Global warming over

[PORKER]

On the internet is www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time image of the sun from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, located in deep space at the equilibrium point between solar and terrestrial gravity.
What is scary about the picture is that there is only one tiny sunspot.

Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously.

All four agencies that track Earth's temperature (the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Christy group at the University of Alabama, and Remote Sensing Systems Inc in California) report that it cooled by about 0.7C in 2007. This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record and it puts us back where we were in 1930 for temps.

[cowzilla]

If you have been tagging calves in our area for the last 2 weeks you wounldn't have much faith in Global warming. But you would be wearing your Gloves

[Shaft]

And black is white, up is down and gravity is the force that keeps us airborne.

[PORKER]

Niña cooling in the second half of 2007 (Figure 2) is about as intense as the regional cooling associated with any La Niña of the past half century, as shown by comparison to Plate 9 in Hansen et al. (Hansen et al. 1999) and updates to Plate 9 on the GISS web site. Effect of the current La Niña on global surface temperature is likely to continue for at least the first several months of 2008.

June will be 12 months of cooling unless the sunspots come back real soon.

[Shaft]

[Oldtimer]

The Northern Ag Network weatherman (John Polaski) on the radio today was reporting that the temperatures for the last 2 weeks were the second coldest in 116 years of weather records for our part of the state- 14 degrees BELOW average...

I was fencing today- and some of the native grass is finally greening up a little with our last couple of days of warmer weather (got to 70 today) - and I saw more Buttercups and Crocus's-- but the waterholes look awful sick with no water in the reservoirs- and the only water at the springs (which are luckily still running)....

Good news- without the snow of last winter- and no runoff in the creeks- I was able to repair what fence that usually takes 2 (or more) days in one...

[RobertMac]

Shaft, what is the correct temperature of Earth?

[Shaft]

That all depends upon your point of reference, now doesn't it. Personally I prefer about 78 degrees Fahrenheit, sunny with some cloudy periods and a light breeze.

[Shaft]

RobertMac,

If you really want informed answers to questions about global warming, I suggest you contact:

Dr. James E. Hansen

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
2880 Broadway
New York, NY 10025 USA

E-mail: James.E.Hansen@nasa.gov
Phone: (212) 678-5500

He knows something about it.

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/staff/jhansen.html

[RobertMac]

Shaft, I have no doubt about climate change...it has happened since the beginning of the planet. The problem I have is that some of mankind has become arrogant enough to believe humans can control that change.
Why would that group want to promote such an idea??????? Power?????

[Shaft]

RobertMac, the word is 'affect' global climate change rather than 'control'.

Eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge caused Adam and Eve to be expelled from the Garden of Eden. Cause and effect. God was in control. Still is. Make no mistake. Problem is that we haven't learned anything.

[RobertMac]

OK, is this better?