NASA: La Niña has remained strong

The ENSO index reading from Nov/Dec is -1.519.
Next update is Feb. 5th.

This must be caused by AGC (Anthropogenic Global Cooling) caused by aerosols from dirty coal power plants in China. LOL

“Although exacerbated by precipitation from a tropical cyclone, rainfalls of historic proportion in eastern Queensland, Australia have led to levels of flooding usually only seen once in a century,”
I suppose 1974 was the last century, in his defence

Am I right to think water from La Nina’s primary pool is being drawn into the Gulf of Mexico and, from there, is being drawn into the Gulf Stream, which then sends it by express delivery straight to Great Britain? Is the Gulf Stream currently (pun intended!) impacting NW Europe in a way that is the inverse of the impact for which it is famous?

“Although exacerbated by precipitation from a tropical cyclone, rainfalls of historic proportion in eastern Queensland, Australia have led to levels of flooding usually only seen once in a century,”
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Before global warming, there were twice as many floods….
….global warming has cut the amount of floods in half
Between 1840 and 1900, 60 years, there were five floods much higher.
Have led to levels of flooding usually only seen 8 times in a century.

rushmike says:
January 15, 2011 at 6:54 am
….and global temperatures still keep climbing, global ice area is reaching the lowest level recorded…..and yet AGW is still being , 2010 was the equal warmest, and wettest year recorded, we are only two weeks into 2011 and extreme weather events have affected Brazil, Sri Lanka and Queensland….hmmmmmm
and global temps have already lost ALL of those high temps and are still dropping. Global sea ice is flat although the arctic has become the dumping ground for the NH’s heat and the thickness has grown from last year in spite of this. The Australian flooding, as bad as it is, still isn’t the worst on record and AGW touted us getting hotter and drier. It is not hotter than ten years ago and we have seen this year that it certainly isn’t drier.
Sorry you are so wrong, but, I guess someone has to be.

“Although exacerbated by precipitation from a tropical cyclone, rainfalls of historic proportion in eastern Queensland, Australia have led to levels of flooding usually only seen once in a century,” said David Adamec, Oceanographer
In Adamec’s defense, there was only one really big flood during the last century, if you count the century as 1909-2009. And he probably just missed the five major floods that occured between 1840 and 1900, at levels higher than the current flooding. After all, only two of those floods registered as almost double the level of today’s. Another half-dozen or so floods during this same 60 year time period were merely almost to the level of today’s.

Suffering under La Nina? Did you suffer under El Nino? Did you suffer under a negative AO? The fault is ours.
Wherever the winds pile up warm water during La Nina’s worst PMS days, is exactly where much of civilization has extended their city boundaries out into the ocean (kinda reminds me of trailer houses parked in Tornado Ally areas). Isn’t there a biblical reference directed at this folly? We flood because we have purposely sunk our cities into the ocean just for the ocean view. We freeze because we build in freeze and glacier prone areas just so we can see framed valleys below through our front window. We sweat because we desire to build in deserts. The river gnaws away at our front door because we wanted river-front property. Our houses fall into the sea because the sand beneath us falls away. Why? Developer and buyer visionary, yet still stoooopid, greed. Many of the houses under water in Aussie land look new to me. Sorry, but I have no sympathy. Reminds me of the houses built on sand spits along the Oregon coastline.
Some good advice from your past: You should not build a house where your ancestors refused to build a house. Just because you are modern doesn’t mean you are smarter.

Matt Schilling says: “Am I right to think water from La Nina’s primary pool is being drawn into the Gulf of Mexico and, from there, is being drawn into the Gulf Stream, which then sends it by express delivery straight to Great Britain?”
Nope. The Atlantic responds to ENSO events through teleconnections. That is, the La Nina is changing the “normal” atmopheric circulation patterns, rearranging the “normal” wind patterns, etc., which in turn alter the “normal” SST anomalies.

rushmike says:
January 15, 2011 at 6:54 am
….and global temperatures still keep climbing, global ice area is reaching the lowest level recorded…..and yet AGW is still being , 2010 was the equal warmest, and wettest year recorded, we are only two weeks into 2011 and extreme weather events have affected Brazil, Sri Lanka and Queensland….hmmmmmm
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So many mistakes in a single post.
1) Temperatures haven’t gone up since 1998.
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http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.C.lrg.gif
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2) Ice in the Arctic has increased the last 3 years and the Antarctic is well above average.
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3) Temperature was very slightly warmer because of an El Nino in the spring which GISS’s saw and a La Nina in the fall which GISS missed. Other temperature records didn’t. The real news was the lack of warming since 1998.
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4) The extreme weather events can’t be caused by global warming if it hasn’t warmed since 1998. The alarmists are so embarrassed by the failure to warm that they are grasping at straws with the climate disruption nonsense. There is no proof that calamities have increased.