Report: Global Temps 'have Not Risen Since 1998'...

[John McKenna]

REPORT: GLOBAL TEMPS 'HAVE NOT RISEN SINCE 1998'...

But some are still predicting that global warming will pick back up in the future... LOL.

[jwortham1]

Did you actually read the ENTIRE article John or just pick the part you liked at the beginning?

Global temperatures will drop slightly this year as a result of the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said.
The World Meteorological Organization's secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer.

A minority of scientists question whether this means global warming has peaked and argue the Earth has proved more resilient to greenhouse gases than predicted. But Mr Jarraud insisted this was not the case and noted that 2008 temperatures would still be well above average for the century. "When you look at climate change you should not look at any particular year," he said. "You should look at trends over a pretty long period and the trend of temperature globally is still very much indicative of warming.
"La Nina is part of what we call 'variability'. There has always been and there will always be cooler and warmer years, but what is important for climate change is that the trend is up; the climate on average is warming even if there is a temporary cooling because of La Nina."

Adam Scaife, lead scientist for Modelling Climate Variability at the Hadley Centre in Exeter, UK, said their best estimate for 2008 was about 0.4C above the 1961-1990 average, and higher than this if you compared it with further back in the 20th Century.
Mr Scaife told the BBC: "What's happened now is that La Nina has come along and depressed temperatures slightly but these changes are very small compared to the long-term climate change signal, and in a few years time we are confident that the current record temperature of 1998 will be beaten when the La Nina has ended."

[gporter]

Back in the mid 70's we were moving back to the ice age

[Charley L. Bottger]

Geez John you are going to fire up M. Larson are you trying to get as big a thread as those up north guys.

[George A. H. Luck]

"are you trying to get as big a thread as those up north guys"

Up here in the 'Great White North' size does matter.
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[Richard L. Bennett]

Why is all this a problem

We can get Will D to call his best UHSP (used home sales person) to turn on the big AC unit and cause a nuclear winter

I think we have enought bombs left over from the cold war (wonder why we called it the cold war)

And lets see where would be a good place to set them off so we could help out all of mankind??

Frostproof Fl need a face lift and most of us have insurance

How about all of New England and then we could change the name to New United States (never did like the name New England)

Time for some more coffee

rlb

[Michael Bazzo, CMI]

Originally Posted by gporter

Back in the mid 70's we were moving back to the ice age

I remember that also. When I was a kid, I can remember two foot of snow on the ground all winter. Lately the winters have been milder, but it's nothing more then weather cycle changes the earth goes through every 20 or 30 years. The whole Al Gore global warming thing is a bunch of B.S.

[Frank M. Carrio, CMI]

I live in New Hampshire and in my yard we have had at least THREE feet of snow {or more} ALL winter long!


Right now we have at least a foot of snow left!

[mthomas2]

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/11/4/175028/329

[tdietrich1]

Beware of Man-Bear-Pig!

1/2 - man,
1/2 - bear,
1/2 - pig!