Too bad.....

In his enviro-propaganda flick, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore claims nine of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred in the last decade. That's been a common refrain for environmentalists, too, and one of the centrepieces of global warming hysteria: It's been really hot lately -- abnormally hot -- so we all need to be afraid, very afraid. The trouble is, it's no longer true.

Last week, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies -- whose temperature records are a key component of the global-warming claim (and whose director, James Hansen, is a sort of godfather of global-warming alarmism) -- quietly corrected an error in its data set that had made recent temperatures seem warmer than they really were.

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www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=61b0590f-c5e6-4772-8cd1-2fefe0905363

TXL

Who has the Nelson pic?

DUPE!!!!!!!

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=606604

I was listening to Fox News on Friday or Saturday and they were talking about this. The reporter said 9 of the 10 hottest years on record were before WW2. 1998 was the 2nd hottest year on record.

BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

*chokes on inconvenient truth of another kind*

AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

*covering ears and shutting eyes* LA LA LA!  Global warming is true!  LA LA!  If you deny it you're in the back pocket of the major polluters!  FA LA LA LA LA!  Flooding, hurricanes, droughts, snow and giant anticyclones that bring supercooled air down to the surface and freeze American flags!  FAAAA LA LA LA LA LA!!!

This is just the beginnings of a huge avalanch of contadictory evidence that will soon bury all the alarmists alive.

Thanks for the heads-up.  Good to be informed of these things.

Quoted: Who has the Nelson pic?

I'm sure it will be along shortly.




Vulcan94

Bet its shoved quickly under a rug and forgotten by the MSM...

Quoted: Quoted: Who has the Nelson pic? I'm sure it will be along shortly. Vulcan94

Ask and it shall be so.

Incidentally, we came out of a 500 year long ice age just 150 years ago, so of course global temperatures are increasing; they're returning to normal.

Volcanic activity releases sulphuric dioxide into the atmosphere, which reflects solar radiation. Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, releasing massive amounts of SO2 into the air. The next year, 1816, was the infamous Year Without A Summer.

Interestingly enough, burning coal in power plants, steam engines, etc. ALSO releases large quantities of SO2 into the atmosphere. Enough so that major cities like London and New York would get smog clouds that killed hundreds of people. We didn't switch entirely from coal to petroleum until the 1970's, and we've been installing air scrubbers on the few coal-burning plants we have left, vastly reducing the amount of SO2 released. So we may actually have made a tiny impact on global warming... by not polluting.

That said, global climate change and global mean temperature are perfectly natural and go through cycles of cool periods and hot periods; right now we're still in a cool period and have yet to reach the hottest global climate on human record. To think that humanity can seriously affect the climate of an entire planet is a foolish combination of ignorance and arrogance.

Quoted: Bet its shoved quickly under a rug and forgotten by the MSM...

ill go with this answer and wager $1000 alec.

Some of the Europeans are starting to figure out what reducing carbon emissions will actually cost.  This only works if it costs the US more that it does them; otherwise, it is not a problem to worry about.

Also..

I remember reading on some MIT professor who thinks we'll be going into a 'global cooling' stage in the coming decade.

Check out NOAA temperature sensors

www.norcalblogs.com/watts/weather_stations/





Do you think they might be errors in the data?

Bill Nye says "Talk to the Hand, Mr. Global Warming ain't real"

Now the crazies will say the Right wing government just paid them off to make it right and it is a conspiracy...just wait!

Quoted: Also.. I remember reading on some MIT professor who thinks we'll be going into a 'global cooling' stage in the coming decade.

Global cooling IS a possibility, but it would take SEVERAL decades to achieve. Assuming global warming skyrockets and the polar ice caps melt at a massive rate (we're talking global flooding), then this would introduce vast quantities of fresh water into the Atlantic ocean. The gulf stream normally brings warm north near the surface, then the water cools and go deep and travels south, like a conveyor belt. Introducing so much fresh water (which is cold in its own right) would drop the salinity, making the water less dense; instead of sinking and traveling south, the cold ocean water would pool in the north Atlantic and eventually lower temperatures in the northern hemisphere to the point that we go into another Little Ice Age like the one we suffered from the 1300's to 1850.

This would be worse than any of the hocus pocus global warming predictions. Crop failure would be massive and global (but primarily restricted to the northern hemisphere). Some areas would be inaccessible by sea because of the ice choking the waterways (the main reason the vikings in Greenland died out). Plague and famine would ravage entire nations; people weakened by malnutrition would be more susceptible to disease, and would be crowded indoors to stay warm. You do the math. Summers would be shorter and cooler, winters would be longer and harsher; the further north you go, the worse it gets. Whole regions of Canada and Russia would be uninhabitable.

The likely result would be a major world war as desperate nations fought over resources; food, medicine, petroleum, and metals would be more valuable than money. More Machiavellian nations would go to war simply so they would have fewer mouths to feed as a result.

The resulting ice age may not be as severe as anticipated, but it would still have dire consequences for most of the planet, just like the last one.

Heretics! All of you!

Quoted: Quoted: Also.. I remember reading on some MIT professor who thinks we'll be going into a 'global cooling' stage in the coming decade. Global cooling IS a possibility, but it would take SEVERAL decades to achieve. Assuming global warming skyrockets and the polar ice caps melt at a massive rate (we're talking global flooding), then this would introduce vast quantities of fresh water into the Atlantic ocean. The gulf stream normally brings warm north near the surface, then the water cools and go deep and travels south, like a conveyor belt. Introducing so much fresh water (which is cold in its own right) would drop the salinity, making the water less dense; instead of sinking and traveling south, the cold ocean water would pool in the north Atlantic and eventually lower temperatures in the northern hemisphere to the point that we go into another Little Ice Age like the one we suffered from the 1300's to 1850. This would be worse than any of the hocus pocus global warming predictions. Crop failure would be massive and global (but primarily restricted to the northern hemisphere). Some areas would be inaccessible by sea because of the ice choking the waterways (the main reason the vikings in Greenland died out). Plague and famine would ravage entire nations; people weakened by malnutrition would be more susceptible to disease, and would be crowded indoors to stay warm. You do the math. Summers would be shorter and cooler, winters would be longer and harsher; the further north you go, the worse it gets. Whole regions of Canada and Russia would be uninhabitable. The likely result would be a major world war as desperate nations fought over resources; food, medicine, petroleum, and metals would be more valuable than money. More Machiavellian nations would go to war simply so they would have fewer mouths to feed as a result. The resulting ice age may not be as severe as anticipated, but it would still have dire consequences for most of the planet, just like the last one.

No offense, but.....    

That's all the same crap the wackos have been claiming for the last 30 years. None of it has happened, and if it does, it isn't any fault of ours.

In truth, nobody really knows what's going to happen, even a month from now much less a year or a century.