Crossposted from Flopping Aces

How long will it be before man is blamed?

World Temperatures according to the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction. Note the steep drop over the last year.

Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling
by Michael Asher
Daily Tech
February 26, 2008

Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile — the list goes on and on.

No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C — a value large enough to wipe out nearly all the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year’s time. For all four sources, it’s the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn’t itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.

Let’s hope those factors stop fast. Cold is more damaging than heat. The mean temperature of the planet is about 54 degrees. Humans — and most of the crops and animals we depend on — prefer a temperature closer to 70.

Historically, the warm periods such as the Medieval Climate Optimum were beneficial for civilization. Corresponding cooling events such as the Little Ice Age, though, were uniformly bad news.

How long will it be before a worldwide climate emergency is declared and along with it a demand for radical changes in our lifestyle as well as a worldwide tax on prosperous nations to fund an army of UN bureaucrats to lecture us all on how bad things are?

And will the Sierra Club and other environmental organizations who have made millions in fundraising on the Global Warming emergency how scratch warming from their propaganda and insert “cooling”? Instead of images of flooding in New York we’ll see icebergs off Miami Beach?

And for the global warming zealots that say “it’s only the observations from one year, it doesn’t mean anything” we’ll remind them how they insisted that the terrible hurricane season of 2005 brought their predictions of worse to come with global warming to blame followed by the two calmest hurricane seasons in a decade.

For all of you trapped in frozen climes this time of year, here’s my advice on how to keep warm: The next time you encounter some know nothing global warming zealot, point at him and laugh until you are warm!