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
Related:
NOAA “state of the climate” report: Contiguous US average temperature plummeted 2.9F in 2013
Brad (Griff) says:
January 18, 2014 at 3:28 am
How soon they forget.
This from climatologist Cliff Harris writing a Northern Idaho newspaper account of the Southern Hemisphere winter of 2013:
Our South American friends were…shivering in their coldest, and in some cases, snowiest July in living memory.
More than two feet of snow buried parts of southern Chile in mid July. The Chilean Army was called upon to rescue people trapped by the blizzard. There were several deaths caused by hypothermia across both Chile and Argentina. Flu cases mounted. Livestock losses were widespread in both sheep and cattle.
On July 16, the Antarctic coldwave produced a hard freeze in normally mild Buenos Aires, Argentina. The mercury at the airport dipped to 23 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-5 degrees Celsius) at 6:30 a.m. The sub-freezing temperatures persisted for several days destroying many tropical plants and trees. The Argentine winter wheat also had crop damage from the frosts.
Elsewhere in Argentina, extremely rare measurable snowfalls were noted this July in the wine country of Mendoza. Temperatures plunged to as low as 22 degrees Fahrenheit. Some damage was likely to the grape vines. Snow totals exceeded six inches in places.
On the morning of July 15, the resort beaches of Mar del Plata, quite similar to the beaches in Florida, saw their first snows in living memory along the northeastern coastline of Argentina.
In all, nearly every province of Argentina saw at least a bit of snow in mid July, an unusual event indeed. The town of Tucuman observed its first measurable snowfall since 1921, two inches.
The strong southern winds brought record cold temperatures by July 17-19 into Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and extreme southern Brazil where the coffee crop was nipped, but not destroyed, by light freezes.
By July 20-21, the frigid Antarctic airmass had done something that few cold fronts ever do, it slipped northward into southeastern Columbia and northwestern Brazil to a point north of the Equator. This has happened less than a dozen times in the past century in South America.
This extremely potent cold front whitened many mountain peaks in the state of Santa Catarina in southeastern Brazil. The town of Urupenia saw its coldest reading ever of 18 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-8 degrees Celsius) on July 18.
Wet snow and sleet were seen in parts of sub-tropical Uruguay on both July 16 and 18. There were many traffic accidents on the slick roadways. Power shortages were reported in both Uruguay and northeastern Argentina during the Antarctic outbreaks. Stores ran out of generators, batteries and winter clothing. Hospitals were packed with patients suffering from upper respiratory illnesses. The airport at Montevideo, Uruguay, reported an all-time record low temperature of 16 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-9 degrees Celsius) on July 17.
Many climatologists blame the new ‘La Nina’ colder sea-surface temperature event in the waters of the east-central Pacific Ocean for the harsh winter of 2013 across South America. It’s my climatological opinion, however, that a colder Antarctic continent is responsible. But, once again, only time will tell.
http://www.cdapress.com/columns/cliff_harris/article_9e9a296f-d417-5a71-9af3-64eec8e2264a.html
M Simon says:
January 18, 2014 at 5:56 am
Fortunately the White House is known as a gang of liars. “If you like your warm, you can keep your warm.”
If only! The ecotards want us to return to a climate that killed half of Europe though, a climate we are a mere 0.7 degrees away from.
Warmists are in a hard place. First they told us to expect warmer winters, now they tell us global warming causes colder winters. If the GLOBE cools for a prolonged period of decade[s] they will surely tell us that global warming causes global cooling. I’m not kidding.
Others have argued that ice-ages start with global warming! So as you can see no matter what happens, their religion must survive the sceptical onslaught.
To see at least some of the adjustments that have been done, they keep them on the websites for NOAA and NASA (GISS). Steven Goddard at Real Science publishes a lot of sarcastic (funny) stuff related to climate and politics. He very often has animations of temperature records before and after adjustments going back to changes they have made over the last 20 or so years. These are bad enough. He also links to the NASA and other websites where he got the data.
“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.”
Don’t like this argument/talking point. The easy rebuttal is “science advances.” Of course the science itself in this case is suspect, but weak arguments make the arguer look weak.
John Finn says:
January 18, 2014 at 4:24 am
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The fact remains that there has been no warming during the last 17 years. The models claim there should have been.
And if that’s the game you want to play then the 0.7C warming over the last 150 years isn’t statistically significant, given the quality and scarcity of climate data in the past. The temperatures taken more than 30 or 40 years ago consisted of two data points, daily highs and daily lows, rounded to the nearest degree centigrade. The idea that we could determine the earth’s temperature from that data to within a tenth of a degree is laughable, and that’s before we consider the fact that only about 10% of the world’s surface area was adequately covered for most of that time. Then we can talk about the maintenance of both the sensors and the areas around them.
Then we can talk about the gaps in the records for many of the stations and how adequately some stations, especially rural ones in areas with especially cold or hot climates were read on a daily basis.
Only for the last 30 years or so can we, with any degree of certainty, state what the average temperature of the planet has been. And for half of that time, there has been no warming at all.
I was just plotting the monthly anomaly of the CET since 2009 and saw the most warming was in April and October. I downloaded the simsolar oratory and to my surprise the Earth is between the Sun and Uranus in October and between the Sun and Saturn in April. Mars is also between the Sun and Saturn this April. I wonder if April in Central England will be warm this year or is it just a coincidence.
Global warming isn’t just in the USA! Look at the global picture this has been a very warm winter all over Europe and Asia. Forget about statistics, the glacier in front of my house in France has receded about a 100 metres in the last 10 years, odd that cooling weather has caused this and every other Glacier to visibly melt and retreat so fast! I was in S. America all of last winter for another unseasonably warm winter, there were a few days of cold weather but overall it was just not cold enough for snow, ski resorts there shut early. Stop blaming erroneous numbers and looking at biased graphs when the evidence is out the window!
ConfusedPhoton says: @ur momisugly January 18, 2014 at 2:36 am
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!
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And personally go up to the North Pole to put the jumpers (sweaters) on each Poley Bear. Greenpeace, the WWF and the Sierra Club should also help with the officers leading the way.
Please note I have actually put a sweater on more than one of my goats photo now I am crossing my goats with cashmeres so they can grow their own cashmere sweaters. Much easier.
I am very glad I moved south. Last year was absolutely lovely even if it is a tad bit chilly right now. (27F this morning)
Oratory? I think you mean orrery.
Brad (Griff) says: @ur momisugly 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.
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It has been mentioned several times.
Loopy jets mean you get temp extremes very cold then very high. The Polar vortex coming south is caused by loopy jets.
Here for an example is a recent comment Brent Walker says: @ur momisugly January 31, 2013 at 6:56 pm
AlecM says: @ur momisugly January 18, 2014 at 3:17 am
70% of the population are followers…
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This is why humans can live in cities and cooperate. Leaders are few and far between. Males don’t fight much past the teenage years and are willing to cooperate.
I should like to comment on Urederra’s observation above and ask. Why are so many climate scientists white and uptight?
welovemountains says:
January 18, 2014 at 7:10 am
You were clearly in some alternative South America. In the real onè that exists on this planet, last winter was a cold & snow record breaker.
Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming, Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Disruption, etc., are all hypotheses, and not Theories, as far as I know, and should not be confused with the poorly named Greenhouse Effect Theory. Calling any of the former a “Theory” lends unjustified credibility.
M Simon says:
January 18, 2014 at 5:56 am
Steve Case says:
January 18, 2014 at 2:22 am
Yes and it came from the White House:
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thethis White House is known as a gang of liars. “If you like your warm, you can keep your warm.”________________
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‘I was in S. America all of last winter for another unseasonably warm winter, ‘ ~welovemountains.
So. Please tell me that by ‘last winter’ in the southern hemisphere, you mean you were there this past June, July, August?
markstoval says: @ur momisugly January 18, 2014 at 4:53 am
Can you imagine what the temps would look like if the government data sets where not “adjusted”….I would love to see a long term data set with raw data…
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If you consider Frank Lanser’s essay on The Original Temperatures Project and his discover of ” Ocean Air Shelter Stations” that are not influenced by the temperature of the oceans then you can look at the movement of the climatic zones (Köppen climate classification) in the interior of the USA for a glimpse of what the climate has been doing in the last century. Köppen Climate Map
With luck Frank will have that thermometer based temperature set fairly soon. He has started presenting the results on the web site http://www.hidethedecline.eu/
Hope that helps.
welovemountains,
“Forget about statistics, the glacier in front of my house in France has receded about a 100 metres in the last 10 years, odd that cooling weather has caused this and every other Glacier to visibly melt and retreat so fast!”
Why on earth would you consider that a bad thing? Would you really prefer to have that glacier advancing on your house?
welovemountains says:
January 18, 2014 at 7:10 am
Are you near Grenoble? Talk to these guys about glaciers growing in Asia:
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v5/n5/full/ngeo1450.html
Same as these guys found:
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v5/n5/full/ngeo1450.html
Meanwhile, in North America, likewise:
http://www.dailytech.com/Alaskan+Glaciers+Grow+for+First+Time+in+250+years/article13215.htm
And back in Europe, your local glacier may still be shrinking, but they’re growing in Scandinavia:
http://www.su.se/om-oss/press-media-nyheter/pressrum/kebnekaises-sydtopp-gynnas-av-den-kalla-sommaren-1.97178
Moreover, the biggest mass of land ice on the planet, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, continues gaining mass, as NASA satellites have shown at least since the start of this century.
Brad Griff,
Most of the land on this planet is north of the equator. That matters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hemisferio_Norte.png
The amount of the Sun’s energy that hits 65 degrees North matters.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Inconvenient-Skeptic-Comprehensive-Climate/dp/0984782915/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390060549&sr=8-1&keywords=inconvenient+skeptic
MikeB says:
January 18, 2014 at 3:39 am
Interglacials vary in length. The previous one, the Eemian, lasted 16,000 years & was hotter in its early warm phase than the Holocene Climatic Optimum, & warmer than our current apparent global temperature at the same 11,400 year mark now in the Holocene, the present interglacial.
welovemountains says: @ur momisugly January 18, 2014 at 7:10 am
….. I was in S. America all of last winter for another unseasonably warm winter….
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OH?
Gee that is not what the news says of course it is not in English and not reported elsewhere:
1 Sep 13 (2013) – Snowfall in parts of the southern highlands of Peru has killed more than 25,000 animals and destroyed 137 homes, according to the National Institute of Civil Defense (Indeci). link
August 31 2013 – Snowstorms kill 70,000 animals in Bolivia. link
July 23 2013: Record low temperatures hit Chile as fresh snow falls in the Andes link
followed by Chile – One billion dollars damage to fruit crops, October cold worst in 84 years – Emergency declared. link
And it was not just last year.
July 2012 – Freezing temperatures kill 16 in Chile this year link
I could go on but I think you get the message.
Robert in Calgary says:
January 18, 2014 at 7:57 am
Approximate land areas:
NH: 40%
SH: 20% (counting Antarctic ice)
World: 30%
MattS says:
January 18, 2014 at 7:52 am
welovemountains,
“Forget about statistics, the glacier in front of my house in France has receded about a 100 metres in the last 10 years, odd that cooling weather has caused this and every other Glacier to visibly melt and retreat so fast!”
Why on earth would you consider that a bad thing? Would you really prefer to have that glacier advancing on your house?
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The warmists never look past there noses. They certainly never bother to look at the past or the big picture.
On glaciers:
Two peer-reviewed papers:
A more recent paper looking at glaciers in Norway.
Glaciers may have retreated in the last couple of decades but the authors of BOTH papers simply state that most glaciers likely didn’t exist 6,000 years ago, but the highest period of the glacial activity, that is glacier growth, has been in the past 600 years. This is hardly surprising with ~9% less solar energy.