Heart-ache: Temperature records indicate … global cooling?
posted at 6:00 pm on February 27, 2008 by Allahpundit
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They said the climate was changing, didn’t they?
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…
Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the 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. 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.
The ice is back in the Arctic, too. Exit question: Is the Russian right? Time to “stock up on fur coats”?
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Screw the fur coats, everyone buy a Hummer and leave it running. We need to fight this!
Dash on February 27, 2008 at 6:03 PM
The war in Iraq is lost and the surge will never work!
waterhouse on February 27, 2008 at 6:04 PM
I hope that after Gore reads this, he then realizes his Nobel was just chocolate wrapped in gold foil.
Chuck Schick on February 27, 2008 at 6:04 PM
Aw, bad news for Al and his ‘religion’.
So sad. :)
rockbend on February 27, 2008 at 6:05 PM
I guess that’s why the planet-savers always jet off to Bali, rather than Greenland.
BuzzCrutcher on February 27, 2008 at 6:06 PM
No, no, no, no, no, no! They all ranted and raved about global WARMING!
AL GORE LIED, LET IT SLIDE!
ThePrez on February 27, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Good one Dash, I like it!
ConservativePartyNow on February 27, 2008 at 6:07 PM
I have long thought that it was related to Solar flares or Solar activity.
That would explain the inconsistency in the data.
Chakra Hammer on February 27, 2008 at 6:07 PM
Well, tomorrow sunscreen stock will be way down.
Limerick on February 27, 2008 at 6:08 PM
So who here wants to bet that the left’s “solution” for this is exactly the same as their “solution” for global warming?
jbohanon on February 27, 2008 at 6:08 PM
So do we have to increase our carbon footprint to warm the planet?
danking70 on February 27, 2008 at 6:10 PM
“They said the climate was changing, didn’t they?” “They” as in AL!
VermontRepub on February 27, 2008 at 6:11 PM
It’s too bad McCain bought into this hoax. It would be a great issue to challenge The O on.
Buy Danish on February 27, 2008 at 6:11 PM
That story is SOOO yesterday morning… : )
gmoonster on February 27, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Sun is what 93-94.5 Million miles away..
Chakra Hammer on February 27, 2008 at 6:12 PM
Science works like this. You propose a theory of how something works. You make a hypothesis based on your theory. The hypothesis is tested, either by experiment or by some measurements. Measurements confirm theory. Theory is good until further notice. Measurements don’t confirm theory. Theory is “No F’ning Good”. The boys and girls of the UN noticed CO2 increasing. Proposed the theory of man made Global Warming due to man’s CO2 generation and increasing atmosphere CO2. Measurements deny global warming, while CO2 continues to increase. Man caused global warming theory based on increase of CO2 is “No F’ning Good”.
End of story …
tarpon on February 27, 2008 at 6:12 PM
Let’s see….
One Sun, 870,000miles in diameter
One Earth, 7,900miles in diameter
Sun gets just a weeeeeeeeee bit hotter or a weeeeeee bit colder.
Nope…sorry, spreading disinformation is a crime. I take back what I just said.
Limerick on February 27, 2008 at 6:13 PM
“They said the climate was changing, didn’t they?” And by “They” you mean AL!
VermontRepub on February 27, 2008 at 6:13 PM
anyone want to put money on when the left will make a Stalinist/Orwellian 180 and start going crazy about global cooling while stating they never stated that the planet was warming?
Defector01 on February 27, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Ice in the Arctic! Say it ain’t SO!
Looks at the North Slope of Alaska and sees the glistening off the ground, and the drifting of this “stuff”. Hmmmm, what is this stuff?
upinak on February 27, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Awwwriight! Time to cut the BS and put this hoax behind us. Let the sun shine in!
Great Photoshop of Goracle and Happy Feet, BTW.
petefrt on February 27, 2008 at 6:16 PM
PETA will have your 160 lb hiney perpendicular in a sling!
Kini on February 27, 2008 at 6:16 PM
What we need to do, is build a huge, “Shade Umbrella” in space.
That can be opened and closed.. during times of Large or Increased Solar activity. >:}
It could look like a HUGE package of aluminum foil, roll it out, roll it in.. :)
Chakra Hammer on February 27, 2008 at 6:16 PM
Didn’t they already do that in the 70’s?
upinak on February 27, 2008 at 6:18 PM
Let’s add some fuel to the sun by sending our trash there.
Kini on February 27, 2008 at 6:18 PM
So, is Algore going to issue the Mother Of All Retractions, or what? “Sorry about trying to sink the global economy over complete and utter nonsense… Everybody makes mistakes!”
gridlock2 on February 27, 2008 at 6:18 PM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA.
Hey, can we call them “sun-huggers” now?
Califemme on February 27, 2008 at 6:19 PM
Can someone point out when the leftists are correct?
jukin on February 27, 2008 at 6:20 PM
N. E. V. E. R.
Califemme on February 27, 2008 at 6:22 PM
The Debate is Ohvah!
Wait till summer when the earth’s northern hemisphere warms up and the arctic ice starts to melt. This will all start up again.
Kini on February 27, 2008 at 6:22 PM
It’s always coldest before the warmth. Or something like that.
SouthernGent on February 27, 2008 at 6:22 PM
Never.
waterhouse on February 27, 2008 at 6:23 PM
I saw snow this morning in South Carolina and just keep thinking it must be dust, has to be dust, otherwise Gore could be wrong……….. Remember the first Earth Day and Global cooling? Gore is one of the world’s greatest “snake oil saleman”. Glad he at least is not making any money on the deal he promotes……………………..
Huckley on February 27, 2008 at 6:23 PM
Upinak
They did in the 70s but I want to see them do it again
Defector01 on February 27, 2008 at 6:24 PM
Actually…. Since I am Already in the “Arctic” we are going through break up (aka spring for you southern people) right now. :) I think that ground hog needs adjustment!
upinak on February 27, 2008 at 6:24 PM
No,no,no,no…!!! They shifted gears way back…It’s CLIMATE CHANGE now!! Which is brilliant!! No matter what happens, climate will change and it will be ALL OUR FAULT!!!
Global Warming is sooo yesterday….
BigWyo on February 27, 2008 at 6:25 PM
but….but….but…..
WE HAD CONSENSUS!!!!
Kasper Hauser on February 27, 2008 at 6:25 PM
With that said, HAHA, you are going to worry the people living in the warmer climates as us “Northerners” will just giggle and put another log on the fire at -20!
upinak on February 27, 2008 at 6:25 PM
I will repeat what I have said before:
Everybody remembers Eisenhower’s warning about the, “military-industrial complex,” shoot, it has become the siren call of some.
Few if any recall — and it is never repeated — the second of the two specific warning he made in that very same speech:
The scientific-technological elite, Eisenhower truly was prescient. Read the speech, it could have been written today.
DKK
LifeTrek on February 27, 2008 at 6:25 PM
I wonder what that great conservative John McCain thinks of this? He has already bought into the global warming bs, what now John?
Engrpat on February 27, 2008 at 6:25 PM
Need new theory, Plan A is a dismal failure. So the boys and girls of the UN had to look for something else. The boys and girls at the UN go to plan B. Climate change is due to increased CO2. New theory to be trotted out real soon now.
Man causes global warming, man causes global cooling. Now if we only knew how, we could make it just right.
If you are really interested, about October 2005 the sun went quite, sunspots disappeared. It’s been quite since. The solar weather report today is not good, it’s been this way for over a year. The sun is eerily quite. There is no solar weather, to speak of. If solar cycle 24 does not start soon, the Earth could quickly sink into another Ice Age - and actually we are about due for one. Over time, interglacial periods, like the one we are in now, last on average about 10,000 years — We are at 11,000 and counting. Yes, that means the normal state of the planet Earth is mostly a snowball. Spaceweather.com has the daily reports and some information on sunspots.
Here is an article which describes what is going on with some charts. No one knows what will happen, we only know what we can measure.
tarpon on February 27, 2008 at 6:26 PM
Don’t irritate the the Sun, it will burn you. >:)
Sun heats up(increased activity), Earth temps rise a little.
Sun calms back down to “Normal”, Earth temps level off to “average”
Chakra Hammer on February 27, 2008 at 6:29 PM
tarpon,
If we capped the hot air coming out of the UN we could stave off global warming for 2 maybe 3 hundred years at least…
Faith1 on February 27, 2008 at 6:30 PM
‘Sleeper’, anyone?
Limerick on February 27, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Global Warming is caused by man made gases.
{burp!!!} Pardon me!
Kini on February 27, 2008 at 6:31 PM
I have no love for McCain. However, if he supports the “global warming” lobby for the sole purpose of replacing coal-fired power generation with nuclear, I’m with him. If he uses the global warming meme for any other reason, he’s a jerk.
waterhouse on February 27, 2008 at 6:31 PM
War is Peace.
Surrender is Victory.
Cooling is Warming.
Aristotle on February 27, 2008 at 6:31 PM
Russian scientists have been saying this for a while (and it might go some ways to explaining why the polar icecaps are melting on… Mars!), but it doesn’t fit The Narrative.
Tzetzes on February 27, 2008 at 6:32 PM
The sun is like a heart.
Sometimes, the paterns stay regular. Sometimes, there is a murmur. Sometimes, there is a slight hiccup before going back to normal rythem. And Sometimes, there is a flatline.
Where are we in that spectrum?
upinak on February 27, 2008 at 6:32 PM
Ever notice when a small child hurts itself, and there’s this momentary deep inhale breath before the loud scream?
I think I hear that right about….., now
Kini on February 27, 2008 at 6:32 PM
Still not a bad idea to reduce our dependence on Fossil fuels, and to work toward better technologies NOT by taxing or by putting CAPS, but by offering Incentives.
Chakra Hammer on February 27, 2008 at 6:33 PM
Given that the Sun been around all lot longer than we have….
I’d say in a very small slice of that spectrum.
Kini on February 27, 2008 at 6:34 PM
The debate is over! The debate is over!
We are all going to freeze to death in the next 50 years if we don’t start pumping more CO2 in the air to create “global warming”!!! Why isn’t anybody listening to me!!!
Sincerely
Al “chicken little” Gore
BTW: The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!!
Planet Boulder on February 27, 2008 at 6:34 PM
Can we open Anwr now?
Kini on February 27, 2008 at 6:35 PM
Magnetic poles reverse.
Dogs and Cats living together
Al Gore’s Messiah image is lost to the second coming, Barack Hussein Obama
Kini on February 27, 2008 at 6:39 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManBearPig
Watch SouthPark Manbearpig Video
Chakra Hammer on February 27, 2008 at 6:39 PM
He was the deciding vote against drilling in ANWR, and he is in favor of the carbon tax - which is one of the things Mitt was warning us about.
I have no idea what his opinion is on Nuclear power.
Buy Danish on February 27, 2008 at 6:41 PM
Is Al gonna give back the $100 million in guilt money he’s collected?
MrScribbler on February 27, 2008 at 6:41 PM
What I find interesting are the pics my brother sent me from Iraq with snow on the ground. Global warming is pure BS.
patriot2001 on February 27, 2008 at 6:41 PM
We seem to be on the same wave length… I would say get out of my head, but i don’t believe in ESP.
As for ANWR (all caps)… Thank Carter. And in the Future.. Thank B.O.
upinak on February 27, 2008 at 6:41 PM
he flips and flops more on ANWR then anyone knows.
upinak on February 27, 2008 at 6:43 PM
Wait… didnt he create the internet too?
TFM
ThinkingForMyself on February 27, 2008 at 6:43 PM
Voting NO is not flipping, but I’d be open to him flipping to a YES vote right about now. That and denouncing the Ethanol hoax for what it is.
This is a freaking disaster for our economy.
Buy Danish on February 27, 2008 at 6:44 PM
Riddle me this …
tarpon on February 27, 2008 at 6:45 PM
What kind of incentives can you offer without first raising taxes? Unless you mean outlawing bogus lawsuits to slow down development of nuclear power plants.
Of course if we are heading into an ice age, then CO2 is a fertilizer instead of a pollutant, and the US is the Saudi Arabia of coal. Solid CO2 goodness. We will be hydrolyzing seawater to get the oxygen to burn it, and burying the hydrogen.
pedestrian on February 27, 2008 at 6:46 PM
Great minds think alike.
A day in a life, to some, can be a very long time when compared to eternity.
In few billion years, it won’t matter anymore.
Kini on February 27, 2008 at 6:47 PM
I a perfect world, McCain would run with this data and say something along the lines of “In light of this (and other)new data I was wrong and now believe there is no such thing at global warming…” then hammer Barrack Hussein Obama and his “green workforce” over it.
Vigilante on February 27, 2008 at 6:47 PM
In a perfect world McCain would say his mea culpas about Global Warming, err, Climate Change, and so would Barack Obama.
And we would all live happily ever after.
Buy Danish on February 27, 2008 at 6:50 PM
Ethanol from corn is a crock, but ethanol from sugar cane may have some value. Check out what Brazil has done over the last 20 years. Paging Mr. Jindal, Mr. Bobby Jindal…
trubble on February 27, 2008 at 6:51 PM
Will Algore return his prizes?
Lefties will say global warming causes global cooling. Some already are. They are determined to immunize their ideology from criticism by engineering the public to perceive it as science. Once the ideology is popularly accepted as science, critics can be marginalized as fools and the ideology can be enforced without credible opposition.
As BuyDanish said above, what a shame McCain lent credence to this garbage. From the look of the emerging evidence, it could have been a powerful issue in the 2008 campaign.
petefrt on February 27, 2008 at 6:51 PM
As an very well-paid and active petroleum geologist down here in the oil patch of the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico, thanks to all the Global Warming scamsters and ANWR-denying schmucks like McCain, I’m getting quite rich these days.
Thanks, suckers!
TexasJew on February 27, 2008 at 6:52 PM
Now, now. Who’re you going to believe, the four agencies that measure temperature or Al Gore? Tell Al you’re sorry for doubting him.
TooTall on February 27, 2008 at 6:52 PM
Choices are obvious to thinking people — nuclear power for electricity, coal liquefaction for transportation fuels. And both do not require burning food, which the cold weather and coming crop failures may tend to say is inherently a bad idea. Ethanol is a stupid idea, only wind power is stupider …
The US has as much coal as Saudi Arabia has oil, we have about 400 years supply at current usage. Might want to ask Clinton why he thought making a monument of our largest deposits of clean low sulphur coal was a good idea.
tarpon on February 27, 2008 at 6:53 PM
I’m personally in favor of opening what has been introduced.
That however still is “Fossil Fuels”, I believe McCain should be open to ANWR, since in one debate he said this..
Now, the people of Alaska want to open parts of ANWR and i have seen the charts, overall the size asked for is pretty small.
To stifle economic development and to keep a state from producing jobs and the federal level, doesn’t seem right.
Yes, the Senate or another could have some oversight on “how
much land is alloted” etc.. and the “environmental standards”, that it needs to be held to etc.
Chakra Hammer on February 27, 2008 at 6:53 PM
Just more evidence that Algore and these enviro whackjobs have no idea whats going on.
tx2654 on February 27, 2008 at 6:53 PM
McCain came up here and went to ANWR. I know what he said. I am keeping track on this one thing!
upinak on February 27, 2008 at 6:54 PM
You can offer companies tax incentives, for coming up with NEW and Better technologies(Sort of like X-Prizes for Technologies)
Instead of taxing companies that do NOT comply reward companies for success.
Chakra Hammer on February 27, 2008 at 6:55 PM
As an Oil field person myself… you MIGHT wanna look at this first before you go, I AM RICH!
House OKs $18B in New Taxes on Oil Companies
Thank you Democrats for SCREWING the UNITED STATES OVER AGAIN!
upinak on February 27, 2008 at 6:56 PM
Not good. And I was searching for a reason to support him.
waterhouse on February 27, 2008 at 6:57 PM
They already do give incentives. Oil and Energy companies were given incentives.. but then look at my last post. I am so ticked right now.
upinak on February 27, 2008 at 6:57 PM
For some reason you cannot post a link to CNN
That transcript was from the CNN Debate at the Reagan Library
This is the transcript of the GOP debate at the Reagan Library Wednesday January 30.
Chakra Hammer on February 27, 2008 at 6:57 PM
Global cooling is a symptom of global warming… and vice-versa… and so on.
As a matter of fact, any evidence of climate change being non-existant, is evidence of climate change.
I know you are, but what am I?
christophercube on February 27, 2008 at 6:57 PM
For the first time in my adult life, I’m proud of my planet’s temperature.
Sugar Land on February 27, 2008 at 6:58 PM
Yeah, yeah, yeah. First of all, sugar cane only grows in places like Lousiana. Second, have you seen the tin cans the Brazilians drive? Third, the cost of transporting ethanol negates the value. Fourth, how much land is needed to grow sugar cane?
Did he come before or after he voted NO?
Buy Danish on February 27, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Agreed. Consider the current alternative prices here
Kini on February 27, 2008 at 7:01 PM
I assume it wasn’t too difficult for you to write up a paper that follows this general plan. Would you mind providing a reference to your article in a scientific journal?
freevillage on February 27, 2008 at 7:01 PM
Danish, I am going to have to check on that, I would say yes… but i don’t remember offhand. I do not have my notes and I am not on my normal computer.
upinak on February 27, 2008 at 7:01 PM
First there was the Goracle. He warned us about global warming. Then invented the interweb using only discarded hospital tubes and some hair spray. He even won some “awards”.
Then, the second coming: Barack “don’t Hussein me, bro!” Obama.
Isn’t “climate change” redundant?
Global cooling is the new global warming.
redzap on February 27, 2008 at 7:02 PM
freevillage … Huh, I thought that is what I did.
tarpon on February 27, 2008 at 7:03 PM
OT: Here is another hero about to get the Medal Of Honor.
wowaditaka will be in the lexicon.
cjs1943 on February 27, 2008 at 7:05 PM
I look forward hearing your perspective. Tell me - is the small area we wanted to drill in in ANWR the beautifully idyllic garden spot that cannot be touched that the Left claims it is?
Buy Danish on February 27, 2008 at 7:06 PM
No, a citation would look something like this:
First M. Author, Second N. Author “Teh Scientific Paper Disproving Global Warming”, Journal of Fair and Balanced Research, volume 5, number 1, 2007.
freevillage on February 27, 2008 at 7:07 PM
upinak, my fellow oilie, they can tax and tax, and cry and cry, build crap wind turbines that work at 25% efficiency (at best) that don’t ever return the energy that it took to make them (from oil and gas, of course) and, at the end of the day, they’re going to burn more oil and need (and pay) us more and more.
I started working in the oil patch in my teens and have seen oil at $2.75 /barrel and at $102 per barrel.
To paraphrase an old quote from Richard Nixon about Alger Hiss, “if they knew what I know about how seditious Congress has been about energy policy, they’d (literally) boil them in oil”
TexasJew on February 27, 2008 at 7:07 PM
Buy Danish
You can find that info on your own little computer.
Just “Google map” the north slope of Alaska and ANWR.
It is a flat tundra swamp, hideous and mosquito-ridden in the summer.
TexasJew on February 27, 2008 at 7:10 PM
GORE LIED, PENGUINS DIED!
Frozen to death by global cooling.
Again.
Tantor on February 27, 2008 at 7:11 PM
Certainly that’s what all the pictures I’ve seen look like, but it could be a Rovain plot to fool us. I want to hear what a local has to say.
Buy Danish on February 27, 2008 at 7:12 PM
I think you’re all wrong. This current cooling trend further supports the global warming theory.
Put it this way … what do you do when the house gets too cold?
You turn up the thermostat!
Someone is going to turn up the thermostat, I tell ya. And I bet I know who that someone is: His name rhymes with “Foul Bore.”
Rod on February 27, 2008 at 7:14 PM
No, you all don’t get it…
It just PROOVES that Al and the UN was right… because, like, they’ve been doing CARBON OFFSETS!!!
SEE… its working!
/sarc
Romeo13 on February 27, 2008 at 7:15 PM
Hell no! It looks like any other part of the Alaskan North Slope. Flat as a pancake, Tundra all over, wash out of old break up river from the spring, small fresh water lakes and a Pingo here and there (break up is what Alaskans call spring, it is when the ice literally breaks and melts FAST, sometimes in less then a week 3 ft of ice is gone) and the occational dead animal! I will try to get the info tonight if possible.
Boil them, I think it should be the newer process of refining them into a gaseous state to turn them into fertilizer? Scott’s is the best!
But you are right, even if it still chaffs my hind end. I may be looking for a job in the TX area if the crap in Alaska keeps going on.
upinak on February 27, 2008 at 7:16 PM
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