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Global Cooling 2011: Southern Hemisphere Has Not Warmed In Over 15 Years & Another Brutal Winter Happens

In recent years, winters in the Southern Hemisphere have been especially miserable, and it is happening again in 2011 for multiple countries. Examples of the brutal winter weather abound, including: Peru, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Argentina and Paraguay. (Update 7/27/11: More info on Australia autumn/winter weather; South America here; South Africa here. Update 8/1/11: Australia and more South Africa)

If global warming is actually happening, how is it that the Southern Hemisphere (S-H) winters are not becoming more mild as expected? (click on image to enlarge)

In reality, the S-H has not had any significant warming in over 15 years, and appears to be entering a cooling phase, which may explain the winter weather becoming worse.

The adjacent chart reveals a flat linear trend (green line) for S-H temperatures that goes all the way back to March of 1996. That's over 15 years (through May 2011) that the data clearly show no significant and no material warming for 50% of the world.

The aqua fitted curve indicates the recent cooling trend being experienced.

In contrast to the real-world, hard data of climate science (i.e. empirical evidence) the alarmist claims of "unprecedented," "unequivocal" and "accelerating" global warming are outright false, and should be immediately dismissed as blatant propaganda. Although the die-hard cultists will never stop denying the lack of global warming, the scientific proponents of AGW are now finally admitting that global warming is not global, nor is it warming.

Desperation & Mass Confusion: Al Gore's Climate "Experts" Disagree About Why Global Warming Disappeared

Read here. Mass confusion and conflicted "consensus science" reigns supreme in the realm of AGW pseudo-science and the Gorian world-will-end style of hysteria. And it's all because the prophesied global warming has disappeared since 1998, throwing the ranks of the AGW-cult into fits of desperation.

Recently, we wrote about a peer-reviewed study (by scientists whom advocate human-caused global warming) that attempted to explain why global warming disappeared after 1998. In summary, their analysis blamed China's coal burning for the world's apparent cooling, which really does not hold up to close scrutiny.

Soon after, another group of global warming alarmist scientists released an analysis contending that China was not at fault for global cooling, but small, minor volcano eruptions were. This study, besides also confirming the global cooling that skeptics had identified a long time ago, seems to be another act of desperation by alarmists to explain away the inconvenient loss of global warming.

A major problem for these two studies, per the adjacent chart, is the fact that the Northern and Southern hemisphere's temperatures have behaved in opposing directions. One half of the world chooses slight warming since 1998, the other half votes for global cooling, so it would appear.

This inconvenient, empirical evidence readily invalidates the "global" in the global warming theory. It also invalidates both the China-is-causing-cooling and the minor-volcanoes-are causing-cooling aerosols speculation as causes for the lack of "global" warming since 1998.

Global Warming Gone Missing: 33% of World's Oceans Show No Warming Since 1981

The "world-ending" anthropogenic global warming caused by human CO2 emissions is supposed to be "global" except apparently it isn't; and often, it's not warming at all.

For example:

1. per the NOAA/NCDC data, the continental U.S. has actually been cooling over the last 15-years;
2. climate change alarmists are now finally admitting in the science literature that the world has not warmed since 1998;
3. the latest NASA satellite technology shows no ocean warming since 2002;
4. ocean heat content has basically been flat since 2003;
5. and finally, all measurements taken to identify the atmospheric "hot" spot required by the AGW hypothesis have not found it.

That's pretty damning evidence - not a single key climate measurement reveals the holy grail trifecta of "unprecedented," "unequivocal" and "accelerating," global warming. But wait....it gets even worse.

Adding to the alarmists' misery of a failed hypothesis is a critical area of the globe that is so important it's the basis of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) proxy - the  area of the NINO3.4 SST anomalies. The chart on the left, the NINO3.4 anomalies since 1900 show no warming; the chart on the right, the NINO3.4 anomalies from 1981 through June 2011, show no warming.

Essentially, a major proxy for global ocean temperatures has a flat trend for the past century plus.

To expand on the area that the NINO3.4 covers, there is a large Pacific ocean expanse (33% of world's ocean surface) that engulfs the NINO3.4 and closely mimics its temperature changes. This ocean area is known as the East Pacific. It stretches from pole to pole and is depicted on the map below (left).

As the chart on the right reveals, since 1981 this vast ocean region has not warmed, despite the massive amounts of human CO2 greenhouse gases and the "consensus" AGW hypothesis.

 

Soooo, how can a global warming hypothesis that has conspicuously failed every global warming empirical measure and validation test still be considered a viable scientific hypothesis?  How can such abject, empirical failure by a hypothesis still allow it to resonate with the liberal/left/progressive elites? Well, just like their love affair with eugenics, awful and idiotic science can find a permanent home in the belly of the left because of the dangerous power and control it artificially bestows to the ruling classes, relative to the average citizen.

AWOL Global Warming: Current Satellite Measurements Confirm Ocean Cooling Continues Since 2002

Read here. Ocean temperatures are critical force in the world's climate. The best satellite technology confirms that the oceans remain in a cooling trend. (click on image to enlarge)

Additional modern temperature charts.

New European Temperature Data: Since 1998, Winters In Europe Are Significantly Cooling

Read here. From the EU environmental agency, new temperature records confirm that recent winters exhibit a cooling trend. (click on image to enlarge)

Additional modern temperature charts.

Speaking of No Global Warming, U.S. Remains In Cooling Trend Per The New June NOAA Data: -3.5°F/Century

Much to the galactic chagrin of global warming alarmists and their collaborators at the NY Times and Washington Post, a major peer reviewed study by an avowed alarmist found no global warming since 1998. This finding confirms what the skeptics have been stating over the last 5 years.

When looking at the temperature trends, it is clear that global warming has actually been missing for the last 15 years. This has definitely been the case of the continental U.S. as the graph on the left depicts.

This chart represents the 15 years (180 months), starting July 1, 1997 and ending June 30, 2011. Per the latest NOAA/NCDC U.S. temperature data records, the 12-month period ending April was the 4th coldest June-ending period for the last 15 years. In terms of a single month, June 2011 was 1.6 degrees below the hottest June ever (June 1933). Source of chart here.

The per century cooling trend of this period, a minus 3.5°F, took place in spite of the huge warmth produced by two large El Niño events during this 15-year span: 1997-1998 and 2009-2010.

For the 10-year period ending June 2011 (July 1, 2001 thru June 30, 2011), the cooling trend accelerates to a very significant minus 13.0°F per century rate - again, per the updated NOAA/NCDC temperature records.

Additional modern, historical and fabricating-fake temperature charts.

More Confirmation That Unprecedented Global Warming Happened In Past - Say, The 1930s

Now that scientists have confirmed that global warming has been entirely missing since 1998, possibly the the lamestream press will finally gain the courage to finally report actual weather and climate facts, such as reporting the global cooling trend since 2002. This would be a huge improvement versus their modern method of doing climate science by press release.

Initially, they might start addressing the unprecedented warming that took place during the 1930s well before the large human CO2 emissions. The fact that the 1930s had a much larger impact on U.S. temperatures than either 1990s or the 2000s should be of interest; also very germane to the modern "unprecedented" warming deception foisted on them by climate scientists more interested in fame and fortune.  (click on image to enlarge)

1930s: 24  states

1950s:   5 states

1990s:   5 states

2000s:   1 state

Updated: Both map and list above updated with more current information from here.

Additional modern temperature charts.

 

Experts Find Deep Arctic Water Temps Fall By 1 Deg. - Bizzarro Theory That "Global Warming Hides" In Deeper Waters Not So Hot

Read here. Global warming scientists and alarmists are always trying to rationalize why the catastrophic AGW hypothesis is in continuous fail mode, and why the globe is cooling and not warming as they predicted. Besides the infamously lame "aerosols overwhelm CO2" excuse that is trotted out every few years by elite losers, the other favorite excuse is that global warming actually goes and hides in the deep ocean basins, where no one can ever seem to find it.

The "warming is hiding" hypothesis is also fairly lame as the latest evidence reveals, which is not a surprise since only greens/lefties/liberals believe it.

"Data from Catlin Arctic Survey 2011, collected during an eight-week expedition from March to May, indicates the temperature of Arctic seawater below 200 metres depth has decreased by a ‘surprising’ one degree Celsius in comparison with previous observations...“What was most surprising was the degree of change; even the most incremental differences in ocean temperatures matter. To put this temperature change in context, global sea temperatures rose by only 0.25 of a degree Celsius in the last 30 to 40 years but this was enough for the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report to state the oceans are warming.”"

Latest Global Temperature Data Confirms That Unequivocal Global Cooling Is Accelerating

Note: Just prior to this posting, it became public that a new Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) study confirms that global warming has been missing since 1998. This new study refutes James Hansen, Al Gore and all the IPCC Climategate scientists claims of "unequivocal," "unprecedented," and "accelerating" global warming they have made over recent years. Global warming skeptics have proven to be correct, which the below material also supports.

In a previous post, we reviewed the last 15 years of HadCRUT temperature records, which show that global warming has become insignificant. In fact, one could accurately state that a global cooling trend is now replacing a global warming trend in an "unequivocal" and "accelerating" manner, using the greens' own favored warming alarmist terms. (click on each image to enlarge)

When examining the past 15 years of monthly global temperature anomalies, the per century change from a warming trend to a cooling trend becomes clear. Calculating 10-year linear trends from the monthly anomalies, the above chart plots end of year per century trends (plus the May 2011 10-year trend).

As can be seen, since 2001 the per century trends have conclusively switched from a global warming direction to a global cooling direction. In addition, the early 2011 temperature anomalies confirm what has actually been taking place since 2001. If the May 2011 10-year trend continues, the global temperature by 2100 will have decreased by -0.67°C.

This warming to cooling reversal has happened in the face of "business as usual" increases in atmospheric CO2 levels. And this global temperature phenomenon reversal has occurred despite the "consensus" claims of IPCC "climate scientists" and predictions of the bureaucrats' climate models. (The lower left chart clearly depicts how badly the climate models have failed.)

The lower right chart depicts a similar global cooling trend outcome over the last 15 years. Using the same monthly anomaly data, this chart's per century trends are based on 5-year linear calculation.

Regardless of how the temperature anomaly records are examined, the last 15-year span has seen the global warming trend fade as the world seemingly moves into a global cooling mode (the continental U.S. 15-year record of temperatures confirms this cooling trend). How long this will persist and how deep the cooling trend may become is pure speculation. And indeed, there is no concrete, empirically proven, scientific reason to assume the cooling will continue - the climate is complex and chaotic, which makes accurate predictions impossible.

These are the take home facts:

1. Global warming is neither unequivocal, accelerating, or even unprecedented.

2. Global cooling is becoming a trend but it's not clear whether that trend is accelerating and unequivocal - circumstantial at this point.

3. Rapidly increasing atmospheric CO2 levels have not caused the requisite acceleration of global temperature increases.

4. CO2 levels appear to have little impact on global temperatures.

5. Global temperatures are in a deceleration mode, totally contrary to IPCC's climate models.

6. Recent severe weather events (2010 and 2011) are not a result of increasing global temperatures; based on the actual temperature evidence since 2001, recent severe weather would more likely be a result of accelerating cooling.

7. Climate models have been stupendously wrong about global warming and associated climate change, time after time.

Additional modern temperature charts. Unequivocal fake warming, temperature fabrication charts.

Phil Jones? "Warming Over Last 15 Years Is Insignificant, Immaterial, Irrelevant, and Inconsistent With Climate Models"

Read here and here. Well..okay...the quote in this post's title is what Phil Jones should have really said (he didn't). Instead, he recently proclaimed that global warming finally has become "statistically significant" since 1995.

Jones was speaking of the 15 years starting in 1996 and ending in 2010. Although the warming has become "statistically significant" in his opinion (not others), the actual level of warming is literally immaterial when put into the context of catastrophic warming (from 5 to 10 degrees Celsius by 2100) pushed by government payroll scientists enthralled (enriched?) with alarmism.

To better understand the level of immaterial warming that has happened, look at the chart above (adjacent). The red curve is a plot of monthly HadCRUT anomalies for the 15 years (180 months) ending May 2011. The light blue curve is a 2nd order curve fit of the anomalies. The black dots represent monthly atmospheric CO2 levels and gray curve the 2nd order fitting to those CO2 levels. (charts and stats done in Excel)

First, note how the blue curve turns south, indicating a direction of cooling for the HadCRUT global temps that many scientists believe will continue. The straight linear trend associated with the latest 15 years implies a warming of a tiny +0.53 degrees by January 1, 2100. In contrast, the 15-year period ending May,1996 had a linear trend that translates into an increase of +1.02 degrees by end of century, if that trend still existed - it doesn't. Did we say cooling yet?

Second, does that red curve look in the least like the accelerating, unequivocal and unprecedented global warming being claimed as happening by the UN's IPCC "elite" scientists? Nope, me neither.

Next, note the behavior of Phil Jones' (and the IPCC climate models') favorite climate forcing over the last 15 years. It is more than obvious that CO2 levels continue their long, relentless march upward, as they have done ever since WWII. And obviously, the chart clearly shows the two trends (CO2 and HadCRUT temps) diverging.

Visually, there appears to be no relationship between CO2 levels and global temperatures depicted in the chart. And in fact, the R² statistic for the two comes in at an incredibly low +0.04 - in essence, it appears there is no valid relationship between CO2 and global temps. Of course, Phil Jones and the IPCC deny this, but the actual on-the-ground facts are undeniable: human CO2 emissions appear to have a marginal impact on global temperatures, well below the speculative predictions of the IPCC and its climate models.

One final note about global warming and the recent 2011 severe weather incidents. As the HadCRUT chart depicts, global temperatures started a major decline after March 2010. As temperatures categorically crashed, the world suffered from more cold, more snow, more tornadoes, more rain, more flooding and etc. And what do the lamestream media, Hollywood celebrities, left/liberal politicians and alarmist scientists blame? Why, of course, global warming and human CO2 emissions. Go figure.

Sooo, going back to the title of this post, Phil Jones would have been more accurate and truthful if he had said: "Although statistically significant, global warming over the last 15 Years has been rather insignificant, definitely immaterial, likely irrelevant, and basically inconsistent with the climate models." That sounds like it emanated from an honest, objective scientist, no?

BTW, below are charts for other major temperature datasets for the last 15 years ending May 2011. Regardless of the dataset, global temperatures are in a slight cooling phase presently and they could continue to go down, and then again, they may not. That's what natural climate change is about. (click on all images to enlarge)

Additional modern temperature charts.

New Refutation of Mann's 'Hockey Stick' Science: Medieval Warming Prosperity Collapsed Due To Devastation of Rapid Climate Cooling

Read here. In peer-reviewed research published by the influential  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), scientists reconstructed 5,600 years of climate conditions in Greenland. This new reconstruction confirmed the warm and optimum climate conditions of the Medieval Warming and the rapid onset of the frigid Little Ice Age.

In the case of Greenland's flourishing Viking settlements, the climate change to a cold phase meant total destruction of their existing society and settlements.

This new PNAS study totally refutes Michael Mann's entirely bogus 'hockey stick' portrayal of climate being benign and unchanging prior to the 20th century.

"What climate scientists have been able to ascertain is that an extended cold snap, called the Little Ice Age, gripped Greenland beginning in the 1400s. This has been cited as a major cause of the Norse’s disappearance. Now researchers led by Brown University show the climate turned colder in an earlier span of several decades, setting in motion the end of the Greenland Norse...The Vikings arrived in Greenland in the 980s...The arrival coincided with a time of relatively mild weather, similar to that in Greenland today. However, beginning around 1100, the climate began an 80-year period in which temperatures dropped 4 degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit), the Brown scientists concluded...“You have an interval when the summers are long and balmy [Editor: yes, Greenland summers "long and balmy" during the Medieval period] and you build up the size of your farm, and then suddenly year after year, you go into this cooling trend, and the summers are getting shorter and colder and you can’t make as much hay. You can imagine how that particular lifestyle may not be able to make it,”...[William J. D’Andreaa, Yongsong Huanga, Sherilyn C. Fritz, N. John Anderson 2011: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences]

Additonal climate-history and peer-reviewed postings. Historical temperature charts.

NOAA Update Confirms Acceleration of U.S. Cooling: 10-Year Trend Is -12.9°F versus -2.9°F For 15-Years

Source here. (click on image to enlarge)

This chart represents the 15 years (180 months), starting April 1, 1997 and ending March 31, 2011. Per the latest NOAA/NCDC U.S. temperature data records, the 12-month period ending March 2011 was the 6th coldest March-ending period for the last 15 years. In terms of a single month, March 2011 was 79th coldest March in the past 117 years.

The per century cooling trend of this period, a minus 2.9°F, took place in spite of the huge warmth produced by two large El Niño events during this 15-year span: 1997-1998 and 2009-2010.

 

 For the 10-year period ending March 2011, the cooling trend accelerates to a very significant minus 12.9°F per century rate - again, per the updated NOAA/NCDC temperature records. (click on image to enlarge)

At some point, U.S. continental warming will resume, but the extended decade-long plus global cooling trend persists, contradicting the experts. None of the IPCC climate models, nor "consensus" experts predicted this cooling trend for the continental U.S.

Additional modern temperature charts. Historical temperature charts.

NOAA Reports That 1998 Temperature Was 1.3 Degrees Warmer Than 2010; U.S. Cooling At -9.4° Per Century Rate

Source here. (click on image to enlarge) This chart represents the 13 calendar years (156 months), starting January 1, 1998 and ending December 31, 2010. Per the NOAA/NCDC U.S. temperature data records, 2010 was the 3rd coldest calendar year since 1997 - an amazing 1.3 degrees cooler than the 1998 calendar year.

In addition, the large U.S. continental landmass during this period experienced an unfathomable cooling trend, equal to an immense minus 9.4°F per century.

At some point, U.S. continental warming will resume, but the extended decade-long plus global cooling trend persists, contradicting the experts. None of the IPCC climate models, nor "consensus" experts predicted this cooling, let alone a minus 9.4 degree trend for the continental U.S. This trend has persisted since the super 1997-98 El Niño warming event and continued through the major 2009-2010 El Niño event.

With the continental U.S. having the most extensive thermometer network in the world, this suggests that possibly other areas of the world would be reporting a cooling trend if they also had the extent and quality of actual temperature measuring coverage that exists in the U.S.

As a reminder, the climate alarmist AGW hypothesis calls for total global warming, which is not happening across the large U.S. landmass. Obviously, the case for AGW is significantly weakened by this NOAA empirical evidence.

Note: A temperature trend, as shown in the above chart, is not a prediction.

World's Oldest Temperature Record: No Significant Warming Since 1995, Cooling Instead

The Central England Temperature (CET) database is the world's oldest instrumental temperature record. Its temperature data has been used in hundreds of peer-reviewed studies because of its uniqueness and accuracy. It also has the advantage of never being manipulated by NASA's team of global warming fabricators. (click on image to enlarge)

What's CET's venerable temperature record telling us as of the end of 2010? It confirms there has been no significant warming in the 15 years since 1995; actually, it instead reveals a slight cooling trend (green linear trend line) over that time span.

This record is the total opposite of what UK climate "experts" have predicted, and certainly mocks the past shrill hysteria and incompetence of the UK's ruling elites.

Additional modern and historical temperature charts.

Global Cooling Is Here, Pt. XIV: The Unprecedented Cold Just Keeps Mocking The Cancún Deniers

Those über-serious global cooling deniers down in Cancún are just starting to party hard and enjoy the immense benefits of a warm climate, while the average person of the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing the harshness of record cold and bitter climates. [Note to self: If a warm climate causes death and destruction from severe weather, why are these people at the fossil fuel-built, tropical resort of Cancún? Why not Palin's Alaska?]

 

 

 

 

 

England snow-covered completely and it's only December 2

Norway gets hit with record cold - worst in 140 years

Plunging ocean temperatures even impress the climate science experts

France's early winter cold temperatures causing death and destruction

Russia's Far East clobbered with abnormally low temperatures and blizzard

European extreme winter kills 28 people so far

Worst winter in a century predicted by German scientists

Russian and Polish citizens literally freezing to death due to extreme cold

Wales experiences coldest November night ever

Amsterdam's bitter cold puts frigidity clamps on climaxes

Florida residents suffer freeze warnings and it's barely December

Germany is dealing with Stalingrad-like freezing

2010 ski season starts in Europe - it's earlier by months

Vietnam struck by early cold that cause buffalo kills

Ireland blasted by extreme cold

Chinese airport repeatedly closed by November heavy snow conditions

Austin, Texas hits new cold temperature record

Phoenix, Arizona suffering from record low temperatures and freezing conditions

UK cold sets records for November

China snowstorms arrive 40 days earlier this winter

Spokane, Washington has rare November blizzard

Finland's early winter conditions are brutally cold

Britain's experience with extreme global cooling reveals gross lack of preparedness

Sierra Nevada ski resorts are having best early ski season conditions in decades

Scotland's ski resorts forced to close because of harsh winter conditions

UK's bitter winter conditions have farmers in fear

Sweden struck with coldest temperatures in 100 years

Northern Europe transportation schedules being disrupted by early winter

Past decade of record setting snow and cold winters continuing for much of Northern Hemisphere

UK's current cold climate rivals those found in middle Scandinavia

Billings, Montana hit with record early snowfall

British Columbia/Vancouver is blasted with record Arctic temperatures and winds

California oranges threatened by record cold conditions

Britain wakes up to earliest white winter in decades

L.A. region now has cold winter conditions, after a very cold summer

United Kingdom deep freeze costing taxpayers £1.2 billion per day

U.S. ski resort operators ecstatic with early season global cooling conditions

San Diego's temperate climate plummets to 120-year record lows in November

Note: Previous global cooling postings in this series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11,  Part 12 and Part 13.

h/t: Tom Nelson for many of these stories.

Global Cooling Is Here, Pt. XIII: Where's The Freaking Global-Warming Promised Us!

Over the last ten years, the MSM reporters have pushed the myth-story that "global warming" was happening and dangerous. Yet NASA publishes data that the majority of the world has not been warming, and in fact, many areas have been cooling. Unfortunately for humanity, that cooling is worsening and spreading, which will cause much misery (with exception of ski resorts). h/t to Tom Nelson for many of these stories.

Ocean oscillations and solar cycles are in sync to cause super cooling

Greenland suffers -79F temperature before winter's start

Oregon has early snow reaching 25 inches

Colorado ski resorts get early start because of pre-winter snow storms

Chinese cotton prices soar due to cold temperatures

Korea hit with unusual cold and early icing

Britain has coldest temperatures in 17 years

Turkey has early snow, expects 4 to 10 degrees below normal this winter

N. American plains struck by blizzard and cold conditions

Germany's cold weather silences the media's global warming alarmist reporters

Scotland struck by early snow storms

United Kingdom faces a forecast of very harsh winters

Alaska experiences record cold temperatures

Arizona suffers from early freeze conditions

North Carolina ties record cold temperatures

Orlando, Florida breaks 31-year cold temperature record

Russia is forecasting worst winter in 1,000 years

Canadian cold weather reduces agriculture production

Appalachian mountains early snowfall largest since 1979

Melbourne, Australia has coldest October temperature in 15 years

Coca-Cola sales plunge due to cold weather

Note: Previous global cooling postings in this series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11 and Part 12.

NASA Global Warming Research: Last Decade of Data Shows Vast Areas of World Not Warming

Read here. Although the MSM does not publicize actual empirical climate evidence any longer, it is known by researchers that large areas of the world have been cooling over the last 10+ years, some considerably. NASA data confirms this with their global temperature map for the period of 2000-2009, which clearly indicates "global warming" is regional warming at best. (click on image to enlarge)

Definitive warming is indicated on NASA temperature map by the yellow, brown and red colors. Bluish areas represent either cooling or non-significant warming/cooling - these areas dominate, which means "global" warming is non-existent.

Additional modern temperature charts. Original PDF of NASA temperature map.

The World's Elites Finally Put 1 Plus 1 Together: Potential For Dangerous Global Cooling Growing

Read here. We've discussed global cooling in many prior posts. If natural cycles push the world to a cooling tipping point, humanity is not prepared for the devastation because of the vast sums of money and time wasted by the elites on the CO2 global warming boogieman.

Have the elites finally awoken to their incredible bungling? Time to identify and list those elites responsible for gross incompetence?

"Let me explain briefly why this is a bombshell waiting to explode.

Almost every government in the Western world from the USA to Britain to all the other EU states to Australia and New Zealand is currently committed to a policy of “decarbonisation.” This in turn is justified to (increasingly sceptical) electorates on the grounds that man-made CO2 is a prime driver of dangerous global warming and must therefore be reduced drastically, at no matter what social, economic and environmental cost. In the Eighties and Nineties, the global elite had a nice run of hot weather to support their (scientifically dubious) claims. But now they don’t. Winters are getting colder. Fuel bills are rising (in the name of combating climate change, natch). The wheels are starting to come off the AGW bandwagon. Ordinary people, resisting two decades of concerted brainwashing, are starting to notice.

All this, of course, spells big trouble for the global power elite."

Global Cooling Is Here, Pt. XII: Early Winter Breaking Out In Northern Hemisphere ("Climate Disruption" Gone Wild)

After much of the Southern Hemisphere was hammered by extremely cold weather during their winter, the northern part of the globe appears to be headed for the same misery.

Climate disruption targets Canada and northern U.S. with early winter

Climate disruption strikes UK with unusual early cold weather

Climate disruption hits British Columbia with record cold

Climate disruption disrupts Arctic summer with record cold

Climate disruption brings early snows for Russia

Climate disruption cools and ruins the entire southern California summer

Climate disruption causes record New Zealand spring blizzard, lambs die by thousands

Climate disruption forces polar bears to seek colder climes in UK (according to MSM)

Peru is praying for climate disruption of the global warming variety - nice and toasty, they hope

h/t: Tom Nelson & Climate Depot for many of the stories

Note: Previous global cooling postings in this series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10 and Part 11.

Global Cooling Is Here, Pt. XI: Climate Is In Cold Mode, And It's Creating Cooling Trends Across Globe

The evidence keeps mounting that mother nature is mocking the "2010 is hottest" claim being made by climate alarmist scientists and their hysterical, MSM parrots (ooops, "reporters"). The coming 6 months could indeed be very cool based on what's happening across the globe.

(Previous global cooling postings in this series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 and Part 10.)

Expert meteorologist explains global cooling indicators & conditions

Satellite temperature readings starting to plummet

U.S. long-term cooling continues - minus 8.6°F per century rate

La Niña intensifies - Pacific cooling is happening faster than predicted

Arctic melt season was shortest evaaar!?

Calgary, Canada experiences a very cold summer

Mississippi - sets new low temperature record - old record set in 1924

UK endures cold August, lowest temps in 17 years

Victoria, Australia snowfalls set record

New South Wales (NSW), Australia has coldest winter in 12 years

Swiss Alps, Argentina & New Zealand have huge snowfalls

Despite Claims of "Warmest Summer," U.S. Temps Are Cooling At -8.6°F Per Century Rate As of August 31, 2010

Source here.  Although August 2010 was the 7th warmest August since 1895 (August 1936 & 1937 were hotter for example), the twelve-month period ending August 31 was the second coldest since 1998, even with the warming influence of the 2010 El Niño. Of course, this U.S. cooling trend will eventually revert to a warming trend, but the current decade-long plus global cooling trend has not yet abated. This has been a major surprise for all global warming alarmists. This trend has persisted since the super 1997-98 El Niño event.

With the continental U.S. having the most extensive thermometer network in the world, this suggests that possibly other areas of the world would be reporting a cooling trend if they also had the extent and quality of actual temperature measuring coverage that exists in the U.S.

The AGW hypothesis calls for global warming, which is obviously not happening in the U.S. - the case for AGW is significantly weakened by this type of empirical evidence. Just as a reminder, the climate models predicted "global" warming, not partial-global warming, as seems to be the present situation. 

Each red line (link) on graph represents a 12-month period ending in August of related year - continental U.S. temperatures only.

Note: A temperature trend, as shown in the above chart, is not a prediction.

Additional current temp charts here. Historical temp charts here.

The Real World Temperature Data: Why Global Warming Isn't Really "Global" Warming

Read here. Based on the data crunching by the good folks at Digging In The Clay, we can now visualize what global temperatures have done throughout the world since 1880. What is striking about their data representation (see below) is that "global warming" has been a non-existent phenomenon over large swaths of the globe. In fact, as the 130 year data clearly shows, major portions of the world have cooled, which is entirely inconsistent with the AGW CO2-based hypothesis.

Soooo, the next time your zombie-like eco-child, or a government paid stooge scientist, or your favorite new pagan religion (dis)order, or the sex-crazed poodle celebrities start spouting off about how much the globe has warmed since the beginning of the industrial age, just point them to this chart, and then very gently whisper in their ear, "...please, would you just STFU about the global warming BS..." (click on image to enlarge)
 

Additional current temp charts here. Historical temp charts here.

Global Cooling Is Here, Pt. X: The Satellite Data - Are We Witnessing Unprecedented Ocean Cooling?

Read here. As the satellite data depicts below, Pacific Ocean temperatures are in a dramatic, accelerating free-fall. If this trend continues, we will be witnessing unprecedented ocean cooling, which will drive global temperatures and climate change.

We are already seeing the climate result from this La Niña phase of the ENSO cycle:

Huntington Beach, California seeing record lows

Peru's recent outbreak of rabid bats is thought to be tied to cooling

Bolivia experiences coldest temps in 40 years

Argentina olive plantations hurt badly by severe winter temperatures

Victoria, Australia has coldest day in years. Gloomy, cold conditions predicted

Previous global cooling postings in this series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8 and Part 9.

Global Cooling Is Here, Pt. IX: 2010, The Coldest Arctic Summer Ever! Will Low Solar Activity Keep The World Cooling?

While Moscow warms like "never before" (not), the extreme northern Arctic regions have had an unprecedented, extended cold summer.  (click on image to enlarge)

This Arctic temperature graph says it all, and if this cooling trend continues through the month of August, indeed we may witness a truly exceptional event - the COLDEST EVAAAR! Well....at least since 1958.

Read here. What is causing this major Arctic cooling? Will it continue? Answers: Solar. Yes, extended cooling is often the result of a decreased solar furnace. If so, the solar indicators point to some very miserable Northern Hemisphere weather in the very near future. Does this mean the entire global climate will be cooling? That seems like a stretch, but as they say, read the whole thing.

Previous global cooling postings in this series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, and Part 8.

Global Cooling Is Here, Pt. VIII: From San Diego to Santiago, It's Cold Out There, Baby!

The world has had a few hot spots the past few months, but large areas of extreme cold and cooler temperatures are dominating. (Previous global cooling postings in series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, and Part 7.)

San Diego, this summer's cold continues a 50-year trend

The Pacific is experiencing unprecedented cooling

Greenland has experienced colder temperatures this summer (more Arctic cool)

Northern Hemisphere headed towards severe cooling say experts

New Zealand hit with more freezing and a lot of snow

Argentina is colder than Antarctica....whoa!

Santiago, Chile has coldest July since 1908

Note: h/t to Tom Nelson for many of these stories

Global Cooling Is Here, Part VII: U.S. Temps Cooling At -8.5°F Rate per Century

Previous global cooling postings in series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6.

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Source here.  Although July 2010 was the 17th warmest July since 1895, the twelve-month period ending July 30 was the second coldest since 1998. Of course, the U.S. cooling trend will eventually revert to a warming trend, but the current decade-long plus global cooling trend has not yet abated, which has been a major surprise for all global warming alarmists. This trend has persisted since the super 1997-98 El Niño event.

With the continental U.S. having the most extensive thermometer network in the world, this suggests that possibly other areas of the world would be reporting a cooling trend if they also had the extent and quality of actual temperature measuring coverage that exists in the U.S.

The AGW hypothesis calls for global warming, which is obviously not happening in the U.S. - the case for AGW is significantly weakened by this type of empirical evidence. Just as a reminder, the climate models predicted "global" warming, not partial-global warming, as seems to be the present situation. Note: A temperature trend, as shown in the chart, is not a prediction.

Each red line (link) on graph represents a 12-month period ending in July of related year - continental U.S. temperatures only.

Additional current temp charts here. Historical temp charts here.

Global Cooling Is Here, Pt. VI: More Evidence That Cooling Is A Global Phenomenon

From the top of the globe to the bottom, we are witnessing patterns of cold weather that may be indicators of the expected global cooling period that many scientists feel we are entering, or already have. ('Cooling series' Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5)

Arctic temperatures appear to be cooler than those in in the 1950's

San Francisco July temperatures coolest since 1971

Germany, first 6 months of 2010 coldest in 14 years

San Diego, coldest July since 1933

Brazil, tropical fish freezing

Bolivia, 6 million fish killed by colder temperatures

Peru, declares emergency due to plunging temperatures

Antarctic sea ice growing at fastest rate ever

Southern Hemisphere, global cooling could be killing penguins

Global Cooling Is Here, Pt. V: Russian Siberian Temperatures Plunge This Summmer

Read here and here. Like the U.S., parts of Russia have experienced high temps, while other large swaths of the country experience a really cold summer. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of global cooling series)

"The Caucuses and nearby Kazakhstan have been getting hit by one cold wave after another..... Closeup of Kazakhstan below, showing temperatures 10-15C below normal near lake Balkash." (From first "here" link)

"The NOAA models predict a major cooling for the Arctic this coming winter. Indeed they show a significant cooling globally. These models have been converging on an Arctic deep freeze for a few weeks now.....you can see that the Arctic above Scandinavia, Russia, Siberia has cooled to a slight negative anomaly....." [C3 editor: for the future months August, September, October 2010]. (From the second "here" link)

And to again, to remind all of the global extent of the cooling this summer, here is more information about the devastating cold in Peru. (h/t Tom Nelson) Then there is the record cold hitting Antarctica this summer.

CO2-AGW Alarmist Science Hits Iceberg: Study Reveals Human CO2 Has Zero Impact On Antarctica Melting/Warming

Read here. Researchers from Cryospheric Processes Laboratory and the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) monitor various attributes of the S. Hemisphere/Antarctica and have documented that recently the snow melt index for the southern continent has reached its lowest point ever. Their research indicates the snow melt index is likely driven by the major ocean and atmosphere oscillations for that area of the world - in other words, Antarctica melting/warming has nothing to do with human CO2 emissions over the last 30 years.

We've superimposed the linear-like growth of CO2 levels for the past 30 years on the chart below. Clearly, the Antarctica climate is not warming due to the rapid growth of human CO2 emissions. Nor does it even appear to be influenced by CO2 levels. The alarmist AGW prediction that Antarctica was going to melt due to CO2 was (and is) absolute rubbish. (click on image to enlarge)

"Tedesco and Monaghan begin by noting “Melting over Antarctica has been monitored since 1979 using spaceborne passive microwave observations. The sign of the melting trends over Antarctica is variable at regional scales, depending on the period analyzed and on the indices used, with the continent-averaged trend being negligible.”.....observed that snowmelt was at a record low for the 30-year period between 1979 and 2009. Specifically, the Antarctic snowmelt index (the number of days on which melt occurs multiplied by the area subject to melting) in 2008–2009 set a new historical minimum.” They explain further “Negative melting anomalies indicate that melting occurred fewer days than the average over the past 30 years.”.....with only one small exception, the entire coastline of Antarctica experienced a low amount of melting – this was widespread and not regionally confined. Claims that Antarctica is melting are simply not consistent with the facts!"

Global Cooling Is Here, Pt IV: The 2010 La Niña Starts In Brutal Fashion

Read here. In previous postings (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) we pointed to several indicators that the world is likely to be entering a global cooling phase. This image from Watts Up With That provides additional evidence of the power of this La Niña's cooling.

Global Cooling Is Here, Pt. III: Winter Turns South America Into A Killing Zone

Read here. Global cooling is on the march (part I and part II) and it is brutal and devastating. In South America the cold will probably kill thousands this winter. If global cooling truly grips the world, all of us, not just S. America, can expect far worse death and destruction as documented in this article based on peer-reviewed studies:

"The Little Ice Age in Scandinavia, as in most parts of the world where glaciers were wont to form and grow during that period, was not a time of either pleasantness or plenty. In fact, it was downright depressing and dangerous, as alpine glaciers advanced in virtually all mountainous regions of the globe during that period (Luckman, 1994; Villalba, 1994; Smith et al., 1995; Naftz et al., 1996), eroding large areas of land and producing masses of debris. Like an army of tractors and bulldozers, streams of ice flowed down mountain slopes, carving paths through the landscape, moving rocks, and destroying all vegetation in their paths (Smith and Laroque, 1995).

Continental glaciers and sea ice expanded their ranges as well (Grove, 1988; Crowley and North, 1991). Near Iceland and Greenland, in fact, the expansion of sea ice during the Little Ice Age was so great that it isolated the Viking colony established in Greenland during the Medieval Warm Period, leading to its eventual abandonment (Bergthorsson, 1969; Dansgaard et al., 1975; Pringle, 1997).

Two closely associated phenomena that often occurred during the Little Ice Age were glacial landslides and avalanches (Porter and Orombelli, 1981; Innes, 1985). In Norway, an unprecedented number of petitions for tax and land rent relief were granted in the 17th and 18th centuries on account of the considerable damage that was caused by landslides, rockfalls, avalanches, floods and ice movement (Grove, 1988). In one example of catastrophic force and destruction, the Italian settlements of Ameiron and Triolet were destroyed by a rockfall of boulders, water, and ice in 1717. The evidence suggests that the rockfall had a volume of 16-20 million cubic meters and descended 1860 meters over a distance of 7 kilometers in but a few minutes, destroying homes, livestock, and vegetation (Porter and Orombelli, 1980). Other data suggest rockslides and avalanches were also frequent hazards in mountainous regions during this period (Porter and Orombelli, 1981; Innes, 1985).

Flooding was another catastrophic hazard of the Little Ice Age, with meltwater streams from glaciers eroding farmland throughout Norway (Blyth, 1982; Grove, 1988). In Iceland, flooding also wreaked havoc on the landscape when, on occasion, subglacial volcanic activity melted large portions of continental glaciers (Thoroddsen, 1905-06; Thorarinsson, 1959). Peak discharge rates during these episodes have been estimated to have been as high as 100,000 cubic meters per second - a value comparable in magnitude to the mean discharge rate of the Amazon River (Thorarinsson, 1957). During one such eruption-flood in 1660, glacial meltwater streams carried enough rock and debris from the land to the sea to create a dry beach where fishing boats had previously operated in 120 feet (36.6 m) of water (Grove, 1988); while flooding from a later eruption carried enough sediment seaward to fill waters 240 feet (73.2 m) deep (Henderson, 1819).

There is also evidence to suggest that some regions of the globe experienced severe drought during the Little Ice Age as a result of large-scale changes in atmospheric circulation patterns (Crowley and North, 1991; Stahle and Cleaveland, 1994). In Chile, for example, dendrochronology studies have revealed that the most intense droughts of the past 1,000 years occurred during this period of time (Villalba, 1994). Similar findings have been obtained from tree-ring analyses in the southeastern United States, where the most prolonged dry episode of spring drought in the last 1,000 years occurred during the mid-18th century (Stahle and Cleaveland, 1994). Elsewhere in the southwest U.S., dendrochronology data indicate that the warm and moist conditions experienced during the Medieval Warm Period gave way to progressively cooler and drier conditions during the Little Ice Age; and it is suspected that this transformation of the climate led to the demise of the Anasazi Indian civilization by reducing the area of land on the Colorado Plateau that was suitable for agriculture (Petersen, 1994). Indeed, cold temperatures and glacial advances resulted in problematic farming in many areas of the world during the Little Ice Age; and failed crops and disrupted ecosystems produced much human misery (Bernabo, 1981; Grimm, 1983; Payette et al., 1985; Campbell and McAndrews, 1991; Cambpell and McAndrews, 1993).

Consequently, and in light of all of the debilitating phenomena associated with depressed global temperatures, if there was even the slimmest of chances that the historical increase in the air's CO2 content may have contributed somewhat to the 20th-century warming that brought the planet out of this awful environmental state, it should be applauded."

Global Cooling Is Here, Pt. II: Arctic Summer Temps Well Below Normal

Read here. As we mentioned before (Part 1) about the Arctic has been acting cold this summer - turns out it has been.

Global Cooling Is Here: New Coldest Day Record Reached At Antarctica Station

Read here. More eminent scientists, expert meteorologists and even major science organizations are now forecasting that the globe is headed for unusually cold period, quite possibly for an extended period of time. As the alarmists like to say, the polar regions are the climate canaries:

"The Neumayer III station, operated by Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute, has recorded the lowest temperature at their Antarctic location since the start of operations there 29 years ago. The mercury dropped to -50.2°C.....According to polar meteorologist Gert König-Langlo of the Neumayer III, such similarly low temperatures have been recorded only 10 times since Neumayer operations began at this location. Says König-Langlo: This is the first time we’ve gone under the minus 50 degree mark."

Another Global Cooling Indicator: Arctic Ice Melt Slowest/Smallest Ever Recorded!

Read here. Well...er,..okay...the smallest melt rate for the first 15 days of July then!  (Hot update on sea ice melt from Watts Up With That: Sea Ice News #14 – an inconvenient July.)

In spite of the constant, ludicrous, short-term, navel-gazing pronouncements of U.S. climate scientists and their useful idiots, the mainstream press, the world is not burning up, nor melting. If climate scientists feel so strongly that the focus should be on the short-term, then the above indicator of Arctic ice melt is surely important and indicative also. It does seem to confirm what is happening over the medium-term, globally:

New Chinese Peer-Research: Beware Global Cooling, It Causes Bad Weather & Serious Mayhem

Read here. A new peer-reviewed study finds that global cooling climate change leads to major social instabilities (due to worsening weather/climate conditions), including outbreaks of devastating war. In essence, Chinese data and historical records indicate temperature warming leads to paradise and cooling to hell. This study refutes the speculative, catastrophic predictions of AGW alarmists regarding the impact of warming on society.

[Zhibin Zhang et al] "Here, using historical records and palaeoclimatic reconstructions during AD 10–1900, we demonstrate that war frequency, price of rice, locust plague, drought frequency, flood frequency and temperature in China show two predominant periodic bands around 160 and 320 years where they interact significantly with each other. Temperature cooling shows direct positive association with the frequency of external aggression war to the Chinese dynasties.....with the frequency of internal war within the Chinese dynasties through drought and locust plagues. The collapses of the agricultural dynasties of the Han, Tang, Song and Ming are more closely associated with low temperature. Our study suggests that food production during the last two millennia has been more unstable during cooler periods....."

h/t: commenter from WUWT

Additional historical temperature charts. Climate history postings. Modern temperature charts.

Peer-Reviewed Study: Research Data Affirms Climate Change Driven By Natural Oscillations, Every 1450 Years

Read here. Map source here. Scientists studied the extended warm period (interglacial) prior to the last major ice age. That prior warm period happened some 125 thousand years ago. Using a sediment core from a German lake, the scientists analyzed the quantity of pollen grains found in the core. Approximately every 1,500 years during the ancient interglacial, the climate changed from a warming phase to a cooling phase. The current interglacial, since the end of the last ice age about 15 thousand years ago, shares this same, every 1,500 year oscillation of warming-to-cooling climate changes.

The scientists involved in the study suggest this natural 1,500 year oscillation, found in both the ancient interglacial and the one we live in, is likely due to solar forces.

"The results of the authors' analysis revealed the presence of 11 major cold events having an average recurrence time of approximately 1450 years over the course of the last interglacial, which periodicity is essentially identical to the millennial-scale oscillation of climate throughout the current interglacial (Bond et al., 1997, 2001; deMenocal et al., 2000; McDermott et al., 2001; Gupta et al., 2003; Hu et al., 2003).....This study adds to the growing body of evidence that earth's climate oscillates in a well-defined manner on a timescale of approximately 1500 years.  This knowledge is very important, for it suggests that something other than the historic buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may be responsible for 20th-century warming..... Indeed, there is absolutely no evidence for any concomitant oscillation in the air's CO2 content accompanying the 1500-year oscillation of climate that was responsible for the warmings that produced the prior Medieval Warm Period and the still earlier Roman Warm Period,"

Last 12 Mths Ending June Is Coldest Since 1998; US Temps Cooling At -8.1°F Rate per Century

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Source here.  Despite June 2010 being one of the warmest U.S. Junes since 1895, the twelve-month period ending June 30 was tied (with 2001) as the coldest since 1998. Of course, the U.S. cooling trend will eventually revert to a warming trend, but the current decade-long plus global cooling trend has not yet abated, which has been a major surprise for all global warming alarmists. This trend has persisted since the super 1997-98 El Niño event.

With the continental U.S. having the most extensive thermometer network in the world, this suggests that possibly other areas of the world would be reporting a cooling trend if they also had the extent and quality of actual temperature measuring coverage that exists in the U.S.

The AGW hypothesis calls for global warming, which is obviously not happening in the U.S. - the case for AGW is significantly weakened by this type of empirical evidence. Just as a reminder, the climate models predicted "global" warming, not partial-global warming, as seems to be the present situation. Note: A temperature trend, as shown in the chart, is not a prediction.

Each red line (link) on graph represents a 12-month period ending in June of related year - continental U.S. temperatures.

Additional current temp charts here. Historical temp charts here.

Why The Recent Global Cooling? Peer-Reveiwed Study Provides Evidence and Possible Reasons

Read here. In a recent post examining global temperatures, we provided temperature charts that clearly indicated the recent global cooling. Scientists publishing in peer-reviewed journals are also document this cooling and speculate as to the causes.

"Perlwitz et al. begin their narrative by noting that there has been "a decade-long decline (1998-2007) in globally averaged temperatures from the record heat of 1998," citing Easterling and Wehner (2009). And in further describing this phenomenon, they say that U.S. temperatures in 2008 "not only declined from near-record warmth of prior years, but were in fact colder than the official 30-year reference climatology (-0.2°C versus the 1971-2000 mean) and further were the coldest since at least 1996.....With respect to the geographical origin of this "natural cooling," as they describe it, the five researchers point to "a widespread coolness of the tropical-wide oceans and the northeastern Pacific," focusing on the Niño 4 region, where they report that "anomalies of about -1.1°C suggest a condition colder than any in the instrumental record since 1871".....With respect to the geographical origin of this "natural cooling," as they describe it, the five researchers point to "a widespread coolness of the tropical-wide oceans and the northeastern Pacific,""

Coolest 12-Month Period In Twelve Years: Huge U.S. Cooling Trend Continues, Now A -8.4°F Decline/Century

Source here. Temperatures as of May 31, 2010. Of course, it will warm again, but the decade-long plus global cooling trend has not yet abated, which has been a major surprise for all global warming alarmists. This trend has persisted since the 1997-98 El Niño event. With the continental U.S. having the most extensive thermometer network in the world, this suggests that possibly other areas of the world would be reporting cooling if they also had the extent of temperature measuring coverage that the U.S. has.

The 12-month period ending May 31, 2010 was the coldest period for all twelve May-ending periods since 1998.

The AGW hypothesis calls for global warming, which is obviously not happening in the U.S. - the case for AGW is significantly weakened by this type of empirical evidence. Just as a reminder, the climate models predicted "global" warming, not partial-global warming, as seems to be the present situation. Note: A temperature trend, as shown in the chart, is not a prediction.

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Additional current temp charts here. Historical temp charts here.

From Chinese Cave, Scientists Confirm Roman & Medieval Periods Significantly Warmer

Read here and here (PDF). Scientists produced a temperature reconstruction from a cave's stalagmite. Roman and Medieval warmings found to range from 1.1°C to 2.3°C higher than the 3,000 year mean. The Little Ice Age climate temperatures documented to have been 1.2°C lower than mean. In summary, the stalagmite records reveal a climate range of temperature changes of 3.5°C, prior to any industrial/consumer CO2 emissions from fossil fuels. 

"The climate record derived from China's Jingdong Cave is just another example of what is being found in paleoclimate studies all around the world.  There is an externally-forced millennial-scale climatic oscillation of probable solar origin that periodically brings the world relatively warmer and colder conditions, irrespective of whatever may or may not be happening to the air's CO2 content.  The Modern Warm Period would thus appear to be nothing more than the most recent expression of this phenomenon."

U.S. Temperatures Continue Long Cold Slide: Cooling Now At -7.40°F Per Century Trend

Source here. Temperatures as of April 30, 2010. Of course it will warm again, but the decade-long plus global cooling trend has not yet abated. With the continental U.S. having the most extensive thermometer network in the world, this suggests that possibly other areas of the world would also be cooling if they also had the level of temperature measuring coverage that the U.S. has.

The AGW hypothesis calls for global warming, which is obviously not happening in the U.S. - the case for AGW is significantly weakened by this type of empirical evidence. The climate models predicted global warming, which included all of North America. Note: A temperature trend, as shown in the chart, is not a prediction.

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Additional current temp charts here. Historical temp charts here.

New Mexico's Democrats/Liberals Push Global Warming Legislation: Oops, New Mexico Is Cooling At -5.1° Per Century Rate

Read here. Despite the U.S. government temperature data indicating that the continental U.S. and the state of New Mexico are both cooling over the past 12 years, the liberal Democrats of New Mexico have decided to implement legislation to fight the fake "global warming." Why?

By introducing CO2 emission legislation that will have zero temperature impact on their state, or the U.S., New Mexico's Democrats hope is to raise additional revenues. It's honestly not about global warming nor climate change; for Democrats, it's about revenues, control, and power - simple as that. (click on image to enlarge)

"Fast forward to 2010.   New Mexico has decided to go it alone and unilaterally pass its own Cap and Trade program, making it the only state in the country to ignore the federal decision on this issue.  More specifically, NM Governor Bill Richardson and his lame-duck administration have decided to use administrative process alone to force through Cap and Trade, and even bypass our state legislature."

Additional current temp charts here. Historical temp charts here.

Will The U.S. Ever Warm? Past 12 Years Has U.S. Cooling At -6.60°F Per Century Rate

Source here. Of course it will warm again, but the decade-long plus global cooling trend has not yet abated. With the continental U.S. having the most extensive thermometer network in the world, this suggests that possibly other areas of the world would also be cooling if they also had the level of temperature measuring coverage that the U.S. has.

The AGW hypothesis calls for global warming, which is obviously not happening in the U.S. - the case for AGW is significantly weakened by this type of empirical evidence. The climate models predicted global warming, which included all of North America. Note: A temperature trend, as shown in the chart, is not a prediction.

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Additional current temp charts here. Historical temp charts here.

Despite The Predictions & "Hot" Rhetoric, The Evidence Shows Real Global Warming Is In Its Death Throes

Take a close look at the chart. It shows the warming (or cooling) per century growth rate at the end of each decade. Notice how the reddish bars keep shrinking after the decade ending 1919, with the shortest bar being in the hottest decade evaaar, the decade just ended in 2009. Of course, the chart does have that one outlier bar ending in 1999 - doesn't that bar just seem way out of place? (It should.) What's going on in this chart? Well, read on..... (click on image to enlarge)

First, the easy stuff. The green line represents the decadal growth in atmospheric ppm levels of CO2 as a percentage by decade (the right axis). So, for the decade ending in 1999, CO2 ppm increased by some 4.25% over the 1989 CO2 level. For the decade ending 2009, CO2 increased another 5.2%. Definitely, since the end of WWII, CO2 levels are growing at a healthy pace. 

What about that global warming, though? With those hefty increases in CO2, the global temperatures should be skyrocketing into the realms of the never-before-witnessed phenomenon of the terrifying "climate tipping point" that, ya' know, those climate alarmists and the MSM parrots keep screeching about. We've all heard from the climate alarmist scientists that global warming is "accelerating" but is it really? 

As expected, global temperatures have been increasing in a sporadic fashion since the end of the Little Ice Age during the 1800's. This is a normal warming reaction that happens after every cooling period. At some point, the global warming is going to fade as the world reaches an equilibrium point coming out of the big chill, which the above chart actually provides evidence of.

At end of 1919, that decade saw temperatures increasing at a 1.96°C per century trend. At the end of the following decades, that global warming per century trend kept dropping, with the exception of the decade ending in 1999 when all of a sudden there was a huge jump. Was that large jump in the per century warming rate finally due to the CO2 increase as advertised by alarmists? Nope. That jump was entirely due to the Super El Niño.

The Super El Niño of 1997-1998 caused a huge spike in global temperatures that was only temporary in nature, but long enough to impact the entire decade's per century warming rate. If the years 1997 and 1998 instead had temperatures that equaled the average of the other eight years of the decade, the decade-ending per century trend would have produced a bar on the chart about the same size as the decades ending 1989 and 2009. Those two Super El Niño years literally breathed new life into the global warming catastrophe movement, and enriched Al Gore, despite the warming being entirely due to a natural, ocean oscillation phenomenon.

Despite all the hand-wringing, hot rhetoric, and impending doom talk, natural global warming looks to be in a dying phase regardless of the amount of human CO2 emissions. The decade ending in 2009 may have been the "hottest" since WWII, but the global warming underlying trend is one of deceleration, not acceleration, as this chart reveals. As some global warming scientists have recently admitted, global cooling could well be our near term future, with a few El Niños thrown in providing some very welcome "hot" years.

Other modern temperature charts. Historical charts here.  Climate history postings here.

As of February, 2010: 12-Year U.S. Cooling Now At -7.0°F Per Century Trend

 

Source here. Overall decade-long global cooling trend has not abated. Both the U.S. and the world are definitely not experiencing global warming, in any sense of the concept. The case for AGW is without merit as temperatures have done exactly the opposite of what IPCC experts and climate models predicted a decade ago. Note: A temperature trend as shown in the chart is not a prediction.

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Additional current temp charts here. Historical temp charts here.

Despite 20th Century Minor Warming, Ice Cores Indicate Earth Is Still Cooling Since The Warming of Minoan Period

Regardless of the claims and protestations of Obama, Osama bin Laden, Gordon Brown, Paul Krugman, Tom Friedman, Robert Mugabe, Kevin Rudd, Hugo Chavez, Brad DeLong, and other radical, leftist-totalitarian progressives, the recent global warming that ceased since 1998 was not that unusual.

The earth constantly experiences extended periods of natural warming and cooling that significantly impacts the overall climate. And since 1998, temperatures have been flat to cooling, depending on which part of the world one lives in, it would not be unusual at all for the earth to continue to cool for a period, nor would it be unusual for it to resume its warming since the Little Ice Age - scientists simply don't know which way temperatures are headed. 

Despite the warming blip from the mid-1970's to the late 1990's, we do know the Northern Hemisphere has been locked in a long-term cooling cycle that goes back some 3,000+ years, as the Greenland ice cores reveal. (click image to enlarge)

 The  hysterical response to the recent warming by liberal-leftists is indicative of an agenda approach to science and history, lacking in both rational and empirical attributes. To hyperventilate about current temperatures, while ignoring the context of historical temperature change, is best described as voodoo science. And as we have all witnessed, this newest form of the voodoo science has resulted in the recent years of wild catastrophic climate predictions that never seem to happen.

 

Although considerably colder, Antarctica ice cores reveal a slight warming over the last 1,300 years. Yet the Vostok ice core indicates that over the last 5,000 years there were periods when temperatures were above present time, considerably (below chart).

 Modern temperature charts. Other historical charts. Other climate history postings.

The Left's Major Brain Fart: Blaming Snow & Cold On Global Warming Reveals Their Scientific Incompetence, and Denial

Read here. There have been any number of articles, blog postings and statements by leftist/liberal/progressive/socialist elites about how the record snowfalls in the eastern U.S. are the result of global warming induced climate change to make one wonder if the whole left-of-center movement has gone freaking insane. As the vast majority of the public knows, the world and the U.S. have been experiencing a form of global cooling since 2001, not global warming. Yet the "elites" can't seem to understand the reality of what's happening - they've been entirely consumed by the myth of their own creation.

This refusal to accept that global warming is no more has become extremely embarrassing for the left, which really isn't all that bad since they're making complete asses of themselves. Fortunately, the voters are watching.

Below, for the leftist "deniers", we offer actual evidence of global cooling that has occurred, as reported by the major climate research centers, the NCDC and UAH. The cooling is widespread, and depending on the region, rather significant. This past cooling of the globe has facilitated the arrival of cooler weather and solid precipitation, commonly referred to as snow, in large amounts. (click image to enlarge) 

"But the climate campaign's most ludicrous contortion is its response to the recent record snowfalls across the eastern United States. Ordinary citizens, repeatedly shoveling snow from their sidewalk, see global warming as a farce....In answer, the climate campaigners note that "weather is not climate" and that localized weather events are consistent with climate "change." They may be right -- yet these are the same folks who jumped up and down claiming that Hurricane Katrina was positive proof that catastrophic global warming had arrived, even though the strong 2005 hurricane season was followed by four quiet years for tropical storms that made a hash of that narrative."

"The ruckus exposes the greatest problem of Al Gore & Co.: They've pointed to any weather anomaly -- cold winters, warm winters, in-between winters -- as proof of climate change. That is, they can't name one weather pattern or event that would be inconsistent with their theory....The citizenry seems to prefer common sense -- opinion surveys show declining public belief in global warming."

Other modern temperature charts. Historical temperature charts.

Little Ice Age Destruction & Catastrophes: Peer-Research Documents The Terrible Cold Climate That Could Return

Read here. Global warming fanatics and gullible politicians have left us in a position that we are totally unprepared for the eventual recurrence of ice age type conditions, be it "major," "little" or "mini." The chorus of global cooling alarms is starting to get louder but do we have enough time to prepare for the worst?

"The Little Ice Age in Scandinavia, as in most parts of the world where glaciers were wont to form and grow during that period, was not a time of either pleasantness or plenty.In fact, it was downright depressing and dangerous.....Consequently, and in light of all of the debilitating phenomena associated with depressed global temperatures, if there was even the slimmest of chances that the historical increase in the air's CO2 content may have contributed somewhat to the 20th-century warming that brought the planet out of this awful environmental state, it should be applauded."

Leftist, Big Govt Types Believe Human CO2 Causes Warming - They're Wrong, Actually It's Big Govt That Causes Warming

Big government, big spending liberals like Sen. Boxer, Sen. Kerry, Rep. Markey, Rep. Waxman, Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Obama and others have been convinced by environmental fanatics, Hollywood celebrities, and, of course, mainstream journalists that human CO2 is the cause of warming. Unfortunately for the big spenders, the American public is not buying the faux science that these politicos are mindlessly regurgitating. Why is that? (click on image to enlarge)

Well, real-world facts are getting in the way of the inconvenient lies that big government-big spender types have been pushing. The public knows that the world and the U.S. are cooling, yet the greedy and power hungry politicos keep shouting "fire." As this chart reveals, human CO2 is not the major cause of warming since all nearby areas outside of D.C. are cooling; it's other factors, including failed land-use planning by big government to avoid the incredible warming impact of urban heat islands, such as the metropolitan area of Washington D.C.

Suggestion to liberal/leftist, big government spenders: First solve the D.C. "global warming" problem before attempting to rape our wallets and shackle Americans with more worthless regulations. You exclusively caused the D.C. warming, now prove you can fix it. Chart data source here.

Additional modern & historical charts.

As of December 31, 2009: 11-Year U.S. Cooling Trend Is Now -10.30°F Per Century

Source here. Overall decade-long global cooling trend has not abated. Both the U.S. and the world are definitely not experiencing global warming, in any sense of the concept. The case for AGW is without merit as temperatures have done exactly the opposite of what IPCC experts and climate models predicted a decade ago. (click on image to enlarge)

 
In the case of U.S. cooling, it has generally been happening since 1998 when a peak in temperatures was reached. If the trend for the U.S. were to continue (trends are not predictions), temperatures would drop some 10.0 degrees over a 100 year span - that's global cooling on steroids, which (we hope) is not likely to happen. (Incorrect temperature trend of -11.03C was corrected to -10.3C, 1-23-10.)

Additional current temp charts here.

Historical temp charts here.

Updated: Chart was mis-labeled. Actually 11-years ending 2009, not 12-years.