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Title: Br-r-r! Where did global warming go?
Source: Boston Globe
URL Source: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/e ... r_where_did_global_warming_go/
Published: Jan 6, 2008
Author: Jeff Jacoby
Post Date: 2008-01-06 20:34:22 by farmfriend
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Br-r-r! Where did global warming go?

By Jeff Jacoby
Globe Columnist / January 6, 2008

THE STARK headline appeared just over a year ago. "2007 to be 'warmest on record,' " BBC News reported on Jan. 4, 2007. Citing experts in the British government's Meteorological Office, the story announced that "the world is likely to experience the warmest year on record in 2007," surpassing the all-time high reached in 1998.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the planetary hot flash: Much of the planet grew bitterly cold.

In South America, for example, the start of winter last year was one of the coldest ever observed. According to Eugenio Hackbart, chief meteorologist of the MetSul Weather Center in Brazil, "a brutal cold wave brought record low temperatures, widespread frost, snow, and major energy disruption." In Buenos Aires, it snowed for the first time in 89 years, while in Peru the cold was so intense that hundreds of people died and the government declared a state of emergency in 14 of the country's 24 provinces. In August, Chile's agriculture minister lamented "the toughest winter we have seen in the past 50 years," which caused losses of at least $200 million in destroyed crops and livestock.

Latin Americans weren't the only ones shivering.

University of Oklahoma geophysicist David Deming, a specialist in temperature and heat flow, notes in the Washington Times that "unexpected bitter cold swept the entire Southern Hemisphere in 2007." Johannesburg experienced its first significant snowfall in a quarter-century. Australia had its coldest ever June. New Zealand's vineyards lost much of their 2007 harvest when spring temperatures dropped to record lows.

Closer to home, 44.5 inches of snow fell in New Hampshire last month, breaking the previous record of 43 inches, set in 1876. And the Canadian government is forecasting the coldest winter in 15 years.

Now all of these may be short-lived weather anomalies, mere blips in the path of the global climatic warming that Al Gore and a host of alarmists proclaim the deadliest threat we face. But what if the frigid conditions that have caused so much distress in recent months signal an impending era of global cooling?

"Stock up on fur coats and felt boots!" advises Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences and senior scientist at Moscow's Shirshov Institute of Oceanography. "The latest data . . . say that earth has passed the peak of its warmer period, and a fairly cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012."

Sorokhtin dismisses the conventional global warming theory that greenhouse gases, especially human-emitted carbon dioxide, is causing the earth to grow hotter. Like a number of other scientists, he points to solar activity - sunspots and solar flares, which wax and wane over time - as having the greatest effect on climate.

"Carbon dioxide is not to blame for global climate change," Sorokhtin writes in an essay for Novosti. "Solar activity is many times more powerful than the energy produced by the whole of humankind." In a recent paper for the Danish National Space Center, physicists Henrik Svensmark and Eigil Friis-Christensen concur: "The sun . . . appears to be the main forcing agent in global climate change," they write.

Given the number of worldwide cold events, it is no surprise that 2007 didn't turn out to be the warmest ever. In fact, 2007's global temperature was essentially the same as that in 2006 - and 2005, and 2004, and every year back to 2001. The record set in 1998 has not been surpassed. For nearly a decade now, there has been no global warming. Even though atmospheric carbon dioxide continues to accumulate - it's up about 4 percent since 1998 - the global mean temperature has remained flat. That raises some obvious questions about the theory that CO2 is the cause of climate change.

Yet so relentlessly has the alarmist scenario been hyped, and so disdainfully have dissenting views been dismissed, that millions of people assume Gore must be right when he insists: "The debate in the scientific community is over."

But it isn't. Just last month, more than 100 scientists signed a strongly worded open letter pointing out that climate change is a well-known natural phenomenon, and that adapting to it is far more sensible than attempting to prevent it. Because slashing carbon dioxide emissions means retarding economic development, they warned, "the current UN approach of CO2 reduction is likely to increase human suffering from future climate change rather than to decrease it."

Climate science isn't a religion, and those who dispute its leading theory are not heretics. Much remains to be learned about how and why climate changes, and there is neither virtue nor wisdom in an emotional rush to counter global warming - especially if what's coming is a global Big Chill. Subscribe to *Agriculture-Environment*

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#1. To: farmfriend (#0)

Jeff Jacoby is still drooling? Half of Chicago was walking around in shorts and tshirts today. It was in the mid-50s near the lake. In January, when it is normally in the 20s, at best. You can cherry-pick data but the clear direction of global climate is up, up, up.

Mekons4  posted on  2008-01-06   21:37:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Mekons4 (#1)

Two days ago, it was 15 below zero here at 11 PM.

That's the 2nd coldest temperature I have ever seen here.

Critter  posted on  2008-01-06   23:33:44 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Critter (#4)

On Dec. 3, 2006, it was 73 degrees at 3 am in Chicago. It beat the previous record by 40 degrees. If you seriously think we are not in global climate change, good luck. The whole concept is that the disruption of the climate by any number of things, mainly man-made, will cause things to pogo up and down, but the eventual result is an irreversible trend to warming. The Great Lakes have lost a foot of water, the glaciers are melting, California first got wildfires from drought and now is getting mudslides from a foot of rain a day...this whole thing means extreme weather. Cold, hot, wet, dry. Turn off Rush. This sounds like those MORONS who put out a thing about getting 8 feet of snow and not having to call in the Fed Gov to help them, unlike New Orleans. I asked them, how much of that snow made it indoors up to the second floor. Gee, no fucking reply from those nazi squatholes.

Mekons4  posted on  2008-01-07   0:32:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Mekons4 (#5)

I was riding my motorcycle here on Jan 7th 2007. It was 70 degrees.

So what? Two weeks later it was 10 below.

Critter  posted on  2008-01-07   0:42:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Critter (#7)

In Chicago? OK, you seriously believe global warming does not exist. Along with a whopping 1 percent of scientists. Deal with it.

Mekons4  posted on  2008-01-07   0:52:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#9. To: Mekons4 (#8)

No, in NY, near Albany.

Of course global warming exists, If it didn't, this place would still be covered by a glacier.

It's just a natural cycle.

Critter  posted on  2008-01-07 00:55:40 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Mekons4, critter (#8)

Along with a whopping 1 percent of scientists.

You are not paying attention to the science. The small amount of warming we had recently was do to the huge amount of solar activity we have had. Not to mention the fact that the warming we had was not close to the midieval warm period which is called climate optimum for a reason. And you know that period they call the little ice age? That was caused by a lack of sun spots.

The glaciers are not melting. The recent loss of ice in the Arctic, which has recovered btw, was caused by a change in ocean circulation, a natural cycle according to NASA. The melting that has taken place in Greenland was do to volcanic activity warming the ice from below. The Antarctic has record levels of ice, South America had its coldest winter in 100 years. Temperatures have flat lined or dropped just about everywhere.

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