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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Back to the The Global Warming Page Jump to Polar Bears and Polar Ice Back to the Home page |
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