Comments on: NOAA: The second warmest March on record

By: will

will — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:21:35 +0000

WE will never stop global warming from happening. It is a naturally occurring cycle that has occurred itself many times over the history of the earth. WE can only hope to adjust to it!! Temperatures have risin in the past half century the same amount as back in the period between 800AD and 1200AD during which a global period of warming changed vast cultures and history.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:06:49 +0000

William — Two things:

First, local weather isn’t global climate. That’s why I publish global statistics

Second, some parts of the planet will get more snow from global warming — for a while — as we throw more water vapor into the atmosphere, and, in some cold places it will come down as snow. On our current path, the Cascades ain’t gonna see much snow post-2050, but we only have about a decade to stop that from happening.

By: William Taylor

William Taylor — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:59:06 +0000

maybe you posters who are so sure the globe is getting hotter can explin the record snow falls we have had the last tow yesrs. Not being sarcastic. But if there is global arming,how do you account for no El Nino in the summer months for the Northern Pacific? how do you account for 158% snow pack in the Cacades this year, and 152% last year, and when I called Mt Rainier National park, they told me the ice caves would open if we had another record snow fall next year. It snowed here in western Washington, about 1-1/2 inches in Sumner where I live, they had about seven inches in Hoods Port, same day, at sea level on Hoods Canal, and Everett , Sequim actually brought out snow plows. On the 19th of April we had snow shores here again, 8 to 12 inches in the cascades, foot hills, and its so cold I can’t plant a garden like I generally do in april about mid month. Can you explain these things in laymans language to me? or am I just going to get a bunch of mumbo jumbo about computer models, like the coming ice age I read about in seventies. really curious about this.

By: Nylo

Nylo — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:19:25 +0000

Dano, I don’t know what you are talking about, but I see nothing of what you claim in the links you provide. Your first link is an image hosted in tripod which, by the way, cannot be seen. The second is raw data from the UAH that clearly shows cooling for the last 10 years. The third one is an article about how cold March has been in the tropics.

Maybe you can provide a link which actually shows your point? Thanks.

By: Dano

Dano — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:38:44 +0000

You know, Roy Spencer, one of the Morano 400 and thus a hero to the denialists, has analyzed the UAH data, and their site has the planet warming at a rate for 20 years. Now, I wonder why the hero doesn't talk about "cooling" over the last decade. I wonder. I wonnnnder. I wonder if it has to do with cherry-picking...inadequate sample size... Best, D

By: David B. Benson

David B. Benson — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:11:57 +0000

Joe — To be really, really picky, the unit is ‘degrees Celcius”, not just ‘Celcius’. I assume thee original reason for this is that ‘C’ abbreviates ‘Calorie’, i.e., a kilocalorie, sometimes called a ‘food calorie’.

But when using the basic SI unit for temperature, it is just ‘Kelvin’, not ‘degrees Kelvin’.

By: john

john — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:08:10 +0000

Nylo — There’s two great videos going around U-tube you should see, featuring Will Ferrel as George Bush, talking about global warming. A guy as funny as you would love them.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:24:10 +0000

I stand corrected — sort of.
It’s Celsius.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius

By: David B. Benson

David B. Benson — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:33:41 +0000

Joe — NOT Centigrade. The derived SI unit is named ‘degrees Celcius’, Kelvin – 273.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:41:05 +0000

Sorry, that should read 2nd warmest March above.