Br-r-r! Where did global warming go? - The Boston GlobeDon't you hate it when global warming causes freezing temperatures?In South America, for example, the start of winter last year was one of the coldest ever observed. According to Eugenio Hackbart, chief meteorologist of the MetSul Weather Center in Brazil, "a brutal cold wave brought record low temperatures, widespread frost, snow, and major energy disruption." In Buenos Aires, it snowed for the first time in 89 years, while in Peru the cold was so intense that hundreds of people died and the government declared a state of emergency in 14 of the country's 24 provinces. In August, Chile's agriculture minister lamented "the toughest winter we have seen in the past 50 years," which caused losses of at least $200 million in destroyed crops and livestock.
Latin Americans weren't the only ones shivering.
University of Oklahoma geophysicist David Deming, a specialist in temperature and heat flow, notes in the Washington Times that "unexpected bitter cold swept the entire Southern Hemisphere in 2007." Johannesburg experienced its first significant snowfall in a quarter-century. Australia had its coldest ever June. New Zealand's vineyards lost much of their 2007 harvest when spring temperatures dropped to record lows.
"We're all gonna roast!" changes to "We're gonna... well, it's climate change and don't you question it!"
Religion (GWarming) and Science (Actual REALITY) in conflict. Who'd have thunk it?
J.
Comments (5)
Jacoby is wrong in a great many places in his article.
See http://davidappell.blogspot.com/2008/01/jacobys-untruths.html
Trust scientists for your science news, not opinion columnists.
Posted by David | January 7, 2008 10:41 AM
Posted on January 7, 2008 10:41
You might want to follow those links in the article.
Climate is cumulative weather - and it's always changing.
So tell me - where SHOULD the thermostat be set? What should the global temperature be? What will it take to get it there?
And what are your suggestions to deal with the side effects?
J.
Posted by JLawson | January 7, 2008 1:03 PM
Posted on January 7, 2008 13:03
Also, what's your opinion on this article?
http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/Ruddiman2003.pdf
Especially Figure 1, A&B.
Cheers...
J.
Posted by JLawson | January 7, 2008 1:10 PM
Posted on January 7, 2008 13:10
'Trust scientists for your science news...'
Like Al Gore, whose science degree is in, uh --
Posted by RNB | January 7, 2008 9:15 PM
Posted on January 7, 2008 21:15
Didn't he exit theology school before earning his collar? Guess he decided to found the First Church of Global Warming.
Hmmm. You think he might be trying to pull an L.Ron.Hubbard and come up with a new cash cow religion?
J.
Posted by JLawson | January 7, 2008 11:04 PM
Posted on January 7, 2008 23:04