H/t to the lovely Maggie
April 30 (Bloomberg) — Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade, as shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global-warming effect caused by mankind, Germany’s Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences said.
So, let me see: it was Man’s (or Woman’s, too be fair) fault for the current cooling trend, but nature is blunting it? Could nature have had nothing to do with the warming trend, like it has for billions of years?
Average temperatures in areas such as California and France may drop over the next 10 years, influenced by colder flows in the North Atlantic, said a report today by the institution based in Kiel, Germany. Temperatures worldwide may stabilize in the period.
The study was based on sea-surface temperatures of currents that move heat around the world, and vary from decade to decade. This regional cooling effect may temporarily neutralize the long- term warming phenomenon caused by heat-trapping greenhouse gases building up around the earth, said Richard Wood, a research scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre, a U.K. provider of environmental and weather-related services.
“Those natural climate variations could be stronger than the global-warming trend over the next 10-year period,” Wood said in an interview. “Without knowing that, you might erroneously think there’s no global warming going on.’
Do you see what is going on here? There is an actual cooling trend, and rather then acknowledge that the climate could, and I stress could, because it will take time to know, be changing, the climahysterics are pushing the meme that Man is still turning the Earth into a ball of fire, and nature, Mother Earth, Gaia, is fighting all of us evil SUV driving homonids back.
One final excerpt
Carbon dioxide, produced mainly from burning fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas, is the chief pollutant blamed for global warming. Since 1988, CO2 levels in the world’s skies have increased by 9.8 percent, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Scientists debate how much carbon can be pumped into the atmosphere before the effects of climate change, including droughts, floods and reduced fresh water supplies, become irreversible. For every 1 million molecules in the atmosphere, about 384 are carbon dioxide, according to NOAA.
Essentially, we get one more molecule of CO2 every 5 years. And, despite the 9.8% increase, the temperature component of climate has not gone up in 10 years.
I know I’m responsible for the global cooling …. I’ve stopped blogging and the reduction in hot air is just overwhelming.
Teach what evidence do you have that there is an actual cooling trend ?? 2007 was the second warmest year on record !!
Please post a link that says that there is evidence of cooling, and don’t try and say that global cooling occurs if no NEW RECORDS are being broken every year.
Teach you are becoming obsessed with this much like the troofers are with 9/11 or the deniers of the holocaust. Sure there are always going to be some that refuse to believe what everyone else does but do ypou really want to marginalize yourself like that ?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
Read what wikipedia has to say about it
even NOAA acknowledges global warming do you believe that they have been taken over by hippies and minions of SOROS!
Do you believe that the world can only be saved from this cruel hoax by an elite group of enlightened thinkers ?
Also if you had bothered to read the wiki article on global warming you would see that solar activity and volcanoes since 1950 should have showed a global COOLING, but surprise instead we have GLOBAL WARMINGhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
Maggie!!! You need to start blogging again. We miss you.
First, John, you should take anything on Wiki with a grain of salt, sometimes huge.
Second, consider that the temperature portion of climate has been stable for 10 years.
3rd, I want to see a longer term pattern before I come to any serious conclusion.
4th, the chief “pollutant” is actually methane, not CO2, and neither of them are actually pollutants, but natural gasses.
CHILL out Comrade Ryan… So sad for the Goreons and the pollar bears on those floating ice bergs? Just read Ben Franklin’s Almanac and relax and drink some prozac and V-8… It’s all good Teach! Shaken, not stirred. GOD raises and lowers His thermostat when He wants to.