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Last updated on June 24th, 2017 at 10:40 am
We keep punching out megatons of delicious carbon, yet the warmening stays away:
Average global temperatures in 2008 are forecast to be lower than in previous years, thanks to the cooling effect of the ocean current in the Pacific, U.N. meteorologists say.
The World Meteorological Organisation’s secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, said it was likely that La Nina, an abnormal cooling of sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean, would continue into the summer.
Now it’s cooling that’s abnormal.
Look. Whether it’s warmer or it’s cooler, it’s all climate change and it’s Chimpy Bushitler’s fault. As we all know, the world’s temperature should stay the same all the time.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 04 04 at 09:50 AM • permalink
- I just don’t understand it.
Every morning the past three or four weeks it’s been getting cooler.
Some mornings it’s been under 10 degrees.
It’s worrying, this change in the weather. I’m quite concerned.Do you think it might have anything to do with the axis of the earth? Would it help if we all run to one side and look over the edge, y’know, to balance it?Some wombat on the radio today talking up the cyclone-like wind storm in Melbourne was saying how it’s not climate change because you’ll always have windy days and so on, however, there may be more of them with CC/AGW whatever. He talked it down, then realised what he’d said and seemed to talk it right back up again!
Aunty radio had an audio grab today of The World Meteorological Organization’s secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, saying that, although the world had generally cooled since 1998, global warming is a long-term effect … WTF?
Online ref:
BBC News: Global warming ‘dips this year’Beyond parody, yet again …
We may be eating each other in thirty years due to global warming but this year the earth actually cooled.
In your face, Ted Turner! We may be eating each other, but we won’t spoil! Universal refrigeration for everyone!
Last Tuesday I received a dusting of Global Warmening on my deck in Seattle. ONce again proving Al Gore must have been in town.
Posted by swassociates on 2008 04 04 at 11:29 AM • permalink
Just a dusting? He must’ve just flown past in his chartered Gulfstream jet. If AlGore had actually been in Seattle, you’d have been shoveling the Global Warmening.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 04 04 at 11:32 AM • permalink
During ten years of unprecedented CO2 production, we have had ten years of cooling. 2007 was steeply cooler, and 2008 is trending cooler still.
At what point does a scientist say, ‘The data proves our model was wrong’? How many years of cooling will we need? How many degrees?
Can ‘global warming experts’ continue to be wrong for another five or ten years and still be called ‘experts’? If that’s the standard, then we’re all experts on everything.
This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory.
But experts say we are still clearly in a long-term warming trend – and they forecast a new record high temperature within five years.
Forecast? Based on what? They’ve been wrong so far. Here’s what the so-called forecast is really based on: If cooling continues for another five years without a record-breaking warm spike, AGW will end up in the junk science bin, and the ‘experts’ will be laughingstocks.
#3 So right, you are, Wronwright! Everything is Chimpy Bushitler’s fault! Damn him for my every cooling bath water!
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 04 04 at 04:08 PM • permalink
The good sign is that they’re having to adjust the narrative. As it becomes more difficult to push the core narrative of inexorable warming due to CO2, they have to shift: watch out for new narratives, like a failing soap opera that has to introduce new characters to raise flagging interest. One of these ‘Poochies’ is the scare about the oceans absorbing ‘too much’ CO2. (Has anyone explored the money-making carbon-sink potential of bodies of water? Buy your hydro-offsets here!)
- Warm summer cold winter, defined by who?
The sun shines too much.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 04 04 at 07:55 PM • permalink
#4 kae, I have also noticed that the sun is rising later and later every morning! What is going on?
My computer model shows that increasing CO2 levels are slowing down the rotation of the sun!
My solution is to tax Gulfstream jets out of existence, and use the money raised on papier mache heads.
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 04 04 at 08:33 PM • permalink
I love the accompanying image. Rev those engines, people! While you still can!
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 04 04 at 10:03 PM • permalink
Interestingly enough, a lot of the ocean temp models (which aren’t stupid enough to project more than six to nine months out, and then admit they are pretty hairy over those timeframes) are highly suggestive that next year (2009) might turn out to be a la nina as well, with consequent lower temps. we will have to wait and see.
- Wait a second! You mean Australia is getting cooler right now, while we here in America have experienced warmer temps over the last month!
Oh my God! The climate is so screwed up that the northern and southern hemisphere apparently have different seasons! Next year I’m going for 61 minutes of lights-out during earth hour. That should push the planet back to normal.
…and all the fault of pollution? Wow, it’s That 70s Hysteria!