Comments on: Sixth warmest October on record?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:00:41 +0000

DNJ: Got no idea what you are talking about? I have plenty of bets out there already.

By: Definitely_Not_Joe

Definitely_Not_Joe — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:41:35 +0000

Joe,

What’s the point in betting if you will ban whoever bets against? It would be a bit difficult to get the money later. I talk from personal experience.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:54:23 +0000

On June 2, 2008, Clarendon, TX had 107 degrees f followed by 103 degrees on the 3rd and 105 on the 4th of June 2008. Global warming is here to stay for some time.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:30:17 +0000

Then you’d be happy to bet that the next decade won’t be warmer than this decade. $1000 anyone?

By: Definitely_Not_Joe

Definitely_Not_Joe — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:56:47 +0000

(It also means that 8 of the, so far, 10 months of registered temperatures in 2008 were below that average, and in some cases, quite far below).

By: Definitely_Not_Joe

Definitely_Not_Joe — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:00:23 +0000

Joe wrote: “it is worth noting that now the last two months and three of the last four have had a pretty big temperature anomaly”

I thought it may be worth noting that these three-out-of-four-months’ anomalies are, according to GISS, +0.52 (July), +0.50 (September) and +0.55 (October) degrees. And that the average monthly anomaly for the last 6 years (i.e. since October 2002) according to the same source was +0.527. So, the worst that you can say is that these especially hot months (compared with the rest of the months in 2008) are just in line with the average anomaly of the last 6 years. Which is hardly an indication of an incoming warming.

By: Jim Nance

Jim Nance — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:42:09 +0000

Busted!!!!!!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ opinion/ main.jhtml?xml=/ opinion/ 2008/ 11/ 16/ do1610.xml

By: E. Patrick Mosman

E. Patrick Mosman — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:02:46 +0000

James Hansen and his NASA clones exposed again as global warming hoaxers.

[JR: Rest of disinformation deleted. Seriously, deniers, peddle your anti-scientific nonsense someplace else. Oh, and yes, NASA did land men on the moon and return them. Really!]

By: Lamont

Lamont — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:03:45 +0000

“Great link. As I read it, NOAA saying that 2009 looks to be ENSO-neutral with perhaps a mild La Nina over the winter.”

That’s odd, I could have sworn I read earlier this week that they had switched to calling for mild la nina early 2009. I wonder if they updated the slides.

I’ve been watching that report on a weekly basis, though, and the trend of the projections has been towards increasing the chances of a la nina again early next year….

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Oh, check the third-to-last page where they state “The CFS ensemble mean (heavy blue line) indicates La Nina conditions through mid-2009″. So maybe its just the computer ensemble that is calling it, but the forecasters are hedging their bets more.

Nothing seems to be predicting an El Nino, though, so we can probably expect colder ENSO-neutral to La Nina conditions next year…

By: Lamont

Lamont — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:54:45 +0000

If I was just an alarmist, then I’d also be *incorrect*, and if we got another strong el nino year there would be nothing to fear. If I was wrong then even in a strong el nino year, temperatures would still be declining since 1998. Nothing to worry about if I’m wrong. Its only if AGW theories are actually correct that a strong El Nino year would lead to an absolute record breaking year in global air temperature in which case, yes, you should be alarmed. So lets bring on a strong El Nino and settle this bet. And you should want this, too, since if we get a strong El Nino *without* any corresponding increase in global temperature that would probably do some damage to Obama’s ability to push his agenda. We both probably know that isn’t going to happen though.