Thank you Europe!
As you may know Europe started a mandatory carbon trading scheme a while back to help curb carbon emissions into the atmosphere. As we all know CO2 is a horrible greenhouse gas that causes the earth's atmosphere to hold onto heat from the sun. The more CO2 in the atmosphere the more heat is trapped here on earth. With a projected 1-2°C rise predicted over the course of the next 100 years, Global Warming is a scourge to our planet and to our continued existence on it.
Well thanks to Europe's efforts and of course we should also thank the Kyoto Protocol that so many nations have agreed to, not to mention the valiant efforts of Nobel Prize winner Al Gore the earth is now cooling off!
All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.
A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out nearly all the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.
Amazing!
Once more I'd like to extend my most sincere thanks to all the carbon traders out there, as well as the Kyoto Protocol, and especially Al Gore for saving us all from this disaster! In one year they have reversed 100 years of warming on this planet! Simply astounding!
I'd also like to thank Tim for sending me the good news.
Is the MSM missing this, or do “whatsupwiththat.wordrpess.com” and “dailytech” have some inside source?
It is an interesting graph though. Check their caveat…
— Dan Feb 28, 06:35 AM #Certainly one cold winter does not a global trend make. But it does take a piss in Al Gore’s punch bowl.
Personally I’d rather the earth got warmer than colder. Warmer means longer growing season, means more food for everyone, means increased global prosperity, less poverty, less war, etc.
And wattsupwiththat sites his sources, the HadCRUT, RSS, UAH, and GISS global temperature sets. Certainly if these are available to a blogger they are available to anyone in the mainstream media. There's no inside source, just someone paying attention to the data.
— Matt Feb 28, 07:42 AM #What does all this data say about man made global warming? Well… NOTHING! Sort of like the data global warming believers use. The difference is that global warming believers have an agenda and people like me don’t. That is why they will act like these numbers don’t matter but their numbers do.
Maybe this is just God laughing and thumbing his nose at all the people who think they, not him, are in control.
— Tim Feb 28, 09:06 AM #Stupid MSM...
“Warmer means longer growing season, means more food for everyone, means increased global prosperity, less poverty, less war, etc.”... actually, why everyone is so up in arms about global warming is that the opposite of what you said above is the outcome. Warmer means less water, less food, increasd poverty, increased global instability, more war,
Old story from MSM... but got it quick: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/GlobalWarming/Story?id=2277893&page=1
— Dan Feb 28, 09:10 AM #well history seems to say the opposite, when it has been warmer, civilization has prospered (Roman empire) and when it has been colder there has been famine (Dark ages).
But never mind that. There was a drought in an area that is adjacent to/part of a desert, global warming will kill us all! :p
— Matt Feb 28, 10:30 AM #Never mind that other areas of the country got higher than average rain fall for that year.
wait a sec… how are you familiar with weather patterns during the Roman empire and dark ages? I thought we have a hard time determining the weather when it was just 100yrs ago…
— Dan Feb 28, 02:11 PM #Here is a better, more recent article… http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/19/AR2007081900967.html
— Dan Feb 28, 02:24 PM #It seams as though there are consequences both if the globe warms or cools. Does it really matter which is worse? Well… probably if you believe in man made global warming:)
Dan, the real question is… why did the globe cool down in the last year even though C02 levels have risen? Was this cooling caused by C02? If so, doesn’t this contradict the current global warming theory? If not, what was the cooling caused by? And if the cooling was caused by something other than C02 in the atmosphere, couldn’t this same thing in reverse have been causing the earth to warm gradually?
Dan, do you have answers to these very real questions? Even if the answers are not there, do you support global policy changes based on a theory that raises as many questions as it answers even if that global policy might have devastating consequences that hit the poorest countries hardest? What consequences you may ask? I can guarantee biofuel supporters asked the same question while supporting mandated biofuels such as ethanol. Now we know the consequences of burning our food rather than selling it to be eaten. Do you really want to wait until more people are starving to figure out the consequences of Kyoto?
Now, I don’t really expect answers to my questions… as we have all been told “The debate is over”. When was this actually debated anyway? And if it was debated, at what point was it alright for one side just to claim they have won?
— Tim Feb 28, 03:00 PM #haha more questions!
How are we familiar with average global temperatures from 100,000’s to millions of years ago? How do we know there was an ice age? Maybe the great lakes were dug and filled by alien monkey robots? Or maybe there is scientific evidence that shows us?
And seriously, another article about Fresno? they get an average annual rainfall of less than 11 inches! the article says that as global warming heats the planet some places will become drier and others wetter. So move the farms to the wetter places. The Sahara also used to be a forest. Things change, doesn’t mean it’s bad.
Also don’t forget about human ingenuity, I’m sure desalinization innovations are in demand, the ocean isn’t going to dry up anytime soon.
— Matt Feb 28, 03:11 PM #