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2008-02-27 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling

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Posted by Steve White 2008-02-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Considering that warming was also seen on Mars and Saturn, its probbly safe to say the major factor is solar.

Man-made global warming is a hoax, as is CO2 being the cause of anthropogenic warming. Its a correlated stat (and only barely at that), not causative one. Its neither necessary nor sufficient.

Solar activity is.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-02-27 02:05|| 2008-02-27 02:05|| Front Page Top

#2 OWG "BUUUUUUUURRRRP, I'M MADONNA" MADONNA's Daddy "feeling so cold" > God help the world iff he suffers from a heart attack, stroke, or serious acid reflux???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-02-27 02:07|| 2008-02-27 02:07|| Front Page Top

#3 OS, I follow the GW debate closer than most and I'm a regular at Climate Audit.

I buy Svaalgard's argument it's not direct solar irradiance, which leaves an indirect solar effect - I.e. Svensmark's solar magnetic field's effect on cosmic rays and the consequent effect on cloud cover.

I realize this sounds science-fictionish to many people, but I find the argument persuasive. Especially give the plunge in temps during the current solar minimum.

Posted by phil_b 2008-02-27 04:21|| 2008-02-27 04:21|| Front Page Top

#4 Not at all science fiction-ish. Well, maybe to Paris Hilton.

Anyway, if the sun doesn't snap out of its doldrums, it gonna be damn cold for a while. I always thought Al had a base near the sun.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-02-27 07:11|| 2008-02-27 07:11|| Front Page Top

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Now,,, I,,, deal,,, in,,, sun,,, spot,,, insurance.

Posted by Al Gore 2008-02-27 09:14|| 2008-02-27 09:14|| Front Page Top

#6 It wont phase ethe climate nuts one bit, they'll have some lame-ass quasi-scientific excuse for it. They'll say it's just a symptom of radical climate change brought about by global warming, the end result of global warming or some other such horseshit.

Posted by Elmusoter Pelosi2279 2008-02-27 14:25|| 2008-02-27 14:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Someone help me out here. The green-meanies have been screaming about how we're all gonna drown cause the polar ice is melting in 50, 12, 23, 47, years.

But I just read that the amount of ice in the arctic is back up this winter. Doesn't this mean that their dooms day clock has to start over now?

There seems to be something Sisyphusean about the whole thing. Like maybe Momma G. ain't listening to her supplicants.

Posted by AlanC 2008-02-27 16:11|| 2008-02-27 16:11|| Front Page Top

#8 AlanC, you are referring to Arctic sea ice. Essentially frozen sea water. If it all melted, it would have precisely zero effect on sea levels.

Posted by phil_b 2008-02-27 17:47|| 2008-02-27 17:47|| Front Page Top

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