Saturday, March 15, 2008
Is the world still warming?
Global temperature readngs for the first two months of the year are now available. A mere two months in, 2008 is turning out to be cooler than many recent years, the "22nd warmest" year on record taking into account both land and sea measurements.
Two months do not a year make and a year does not a trend make, but it does reinforce the argument that global temperature has stopped rising over the last decade, notwithstanding models that predict otherwise. The next ten months are going to have to be very hot for 2008 to end up as one of the ten hottest years on record. If it does not, climate modelers will have some tweaking to do.
3 Comments:
By 
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Sat Mar 15, 09:38:00 AM:
How many years of climate data exist, what is the quality of that data compared to modern measurements, how much of it is pure estimate or anecdote?
The earth is 7M years old. How many years do we need before we have a sample of any statistical significance, or ... what would we have to reduce the estimate of the earth's age in order to make the data significant?
Algore's done just fine for himself on this marketing ploy, but I'm not buying the carbon offset crap, or imminent decline of humankind on the planet. At least ... not from global warming.
By , at
Sat Mar 15, 09:39:00 AM:
By , at
Sun Mar 16, 05:05:00 PM:
How about taping AL GORES mouth shut and the same to those GREENPEACE idiots and cutting down on all that HOT AIR
