NOW Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling

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> Michael Asher (Blog) - February 26, 2008 12:55 PM

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> sld..on Mar 8 at 12:12 AM

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> World Temperatures according to the Hadley Center for Climate

> Prediction. Note the steep drop over the last year.

> Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of

> warming

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> Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has

> exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees

> its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most

> snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since

> record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record

> cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran,Greece,

> South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.

> No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence

> has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global

> temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have

> released updated data. All show that over the past year, global

> temperatures have dropped precipitously.

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> A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total

> amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large

> enough to wipe out most of the warming recorded over the past 100

> years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single

> fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

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> Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to

> reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of

> climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling

> seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data

> doesn't itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the

> planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are

> now cooling it.

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> Let's hope those factors stop fast. Cold is more damaging than heat.

> The mean temperature of the planet is about 54 degrees. Humans --

> and most of the crops and animals we depend on -- prefer a

> temperature closer to 70.

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> Historically, the warm periods such as the Medieval Climate Optimum

> were beneficial for civilization. Corresponding cooling events such

> as the Little Ice Age, though, were uniformly bad news.

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> Update 2/27: The graph for HadCRUT (above), as well as the linked

> graphs for RSS and UAH are generated month-to-month; the temperature

> declines span a full 12 months of data. The linked GISS graph was

> graphed for the months of January only, due to a limitation in the

> plotting program. Anthony Watts, who kindly provided the graphics,

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