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2010-02-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

WEATHER: HOTTEST JANUARY EVER SAY CLIMATE EXPERTS

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Posted by gorb 2010-02-26 02:58|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Double down.

Man has dealt with real climate change for tens of thousands of years. Man is one of the more adaptable creatures. You can find him living on the Artic Circle, on the equator, in the mountains, in the jungles. What you won't find there are cities and their attendant universities and bureaucrats. Then you understand what the basis of the panic is.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-02-26 04:30|| 2010-02-26 04:30|| Front Page Top

#2 "Our data may be faulty, but our conclusions are sound."

The latest variation of "Fake, but accurate".

Posted by Bobby 2010-02-26 05:51|| 2010-02-26 05:51|| Front Page Top

#3 They don't go outside much, do they.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2010-02-26 07:19|| 2010-02-26 07:19|| Front Page Top

#4 "There ARE SO unicorns! You just can't see them because you don't BELIEVE! There are elves and magical princesses and fire breathing dragons and other fairy folk!

"And there is no snow, or cold, and it's spring and sunny and the flowers are all in bloom! So pretty! So pretty!"

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-02-26 09:27|| 2010-02-26 09:27|| Front Page Top

#5 "Don't give me that 'take a look' bushwa! The model said it was hot! So there!"

Posted by mojo 2010-02-26 10:35|| 2010-02-26 10:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Who you gonna beleive? Me or your own lying eyes...

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-02-26 10:56|| 2010-02-26 10:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Well it is getting hotter, uncomfortably so, for Global Warming scammers.

Posted by ed 2010-02-26 11:14|| 2010-02-26 11:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Just because northern hemisphere cities are colder this winter does not mean the average global temperature is not higher - I have no clue about the temps at sea, or on land in the southern hemisphere, or in the polar regions - or even equatorial lands. Lots colder in 10% of the area vs. just a little warmer in the other 90%??? Global sat measurements might be a good way to evaluate (though over a very short time frame, so far) - but some work needs to be done to restore the scientists' credibility before I will accept their word.
Given that solar climate thought says we SHOULD be cooler right now, a true warming would be a strong indicator of a man-made temperature component. IF the measurements are legit.
Get back to treating the topic as science instead of religion.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-02-26 11:32|| 2010-02-26 11:32|| Front Page Top

#9 How were global temps recorded in 1850?
Not with a weather satellite

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-02-26 11:41|| 2010-02-26 11:41|| Front Page Top

#10 I propose that any "climate scientist" who makes these assertions be required to walk around the streets of London completely naked.

Let them put their money where their mouths are.

Posted by charger 2010-02-26 12:24|| 2010-02-26 12:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Just take off the mask and admit you are bureaucrats and not scientists. How anybody can continue to fund these yahoos is beyond me.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2010-02-26 12:53|| 2010-02-26 12:53|| Front Page Top

#12 These guys don't get out much do they? Sitting in front of their computers fabricating data till all hours of the night. It's a tough business.

I think one of them needs to open the black out curtains on the conference room and LOOK OUTSIDE!!!!

Posted by Karl Rove 2010-02-26 13:22|| 2010-02-26 13:22|| Front Page Top

#13 PSYCH!!!! They were tawkin' about the Southern Hemisphere! You guys are so PWNNED!!!

No really they were tawkin about Not So Great Britain in in the southern hemisphere. Don't you know no mapology? Sheesh!

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2010-02-26 16:12|| 2010-02-26 16:12|| Front Page Top

#14 I'm curious, Glenmore - how does one go about computing the "average global temperature"? Add the midnight temperature at the top of Mount Everest and a noon temperature in equitorial Africa and divide by 2?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-02-26 17:32|| 2010-02-26 17:32|| Front Page Top

#15 Barb,

The most reliable measure of global temps is satellite measured lower troposhere temps. There are issues with coverage of the polar regions but the rest is measured every couple of days.

I just went to the NOAA website to check the land/sea, northern/southern hemisphere distribution of temps, but they have 'revamped' their website and now its wall to wall GW propaganda. I gave up looking for the actual data.

BTW, here in Western Australia we had an unusually hot summer, supposedly the hottest on record. But hot dry summers are typical of El Nino years. The last really hot summer was 1997, another El Nino year.

El Ninos are periods of accelerated cooling of the Earth's climate, as more heat leaves the oceans into the atmosphere and is then lost to space.

That's the problem with the climate. Hardly anything is as clearcut as we are told.

Posted by phil_b 2010-02-26 18:20|| 2010-02-26 18:20|| Front Page Top

#16 Hardly anything is as clearcut as we are told.

I've thought so since 2nd grade.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-02-26 18:30|| 2010-02-26 18:30|| Front Page Top

#17 They were tawkin' about the Southern Hemisphere!

Well the old saying is if you have your ass in the stove and your head in the freezer, on the average, you're comfortable.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-02-26 20:12|| 2010-02-26 20:12|| Front Page Top

#18 It's also important to note that the thermosphere has drastically reduced in size, for unknown reasons. It is the "big blanket" for both incoming and outgoing radiation, which means hotter highs and colder lows.

Importantly, this is just the opposite of a greenhouse effect.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-02-26 20:19|| 2010-02-26 20:19|| Front Page Top

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