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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Doubling Down - Copenhagen summit: decade is world's warmest on record |
| 2009-12-08 |
| This decade has been the warmest on record and this year is likely to be the fifth warmest, according to the World Meteorological Organisations’s (WMO) assessment of global average temperatures. There were sharp differences between regions, with central Africa and parts of southern Asia having their warmest year but the United States and Canada experiencing cooler than average conditions. The WMO released the preliminary data at the Copenhagen climate summit in what the Met Office, which contributed to the figures, admitted was an attempt to influence the negotiations over cutting greenhouse gases. The WMO is also anxious to quell doubts about the scientific analysis of temperature records raised by the publication of stolen e-mails in the “Climategate” scandal. The WMO and the Met Office base their reports partly on data and analysis supplied by the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit. Phil Jones, the unit’s director, has stood down while an investigation takes place into allegations that he manipulated data, attempted to block publication of alternative scientific views and tried to delete information requested by climate change sceptics. The WMO, which has data going back to 1850, said that the ten years from 2000 to 2009 were 0.44C warmer than the annual average of 14C between 1961 to 1990. The Met Office, one of three main sources for the WMO figures, said its records showed that each of the last six decades had been warmer than the previous one. Since the 18th century, the global temperature has risen just over 0.7C. The Copenhagen summit is trying to agree global action to prevent the temperature rising more than 2C above the pre-industrial average. The Met Office said: “These figures highlight that the world continues to see global temperature rise most of which is due to increasing emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and clearly shows that the argument that global warming has stopped is flawed. . |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #11 Wow, a triple from one click! |
| Posted by: KBK 2009-12-08 22:56 |
| #10 The last sentence: B17B calved from the eastern end of the Ross Ice Shelf nearly 10 years ago. |
| Posted by: KBK 2009-12-08 22:55 |
| #9 The last sentence: B17B calved from the eastern end of the Ross Ice Shelf nearly 10 years ago. |
| Posted by: KBK 2009-12-08 22:55 |
| #8 The last sentence: B17B calved from the eastern end of the Ross Ice Shelf nearly 10 years ago. |
| Posted by: KBK 2009-12-08 22:55 |
| #7 value added data? Is there any other way, when it comes to gerbil wormening? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-12-08 21:36 |
| #6 Besoeker, nope, not at all. And to make it even better...my sweetie used a gas powered snowblower to push some of it off the driveway. I'm waiting for eco-criminal charges to be brought against us by the Goracle any moment now. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-12-08 21:05 |
| #5 Meanwhile, a giant iceberg is heading for Australia. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2009-12-08 20:43 |
| #4 value added data? |
| Posted by: john frum 2009-12-08 17:48 |
| #3 I hope that is a gas filled, fully thermal insulated, enviro-friendly, US Gov't, EPA approved and inspected window and your thermostat is set to the US Gov't approved temp CB. Inquiring minds might wish to know.... |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-12-08 15:38 |
| #2 Yeah, I'm seeing all that "global warming" coming down right outside my window. We're supposed to get about six inches total of that, too. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-12-08 15:31 |
| #1 "Since the 18th century, the global temperature has risen just over 0.7C." We're doomed |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2009-12-08 12:20 |