I haven't kept up with the latest global warming news, because honestly, it's impossible to argue with billions of sheep . But an interesting article I read at lunch today mentioned the founder of the weather channel wanting to sue Al Gore for global warming/carbon credits because global warming is a hoax, and that we're forced to pay all these carbon taxes, which makes it fraud.
So I dug a little deeper, and found some info about global temperatures in the last 2 years that really haven't made much mainstream media... probably because it'll make them all look stupid.
Apparently, 2006 global average temperatures was lower than the last 5 years:
http://motls.blogspot.com/2006/12/20...r-in-last.html
OK, so maybe it was an anomaly, and nobody picked it up. But then we look at 2007 now that it's over, and it turns out that it was the coldest year this century (ok so it's been 7 years haha):
http://motls.blogspot.com/2008/01/20...oldest-in.html
The above article is pretty funny, lists out the mainstream media (umm, pretty much all of 'em) predicting 2007 to be the warmest year on record in Jan '07.
Here's a graph of temperatures in the last 20 years, broken down by month:
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Image is from this article, which has a lot of interesting tidbits.
Something I've always said... solar activity's role in climate change.Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases.
BTW - 2007 was a brutally cold year... tons of deaths relating to cold weather. China pretty much was completely frozen. We've got record amounts of sea ice, below average # of hurricanes and typhoons... and oh ya... we got snow in Baghdad too .
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