From the “weather is not climate department” – New record low temperatures set in Cancun for three straight days, and more new low temperature records are possible this week.
Dr. Roy Spencer, who is in Cancun representing climate skepticism on behalf of CFACT writes on his blog:
Today’s my first full day in Cancun at COP-16, and as I emerged from my hotel room I was greeted by a brisk, dry, cool Canadian breeze.
It was 54 deg. F in Cancun this morning — a record low for the date. (BTW, Cancun is nowhere near Canada).
Al Gore is not supposed to be here…but it could be that the Gore Effect has announced his secret arrival. We will check into this.
Here’s the record for today from Weather Underground:
The old record low temperature of 57°F was bested today by four degrees.
And for the previous two days, new record lows have been set:
The weather forecast for the week ahead does not look encouraging, additional low temperature records may be set:
Here are existing Record Lows and Forecast Lows in upcoming days:
Wednesday: 53 °F (2003) Forecast: 51°F
Thursday: 60 °F (2000) Forecast: 59°F
Friday: 60 °F (1999) Forecast: 55°F
Saturday: 57 °F (2003) Forecast: 53°F
Sunday: 55 °F (2008) Forecast: 51°F
The Cancun delegates certainly live in “interesting times”.
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h/t’s to WUWT readers Barry L. and “Amino acids in meteorites”
Dave from the “Hot” North East of Scotland says:
December 8, 2010 at 2:51 am
@ur momisugly Brian Johnson uk – as a determined petrol-head, I also thought that e-cars/vehicles would be susceptible to more cold weather problems. However, I was [ admittedly ] interested to see that is not the case as shown here….
http://www.allcarselectric.com/blog/1052024_electric-cars-cant-handle-cold-weather-myth-busted
But I still like my hydrocarbon fuelled, mobile plant food generator.
Last winter a relative took 4 hours to drive 15 miles in a freezing blizzard. I have a vision of electric cars scattered out of power on a long lonely snowy road. You cannot bring them a gallon of fuel; the only way back is to be towed.
Hahaha….. You couldn’t make this stuff up…:-)
The AGW ship is certainly sinking…. The band’s still playing, but most of the passengers have slipped away to the life boats.
roger says: “We in the UK should write to the Dept. of Energy and Climate Change with a copy to our MP to let them know in no uncertain terms that we are not taking this cr#p any longer.”
And
ifwhen your MPs reply with nothing but hand-wringing and pious verbosity, what then?Thanks, Pointman.
He’s written an interesting post, “Profile of the Climategate Whistleblower,” here:
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/profile-of-the-climategate-whistleblower/
Another year, another climate change conference where 100% of the participants have the same thing in common. Them, their policy and the science employed in academia is literally blind to temperature. That is how the C02 theory came to be.
Meteorologists keep it pretty simple that weather is the basic interaction of cold and warm air with water vapor. If we heat the air unnaturally, we will change that formula and heat the atmosphere which will change climate. Changing climate means exactly that which includes cold, snow and weather severity.
Global warming = a source of heat
Meteorologists supply design temperatures through building codes and they tell us to watch out for solar radiation. If we don’t reflect the solar radiation to keep it harmless, building development will be radiated and generate heat.
In doing studies in over 25 states and 7 provinces, we found the cause of urban heat islands to be buildings being radiated because of a paint color, exterior finish or lack of shade. It was also the rule and not the exception that buildings were radiated first thing in the morning until the sun went down. The bigger contradiction was industry responding to the symptoms with massive energy waste producing more emissions.
As long as the sun shines, the radiation of buildings continues even in the winter. I am going to refer you to a link that will show advanced infrared imaging that shows the solar exposed side of a building 132 degrees F on a 10 degree F day reported by the meteorologist. That is 120 degrees F warmer than the atmosphere and heating the atmosphere without emissions produced. Canada isn’t passing on this information because they have are spending 100s of millions to capture carbon and unfortunately they have put political party first. Capturing carbon that isn’t being produced is useless.
Cancun is reporting 7 degree temperature rise will costs 100s of billions, what does 120 degrees do? Go to this link and put your mouse over the picture and the infrared image will show up.
http://www.thermoguy.com/urbanheat.html
This is now lectured in medical academia for education credits health professionals need for licensing in Canada as well as the US.
Jason says: “Chris [Huhne’s] constituents will be upset, they sent him a “massive” petition before he left…Yes that’s right, the massive petition was signed by 40 people.”
But they wrote on a large sheet of foolscap. And in crayon, of course–the attendants won’t let them have anything sharp.
Henry chance says:
December 8, 2010 at 7:54 am
That pesky weather. Ultra dry Australia is flooding.
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But the rain arrived a couple of hours too late at the Adelaide Oval for Oz to be saved.
KD in Milwaukee said at 7:54 am
Karma, like Mother Nature, is a real bitch!
Karma is unisex, a REAL bastardly bitch.
and –
@Larry Cullen in Texas: re: coming to Milwaukee… buy and bring even more warm weather gear than you have, it’s cold, cold, cold here!
Including a couple of babushkas of course….
I knew it
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/29/climate-craziness-cools-in-cancun/#comment-539874
“We should have whip-around to see if we can raise enuf money to buy big AL a ticket to Cancun so that it will snow.”
WUWT mentioned on the excellent Maggie’s Farm.
Would they please schedule the next conference in August in Texas? We could use some snow about then. Do you think Mother Nature really enjoys goofing on these clowns or what?
I agree with bill blair and disagree with Pointman.
Thus far, none of what’s happened has dented the belief in AGW. There’s just a growing frustration that the message isn’t getting out – obviously due to some fringe skeptics and their corporate sponsors. The cold? It’s just a local effect.
This saga still has a ways to go.
From Joe Bastardi WEDNESDAY
HOW COLD IS IT?
Gavin Partridge has supplied the details:
The central England Temperature (CET) from the 1st-7th of December is -1.9, making this the coldest opening week of December since 1879; 1879 is the coldest opening week on CET record, so this week has been the second coldest opening week to December since CET records began in 1659.
The two-week period, last week of November and first week of December is the coldest since CET records began in 1659.
My addition:
I guess when a lot of us started speculating about going back to the time of the Victorian era… we underestimated it.
Ciao for now
http://www.accuweather.com/ukie/bastardi-europe-blog.asp?partner=accuweather
Meanwhile, very similar to last winter, we are seeing some record warmth in parts of Greenland:
http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/BGSF/2010/12/8/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA
Some 30+ degrees above normal in parts of Greenland. High pressure over the Arctic (really in place for much of the year to one level or another) is sending waves of cold arctic air down south. This high pressure over the Arctic is related to the the general atmospheric “anomaly” we’ve seen over the Arctic developing for some time as warmer temps in the troposphere are affecting pressure gradients. This same kind of phenomenon is related to the blocking highs that brought the heat wave to Russia and even the flooding to Pakistan earlier this summer.
Is this change in the tropospheric pressure gradients causing the large “anomalous” blocking high pressure systems parking themselves over the Arctic and other area related to AGW? Too early to say, but merits much further study…
62 degrees here in the Denver area today, thanks La Nina!
It sure beats last year when we had a cool summer, skipped autumn, and went straight into a cold winter, followed by a cold spring. I didn’t think I would ever warm up!
If we don’t get some moisture soon though, we’ll have to water the garden.
“…but merits much further study..”
All at the taxpayer’s expense, no doubt. And, like sea level study records, subject to whatever changes are needed to forward the AGW narrative.
Philip Foster says:
JEM:
Don’t be too sure about Hades.
Piers Corbyn’s summary for this winter for the UK included the phrase “Hell will freeze over” this winter! http://www.weatheraction.com
Well, we have our Hell too:
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=hell&wuSelect=WEATHER
It’s in Michigan, and yes, it’s frozen over… 26 F -3 C
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KMIPINCK5&month=12&day=8&year=2010
(Well, someone had to say it… 😉
They’ve definitely been Gored. Cancun broke another min temp today:
Actual: Average : Record :
Min Temperature 50 °F 64 °F 53 °F (2003)
http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/MMUN/2010/12/8/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA
Last night -unofficially- the temp hit -3C here in the mountains of Costa Rica!
SGore Card: “snafu explained” here****.
AGW: 1.
Modellers: ****snafu.
“Environment Canada said that once the storm system switched course, it threw off their computer projections.”
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“Extreme forecast snafu explained”
“MONTREAL – Environment Canada admits its weather forecast for Montreal was way off base after the city was hit with 25 cm of snow on Tuesday when the city was expecting just 5 cm.
The federal agency blames the 20 cm difference on an unpredictable weather system that was supposed to miss the metropolis but instead hit it head-on. The storm shut down schools and caused hundreds of road accidents, including one that was deadly.
Environment Canada said that once the storm system switched course, it threw off their computer projections.
“Normally, this type of storm begins in the east and then heads west but the opposite happened,” meteorologist Rene Heroux told QMI Agency. “The digital model that we use to make our forecasts had more difficulty tracking the system.””
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/12/08/16475341.html
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****snafu:
“Definition of SNAFU (Meaning of SNAFU), a 5 Letter Word ****
SNAFU: Review the definition, meaning, pronunciation, explanation, synonyms, and antonyms of the term SNAFU in the Online Dictionary. What is a 5 letter word that starts with S?
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/snafu
Cancun setting record lows? I really don’t want to believe it’s a predictor, but the record of Post Normals/Progressives getting things exactly the opposite of reality is beginning to mount up. Maybe their vigorous opposition to truth – truth, such as it is or can ever be – is so hypersensitive that they can actually show what truth is by opposing it?
For me, it’s downright uncanny how wrong the Progressives are.
Warming…
http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/archive/01054/wededcar08co1_1054966cl-8.jpg
R. Gates says:
December 8, 2010 at 11:54 am
Is this change in the tropospheric pressure gradients causing the large “anomalous” blocking high pressure systems parking themselves over the Arctic and other area related to AGW? Too early to say, but merits much further study…
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What “AGW”???
Show us the hard data. You won’t because you can’t.
The blocking phenomenon merits further study, of course.
But it has happened many, many, MANY times in the past climes. Hardly unusual.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
Even warmists have got to laugh at the irony, don’t you think? I still think they should bring their next conference to Nunuvut in January and experience first hand what a melting Arctic feels like.
JPeden says:
December 8, 2010 at 2:19 pm
“For me, it’s downright uncanny how wrong the Progressives are.”
If you are always losing, start doing the opposite of what you used to do.