People send me stuff. Nigel Rios writes in with a great compendium of Time Magazine covers that illustrate the history of that magazine’s global warming coverage from the 1970’s to the present. It’s worth the click.
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Of course this is all just fun and satire, but for those who didn’t get the spoof, there’s further reading. Check out this WUWT story on Time’s recent article about the December snows of 2010, where they were dead serious.
Time Magazine blizzard science sets low standard for green journalism
Happy New Year!
I find it particularly interesting that not only has the concept of global warming come full circle to explain the current successive cold and snowy northern hemisphere winters, that one would associate with cooling, but that the current use of the term “climate change” is now associated with AGW in main stream media.
Here is a link that many on this site will find very informing
http://search.nap.edu/nap-cgi/de.cgi?term=Abrupt+Climate+Change&x=0&y=0
This link will take you to the National Academies Press page of the NAS. The first document listed is a research report to the Academy prepared by a special task for the NAS empaneled specifically to report on the scientific basis of “Abrupt Climate Change”. This site allows you to skim or read sections or even the entire document on line.
If you start on page 24 you will discover that the period of abrupt climate change studied is the “Younger Dryas” abrupt change from warmth to ice age conditions at about 12,800 years ago and the abrupt warming that then occurred about 1,200 years ago. This time frame is discussed in detail based upon multiple paths of correlated evidence from greenland ice cores, isotopic evidence, ocean cores and others. You might want to check out page 30 for a discussion of the biological evidence line that actually gave this event its name (i.e alternating layers pollen from the arctic Dryas plant with levels of peat).
The fascinating point here is that in 2002 the NAS used the term Abrupt Climate Change to mean the abrupt change from an interglacial warm period to that of glaciation, and then abruptly reverse again, as evidenced by analysis of ice corings and other indices. Today the term’s meaning has been reversed. On top of that, I doubt if any of the climate scientists who are using this term today are even aware of the 2002 NAS study and explicitly documented report.
Incidentally, this was one of the first scientific documents I read when I started researching climate issues. I say scientific, because it is based upon analyses of many different sources of data collected over the last 80 years or more, in other words, by documented scientific research.
sorry,
that’s 1200 years later – not 1200 years ago.
Could have added a 4th TIME cover (real one, at that), the one from 12/24/79, titled “The Cooling of America”.
The idea (and the satire) remains. TIME is going through a cooling/warming cycle.
Geoff Sherrington says:
January 1, 2011 at 4:12 am
“If you spell Time backwards you get “Emit”.
Dark forces are at work. There is a parallel universe where Time goes backwards. (It started about 1990).
There, cold causes heat and heat causes cold.
Drink pure “Evian” water sold by “Natasha”.
Beware of trivia.”
If you spell Evian backwards you get “Naive”, and Natasha backwards gives you “Ah-satan”. Dark forces indeed.
Happy New Year to all!
That would be the same Time Magazine that named
Adolph Hitler: “Man of the year for 1939”
and
Josef Stalin “Man of the year for 1942”.
CRS,DR P.H.
Although some regions are colder than others , the pattern of general cooling is global and started already a decade ago.
LATEST EVIDENCE OF REGIONAL & GLOBAL COOLING
PDO has gone negative and cooling since Sept ember 2007 [probably for the next 20 -30 years]
AMO has peaked and has started its decline again since July 2010. It is anticipated to go negative or cooling by 2015
SOI has been high positive [around +20] since July [predicts cold weather 5-7 months later]
AO and NAO are now more frequently at higher negative levels [AO had record monthly low of -4.266 in Feb 2010 and nearly -5 in December 2010]
Solar activity continues low at near minimum levels
Most Global mean temperature anomaly data sets show recent dropping anomalies in 2010
Ocean SST’S are dropping
Ocean heat content rise has leveled off for the last 6 years [major decline in the North Atlantic Ocean heat content]
Europe and Asia have had three cold winters in a row [new low record colds set 2010 in many regions]
European annual temperature anomalies [land] have been dropping since 2007
UK [CET] annual temperatures have been dropping since 2006[4years]
2010 was the coldest year [[8.83 C] for Central England UK since 1986 or in 14 years [8.74 C]
UK Winter temperatures have been dropping since 2007[4 years]. Last two winters were record cold in UK
North American annual temperatures have been cooling since 2006
Canadian winters have been cooling since 2001[El Nino winters excluded]
US had one of its worst winters in 2010[15th coldest since 1895] despite an El Nino
Record snow or new cold temperatures set in December 2010 in
Sweden had coldest December in 110 years,
UK had coldest December since in 120 years
Germany had coldest December in 41 years
Armagh, Ireland had coldest December since 1881 or in129 years
Similar cold records were set in Norway, US just to name a few others
2010 had the 2nd most snow extent for Northern Hemisphere since the1978/1979 winter [2008 had the 3rd highest since 1967]
2010 had the highest winter snow extent since 1967 and the extent has been climbing since 2006
5 of the11 highest snow extents for Eurasia have happened since 2003[2003 was the2nd highest since 1967]
La Nina cooling for the next year or more ?
Nino3.4 SST anomaly [-1.5 C]
SUMMARY
No global warming for a decade now or since 2001[ per hadcrut3gl ]
No statistically significant global warming since 1995 [per Prof Jones CRU] 15 years
Amazing, Nobel
PeacePropaganda Prize material! Climate Science has demonstrated that if you work hard enough onJournalistsParrots, they will change their tune! Worldwide “Justice” soon to follow!HaHa, “Global Justice” soon to follow. I’m [not] amazed I blew that one!
[Right the first time. ~dbs]
The 1977 Time article is not about global cooling, or anything other than one particularly harsh winter. So, technically it has no point being in the “circular reasoning” gag, but one over-analyzes a joke at one’s own peril. Also, it is pretty well known that the criteria for Time’s “Man [or Person] of the Year” has nothing to do with one’s moral standing or popularity; it has everything to do with one’s impact on the world, whether for good or ill.
OT slightly – I just saw a gem on CNN. One of the female anchors – Hala Gorani I think – did a short interview with US meteorologist Jeff Masters, on “why global warming is causing colder winters”. He was giving it the open fridge door and leaking cold from the Arctic narrative (low Arctic sea ice etc..) by Skype link, when his Skype link froze and the viewing millions watched his frozen rictus grin for about 10 seconds before the interviewer cut it mercifully short.
Warren in Minnesota says:
January 1, 2011 at 11:04 am
I bet you’ve never checked out my Guide to WUWT (see link in the top right area of this page). The index page for the guide includes a link to http://home.comcast.net/~ewerme/wuwt/categories.html
Some of us find the categories useful enough to take note of. One of my favorite categories is ridiculae.
4chan has a response:
[http://boards.4chan.org/sci/res/2295685]
http://images.4chan.org/sci/src/1294167877171.jpg
NOTE: The link above goes to an anime site, not something we normally allow, but in this case the response is contained in the image, not the post, so I’ll allow it. Just click the image link to avoid all the anime crap – Anthony