Question:
Record low temps. Record early snowfalls. Where did Global Warming go?
2009-10-11 23:46:28 UTC
What happened to global warming?

Average temperatures have not increased for over a decade

This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998.

But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8299079.stm


Western MT cold breaks records

The National Weather Service predicted freezing temperatures and snow flurries both Saturday and Sunday for most of Eastern Montana.

Meanwhile, temperatures in parts of western Montana were near zero overnight and record lows were set in Missoula, Kalispell and Butte on Sunday.
http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=11295113


Cold temperatures threaten seed potato crop

BOZEMAN - Record-low temperatures in southwestern Idaho are threatening to destroy at least a portion of this season's crop of seed potatoes.

http://www.missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/article_c1c13d5e-b6a4-11de-a09c-001cc4c002e0.html
23 answers:
Athman
2009-10-12 02:04:47 UTC
There were warnings of 'impending Ice Age' in the seventies. All this data was available to support this. ALL the scientists were formulating theories and developed models backing all their predictions. Ice Age was imminent and thousands of years overdue......and what happened? Check it out. global warming was relatively unheard of until Al Gore jumped on this issue in the early 80's. Could it be that maybe this GW is over-politicized?
New Deal Democrat
2009-10-12 00:11:10 UTC
Well, the lunatic notion of anthropogenic global warming never had any validity in the first place. The relationship between CO2 and infrared radiation absorption is not LINEAR, it is LOGARITHMIC. That is to say, over about 100 ppm of CO2, the warming effect of each additional unit of CO2 is approximately one-half the previous unit. Thus, the potency of CO2 as a greenhouse gas above 100 ppm drops rapidly, approaching a limit of 0.



Basically, it's like this: CO2 is an insulator. If you were to put a little bit of insulation in a house without any, the first bit you add will make a big difference. However, as you put more and more in, the effect of each additional unit drops rapidly. Very soon, you get to the point where adding more insulation doesn't make any appreciable difference in the homeowner's heating bill. Same goes for CO2 and global warming.



So, this whole thing is really a titanic fraud. The stated agenda of the people promoting the global warming hysteria is to reduce the world's population to below 2 billion people as quickly as possible by inducing a collapse in the energy intensity of the world economy, thus causing a thermodynamic breakdown of the economic system. In other words, what the global warmers are advocating (knowingly or not) isn't a "greenhouse gas reduction policy," it's a genocide policy. This is ultra-Hitlerian stuff, folks.



Al Gore, Prince Philip, et al. should immediately be arrested, pending charges of fraud, criminal conspiracy, attempted mass murder, and crimes against humanity.
Barbara
2016-05-22 09:35:00 UTC
Yeah it's kind of scary isn't it. Soon the liberals will be renaming global warming once again but this time to "global cooling" as the global climate change name is just not catching on as they had hoped. And did you know that the recent tsunamis in the Pacific were caused by global warming? Yes, that global 1/2 degree temperature increase was propagated down through the ocean and deep into the earth's crust where it grossly expanded the rock caused massive earthquakes which then caused the tsunamis. Man that really sucks!
Dept. of Redundancy Department
2009-10-12 00:34:12 UTC
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Sooooooo, you're saying that there has been a WEATHER SHIFT and that that DOESN'T prove that Global Climate Change 'just might' actually be occurring?



California is in a multiple-year drought, summer sea ice in the Arctic was so minimal this summer that several ships sailed the 'reverse Northwest Passage' and that the boats were completely unimpeded by ice. And the normal complement of American, Russian and Canadian icebreakers wasn't needed, for the first time ever. Greenland ice is vanishing. Frozen methyl hydrate (about 10x more volatile than methane) lies frozen at the bottom of oceans and in the Canadian tundra: hydrate bubbles are popping up off the Southern California coast and if the tundra defrosts, and it looks like it is, THAT will release gas, too

Etc.



Just because some places are getting colder doesn't mean that the whole world is that way, too. Maybe that's the problem with trying to explain science to people who still believe that the Earth has 4 edges, cavemen battled dinosaurs and mankind is only 6,000 years old; they think that THEIR world is THE world.

I got news for ya: IT AIN'T.



How long do you think that the Earth can sustain itself when factories, houses, power plants and cars, etc., pump out super-heated air 24/7, ALONG WITH a billion toms of CO2 every year?

You guys talk about not wanting the Government to burden your grandchildren with 'fiat money' U.S. debt... but you seem OVERLY-EAGER to deny and denigrate the very idea that how we treat the Earth TODAY definitely will burden your grandchildren...



Are you really trying to say that aside from Nature having cycles, which it does, and that temperature changes vary from year to year but the point is to gather WORLDWIDE DATA over a long period of time (say, 1880 until now) and compare CO2 content in pre-1880 ice-core samples. You know: the SCIENTIFIC approach, rather than blithely ignoring this basic fact: EVERYTHING WE DO HAS AN EFFECT, SOMEWHERE SOMEHOW. How about analyzing your activities and seeing how WISE you can be with resources... it saves MONEY, too (now, THERE'S an incentive for most people!!!), not just your grandchildren's future here on Earth...or don't you care, 'cuz you'll be gone in 50 years anyway?



Besides: a lot of human-caused pollution is avoidable and much it is stoppable by virtue of alternative methods of heat, propulsion, etc. All it takes is some imagination, technical know-how, the willingness to learn AND a belief that Mankind is smart enough to WISELY use and conserve the resources of the earth.



Keyword: C-O-N-S-E-R-V-E.



That seems like a good thing for a supposed-conservative to do.



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Mujer Alta
2009-10-12 00:17:40 UTC
The key word in Global Warming is "global". So, unless every part of the world is experiencing record low temperatures and snowfall at the same time, global warming is still alive and well. The earth is still tilted on its axis and it still orbiting the sun so the seasons are still with us. You know: winter, spring, summer and fall. The northern and southern hemispheres still experience the seasons opposite one another. It's just that earth's temperature taken from many, many locations and averaged over a year are going up. It's a comparison from one year to the next for the entire earth, not for just Milwaukee or just Tampa or just Manila or just Sidney or just Pretoria. A little science: the bigger the system the more energy has to be put into it or removed from it to change the temperature of the system. So the earth's overall temperature isn't changing much just a degree or two for now but because the earth is so big, this little change represents a huge amount of energy being put into the system.



Since overall warming is altering the cyclic temperature patterns of the oceans, wind patterns and equator-arctic ocean current patterns are also changing. This leads to altered weather patterns so finding areas with record lows, with record highs, with record precipitation and with record drought spread across the earth's northern latitudes during our winter months wouldn't be a surprise.
R J
2009-10-12 00:05:05 UTC
Yes here in Mississippi it has been super cold. In June we have to put wood in the stove and normally it is in the 90s. my union steward explained that it is the global warming, that it's so hot it makes you feel cold. Some ammunition they have not even told the world is that the Ice Age was caused by global warming.



Since the refrigerator lobbyists have been donating a lot more to our HOuse and Senate members they may have something to do with it. They had over $3.2 billion* donated to them last year and mainly the health care lobby donated over half a billion*, which trumps GE right now. but be patient, if Cap and trade or the health care insurance program don't push the economy over the edge this will.



Anyway have a warm 2009!
tonalc2
2009-10-12 00:07:17 UTC
I'll try to speak slowly.



Global warming causes climate change. It does not mean everything gets hot like summer.



We're talking about a 2-6 degree change, which would be completely devastating.



The average global temperature for 2004 of 14.60 degrees Celsius (58.28 degrees Fahrenheit) makes it the fourth warmest year on record. October and November of 2004 were the hottest of those months on record since recordkeeping began in 1880. February of 2004 was the second warmest, and March, April and December were the third warmest of those three months.
2009-10-11 23:54:07 UTC
Well, to understand you should watch the movie "The Day After Tomorrow."



This will explain that when it gets so hot, it will actually start snowing from a big tornado like what killed the dinosaurs. Any school kid nowadays knows that!



or maybe it's like Orwell's 1984 where the citizens must believe two opposing views.



Of course global warming causes cold temps and global cooling causes war temps.
Robby
2009-10-12 00:06:53 UTC
It could go down to -20 below zero every where, and they would steal say we have a Global Warming problem.
It Girl
2009-10-12 00:04:37 UTC
The dumbasses don't realize that the earth has been through many climatic changes since the beginning of time. It has nothing to do with man-made anything. It's just the way the Earth works. Don't try speaking common sense to any of these goons. Common sense requires a working brain, and they are unfortunately missing that vital organ.
vbaggs
2009-10-12 00:02:01 UTC
Just another way for the government to tax us, control us and take everything away from us legally. I think Al Gore meant he created "GLOBAL WARMING" and he said the internet by mistake.
2009-10-12 00:51:39 UTC
You have interesting articles to back up your point of view. I am with you and can't understand why reason is so far beyond the grasp of most liberals.
dnafairy
2009-10-11 23:50:37 UTC
Shhhh, Al Gore hasn't sold off his green assets yet. You don't want him to be left holding the bag do you??



lol @ Oberman



From Below:

"you'd know that the effect of global warming is to intensify the weather patterns the area already has, not to change them."



riiiiiight. Global Warming makes Canada cooler! But it also melts icebergs and kills polar bears! It makes sand in the dessert, and and it makes swamps swampier! Global Warming should be called....weather!



Quote:

"I'll try to speak slowly.

Global warming causes climate change. It does not mean everything gets hot like summer."



Say that again 10 times slowly until you understand how ridiculous that sounds.
browns_86
2009-10-12 00:06:25 UTC
The Dems were forced to drop that pipe dream in favor of the new carbon footprint.

Another joke
ReverseSweep
2009-10-12 00:00:28 UTC
Take a look at Arctic ice levels and get back to us.





And BTW, a lot of cities broke heat records this summer. Portland hit 115 for a week or so this summer.
Jesus is a Socialist
2009-10-12 00:09:03 UTC
It must be here in Miami where we're having above normal temps.

Global means the entire world, not just your neighborhood.
2009-10-11 23:59:41 UTC
You libs make me want to vomit ...it was called global warming because when they first started selling this snake oil that what the sales pitch was ...Oh my god its warming the planet with all this carbon... now that they weather is no longer cooperating with them they do not close shop no they just change the products name...and they little lambs spread the new word...http://www.howtocleanstuff.net/house/appliances-and-fixtures/how-to-clean-up-a-broken-compact-fluorescent-light-cfl-bulb/
snotterybeak
2009-10-12 00:02:09 UTC
GLOBAL is the operative word! There's a whole big world out here. You should try it sometime.
?
2009-10-11 23:50:47 UTC
You mean Climate change?





I think I steal Obermans quote ...







" This is science fault for calling it global warming, they should have said weather disaster".
Bug
2009-10-12 00:00:17 UTC
Global warming is here:



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28249708



2 TRILLION tons of Arctic Ice has melted. Is that because it's getting colder?



DUH?
2009-10-11 23:52:12 UTC
If you've been watching any other news broadcast other than Fox News or the Redneck Times, you'd know that the effect of global warming is to intensify the weather patterns the area already has, not to change them.
2009-10-12 00:26:57 UTC
its a big scam
scoutma53
2009-10-11 23:53:19 UTC
We cured it!!! now we can go back to the old light bulbs..


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