Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

1898, incidentally, was a la Nina year

Winter temperatures with El Nino conditions tend to be warmer than usual from Washington and northern Oregon across the northern tier to Montana, and also along the West Coast. Conversely, cooler than normal temperatures are seen in the far southeastern portion of the West, especially in southeastern New Mexico.

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport#report
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Chemical Engineer Dr. Tony Burns of the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia expressed skepticism of man-made global warming. "The common viewpoint is that man-made carbon dioxide is to blame, but the Earth has been through ice ages and periods of global warming for millions of years," Burns wrote in an April 2006 essay. "As recently as 1,000 years ago, the Earth was a degree warmer in the ‘Medieval Warm Period' and the Vikings could grow crops in Greenland," Burns explained. "No one questions how this could happen so many years before our recent fuel consumption excesses. No one questions why man-made carbon dioxide would have any effect on global warming when it constitutes less than 1 percent of greenhouse gases (the major greenhouse gas is water vapor). No one questions the recent Antarctic ice cores from Dome Concordia, with ice up to 700,000 years old, which show increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration occurring about 1,000 years after global temperature rises, thus suggesting that high carbon dioxide levels are a result of global warming, not a cause," he added. Burns decried the demonization of climate skeptics. "In 1633, opposition to the common viewpoint could mean death. This was the case with Galileo when he proposed that the Earth revolved around the sun. He was tried for heresy. Of course things are different today. People who question dogma are no longer burnt at the stake. Instead, they're branded as having suspect motives, as reactionaries or simply as nutcases," he concluded. (LINK)

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Main Entry: pa·ra·do
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Jul 28, 2009
Central Chicago Sees Coldest July In 67 Years
Average Temperature Only 68.9 Degrees
CHICAGO (CBS)

Have you left your air conditioner in the closet this summer, and worn long pants more often than shorts? If so, you may not be surprised to find out that Chicago is seeing its coldest July in more than 65 years.

The National Weather Service says 2009 has seen the coldest July since the official recording station was moved away from the lakefront in 1942. The average temperature this month in Chicago has been a mere 68.9 degrees.

Even in the years before 1942, when the National Weather Service recorded temperatures at the cooler lakefront, there are only three years that had colder Julys through the 26th.

There have also been far more days than usual with high temperatures less than 80 degrees this year. In 2009, there were 13 days where the temperature did not exceed 80 degrees. Only three Julys in the past 67 years have had more days in Chicago with highs less than 80 " there were 18 such days in 1992, and 14 in 1996 and 2000.
http://cbs2chicago.com/local/chicago.coldest.july.2.1103959.html

Iceland enjoys a much milder climate than its name and location adjacent to the Arctic circle would imply.

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While pointing out that Politifact said that and not me, I agree that it is not only disingenous but I think it is most probably hugely dishonest, either intentionally or out of tunnel-visioned ignorance.

Look Foxy--forget about who said what. Anybody who reads the thread with interest knows it wasn't you who said that. And what do you care about those who don't?

It was worse than dishonest. It was an insult to your intelligence. And it was your administration. Your top brass.

And next news there's another speech about developing your full potential. As dimwits presumably.

nation and world
HFCs did their job, doing another
By The Washington Post
Posted: 07/21/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT

This is not the funny kind of irony: Scientists say the chemicals that helped solve the last global environmental crisis " the hole in the ozone layer " are making the current one worse.

The chemicals, called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, were introduced widely in the 1990s to replace ozone-depleting gases used in air conditioners, refrigerators and insulating foam.

They worked: Earth's protective shield seems to be recovering. But researchers say what's good for ozone is bad for climate change. These chemicals act like "super" greenhouse gases, with a heat-trapping power that can be 4,470 times that of carbon dioxide.

Now, scientists say, the world must find replacements for the replacements " or these super-emissions could cancel out other efforts to stop global warming.

"Whatever targets you thought you were going to make," said David Fahey, a physicist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, "it will be undermined by the fact that you have . . . additional emissions that you hadn't planned on."
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12879799?source=rss

Look for the AGW religionists to point to both anomalies as evidence of global warming, and with nary a suggestion that such anomalies might possibly cancel each other out on a global scale.

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Dr. Michael J. Economides, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cullen College of Engineering at University of Houston and the author of numerous books and over 50 scientific studies, rejected climate fears. "After a desperate literature search over four years, involving as many as 30 engineering and science graduate students, we have yet to come up with one professional paper that shows a quantitative causality between increased carbon dioxide and enhanced global temperature," Economides, who is a member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, wrote in a April 9, 2007 article in Energy Tribune. "This means there is not one paper in the literature of heat transfer or thermodynamics that shows the physics of global warming in a quantified way, using well-known laws or principles. There are, however, many arm-waving and postulating writings, often in the popular press, all referencing the other ‘hundreds of papers,'" Economides explained. (LINK) & (LINK)