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Global cooling?

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— Bravus @ 8:56 am

Thanks to Lawrence Sirdar for this link to the Daily Tech article on cooling global temperatures in the past year:

http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Wo...ing/article10866.htm

Looks like those data are fairly solid, although taking a measurement from the biggest peak to the biggest trough, rather than a longer term moving average, is a strategy that wouldn’t really float in stock market analysis. But yep, it looks as though last year was cooler than the year before, and probably on average cooler than most years in the past decade.

Here’s one possible response from a blogger: http://lefthandpalm.blogspot.com/2008/02/climate-doing-...ts-predicted-it.html

It’ll be interesting to see what happens to the climate over the next year or so. I’m always willing to be corrected by the data, but to me this is just a larger scale version of the ‘it’s cold today so global warming is a myth’ approach - which Glenn Greenwald so nicely parodied as ’someone died today so the global population is not growing’.

Climate is a complex system, and although this change is large if you look at the graphs displayed you’ll see that large variations are not that unusual. Measuring from the highest peak you can find to the deepest trough, this particular anomaly is really not all that… anomalous. The rise in temperature in 1998 was larger in magnitude than this fall, and it’s clear the general trend of the line is upward and that it would take some time to reverse that.

The other point to be made is that this is a map of the global temperature anomaly. That is, it’s not a graph of the temperature itself, but of how much it differs from the average temperature for a particular chosen period. So even though the anomaly drops, it is still positive… that is, temperatures are still above average. So this is a ‘cooling’ only relative to the previous year’s record highs: in the longer term it’s still a warming.

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There's the question of 'why pick on January?', for example. The graph is not well labelled, but if you picked, say, August in the two successive years you would show a rise in temperature.

Cherry blossoms fall
In gentle seasonal winds
Data picked like fruit

You have toi give the hypnotized right something to cling to, otherwise they might stop voting for the conservative parties.

And that is a sick haiku.

Anything that makes me pay $10 for a fucking lightbulb filled with mercury is clearly a myth :P lower the price and I might start paying attention.

The only way to stop global warming is to stop human reproduction. Anything else is masturbation.

One can't deny the facts, guys. Russia and most of Eastern Europe used to be a bunch of squares, as did the Chinese, but now, they're pretty hip.

You're all in denial.

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
The only way to stop global warming is to stop human reproduction. Anything else is masturbation.

Isn't more of that a potential solution then?

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Originally posted by UberDog:

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
The only way to stop global warming is to stop human reproduction. Anything else is masturbation.

Isn't more of that a potential solution then?

Tell that to the Chinese then :P

Fap for the planet!

Spend your carbon credits on porn!

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Originally posted by Mr_Cyberpunk:

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Originally posted by UberDog:

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
The only way to stop global warming is to stop human reproduction. Anything else is masturbation.

Isn't more of that a potential solution then?

Tell that to the Chinese then :P

They're only allowed to crank out one per pair.

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Originally posted by lithos:

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Originally posted by Mr_Cyberpunk:

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Originally posted by UberDog:

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
The only way to stop global warming is to stop human reproduction. Anything else is masturbation.

Isn't more of that a potential solution then?

Tell that to the Chinese then :P

They're only allowed to crank out one per pair.

Maybe the Joile-Pitts can take the surplus?

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Originally posted by Mr_Cyberpunk:
Anything that makes me pay $10 for a fucking lightbulb filled with mercury is clearly a myth :P lower the price and I might start paying attention.

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Tell that to the Chinese then :P

Strangely enough, I can find low watt light bulbs in just about every electrical store and supermarket. They cost $2-$4 in England, where everything is expensive.

Do you actually know anything about China? Why should the average chinese person limit their green house gas emissions to 1/4 of those of the average american? Is it because the american has a bigger right to pollute? The chinese have inadvertently done more to reduce global warming by limiting their population with the 1 child per couple law than the US has ever done.

Perhaps when the US reduces its emissions by 3/4 the people who say "what about china" won't be thought of as mouth breathing bigots.

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Originally posted by Boogerhead:
The only way to stop global warming is to stop human reproduction.

Future generations will thank us for it!