uk.environment

"Lloyd" wrote in message
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> On Feb 27, 11:00 am, "leonard7...@gmail.com"
> wrote:
>> Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
>>
>> Michael Asher - February 26, 2008 12:55 PM
>>
>> Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling
>> planet has exploded. '
>
> You are a liar.

......excellent rebuttal Lloyd......


>
>>China has its coldest winter in
>> 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded
>> history. North America has the most snowcover in 50
>> years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since
>> record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea
>> ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico,
>> Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland,
>> Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.
>>
>> No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now,
>> that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific
>> fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets
>> (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released
>> updated data. All show that over the past year, global
>> temperatures have dropped precipitously.
>>
>
> You are a liar.

.....astounding! yet another educated response!


>
>> A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here.
>
> Where? Is it invisible?
>
>> The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to
>> 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out nearly all the
>> warming recorded over the past 100 years.
>
> Lie.

.........you are my hero!


>
>>All in one
>> year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest
>> temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.
>
> Geez, it took one year? Why not claim 3 months? 10 hours?
>
>>
>> [Six months ago I posted that figures from GSS showed
>> a net reduction of 2 degrees from '00 through '06 thus
>> wiping out the 20th century gain from + 1 degree to
>> MINUS one degree]
>
> Except it doesn't.
>
>>
>> Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the
>
> Oh then it must be ... wrong.

.........Wow! insightful!



>
>> cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a
>> much larger driver of climate change than man-made
>> greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just
>> 12 months time seems to bear that out.
>
> Yeah, pigs have started flying.


.......Oink Oink you big kidder.....



>
>
>>While the data
>> doesn't itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to
>> warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more
>> powerful factors are now cooling it.
>>
>> Let's hope those factors stop fast. Cold is more
>> damaging than heat. The mean temperature of the
>> planet is about 54 degrees. Humans -- and most of the
>> crops and animals we depend on -- prefer a
>> temperature closer to 70.
>>
>> [Actually a relative humidity of 70 is optimum, but
>> plants and animals (including the human animal) can
>> survive in a very wide temperature range so long as
>> the humidity is in the 70's range]
>>
>> Historically, the warm periods such as the Medieval
>> Climate Optimum were beneficial for civilization.
>> Corresponding cooling events such as the Little Ice
>> Age, though, were uniformly bad news.
>