Comments on: From Belgium: New twist on the ‘Gore Effect’

By: Mike Busby

Mike Busby — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:35:53 +0000

An excellent cartoon.
Location: Townsville Queensland Australia.
Yes we are experiencing a cooler summer than normal. A quick glance at my home weather station reveals that at the time of posting it is 31C outside with 58% humidity, overcast and a little drizzle about to fall. It is also a pleasant 26.6C inside with air conditioning.

Normally it would be around 34 to 36C up to 40C but rarely over that.

We have a cyclone forming about 800klm to my north west which will bring some welcome rain and that tends to cool off the region for a day or so and then the heat and humidity go throught the roof. 38C with 90% humidty. Bliss.

We must be having a cooler than average summer because our cricketers have had a bloody awful start to the season by letting South Africa win 3 matches.

By: Raybo

Raybo — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:47:16 +0000

I live in Central Australia, and we are NOT having a normal summer. It has been unusually cool here. The last two months we’ve had high temps as low as 24c nd not higher than 34c. This week it might break 38c, but that’s far better than the usual 40+ norm for this time of year. We’ve had our first real “spring” weather in many years! Last week we had snow in Tasmania. The same week they had of “winter like” temps in Victoria. Funny how the “cool” news doesn’t get out into the media….

By: E.M.Smith

E.M.Smith — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:32:32 +0000

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-1105053/The-day-sea-froze-Temperature-plunges-MINUS-12C-forecasters-say-wont-warm-Sunday.html

Has some really nice pictures of a really cold GB…

By: TIred

TIred — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:31:18 +0000

It’s not called Global Warming anymore, it’s called Climate Change. That way we can account for any abnormality and blame it on ourselves.

By: crosspatch

crosspatch — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:05:25 +0000

MG: from the Bloomberg link you provided:

Wheat is the fourth-biggest U.S. crop, valued at a record $13.7 billion in 2007, behind corn, soybeans and hay, government figures show.

Maybe not. According to ABC News article, the marijuana harvest brings more cash than corn and wheat combined.

By: MG

MG — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:12:07 +0000

Cold weather may damage winter wheat

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=a0Isx3sPPtvc&refer=australia

By: Burghard Schmanck

Burghard Schmanck — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:14:10 +0000

If you want to know, where around the world it is cold too, look here: http://www.schmanck.de/cooling.html

By: DennisA

DennisA — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:04:35 +0000

It’s time they turned off those damn great cooling fans they’ve got all over the hillsides, that CO2 thermostat is obviously broken…

By: Hacène

Hacène — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:12:08 +0000

Very cold in France too ! -20°C in the north east and near Paris. Even the South is cold and snowy :
http://www.lefigaro.fr/medias/2009/01/07/ae0fe9a0-dcab-11dd-9dae-f4af976909ba.jpg

By: Jeff Wiita

Jeff Wiita — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:27:51 +0000

Lets go for it, E.M.Smith. I like it.

By: MA

MA — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:08:26 +0000

The global temperature is probably on its way down, and this shift maybe cause a bit unusual waather pattern.

The current global land temperature due to satellite data is about average since 1979. But regionally we have had well populated and rich (media important?) America and Europe with cold weather anomalies and Russia/Siberia with high temperature anomaly.

Average land temperature on land since 1979 may be what you can have if the temperature is on its way down. The sea temperature I think is still the 6th warmest since 1979.

The record cold weather at many places belongs to unusual regional weather patterns, but also we have hade a temperature peak and now just can wait and see what a silent sun will bring the next couple of years. If PDO and/or AMO also switch to a cold phase we may have a cold spring/sunner and food shortage next year, as well as at least one more cold winter?

I think it will takes several years to reach a global temperature low since satellite temperature measurement started.

(The CO2 hypothesis should have been burried already because of science opposing it, e.g. the positive total feedback, among lots of other things.)

By: E.M.Smith

E.M.Smith — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:55:10 +0000

Jeff Wiita (06:18:11) :
If we are entering into a Grand Minimum, can we start calling it GoreHansen Minimum? And, if enter into another mini ice age, can we start calling in the GoreHansen Pessimum Period?

There are three things that each get a name. The sunspot minimum. The cold period. The bad effects for society from the cold (pessimum).

The sunspots ought to be called the Landscheidt Minimum because he predicted it.

I like the sound of “The AlGore Cold Period” and the “Hansen Pessimum”

By: Jeff Wiita

Jeff Wiita — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:58:03 +0000

Grand Minimum called the “Hockey Stick Minimum”

Cooling Period called the “GoreHansenMann Pessimum Period”

I like it. *click* *save as* *email to*

Start the satire boys and girls. That is the only way to stop AGW.

By: Nick Yates

Nick Yates — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:35:47 +0000

I live in Melbourne and there certainly seems to be a disconnect between the headlines and reality. The BOM predicted a ‘long hot summer’ at the start of the spring and so far it has been cold. We’ve even had the heating on in January for the first time since we moved here 5 years ago.
Compare this article yesterday from The Australian…

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24881875-11949,00.html

…with todays high temperatures on the BOM website
http://www.bom.gov.au/

Adelaide 23.8 C
Canberra 26.7
Melbourne 19.8 C
Perth 35.3C
Sydney 22.4C

Hmmmm.

By: Pappadave

Pappadave — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:09:03 +0000

I’ll believe in AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) on the same day that one of its proponents explains to me why the polar ice caps on MARS have been shrinking for the last 20 years or so and why the same thing happening here on Earth is somehow “different.”