Global cooling

[John Edward Mercier]

here is a book, i havent read it, but the title makes me want to read it.

Cool It, the skeptical environmentalist's guide to global warming, by Bjorn Lomborg

anyone read it, worth a read? 



           

He did a television lecture also... very good.

[Beth221]

that is nice to know, i will google it. 

thanks

[Kat Kanning]

interesting:

http://www.dailytech.com/Sun+Makes+History+First+Spotless+Month+in+a+Century/article12823.htm

No sunspot activity may lead to global cooling

[John Edward Mercier]

We should be entering the solar minimum to begin the new cycle. We're actually a little late.
The next maximum from here wouldn't fall until 2013.
Which month was dormant? The counting stations are registering activity on the 21/22 of August.

[Kat Kanning]

Freak hailstorm in kenya
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080903/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_kenya_weather

[margomaps]

Which month was dormant? The counting stations are registering activity on the 21/22 of August.

The DailyTech page now has the following update at the end of the article:

"Article Update, Sep 1 2008.  After this story was published, the NOAA reversed their previous decision on a tiny speck seen Aug 21, which gives their version of the August data a half-point.  Other observation centers such as Mount Wilson Observatory are still reporting a spotless month.  So depending on which center you believe, August was a record for either a full century, or only 50 years."

[John Edward Mercier]

NOAA doesn't do the official international sunspot count (Ri).
August 21st was 7 and August 22nd was 8 with a monthly mean of .5 same as July.

This last cycle (23) roughly matched the the 1964-1976 cycle (20) much lower than both Cycle 21 & 22.

[margomaps]

NOAA doesn't do the official international sunspot count (Ri).
August 21st was 7 and August 22nd was 8 with a monthly mean of .5 same as July.

This last cycle (23) roughly matched the the 1964-1976 cycle (20) much lower than both Cycle 21 & 22.

Take it up with Michael Asher at Dailytech.  I'm not here to argue things I don't know about.  I just provided you with Dailytech's answer to the question you had about Dailytech's numbers.

[John Edward Mercier]

Sounds like Dailytech is a 'push' site not directly associated with anything scientific.

[Kat Kanning]

For Lloyd:

Here's a quote from one of the scientists who had the misfortune to have his emails leaked.  It was a to-do list for the global warming adherents.

0848679780.txt gjjenkins@meto.gov.uk Geoff Jenkins

     7. We explain why the globe is 0.23k (or whatever the final figure is)
     cooler than 95

[Lloyd Danforth]

I don't understand why this is for me.  Apparently, back at page one I did.  But, I don't now.

[Kat Kanning]

A while back you posted a big article saying how the world was actually cooling not heating up.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Thanks.  I might have to ask you again in a couple of years.
I do suggest that people read 'Why Geography Matters'.  My copy returned recently and is up for grabs.

[Friday]

Contact:  Christine Hall, (202) 230.4937

Gore's Books Can Alleviate Humanitarian Crisis

Book Burning Will Warm Freezing Britons

Washington, DC., January 8, 2009 – It has been reported in the London press that poor old-age pensioners are having to resort to buying books at thrift shops to burn to keep warm during the prolonged bitterly cold weather in the United Kingdom.  In response to this humanitarian crisis, Freedom Action is calling on former Vice President Al Gore to join an effort to collect and airlift copies of his science fiction bestsellers to British people in dire need.

"We are collecting copies of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, Our Choice, and Earth in the Balance and will send them to Oxfam in the UK to distribute for free to vulnerable people trying to survive the cold weather," said Myron Ebell, Director of Freedom Action.  "We call on Mr. Gore to co-operate in our effort to relieve human suffering by providing copies of his books for burning in stoves and fireplaces."

"It is appropriate that Al Gore's books should be used to help keep poor people warm," Ebell explained, "since the principal reason the British government is totally unprepared to deal with the brutally cold weather is because they have fallen for the global warming myths propagated by Gore himself in his bestselling books.  Burning Gore's otherwise worthless books to keep people from freezing is their highest and best use."

Freedom Action is a grassroots political activist organization.  Its web site is Freedomaction.org.

[Kat Kanning]

lol