Posted: 3/16/2007 8:36:37 AM EDT
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Took the day off. Just got done shoveling the global warming, previously know as snow / ice/ slush, off my driveway. Called the oil company have another 100 gallons delivered to top the tank off. Brought a load of wood in from the back and stacked some in the house. Anyone else doing any global warming chores today? MIKE. |
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You mean this global warming? When are people going to wake up and realize that anecdotal evidence of normal conditions in a small, localized area is not the same as mountains of quantitative, statistical evidence? Winter Warmest on Record Worldwide By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer Thu Mar 15, 5:38 PM ET WASHINGTON - This winter was the warmest on record worldwide, the government said Thursday in the latest worrisome report focusing on changing climate. The report comes just over a month after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said global warming is very likely caused by human actions and is so severe it will continue for centuries. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the combined land and ocean temperatures for December through February were 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit above average for the period since record keeping began in 1880. The report said that during the past century, global temperatures have increased at about 0.11 degrees per decade. But that increase has been three times larger since 1976, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center reported. Most scientists attribute the rising temperatures to so-called greenhouse gases which are produced by industrial activities, automobiles and other processes. These gases build up in the atmosphere and trap heat from the sun somewhat like a greenhouse. Also contributing to this winter's record warmth was an El Nino, a periodic warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean. It was particularly strong in January — the warmest January ever — but the ocean surface has since begun to cool. The report noted that in the Northern Hemisphere the combined land and water temperature was the warmest ever at 1.64 degrees above average. In the Southern Hemisphere, where it was summer, the temperature was 0.88 degree above average and the fourth warmest. The late March date of the vernal equinox noted on most calendars notwithstanding, for weather and climate purposes northern winter is December, January and February. For the United States, meanwhile, the winter temperature was near average. The season got off to a late start and spring-like temperatures covered most of the eastern half of the country in January, but cold conditions set in in February, which was the third coldest on record. For winter, statewide temperatures were warmer than average from Florida to Maine and from Michigan to Montana while cooler-than-average temperatures occurred in the southern Plains and areas of the Southwest. For Alaska, both February and winter were warmer than average but far from the record warmth of 2003 and 2001, respectively. |
The Inquisitor appears... REPENT your evil words.  So what? What warming that may be occurring has NOTHING to do with man… man made Global Warming is a lie. And BTW global warming proponents have used anecdotal evidence as proof for years. Mountains of lies and bad computer models don't prove much either way. |
How can it be the warmest when NOAA say's it was just above average? I'm sure the peoples of the rest of the WORLD to as good of temp records going back to 1880  ETA and that was with EL NINO |
I think he was referring to this global warming (Anchorage Daily News Front Page today)
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And anecdotal evidence that there even IS a normal condition for the planet Earth is hopelessly naive. Conditions on earth are far larger than you are, and there will be glaciers, swamps, oceans and mountains covering the spot you are sitting many times over, long after the rumor of mankind has been forgotten. Deal with your insignificance. |
Yes, you can take the average of temperatures distributed over the planet all you want, but HOW does that make the warming truly global? |
Ever hear of the Holocene Maximum? |
Global warming means whatever they want it to mean. That way whenever something notable happens, it can be blamed on global warming! Neat trick huh? I have a rock that keeps away tigers! |
fuck that Ever heard of -18F this morning? Fucking gonna burn Al gore till this global warming thing starts to pan out. |
Crichton |
And in Juneau
Today's forecast
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When they come up with some quality statistical evidense? Yeah, it's getting slightly warmer. It happens. It's been warmer than this and cooler than this. I find it amazingly arrogant that people think they can control nature by slightly altering the CO2 level (a trace gas) over a few decades, provided a volcano doesn't erupt and put more CO2 in the air, in a few weeks, than mankind has in the last 50 years. What are you going to do, ban solar flares and volcanos? Idiots... |
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Danish scientist: Global warming is a myth COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 15 (UPI) -- A Danish scientist said the idea of a "global temperature" and global warming is more political than scientific. University of Copenhagen Professor Bjarne Andresen has analyzed the topic in collaboration with Canadian Professors Christopher Essex from the University of Western Ontario and Ross McKitrick of the University of Guelph. It is generally assumed the Earth's atmosphere and oceans have grown warmer during the recent 50 years because of an upward trend in the so-called global temperature, which is the result of complex calculations and averaging of air temperature measurements taken around the world. "It is impossible to talk about a single temperature for something as complicated as the climate of Earth," said Andresen, an expert on thermodynamics. "A temperature can be defined only for a homogeneous system. Furthermore, the climate is not governed by a single temperature. Rather, differences of temperatures drive the processes and create the storms, sea currents, thunder, etc. which make up the climate". He says the currently used method of determining the global temperature -- and any conclusion drawn from it -- is more political than scientific. The argument is presented in the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics. |
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February here was way, way below normal temperatures. Same thing so far for March. I remember three years ago when Boston Harbor was closed due to ice. Imagine that. Boston Harbor needing an Ice Breaker to open up the shipping lanes. Of course, that was due to global warming. |
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We survived the Medieval Warm Period, as we survived the Little Ice Age. Civilizations thrived during the Medieval Warming Period. Remember kids, the headlines on Newsweek in 1975 was "The Coming Ice Age" http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21361191-421,00.htm "A LEADING Muslim cleric has blamed the devastating drought, climate change and pollution on Australians' lack of faith in Allah. Might just as well stir some chicken guts...heck, the weather report can't tell me if it's going to rain 3 days from now...and I'm supposed to swallow the bullsh*t that these same computer models are going predict with absolute certainty what's going to happen 100 years from now ??? Garbage In -- Garbage Out |
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Just a friendly heads-up for our lefty viewers: The Earth has been warming since the last ice-age. The polar caps on Mars are melting too; What kind of vehicles do they have there? Okay, sorry. Too easy. What pollutants are their power plants spewing into Mars' atmosphere? How arrogant can we be to think that our little piss-ant presence here can affect anything that the earth can't repair? Anybody got a wood house? Nope, Mother Nature sure isn't trying to return that sucker into dust is it? Yeah, ALGORE hasn't bothered to remind us that the Antarctic is GROWING. The North Polar icecap melting, raising our ocean level..... run for the hills everybody!!!! Oops, that's right. The North Polar cap is made of ICE, just ICE. When the ice in your drink melts, does the glass overflow? (Don't bother checking, it doesn't) Holy crap, This clown was almost President?!!!!! Democrats. Relying on the uneducated for over a hundred years. |