Happy to help Jack. WUWT readers you have less than 30 minutes h/t to John Goetz
FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:
As the debate continues about global warming, the month of December was the 14th coldest in 115 years in the United States… and some scientists insist the earth is entering a cooling trend.
- Wind chills brought temperatures in the Dakotas to 50 degrees below zero, while record cold in parts of Florida is damaging some of the orange crops, and South Carolina called an early end to shrimping season.
- Parts of Canada have seen actual temperatures of 30 below zero… And freezing temperatures and record snowfalls are pounding parts of Asia and Europe too.
- Britain has experienced the worst snowfalls in half a century.
- In India – it’s estimated at least 100 people have died due to the cold temperatures… with dozens more killed in Bangladesh.
- In China and South Korea, heavy snow and unusually cold weather have brought chaos to travelers – blocking roads and trains, canceling flights. After one recent blizzard in Beijing – officials had more than 300-thousand people clearing the streets.
Meanwhile some of the world’s top climate scientists suggest this winter is only the start of a worldwide trend toward cooler weather, which could last for 20 to 30 years. They base their predictions on changes in water temperatures in the oceans.
The scientists say much of the global warming in the last century was actually caused by these oceanic cycles when they were in a “warm mode”… as opposed to the current “cold mode.” They suggest there will be cooler summers ahead too.
It’s the kind of research that could undermine lots of what we’ve been told about the warming of the Earth being caused only by man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
Here’s my question to you: How has this winter affected your belief in global warming?
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We could just send Jack Cafferty the URL to WUWT and have him spend a week or two getting up to speed.
Or would that be too easy?
Here’s my question to you: How has this winter affected your belief in global warming?
January 12th, 2010 8:25 pm ET
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No the winter didn’t…. The CRU Scientists and friends that were caught red handed fudging data, deleting or “losing” the original raw temperature data, denying any debate whatsoever about the “settled science” and most importantly the media’s complicit behaviour of ignoring “Climategate” for weeks, while shoving Copenhagen down our throats day and night, did.
sorry to be OT but (A) may what to look at this .See-sawing temperatures characterised New Zealand’s weather in 2009, according to National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research’s annual climate summary. but look at this >The years 2000-2009 were a warm decade overall, with a 10-year average temperature of 12.6°C, 0.1°C above the 1971-2000 normal. (0.1C ABOVE THE 1971-2000 A.V.G).THEY SAY IT WAS THE WARMEST DECADE ON RECORD.
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/6673329/weather-a-mixed-bag-in-2009/
Neil McEvoy……Take a look at the chart you linked to again. The scale has the coldest temps at the top. It is COLDER now than last year.
“In addition to the global warming challenges, we need to address ‘global cooling’ effects and to do so promptly,”
– Vladimir Putin
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14708752&PageNum=0
Having been raised in North Dakota during the 60s and 70’s, I’ve been a global warming skeptic. I think this in part because of the harsh winters (yes we played outdoor street and ice hockey when it was 15 to 20 degrees below zero Fahrenheit during the DAY in January) and the knowledge that where I grew up was once covered by glacial ice 10,000 years ago. The impact of the advance and retreat of glaciers was evident, from rock piles in farmers fields, rocks that were moved and buried by glaciers and subsequently moved to the surface by annual frost heave, to living next to Minnesota, land of 10,000 lakes, most of which were formed by the glacial age, to the aquifers in Eastern North Dakota and Northwestern Minnesota formed by ancient Lake Agassiz.
We were taught that the climate had cooled dramatically during the ice age, and somehow had managed to warm again in modern time, all without the benefit of man.
No, the harsh winter of 2009-2010 has not changed my view/disbelief in global warming.
This is what I wrote. Sorry if it posts twice, but I am not seeing it anywhere.
Dear Jack Cafferty,
Thank you for asking this question.
This winter does not change my mind about anthropogenic global warming – I’ve never believed it because no one has ever shown any independently verifiable proof of it. The main so-called climate scientists have shown that they are willing to lie, cheat, and steal in order to push AGW. The whole movement is based on a fraud.
Authentic scientist invite critical review of their research and data. Climate scientists refuse to release their data and methods and simply say, “trust us, we’re the experts.”
Let me ask you a question, Jack. If a drug company told you their drug would cure whatever ill you had but would not tell you anything about their research and methods would you take their drug? Do you think the FDA would even approve such a drug? Of course not to both questions. So, why should we blindly trust these so-called scientists?
They have thrown away their lab coats for political activism because it brings millions of dollars of research money to them – not because their science is valid. It is the biggest fraud of the century and makes Bernie Maloff look like an amateur.
Thank you for taking the time to read my comments.
Sincerely,
my name – removed on WUWT
New Hampshire
Neil McEvoy (15:04:21) :
windows won’t allow Spencer’s active X to be installed as it’s unsigned by microsoft so it won’t draw the chart – does anyone else have this problem??
Heres the link were the say it was the hotest decade on record .The findings were in line with a World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) prediction that the 2000s would be the warmest decade on record for worldwide average temperatures, he said.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3209349/Last-decade-warmest-on-record-Niwa
pft
good book on climate history called heaven and earth.
I read that but found a much better book called “The real global warming disaster” by Christopher Booker. A well researched and written book.
A very interesting programme from channel 4 in the U.K. recently was called “Man On Earth”. I thought it was another global warmmongers bs, but after about 10 minutes I realised that it was about catastophic climate change in history. It shows how peoples died out including american Indians, The Maya, Egyptians and how the norse and inuits lived side by side in Greenland;but the Norse or vikings died out but the inuits survived.
It was produced by channel 4 who also showed The Global Warming Swindel.
Its worth watching.
If you google man on earth channel 4 It should come up. presented by Tony Robinson
pft,
“Thats why 99.9% of all species that ever existed are extinct, they could not adopt.”
Adopt? Now maybe you are on to something here. I’ll have to give this some more thought…
Jim, too.
Kum Dollison (14:56:53) :
AGW is non-scientific nonsense, but our recent “northern” weather is just that, “Weather.”
The earth is cooling. The Arctic blast is a product of that cooling. It is climate.
The cooling over the past 10+ years and the current freezing in winter just proves that the IPCC climate models are wrong. They can’t use the excuse that one is weather and the other is climate. Any half decent and semi-accurate climate model must be able to predict the medium term and even the shorter term fluctuations. Otherwise, it’s modeling a fictitious world, not the real world we live in. A few more years of cooling would seal the fate of the IPCC and force them to either come clean and admit they are totally wrong, or be proven in a court of law of committing fraud. Their choice.
Mike U.K. (16:24:05) :
Hi.
Greetings!
(…) But being in the UK I’m not sure what 6pm is in real money???
Can anyone give me some help. Like how far ahead or behind they are?
Eastern Standard Time (EST) unless a US broadcast mentions otherwise (See US section). That’s UTC (GMT?) minus 5 hours, when we are not on Daylight Saving Time. Often a second time may be given, PST (Pacific time zone, UTC – 8), for which they may just say “on the West Coast.”
It looks like the Haitian 7.0 earthquake (and the now five 4.0+
aftershocks) took up nearly all of this Tuesday night’s Situation Room
telecast.
I think were all missing the intention of his question. What I think he really wants are the reactions of everyday non technical people who have formed their opinions from various non technical sources. They are the ones most likely to be influenced by personal experiences rather than scientific abstracts.
They are an important segment of the political debate over AGW. In this sense, it doesn’t really matter if Siberia is consistently a ‘hot spot’, this group will blur global temperatures with local ones so all these cold winters will chill the credibility of AGW alarmists in their minds and will likely conclude that nothing other than normal climate change is occurring.
Why is it that I feel so sad for those who died from cold weather while I’m untouched by the fates of those predicted to die because of Global Warming?
G.L. Alston (15:05:36) :
Can’t win. This is CNN we’re talking about, with made up minds and settled science. This cannot end well. (sigh.)
CNN’s ratings have been steadily falling for years. FOX News ratings are doing well. I would guess it’s because the are less biased than CNN and will actually allow differing viewpoints on their shows without demeaning those differing points. I know CNN will insert bias at some point. But what is great is that they are giving the other side of the story.
For years this did not happen.
January 12th, 2010 9:03 pm ET
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My belief in AGW or AGCC has changed not a whit from the recent weather being experienced worldwide.
Weather is not climate, and vice versa.
The best evidence available, the best climate models available at this point in the evolution of science are insufficient to more than lightly suggest much less produce proof that there is any such climate forcing on other than local basis that is caused by man.
The Climategate scandal just hilights how very weak the evidence is, when the most prestigious bodies in the field have to collude to block publication of papers that are antithetical to their viewpoint, when they have to attack in public and private those who are skeptical of much less antagonistic to their views, when the programming that was released with the emails and data is so filled with artificial (the programmer’s notes) adjustments to the data, and with so much extrapolated (made up) data due to lack of real measurements.
“radun (14:51:37) :
Strong earthquake in Haiti, magnitude 7.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/290_20.php”
I wonder how long it will be before algore makes a statement relating this in some manner to AGW or AGCC.
Mark.R (16:47:34) :
Its funny how if you point out that temperatures have flatlined or even decreased over the last decade then you are told “10 years is weather not climate”. And yet “hotest decade on record” is supposed taken as climate not weather.
janama (16:46:54) :
windows won’t allow Spencer’s active X to be installed as it’s unsigned by microsoft so it won’t draw the chart – does anyone else have this problem??
It’s working fine for me, chats are being drawn nice and fast.
I have (Debian) Linux.
I prefer to think of December as the 111th warmest month in history. Michael Mann
NIWA is made up of prevaricating Warmists. Their homogenization and pure alteration of temperature data is a crime to science. Nothing they say should be believed.
I just found the reason for global warming. It’s the trees.
http://www.newsminer.com/pages/full_story/push?blog-entry-As+trees+migrate+north-+their+leaves+will+help+warm+the+air-+study+says%20&id=5528546&instance=blogs_editors_desk