2010 Dawned with Record Cold Gripping the Earth
In the Midwest of the United States, wind chills plunged temperatures to minus 50 degrees. The Gulf Coast and Texas shuddered from brutal, freakish cold. Across Florida, freeze imperiled crops statewide, and the Palm Beach Post reported that “the 107-year-old record low for Jan. 7 in West Palm Beach has been broken, dropping to 37 degrees by 5:15 a.m. and it could fall further before the sun comes up.” AccuWeather, meanwhile, reported, “The last time severely low temperatures froze a large swath of the nation was in 1985.”
As in the U.S., so around the world. Blizzards blanketed Britain, paralyzing transportation and business infrastructure. And as the Guardian reported, “In Seoul [South Korea] a blizzard dumped more than 25cm of snow today — the heaviest snowfall since Korea began conducting meteorological surveys in 1937,” and “the punishing winter weather has brought transport chaos to China … and claimed at least 60 lives in northern and eastern India.” Yes, India, where the Punjab, Bihar, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh states were plunged into deadly frigidity.
People freezing to death in India. That is a manifestly strange state of affairs and might be expected to call into question the whole “global warming” thing. Not so fast, say the true believers, who assure us that isolated weather events need not be indicative of long-term global trends. Never mind that these same climate cultists consistently use any summer storm or hot day as “proof” of their warming fantasies.
Our recent cold spell comes at the end of a decade-long trend which has seen global temperatures flatline from their peak in 1998 … or fall. That’s right, the Earth is not warming — and hasn’t been for the past twelve years. But don’t take my word for it. In one of the hacked emails constituting the Climategate scandal, Dr. Kevin Trenberth, head of the Climate Analysis Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, admits privately that he cannot explain the current cooler trends. “The fact is,” Trenberth writes, “we can’t account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can’t.”
Now you’re scaring me.
NODC revises data for oceans…. oceans now shown to have been Cooling since 2007: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/31/nodc-revises-ocean-heat-content-data/
And here I thought the climate scientists and models all said the oceans would be getting warmer.
Robert Frost
Fire and Ice
Some people say the world
will end in fire,
Others say in ice.
Though I hold with those
who favor fire,
I think I know enough
of hate,
To say that for destruction
Ice is also great,
And would suffice
This article is much too logical. There’s so much common sense, it reads like it was written by an Alaskan hillbilly. In the upside down world that brought us Barack Obama, up is down, stupidity is smart, Islam is peace and cold is hot. And climate change is cool.
The facts just don’t support the incredible amount of warming hype we hear from politicians and the mainstream media.
http://www.c3headlines.com/2010/01/giss-warmest-decade-meme-how-does-it-stack-up-previous-decades.html
Thank goodness for PJM and other blogs.
Matt — The idea that climate change = anthropgenic global warming has so seeped into the mass culture that even people who should know better continue to assume AGW is a fact in the face of the all evidence to the contrary. I have in mind here an article by Ramesh Ponnuru in the latest (print) edition of National Review. Near the end of the article he discusses cap ‘n trade, and then goes on to say that there are better ways to handle global warming such as clean technologies, etc. My response is, that if there is no global warming, natural or otherwise, why bother with clean technologies? Pursuing such techologies would be a waste of time and effort. It would be all cost and no benefit. But of course, the fraudsters at CRU and NOAA have so propagandized our culture that even people such as Ramesh Ponnuru assume keep thinking there is AGW and keep devising useless schemes to mitigate its effects.
I’m as sceptical as they come when it comes to catastrophic warming, but while the northern land masses have been very cold this winter, the earth as a whole is quite warm right now. See http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/ for more information. This isn’t surprising, since there’s a moderately strong El Nino right now.
Bret @ #7: Don’t be sure about that. I call your attention to the following blog from SPPI: http://sppiblog.org/news/the-hottest-hoax-in-the-world#more-851
You won’t go far wrong if you follow this simple rule of thumb: if the weather is cooler than expected, then that is what it is weather, but if the weather is warmer that expected, then it is climate.
25cm of snow in SoKor. That’s 10″! I wish I had 10″… of snow.
The whole issue is now hilarious! Just as the enviro-whackos get their guys into power and are ready to implement their massively tyrannical and destructive policies, the world goes “Tilt!”. God has a sense of humor, and I’m laughing with Him!
And still the ideologues go on with their agenda, futilely pursuing their defeated dreams, railing against global warming in the midst of a blizzard! It becomes pure comedy gold! You can’t make this stuff up! Bwahahahahahaha!
Opinion pieces like this one are all well and good, but how about doing some real investigative reporting? How about proving that Obama or our leaders in congress knew this was junk science but spent the billions anyway? How about uncovering enough evidence that Hansen and Mann and the other junk scientists can be put in prison for the rest of their miserable lives?
2010 Dawned with Record Cold Gripping the Earth
Does this call into question the whole “global warming” thing?
Of course. If global warming weren’t a myth, there’d be no more winter weather.
Here’s an interesting, new claim that surely needs further study: http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=8012
“Cosmic rays and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), both already implicated in depleting the Earth’s ozone layer, are also responsible for changes in the global climate, a University of Waterloo scientist reports in a new peer-reviewed paper [the prestigious Physics Reports] …
“His conclusions are based on observations that from 1950 up to now, the climate in the Arctic and Antarctic atmospheres has been completely controlled by CFCs and cosmic rays, with no CO2 impact…. Most remarkably, the total amount of CFCs, ozone-depleting molecules that are well-known greenhouse gases, has decreased around 2000… Correspondingly, the global surface temperature has also dropped. In striking contrast, the CO2 level has kept rising since 1850 and now is at its largest growth rate.”
“In his research, Lu discovers that while there was global warming from 1950 to 2000, there has been global cooling since 2002. The cooling trend will continue for the next 50 years, according to his new research observations. As well, there is no solid evidence that the global warming from 1950 to 2000 was due to CO2. Instead, Lu notes, it was probably due to CFCs conspiring with cosmic rays. And from 1850 to 1950, the recorded CO2 level increased significantly because of the industrial revolution, while the global temperature kept nearly constant or only rose by about 0.1 C.”
If anything, this reaffirms the complex nature of climatology, and how multiple factors, besides humans, come to play.
My daughter is married to a Green and he told me with a straight face that just because the planet is warming doesn’t mean that some parts can’t be colder. Less is more?? LOL
This just in,
Forget CO2, there is another greenhous gas that is far more deadly and may be contributing to Global Warming!
Dihydrogen Monoxide
Inhalation of even the smallest amount of dihydrogen monoxide can kill a grown man.
Children are even more susceptible when exposed to too much of it.
It is the primary component of acid rain.
Even supposedly “green” fuel-cell vehicles emit dihydrogen monoxide as a pollutant.
Dihydrogen monoxide is an essential chemical used in nuclear power plants
Some scientists have discovered that there is no process which will enable washing the dihydrogen monoxide out of fruit from industrial farms using the chemical in their farming process
Dihydrogen monoxide has been proven to cause excessive sweating and urination.
Now it even appears that our fisheries are just full of it. Throughout the industrial era, fish have been literally swimming in the stuff.
It is established that the chemical dihydrogen monoxide is found in most carcinogens.
It is a primary component in the transfer of the AIDS virus.
There is no doubt that dihydrogen monoxide kills far more people every year than any other chemical compound known to man.
And new studies are now showing that dihydrogen monoxide may be the Greenhouse Gas most responsible for Climate Change, even greater than the effects of CO2.
It should have been banned long ago, and it is a travesty that this administration has wasted the last year without doing anything about it.
Hey JD-
You must have watched that Penn & Teller “B.S.” segment. (very funny)
Says Matt Patterson, “these same climate cultists consistently use any summer storm or hot day as “proof” of their warming fantasies…”
Someone who would do that could fairly be called a climate cultist. But the climate realists I’ve run into consistently downplay hot spells as weather rather than climate, just as they do cold ones.
So Patterson would have to give references for names and exact quotes of the people who treat hot spells differently from cold ones, lest sensible people think he is talking about people so conveniently wrong for his purposes that they don’t actually have to exist.
If It’s That Warm, How Come It’s So Da Darned Cold?
(How fire can be domesticated)
>”Is anyone preparing for this monstrous certainty?”
You betcha. Lots of folks.
Professor Timothy Ball was interviewed by Michael Coren. Look for it to show up online in the near future.
The Club of Rome is largely to blame, and that is what I will say, because the good professor tells the tale much better than I.
JD, can you neutralize it with water? LOL
Hi folks:
Let’s be serious for a moment (oh I know, what a buzz kill…).
But really, we have to STOP these warmist loons before they really screw up the US ecconomy by the “knee-cap and tax” bill, the new epa CO2 ruling, and (most dangerous) some binding international agreements !
These blogs are great, but what we need is head-to-head competition with the NAS, IPCC, MSNBC, AAAS, and all the rest of the academo-entertainment industry.
How about a movie that features conservative, rational folks defeating a bunck of AGW loonies and saving the earth from a near-miss with the next ice age ?
How about a $10M X prize for the first person to convince a jury of rational scientists (who are agnostic on climate) that man-made CO2-caused global warming is a RIDICULOUS idea ?
Any other ideas ? How do we teach or neighbors and our children that this is just another “panic” brought to us bny the secular-humanist-one worlders who want to share our wealth with all the poor folks ?