What's up Dork Gore?

[RSBAD454]

Br-r-r! Where did global warming go?
Email|Print| Text size – + 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.

Related articles
04/15/2007 Doubting doomsday
08/15/2007 Hot tempers on global warming
08/19/2007 Warming debate: Scene 1, take 2
more stories like this
War and peace with the environment
Gore completes renovations to Tenn. home
Gore: US blocking climate talks progress
Keys, Thurman among Nobel concert celebs
Gore accepts Nobel Prize, calls for action
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.

[ccz145a]

But they say the cold is caused by global warming. lol.

The global warming crowd will do thier best to get rid of our hobby if they ever get power, they already have it in some places. Once my truck is ready, I am going to get personal license tags that say "GASGZLR" or "WRMTHS". They'll have a hissy fit!

[Hank Hill]

Up here its been between 30below to 40 below not counting wind chill. Counting wind chill its been 50 below all week. Haha The buzz word now is global climate change. In other words it doesnt matter if its hot or cold, the world is coming to an end because of my old truck, people who work for a living, etc.

[locdogg]

I don't know how much the temperature has changed but I'll say here in Iowa we used to get a lot more snow.  When I was a kid (only 15 years ago) you could ride the snowmobile all winter.  Now you only get a couple days every year.

[Redneckchevy]

I hear ya....Same in ohio...always walked to the bus stop in a foot of snow...I dont think we got a foot yet...And there has only been a hand full of days ware snow was even on the ground...And that was only like a inch or so ....Dont get me wrong...Its freezing out side...Just with out the snow

[86 chevy silverado]

Up here its been between 30below to 40 below not counting wind chill. Counting wind chill its been 50 below all week.

Holy crap! thats cold, I don't care who you are!
We are definitely having another mild winter. Its been cold on and off but not cold cold, like it should be right now. It rained today still 40 out now.

[RSBAD454]

IMO, we have not had the technology nor have we had the record keeping over the centuries ( until these past 100 years) to make these claims that the liberals are making. How do we know that the earth does not do this in it's own every millenia? The weather here in California doesn't seem any different from when I was a kid. I will continue to fuel my V-8s and enjoy my hobbies as long as we keep signing the petitions with SEMA to keep these bogus laws from being passed.

[Lt.Del]

Let the "green hippies" read this on the back of my 6k lbs 4x4 suburban....






OH, and my new website...  www.roadtodisaster.com    It is still in the beginning phase---it is a work in progress.  It is a mix between how the gov't is screwing up America and the tricks nature has played, and will continue to play on inhabitants of Earth---and it ain't nuttin we are doing that causes meteorites or polar shifts, etc...

[RSBAD454]

I like it, I totally agree.......