayne Swan had to get out of his woollies yesterday [10/30/2008] before telling us the world really was warming — and we must pay.  You see, just days before he stood in Canberra, waving a Treasury document he claimed would help stop us heating to hell, his own family had shivered through a day that should make him finally wonder if there really is any global warming. 'Worst' snowstorm kills 7 in China.  A severe snowstorm in south-west China's Tibet region has killed seven people and stranded another 1,300 in damaged buildings and villages, state media reported on Wednesday [10/29/2008], citing local authorities.  The storm, which started on Sunday and dumped 64 cm of snow in one county alone, had also killed 144,400 head of livestock and knocked out telecommunications and traffic in Tibet's Shannan Prefecture, Xinhua news agency said, citing the local government. The Editor says... Please note -- this happened in October, not January. Anchorage suffers one of coldest Octobers ever.  Anchorage has logged the eighth coldest October on record, the National Weather Service said today [10/31/2008].  With an average temperature of 29.7 degrees, October landed a spot in history as one of the 10 coldest out of the roughly 90 years since records have been kept in Anchorage. 7 killed in Tibet's 'worst snowstorm'.  At least seven people have been found dead after "the worst snowstorm on record in Tibet," China's state-run news agency reported Friday [10/31/2008].  About 1,350 people were rescued in Lhunze County — another 300 were trapped — after nearly five feet of snow blanketed much of Tibet this week. [October.  It's not even winter yet.] 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. Cold and Colder.  Joe Bastardi, the Chief Long-Range Forecaster at AccuWeather, has released his 2008-09 Winter Season Forecast addressing issues of average temperature and precipitation that will impact the nation.  His forecast calls for one of the coldest winters in several years across much of the Eastern portion of the United States, the population-dense third of the nation. More Global Cooling Ahead, Study Says.  Natural variations in climate, driven by shifting ocean currents, could lead to another decade of cooling global temperatures, according to a peer-reviewed study in the scientific journal Nature.  The cooling temperatures would add to an ongoing cooling trend that has held sway for the past decade. Brisbane records coldest August in eight years.  The weather experts have confirmed what Brisbane people suspected — the city has just shivered through its coldest August in at least eight years.  It also was the driest since 2001, with Brisbane picking up just 16mm of rain, below the long-term norm of 35mm. We are actually heading towards a new Ice Age, claim scientists.  It has plagued scientists and politicians for decades, but scientists now say global warming is not the problem.  We are actually heading for the next Ice Age, they claim.  British and Canadian experts warned the big freeze could bury the east of Britain in 6,000ft of ice. Cold Temperatures Continue to Batter United States.  Cooling temperatures sent the United States into a deep freeze during the first half of 2008, resulting in some extraordinary weather events. ... Aspen, Colorado decided to reopen its ski resort slopes in mid-June, reporting a snow base up to three feet deep well after the resort normally closes for the season.  A mid-June snowstorm also hit the suburbs of Seattle, with snowfall reported at elevations as low as 3,000 feet. Icy reality cools the climate cultists.  The latest blow to the Government's apocalyptic prophet is news from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute that there is more ice than normal in the Arctic waters north of the Svalbard archipelago.  According to the Barents Observer there are open areas in this area in most years during July — but this year the area is covered by ice.  A fortnight ago a Norwegian research ship, Lance, and a Swedish ship, MV Stockholm, got stuck in the ice in the area and needed to be freed by the Norwegian Coast Guard. Baby, Baby It's a Cold World.  Lord Christopher Monckton, a policy adviser to former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, was recently referenced by senior climate-science authority Fred Singer as saying:  "Global warming stopped ten years ago; it hasn't gotten warmer since 1998. … And in fact in the last seven years, there has been a downturn in global temperatures equivalent on average to about [or] very close to one degree Fahrenheit per decade.  We're actually in a period … of global cooling." Evidence of Global Cooling.  Now there is word that all four major global temperature tracking outlets have released data showing that temperatures have dropped significantly over the last year.  California meteorologist Anthony Watts says the amount of cooling ranges from 65-hundredths of a degree Centigrade to 75-hundreds of a degree.  That is said to be a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years.  It is reportedly the single fastest temperature change ever recorded — up or down. Global Warming?  It's the Coldest Winter in Decades.  New evidence has cast doubt on claims that the world's ice-caps are melting, it emerged last night.  Satellite data shows that concerns over the levels of sea ice may have been premature.  It was feared that the polar caps were vanishing because of the effects of global warming.  But figures from the respected US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show that almost all the "lost" ice has come back. The Global Warming Bubble:  The world hasn't been warming since 1998, and an article in the journal Nature says warming won't pick up again until 2015.  Since global warming is a long-term trend, a decade-long or more stall in temperatures doesn't mean much — except that environmentalists have banked so much politically on whipping up hysteria based on imminent catastrophe.  The stall in temperatures shows how little we know about global warming. Are Global Warmists Pulling a Cool Fast One?  Mounting evidence of lower temperature trends despite rising atmospheric CO2 levels is becoming a real problem for the greenhouse gas crowd.  And reports that the cooling appears to follow a period of dormant solar activity aren't likely to ease their anxieties.  Indeed, without an immediate alarmist course correction, years of "the science is settled" campaigning could prove for naught, as prolonged temperature dips decimate the primary anthropogenic argument. The world has never seen such freezing heat.  A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin the worldwide alarm over global warming.  On Monday [11/10/2008], Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) ... announced that last month was the hottest October on record.  This was startling.  Across the world there were reports of unseasonal snow and plummeting temperatures last month, from the American Great Plains to China, and from the Alps to New Zealand.  China's official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its "worst snowstorm ever".  In the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years. Global warming numbers get a little help from their friends.  According to the GISS figures, last month was the warmest October on record around the world.  This struck some observers as odd.  There had been no reports of autumn heat waves in the international press and there is almost always blanket coverage of any unusually warm weather since it fits into the widespread media bias that climate catastrophe lies just ahead.  In fact, quite the opposite had occurred; there had been plenty of stories about unseasonably cool weather. The killer frost for global warming.  Turn up the heat, somebody.  The globe is freezing.  Even Al Gore is looking for an extra blanket.  Winter has barely come to the northern latitudes and already we've got bigger goosebumps than usual.  So far the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports 63 record snowfalls in the United States, 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month.  Only 44 Octobers over the past 114 years have been cooler than this last one. [Much more about GISS errors here.] New Hope for Global Warming Deniers.  Things are looking up for the global warming skeptics.  First of all there is the global temperature.  After holding constant since 1998 it has dropped markedly in the last two years. … Recently the Germans prudently declared a ten-year hold on non-stop global warming.  What with a flip in the Gulf Stream they realized that the numbers weren't going to look too good for the alarmists in the next few years. NASA measures global temperatures.  NASA is spending around 20 million dollars a year to deploy and monitor 3000 robot buoys around the worlds oceans and the data coming in doesn't support their theory on global warming, in fact it turns out the world has cooled slightly in the last five years.  It's surprising the mainstream media hasn't picked up on this, you would think the fact that the earth is cooling would be front page news. NASA Confirms Natural Climate Shift.  NASA has confirmed that a developing natural climate pattern will likely result in much colder temperatures.  Of course, the climate alarmists' favorite dubious data source was also quick to point out that such natural phenomena should not confuse the issue of manmade greenhouse gas induced global warming. Global warming is hoax that has become dogma.  In South America, last year was one of the coldest ever observed.  In Buenos Aires, it snowed for the first time in 89 years.  Chile had the roughest winter, according to the agricultural minister, in the past 50 years.  Most of Antarctica is actually getting colder.  According to a University of Oklahoma temperature specialist David Deming, "unexpected bitter cold swept the entire Southern Hemisphere in 2007." Antarctica Ain't Cooperating!  National Geographic magazine featured a cover story entitled "The Big Thaw," and based on what you would see in that issue, you would think there is absolutely no debate about rapid and undesirable changes occurring in Antarctica all due to the dreaded global warming phenomenon.  As we have shown over and over, nothing could be further from the truth! Snow forecast for mountains tonight.  Think it's cold?  You have good reason.  Seattle just experienced the coldest first week of June, according to climate records dating to 1891, said Cliff Mass, University of Washington metrologist.  Both 1999 and 2008 share the record, with 1917 falling in second place, he said.  "Just wait until tomorrow," he said, when temperatures are going to be even colder. A Heat Wave, But ...  In late May, despite Green predictions that the Arctic is melting so fast that it will provide a new route, a Northwest Passage, for ships, a group of eco-tourists on a vessel offering polar expeditions found themselves trapped when a former Soviet icebreaker, refitted for visits to the supposedly disappearing ice, was trapped in late May by ice. June snowstorm chills valley.  Tuesday's dumping of snow across the Flathead Valley had locals checking their calendars to be sure it was, indeed, June 10.  Flathead Valley snowfall in June is not unprecedented, but after a long string of dry, warm spring seasons the snowfall did surprise some of the newer arrivals to the valley. Gaiag Me With a Spoon.  Gaia can be a fickle goddess, as Earth Day celebrants in Canada discovered this weekend.  But the irony of an April blizzard driving an Earth Day celebration indoors, in this age of global warming, seems lost on reporters who have swallowed environmentalism hook, line and sinker. See Gore, See Spot.  Geophysicist Phil Chapman, the first Australian to become a NASA astronaut, and who served as mission specialist on the Apollo 14 lunar mission, writes in the Down Under newspaper the Australian that "the rout of Napoleon's Grand Army from Moscow was at least partly due to the lack of sunspots."  This is more than a historical footnote.  The same pattern of solar activity that doomed Napoleon is occurring as we speak. An emerging truth:  There is now unequivocal evidence that the temperature of the planet is dropping like a stone. … Here's some other data you may not have seen.  The troposphere hasn't warmed for the past five years.  And the oceans haven't warmed for five years either … Now, you may not know about this sudden deadly chill in the MMGW atmosphere because the BBC hasn't told you.  To be more precise, it did try to report this — but then appears to have altered its report under pressure from a global warming activist. Global temperatures will drop slightly this year.  The World Meteorological Organization's secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Niña would continue into the summer.  This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory. Geologist:  Sun's shift could mean global chill.  Fluctuations in solar radiation could mean colder weather in the decades ahead, despite all the talk about global warming, retired Western Washington University geologist Don Easterbrook said Tuesday [4/8/2008].  Easterbrook is convinced that the threat of global warming from mankind's carbon dioxide pollution is overblown. A cold spell soon to replace global warming.  Stock up on fur coats and felt boots!  This is my paradoxical advice to the warm world.  Earth is now at the peak of one of its passing warm spells.  It started in the 17th century when there was no industrial influence on the climate to speak of and no such thing as the hothouse effect.  The current warming is evidently a natural process and utterly independent of hothouse gases.  The real reasons for climate changes are uneven solar radiation, terrestrial precession (that is, axis gyration), instability of oceanic currents, regular salinity fluctuations of the Arctic Ocean surface waters, etc.  There is another, principal reason — solar activity and luminosity.  The greater they are the warmer is our climate. Economists:  extreme cold weather costly, deadly.  Fatalities in the continental United States tend to climb for several weeks after severe cold spells, ultimately numbering 360 per chilly day and 14,380 per year, according to a new study co-authored by a University of California, Berkeley, economist. Deaths linked to extreme cold account for 0.8 percent of the nation's annual death rate and outnumber those attributed to leukemia, murder and chronic liver disease combined, the study reports.  Cold-related deaths also reduce the average life expectancy of Americans by at least a decade, it says. It may be cold, but CBC reassures us that calamity still looms.  Ah, the weather. … How cold is it?  It's so cold the CBC had to rush to assure all of us that global warming is still a big, big problem.  With record snow falls, record cold snaps, the return of sea ice to the north, snow in the Middle East and a deep freeze in China, any sensible person might begin to wonder and even have doubts about global-warming theory and climate change.  A little skepticism might begin to creep into the public sphere and threaten to undermine public belief in global warming. Minnesota's fishing opener:  The cold truth about ice.  With less than three days to go before Minnesota's fishing opener, ice still stubbornly clings to some northern Minnesota lakes, leaving anglers to wonder if the hard water will be gone on their favorite lake by Saturday [5/10/2008]. … It's the latest ice-out since 1996. Antarctic Deep Sea Gets Colder.  The Antarctic deep sea is getting colder, which might stimulate the circulation of the oceanic water masses. … At the same time satellite images from the Antarctic summer have shown the largest sea-ice extent on record.  In the coming years autonomous measuring buoys will be used to find out whether the cold Antarctic summer induces a new trend or was only a "slip". Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh.  The scariest photo I have seen on the internet is www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time image of the sun from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, located in deep space at the equilibrium point between solar and terrestrial gravity.  What is scary about the picture is that there is only one tiny sunspot.  Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously. Sydney's Coolest Summer in 50 Years Leaves Empty Cafes, Gloom.  Sydney residents and tourists are cursing La Nina as the harbor city says goodbye to the summer that wasn't.  While the La Nina weather pattern is delivering rain to farmers after the worst drought in a century, it's cutting profits for cafe owners, travel agents and insurers. Tons of Snow Test a Place Where Cold Is No Stranger.  People here are divided between those longing for a few more inches of snow to set a record and others who think the 14 feet that has already landed, and mostly lingered, is more than enough. January Weather Was Exceptionally Cold, Snowy.  January 2008 has been an exceptional month for winter weather, not only in North America but across the globe, according to numerous indicators.  We've had anecdotal evidence of odd weather in the form of wire reports from China, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, and record-setting cold and snow have been felt with intensity not seen for 30 to 100 years, depending on the region. Cold Water on "Global Warming".  It has almost become something of a joke when some "global warming" conference has to be cancelled because of a snowstorm or bitterly cold weather.  But stampedes and hysteria are no joke — and creating stampedes and hysteria has become a major activity of those hyping a global warming "crisis."  They mobilize like-minded people from a variety of occupations, call them all "scientists" and then claim that "all" the experts agree on a global warming crisis.  Their biggest argument is that there is no argument. Cool News About Global Warming:  NASA says recent satellite images show that the allegedly endangered polar ice cap — which will melt completely one of these summers and kill off all the polar bears if we don't slash our greedy carbon footprints and revert to the lifestyles of medieval peasants — has recovered to near normal coverage levels. … Meanwhile, in other news too climatically incorrect for U.S. mainstream media to touch, California meteorologist Anthony Watts says January 2008 was the planet's second-coldest January in 15 years. Skeptics of human-caused global warming point to cold spell.  The world has seen some extraordinary winter conditions in both hemispheres over the past year:  snow in Johannesburg last June and in Baghdad in January, Arctic sea ice returning with a vengeance after a record retreat last summer, paralyzing blizzards in China, and a sharp drop in the average temperature of the globe. Best ski conditions for Norway in 20 years.  Trysil, Norway's largest alpine ski resort area, reports the best conditions since 1988, when there was 2.2 meters of snow on the ground. … Meanwhile, Hemsedal, another top Scandinavian ski area, has never had as much snow in January as this year. NOAA:  Coolest Winter Since 2001 for U.S., Globe.  The average temperature across both the contiguous U.S. and the globe during climatological winter (December 2007-February 2008) was the coolest since 2001, according to scientists at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.  In terms of winter precipitation, Pacific storms, bringing heavy precipitation to large parts of the West, produced high snowpack that will provide welcome runoff this spring. Snow swallows towns' space, cash.  Nearly 3,000 dump trucks piled high with snow have rumbled out of Telluride this year bound for a winter dump where the mountain of dirty white stuff has grown much bigger than any building in town. Recent cold snap helping Arctic sea ice, scientists find.  There's an upside to the extreme cold temperatures northern Canadians have endured in the last few weeks:  scientists say it's been helping winter sea ice grow across the Arctic, where the ice shrank to record-low levels last year.  Temperatures have stayed well in the -30s C and -40s C range since late January throughout the North, with the mercury dipping past -50 C in some areas.  Satellite images are showing that the cold spell is helping the sea ice expand in coverage by about 2 million square kilometres, compared to the average winter coverage in the previous three years. Top 10 'Global-Warming' Myths:  (#6) Global warming has doomed the polar bears!  For some reason, Al Gore's computerized polar bear can't swim, unlike the real kind, as one might expect of an animal named Ursa Maritimus.  On the whole, these bears are thriving, if a little less well in those areas of the Arctic that are cooling (yes, cooling). Warmist polar expedition was cancelled due to extreme cold.  While losing toes to frostbite is no joke, one has to wonder if these two publicity-seekers were undone by believing their own propaganda. … And how many purportedly harmful carbon dioxide molecules were generated by the rescue airplane to be sent to save them from their folly?  I hope the two recover fully and come to realize that it can still be really, really cold in the arctic, no matter what Al Gore tells them. Amazing pictures of countries joining Britain in the big freeze.  Across much of the northern hemisphere, from Greece and Iran to China and Japan, they have been suffering their worst snowfalls for decades.  Similarly freakish amounts of snow have been falling over much of the northern United States, from Ohio to the Pacific coast, where in parts of the state of Washington up to 200 inches of snow have fallen in the past fortnight. Global warming sceptics bouyed by record cold.  Global warming sceptics are pointing to recent record cold temperatures in parts of North America and Asia and the return of Arctic Sea ice to suggest fears about climate change may be overblown.  According to the US National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the average temperature of the global land surface in January 2008 was below the 20th century mean (-0.02°F/-0.01°C) for the first time since 1982. Forget global warming:  Welcome to the new Ice Age.  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." This winter is third worst in decade.  Who was it who coined the term "winter wonderland"?  Obviously, someone who never lived in Chicago.  This winter has been especially bad.  It's not just your imagination.  According to an array of weather statistics compiled by Illinois state climatologist Jim Angel, it's the third-worst winter in a decade.  And weird, besides.  "This is some of the most dramatic winter weather I have ever seen," says Angel. Heavy snow brings Greece to standstill.  A raging snow storm that blanketed most of Greece over the weekend also continued into the early morning hours on Monday [2/18/2008], plunging the country into sub-zero temperatures.  Public transport buses were at a standstill on Monday in the wider Athens area, while ships remained in ports, public services remained closed, and schools and courthouses in the more severely-stricken prefectures were also closed. Short-Term Ocean Cooling Suggests Global Warming 'Speed Bump'.  The average temperature of the water near the top of the Earth's oceans has significantly cooled since 2003.  New research suggests global warming trends are not always steady in their effects on ocean temperatures. Global Warming Explained:  In the 1950s Canada had about 15 permanent weather monitoring stations in the Arctic.  Today only five remain, and the Federal Government announced recently that it will shut down some more of those. … Canada always had lousy weather:  nine months of winter and three months of poor sledding, but it was quite attractive to the first settlers.  It had no income tax returns, low taxes, playing cards for money, and for about 200 years no lawyers.  Still, the Canadian weather was always so extreme that Canadians never quit talking about it since they got here. An Ice Age versus Global Warming.  The latest summary of yet another revised edition of a report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control has evoked all the usual fears predicting the deaths of millions by 2080, and other end of the world scenarios.  2080 is a mere 73 years from now.  In meteorological terms, it is a blink of the eye.  Real climatologists measure time far differently than the rest of us.  While the IPCC, Al Gore, and the other fear mongers are warning of the horrors of Global Warming, it is useful to look at the time scales.  The end of the last Ice Age was 11,500 ago. Little Ice Age May Return Soon, Russian Scientists Say.  A gradual decline in global temperatures will begin by 2015, with temperatures bottoming out in Little IceAge conditions during a 60-year period beginning around 2060, researchers with the Russian Academy of Sciences have concluded.  Their finding contradicts predictions of global warming made in recent years by some climate theorists. These Chinese scientists say the cooling will start sooner -- perhaps about 20 years from now. Global Warming Suffers a Chilling Effect.  The last two months of the year 2000 were the coldest since the United States federal government started keeping records more than a century ago, in 1895. Extreme cold over South Pole reveals global warming models are wrong:  A discovery that it is much colder over the South Pole than believed has exposed a major flaw in the computer models used to predict global warming, a new scientific paper claims. Top 10 'Global-Warming' Myths:  (#6) Global warming has doomed the polar bears!  For some reason, Al Gore's computerized polar bear can't swim, unlike the real kind, as one might expect of an animal named Ursa Maritimus.  On the whole, these bears are thriving, if a little less well in those areas of the Arctic that are cooling (yes, cooling). Where is the Boy Who Cried Warming Now That Antarctica Is Cooling?  So the Antarctic is cooling after all.  Years of news reports claimed that it was warming, and that gigantic icebergs would calve off and melt, turning New York's Central Park into a pond.  But the boy who cried "wolf" cried once too often.  It turns out that most of the Antarctic measurements in the past had been taken on a small peninsula, and not over the vast wind-blown expanse of the frozen continent. Minnesota Team Abandons Effort to "Prove" Global Warming.  The scaremongers point out as many as seven ice shelves have broken off the Antarctic continent over the past 50 years.  They blame global warming, ignoring the inconvenient evidence that the continent is actually cooling dramatically.  Between 1986 and 2002, Antarctica cooled by 0.7°C. per decade.  There also has been a statistically significant increase in sea ice area, as well as an increase in the length of the sea ice season, since 1990. Scientists Say Antarctica is Cooling, Not Warming.  Parts of Antarctica have cooled sharply in recent years, according to a study published online by Nature, a British weekly science journal.  The research was led by Peter Doran of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Antarctica Is Cooling?  So the Antarctic is cooling after all.  Years of news reports claimed that it was warming, and that gigantic icebergs would calve off and melt, turning New York's Central Park into a pond.  But the boy who cried "wolf" cried once too often.  It turns out that most of the Antarctic measurements in the past had been taken on a small peninsula, and not over the vast wind-blown expanse of the frozen continent. The Amazing Disappearing, Reappearing Arctic Ice Cap:  "Danger lies not in what we don't know, but in what we think we know that just ain't so."  So reads the e-mail signature of Greg Holloway, a scientist with the Institute of Ocean Sciences in British Columbia.  The quote, from Mark Twain, is appropriate.  On April 24, Holloway presented a paper to an international gathering of Arctic scientists in which he argued that the Arctic ice cap is not melting. Year of global cooling.  Al Gore says global warming is a planetary emergency.  It is difficult to see how this can be so when record low temperatures are being set all over the world.  In 2007, hundreds of people died, not from global warming, but from cold weather hazards. … South America this year experienced one of its coldest winters in decades.  In Buenos Aires, snow fell for the first time since the year 1918. … Unexpected bitter cold swept the entire Southern Hemisphere in 2007.  Johannesburg, South Africa, had the first significant snowfall in 26 years. Global warming protest frosted with snow .  It snowed, but they still came.  A heavy snowfall blanketed a global warming protest outside the State House in Annapolis this morning, but it did not dampen the shouts of about 400 activists who urged lawmakers to pass the nation's toughest greenhouse gas control law. Global warming is hoax that has become dogma.  On Jan. 4, 2007, BBC News reported "2007 to be 'warmest on record.'"  So, what happened?  In South America, last year was one of the coldest ever observed.  In Buenos Aires, it snowed for the first time in 89 years.  Chile had the roughest winter, according to the agricultural minister, in the past 50 years.  Most of Antarctica is actually getting colder. … Now, it's even snowing in Baghdad! China battles "coldest winter in 100 years".  Millions remained stranded in China on Monday ahead of the biggest holiday of the year as parts of the country suffered their coldest winter in a century.  Freezing weather has killed scores of people and left travelers stranded before the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival — the only opportunity many people have for a holiday all year. Br-r-r!  Where did global warming go?  A funny thing happened on the way to the planetary hot flash:  Much of the planet grew bitterly cold.  In South America, for example, the start of winter last year was one of the coldest ever observed.  According to Eugenio Hackbart, chief meteorologist of the MetSul Weather Center in Brazil, "a brutal cold wave brought record low temperatures, widespread frost, snow, and major energy disruption."  In Buenos Aires, it snowed for the first time in 89 years, while in Peru the cold was so intense that hundreds of people died and the government declared a state of emergency in 14 of the country's 24 provinces. Record snowfalls mean big meltdown.  For snow-weary residents of the Midwest and New England, spring can't come soon enough.  Locations such as Madison, Wis., and Concord, N.H., endured their snowiest winter since records began, and parts of the western USA also saw a much snowier-than-average winter, according to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. Record Cold for Northern Minnesota:  40 Below.  It lived up to its name:  The temperature in International Falls fell to 40 below zero Monday [2/11/2008], just a few days after the northern Minnesota town won a federal trademark making it officially the "Icebox of the Nation." Global Warming Is Out and Global Cooling Is In?  A researcher at Russia's oceanology institute says global warming has peaked — and the planet is now headed for a cooling period that will last through the end of the century.  Oleg Sorokhtin is a fellow of the Russian academy of natural sciences.  He writes in an article for the Russian news and information agency that a cold spell will set in by 2012.  He believes an even colder period will begin as solar activity reaches a minimum in 2041 — and that it will last 50 to 60 years. Global Warming Vote on Snowy Day in Washington.  Nothing inspires taking on the "planetary emergency" of global warming like the first snow of the winter in Washington, D.C. Minnesota Town Hits 54 Below Zero.  Temperatures plummeted across the eastern half of the nation Monday [1/17/2005], approaching an all-time record in northern Minnesota and freezing the Gulf Coast as a river of Arctic air pushed southward.  Thermometers registered a low of 54 degrees below zero at Embarrass, Minnesota. Global warming has halted, at least temporarily. There Has Been No Global Warming for the Past 70 Years. Global warming hysteria:  how the pendulum has swung.  It has become commonplace knowledge, and is unchallenged, that global average temperature has not increased since 1998.  This corresponds to a 9-year period during which the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide, in contrast, did increase, and that by almost 5%.  The greenhouse hypothesis — which asserts that carbon dioxide increases of human origin will cause dangerous global warming — is clearly invalidated by these data.  As if that were not enough, a leading computer modelling team has recently published a paper in Nature which acknowledges what climate rationalists (the so-called "sceptics") have always asserted.  Which is that, contrary to IPCC assessments, any human influence on global temperature is so small that it cannot yet be differentiated from natural cycles of climate change. Global warming has paused.  Recent studies by the Hadley Climate Research Center (UK), the Japan Meteorological Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the University of East Anglia (UK) and the University of Alabama Huntsville show clearly that the rising trend of global average temperature stopped in 2000-2001.  Further, NASA data shows that warming in the southern hemisphere has stopped, and that ocean temperatures also have stopped rising. Has global warming stopped?  The fact is that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 as well as every year since 2001.  Global warming has, temporarily or permanently, ceased.  Temperatures across the world are not increasing as they should according to the fundamental theory behind global warming — the greenhouse effect.  Something else is happening and it is vital that we find out what or else we may spend hundreds of billions of pounds needlessly. Happy End of Global Warming!  Whatever warming trend was going on has flattened out in the last seven years.  Which is an odd thing, because China and India have been pumping out more CO2 from cars and industry.  A bunch of ugly facts are nailing the biggest scare story in history. Zealotry over global warming could damage our Earth far more than climate change.  Given that nowadays pretty well every adverse development in the natural world is automatically attributed to global warming, perhaps the most surprising fact about it is that it is not, in fact, happening at all.  The truth is that there has so far been no recorded global warming at all this century. Decade has had fewest 90-degree days since 1930.  August is the wettest and often the muggiest month of the year.  Yet, summer heat continues in short supply, continuing a trend that has dominated much of the 21st Century's opening decade.  There have been only 162 days 90 degrees or warmer at Midway Airport over the period from 2000 to 2008.  That's by far the fewest 90-degree temperatures in the opening nine years of any decade on record here since 1930. Key degrees of difference:  Has global warming stopped?  The question alone is enough to provoke scorn from the mainstream scientific community and from the Government, which says the earth has never been hotter.  But tell that to a new army of sceptics who have mushroomed on internet blog sites and elsewhere in recent months to challenge some of the most basic assumptions and claims of climate change science. Evidence doesn't bare out alarmist claims of global warming.  These are the seven graphs that should make the Rudd Government feel sick.  These are the seven graphs that should make you ask:  What?  Has global warming now stopped?  Look for yourself.  They show that the world hasn't warmed for a decade, and has even cooled for several years.  Sea ice now isn't melting, but spreading.  The seas have not just stopped rising, but started to fall. Follow-up: Our Earth cools slowly while professor babbles.  If even a global warming professor can't prove his case, or even address the facts, why on earth should the rest of us turn off the lights?  What madness is this?  [Professor Barry] Brook's argument was perhaps best summed up by this astonishing claim:  "Climate scientists don't use temperature charts to 'prove' global warming."  Don't bother showing me the world isn't warming.  I trust the theory that says it must. Prophecy all washed up.  Rain sure is falling this week on the parade of our global warming alarmists.  Wettest of all is Tim Flannery, who was made Australian of the Year last year for wailing the world was doomed.  We were making the planet heat so fast with our filthy gases, Flannery insisted, that the ice caps were vanishing and we had to "picture an eight-storey building by a beach, then imagine waves lapping its roof".  No scare seemed too absurd for this Alarmist of the Year. New climate figures would make a great debate theme.  From 2002 until now, average global temperatures have remained fairly constant.  This is in contrast to the previous period when, as everyone knows, the temperature trend was upwards.  Most people I've mentioned this to were not aware of it.  They assumed that temperatures had continued to rise in line with greenhouse gas emissions, which have certainly continued to increase.  So it's worth looking at what's happened. New Jason Satellite Indicates 23-Year Global Cooling.  Dr. Henrik Svensmark's recent experiments at the Danish Space Research Institute seem to show that the earth's temperatures are importantly affected by the low, wet clouds that deflect more or less solar heat back into space.  The number of such clouds is affected, in turn, by more or fewer cosmic rays hitting the earth.  The number of earthbound cosmic rays depends on the extent of the giant magnetic wind thrown out by the sun.  All of this defies the "consensus" that human-emitted carbon dioxide has been responsible for our global warming. New Findings Show Earth is Not Getting Warmer.  The reports note two important findings that run counter to the view that human activity is causing catastrophic global warming. 2006 is probably the coldest year in the last five years.  The charts speak for themselves. Buoy Meets Gore.  The Argos buoys have disappointed the global warm-mongers in that they have failed to detect any signs of imminent climate change. … Climate-change promoters also are perplexed by the observations of NASA's eight weather satellites.  In contrast to some 7,000 land-based stations, they take more than 300,000 temperature readings daily over the surface of the Earth.  In 30 years of operation, the satellites have recorded a warming trend of just 0.14°C — well within the range of normal variations. Still No Signs of Global Warming.  Each month, Earth Track updates the global averaged satellite measurements of the Earth's temperature.  These numbers are important because they are real — not projections, forecasts, or guesses.  Global satellite measurements are made from a series of orbiting platforms that sense the average temperature in various atmospheric layers.  Here, we present the lowest level, which climate models say should be warming.  The satellite measurements are considered accurate to within 0.01°C. Monthly Mean Central England Temperature, 1659-2006. There IS a problem with global warming… it stopped in 1998.  For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem.  In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco.  Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero). Nature Study Fails to Dent Satellite Data.  Global temperatures show no net warming.  "This is the second time in nine months that these journals have let papers be published in the satellite temperature monitoring field that had easily identifiable errors in their methodology." When Is Global Warming Really a Cooling?  A new paper in the journal Nature purports to solve the long standing "problem" of the satellite-based global temperature record not showing much warming over the last 25 years.  Instead, all it does is help answer the question:  "is the quality of peer review in the popular science journals getting worse?"  (The answer is "yes.") The Best Data Show No Recent Rise At All in Global Temperature.  Satellite readings have shown virtually no warming trend since 1979, while ground-based readings have registered significant warming. No Warming Trend Evident in Twentieth Century.  One might pose the question:  If we had the ability to set the global thermostat, what temperature would we pick?  Would we set it colder or warmer than it is today?  What would the optimal temperature be? Global Warming's Uncertain Future:  A recent report by the Environmental Protection Agency includes a notable departure from the last six years. The real climate change catastrophe.  Studies by National Academy of Sciences, NOAA, Danish and other scientists continue to raise inconvenient truths that question and contradict catastrophic climate change theories, computer models and assertions.  The "hockey stick" temperature graph (which claimed 1990-2000 was the hottest decade in 1000 years) was shown to be invalid; the Southern Hemisphere has not warmed in the past 25 years; the US is yet to be hit by a major hurricane in 2006; interior Greenland and Antarctica are gaining ice mass, not losing it; and Gulf Stream circulation has not slowed, as claimed in 2005. Temperature Record of the Week:  Fayette, Iowa. Back to the The Global Warming Page Jump to Polar Bears and Polar Ice Back to the Home page

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