Falling temperatures are giving climate alarmists chills
Global warming is nowhere to be found. The mean global temperature has not risen in 17 years and has been slowly falling for approximately the past 10 years. In 2013, there were more record-low temperatures than record-high temperatures in the United States.
At the end of the first week in January, a brutal spell of cold weather settled over most of the country. Multiple cold-temperature records were shattered across the country. Some sites experienced frigid conditions not seen since the 19th century. Chicago and New York City broke temperature records set in 1894 and 1896, respectively. These extremes were not singular, but exemplary of conditions throughout much of the continent. Temperatures in Chicago were so cold that a polar bear at the Lincoln Park Zoo had to be taken inside.
The onset of polar conditions over the United States was also a reminder that cold weather in general is more inimical to human welfare than warm weather. The operation of power grids, gas pipelines and oil refineries was disrupted. Passengers on Amtrak trains were left stranded, and thousands of flights were delayed or canceled. By Jan. 7, the media were reporting at least 21 deaths directly related to the cold.
Weather extremes also seem to bring out the lunatic fringe. Of course, when we’re discussing global warming, it’s difficult to tell where the mainstream stops and the fringe begins. We were subjected to the oxymoronic explanation that frigid weather was, in fact, caused by global warming. According to Time magazine, cold temperatures in the United States were a result of global warming forcing the polar vortex southward. But in 1974, the same Time informed us that descent of the polar vortex into temperate zones was a harbinger of a new Ice Age.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/16/another-year-of-global-cooling/#ixzz2qfjDI7Pv
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NOAA “state of the climate” report: Contiguous US average temperature plummeted 2.9F in 2013
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We were subjected to the oxymoronic explanation that frigid weather was, in fact, caused by global warming
Yes and it came from the White House:
The odds are that what we can expect as a result of global warming is to see more
of this pattern of extreme cold. – – – Dr. John Holdren, The White House – 1/8/2014
super cold stat to the year, more sea ice exteent than normal for over 13 months, impending solar minimum and now an incipient La Nina. Except for the fact that it might flood where I live in a La Nina year life couldn’t be sweeter.
I think we can expect 2014 to be cool as well since we are entering a la nina year.
Every 11,500 years this world we live on has an Ice Age. It has been nearly 12,000 years since the last Ice Age.
All the talk is about a mini ice age coming. The lack of comment on a full blown Ice Age is very conspicuous in its absence.
The latest Polar Vortex dropped temps in exactly the same areas that had a couple of km’s of ice over it 12,000 years ago.
Coincidence – I think not
One of the sad things is, we will never get an apology from any of these people. They will move on to the next scare, the next ‘theory,’ and find some way to blame skeptics for the failure of AGW. Reality is ‘liberal’ in their minds, after all. It will always be about them being right and us being wrong. Oh, and we should be silenced. And demonized. And ridiculed. And….
Cold or freezing weather is not inconsistent with CAGW – just ask Michael Mann he wants to save the polar bear.
Perhaps he should start knitting them warm jumpers!
But, in the comments section after their articles, contrarians will respond, “Fool me once . . .” and that will carry great weight with the Undecideds. At a minimum, it will put Them on the defensive.
Unfortunately the UK has had a mild winter so far. Oh and a bit wet as well. All grist to the BBC’s claims about global warming.
Flooding has again hit the usual areas and record rain has been blamed. The real cause is lack of river maintenance. Wild life is considered before houses and businesses so rivers are crammed with weed which reduces flow causing floods. Meanwhile river sedimentation continues a pace causing more problem flooding.
rogerknights says:
January 18, 2014 at 2:38 am
Unfortunately Roger, the people have been fooled many times before and yet they still fall for the same old tricks time and time again.
Global warming has become the Tampax of science. It can do everything. Warm, cold, bring rain, bring drough, ride horses, play tennis…
70% of the population are followers; demagogues like Gore and Obama know this and exploit it.
The Big Lie, based on Sagan’s awful mistake (he claimed black body surface emission to a planetary atmosphere which no professional scientist or engineer agrees to be true), has been pushed for 25 years now.
It was also pushed by Meteorologists and Climate Alchemists who are taught that a pyrgeometer output, in reality a Radiation Field, is a real energy flux.
So, it is no wonder the sheeple are easy meat for dumb Climate Alchemists and equally dump politicians. Reality will sink in when the World really cools, but the heat in the oceans is still high.
I guess this a Northern hemisphere-centric group. All this talk about the Polar vortex negating the global warming argument, but I see you are silent on the record high temperatures in the Southern hemisphere.
It is interesting that here in the UK we are having the mildest winter that we have had for quite a while. Last winter was pretty ordinary and around five before that have been colder than average. Last year we also had the first decent summer for ages, not too hot but with plenty of dry and sunny weather.
With regard to global averages, it has occurred to me that an absolutely colossal amount of money and resources have now been sunk into the climate change scare. I have a feeling that many of those who are responsible for this know who they are and also know that we know who they are. I think that there must be a real wave of fear washing over these people as they consider the consequences, for themselves, of the whole thing being proved to be bunk. The ridiculous notion that global warming is making it colder can only be sustained for a short time. If it starts to get colder the ‘pause’ is going to have to re-named…what?
January 18, 2014 at 2:25 am
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We are still in an ice age now. Technically, an ice age is whenever there is permanent ice on the planet. We have been in this current ice age for millions of years. What you refer to as ‘ice ages’ are in fact periods of maximum glaciation.
For the past 3 million years, the glaciation has followed a regular pattern of glaciers advancing and receding. This cycle is repeated about every 100, 000 years and the last glacial maximum on this planet was about 20,000 years ago.
Most of this is confirmed by the Vostock ice-core record, which reveals temperature changes over the past 400,000 years. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vostok-ice-core-petit.png
Notice that past temperatures (blue line) follow a regular pattern swinging from ‘ice age’ conditions to warm interglacial warming periods with a fixed periodicity of about 100,000 years.
Our present interglacial, the Holocene, is in fact running cool. According to the IPCC, previous interglacials were warmer than at present. In particular, the Eemian (about 120,000 years ago) was 2 deg.C warmer than today. So, we could assume that we are still in a warming phase and any future warming ( up to 2 deg) would be ‘natural’.
The other point of interest is the CO2 level (green line). You can see that this goes in ‘lock-step’ with the temperature swings (as Al Gore puts it). A very impressive correlation between CO2 concentration and temperature. However, we now know that temperature changes first, then the CO2 concentration follows temperature.
If we assume that global temps have been flat for, certainly, the last 12yrs, and accept that the Arctic has warmed over that period, it follows that the rest of the planet has cooled on average.
brad griff~ Australia is not the entire southern hemisphere, and the ‘record’ is questionable considering that a number temperature / weather sites are fairly recent to portions of the country. And did you notice that record Antarctic sea ice, well into summer?
While we should take every opportunity to highlight the insignificance if recent trends, it’s also important to be consistent.
It might be correct to state that there has been no warming for the past 17 years based on the lack of statistical significance but you cannot then claim that the mean global temperature “has been slowly falling” for the past 10 years. Neither the 17 year nor 10 year trend is statistically significant.
Once the time is there they don’t get away with an apology. The least is in court at the Hague for crime against humanity. I become fed up with these criminals
Can you imagine what the temps would look like if the government data sets where not “adjusted” by the warmists? Does anyone really believe that the temps in the NASA data sets are not much lower than they publish?
I would love to see a long term data set with raw data and see what the last few years looks like in comparison to the past century. I know that the 1970s were darn cold here in Florida and that this winter reminds one of those days.
Is there a graph of uncontaminated temperatures anyplace I can look?
markstoval says:
January 18, 2014 at 4:53 am
No, not to my knowledge. Perhaps someone else can help. Most has been lost or thrown away. Phil Jones has destroyed some original data because “there was nowhere to store it”, but he has a ‘value added’ temperature record.
From the Met Office records …..
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/climate-monitoring/land-and-atmosphere/surface-station-records/faq
So, in summary, NO,,,,they have lost it, destroyed it or hidden it.
I’m pretty. certain reading somewhere that the CET data, going back to the mid 1700’s, is not “homogenised”. I also think JoNova has access to a samizdat copy of the original Aus B o M temperature records. Hope that helps
Yet they think we have forgotten that they promised us warmer winters as a result of the greenhouse effect. Now they say, oops, we really meant colder winters – until we get warmer winters again and they will say we predicted that all along. };>) Cold winters are not entirely inconsistent with our global crappy warming hypothesis.
AlecM says:
January 18, 2014 at 3:17 am
>The Big Lie, based on Sagan’s awful mistake
>(he claimed black body surface emission to a
>planetary atmosphere which no professional
>scientist or engineer agrees to be true),
>has been pushed for 25 years now
Sorry all for “feeding the troll”, but I can’t let this go un-corrected. I am a professional engineer. I have two text books that explain in detail black (and grey) body radiation through an atmosphere. Not sure what Sagan said, but both texts (one more than 50 years old) explain the impact of “participating media” in radiant energy transfer and how they cause the atmosphere that the radiant energy is passing through to warm up. Metallurgists, chemical engineers, mineral processing engineers, mechanical engineers all are taught this. The engineering is based on well understood physics, which you can also choose to study at a graduate to post graduate level. You are dead wrong Alec. When I talk about why CO2 is NOT a problem, the people I’m talking to invariably ask if I’m one of those nutters who doesn’t believe in the well understood science of radiative energy transfer. So please. Don’t “help”. I’ll leave it at that. If you choose to further detail your ignorance of physics, feel free, but I won’t reply further.
Steve Case says:
January 18, 2014 at 2:22 am
Yes and it came from the White House:
Fortunately the White House is known as a gang of liars. “If you like your warm, you can keep your warm.”
Brad (Griff) says:
January 18, 2014 at 3:28 am
I guess this a Northern hemisphere-centric group. All this talk about the Polar vortex negating the global warming argument, but I see you are silent on the record high temperatures in the Southern hemisphere.
No, but it’s just weather, if you note the circulation patterns the hot air from the interior is being directed over the cities, first in QLD then in the south as this weather pattern passes over us. There were some isolated records here and there on the Australian continent as there are just about every year, heatwaves aren’t uncommon in the Australian Summer. At the same time Melbourne was experiencing 44, we in SE Queensland had only about 28, that’s barely 3 degrees above what we normally see in winter, even averaged over Australia these days are far from record. Back in November it snowed, it was nearly summer!.
Elsewhere in the southern hemisphere nothing is happening and Antarctica is if anything getting colder. So averaged over the southern hemisphere, a few days of hot weather in Melbourne mean nothing. On the other hand in the northern hemisphere where the main land masses are we’ve seen several years of deep cold winters over Europe, and this year north America. This cold anomaly has actually reduced the global average much more than our few hot records have increased it. We aren’t talking about Australia, we’re talking about implications for the global average.
Nor are many here saying that the polar vortex proves global warming doesn’t exist it’s just weather (albeit interesting weather) after all, we do however get a little sarcastic as the warmist bleat about every storm, ever day of hot weather and every flood or drought and yet the cold extremes get somehow overlooked ( the word hypocrite comes to mind). Also in the NH there is now a significant track record of cold winters, which has depressed the global average temperature so the big question now is what’s changed,
Oh, and when the whitehouse pops up to tell us that global warming causes global cooling the BS meter does tend to hit the ceiling.
On CO2, CO2 warms, we all agree, but the key is how much – there is no thermageddon around the corner – and we can prove it.