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Global average temperature in 2011 the ninth warmest in modern records
The global average temperature in 2011 was the ninth-warmest in the modern meteorological record, continuing a trend linked to greenhouse gases that saw nine of the 10 hottest years occurring since the year 2000, NASA scientists said this week. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesFreeman John Dyson FRS said ”The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers... Hansen has turned his science into ideology.”
Jan 20th, 2012 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Says it all really.
Are there any surprises in that report. Climate change deniers can always ask the Koch brothers to subsidize their heating and Air Conditioning costs. I am absolutely astonished at the amount of people in denial about this very serious problem Just look at the article about the drought in Argentina's grain belt. All the rains expected in the next few days will not help the recovery of the harvests, as the soil is so dry and parched, that much of it will just run off, or disappear into the subsoil cracks without benefiting the either soy nor corn.
Jan 20th, 2012 - 07:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Whole planet needs to get its act together really.
Jan 21st, 2012 - 02:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0When Hansen keeps adjusting the 20th century temperature downwards, it's no wonder he can claim higher temperatures now.
Jan 21st, 2012 - 09:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0“warmer than the mid-20th century baseline temperature?”
The baseline temperature they use is 1951-1980, a cool period in spite of rising CO2, CRU uses 1961-90, also a cool period, guaranteed to show a rise when current temperatures, having returned to a more normal state, are shown as anomalies against that period. Smoke and Mirrors to fool the public.
Cruzansailor: Argentine drought, so there have never been any droughts in history then? This is said to be the second worst drought, so what caused the first one?
http://sites.google.com/site/medievalwarmperiod/
Aztec chronicles record great snowfalls and frosts between 1447–1450 AD, followed by a great drought between 1450–1454 AD. The cold had also destroyed the Aztec empire’s annual harvest in Central Mexico.
Between the 2nd and 16th Centuries, N and S America saw droughts that often lasted for a decade or longer and have been dubbed meagadroughts. Two droughts, in California and Patagonia, each lasted for well over 100 years and have been described as epic droughts.
Scores of shorter (1-3 year) droughts and floods have been recorded between the Spanish conquest and the present day, as well as major flood events. Droughts and floods in Central and South America are known to be often related to El Nino/La Nina events.”
http://sites.google.com/site/medievalwarmperiod/
“mega-drought” in the 16th century wreaked havoc for decades in the lives of the early Spanish and English settlers and American Indians throughout Mexico and North America. The tree ring records tell of the worst drought in 1,000 years, with an extended period of dryness lasting 40 years in places. In this case early records from Spanish and English settlements in the Carolinas and Virginia corroborate the paleo-climatic findings.”
Do some research.
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