A Cool Look At Global Warming

It might seem an improbable title for a gripping read, but I personally guarantee that Anthony Watts’ “How not to measure temperature, part 54: Los Angeles, the city” will have you on the edge of your seat and chewing your finger nails as the tension just builds and builds.

“Global warming blamed for unusual cold spell”

‘Nuff said?

The sinning article is here:

Unbelievable!

They say that all philosophy is just footnotes to Plato. Even so it comes as a surprise to discover that green fundamentalism was known to the Ancients. (Try substituting the word “pagans” with the phrase “4X4 gas guzzlers” or “Americans” or some other bete noir of the warm-mongers):

“Shall we endure longer that the succession of the seasons be changed, and the temper of the heavens be stirred to anger, since the embittered perfidy of the pagans does not know how to preserve these balances of nature? For why has the spring renounced its accustomed charm? Why has the summer, barren of its harvest, deprived the labouring farmer of his hope of a grain harvest? Why has the intemperate ferocity and the winter with its piercing cold doomed the fertility of the lands with the disaster of sterility? Why all these things, unless nature has transgressed the decree of its own law to avenge such impiety?” –Novellae Theodosiani, 438 CE

(Spotted in Benny Peiser’s excellent CCNet)

The Washington Times is carrying a nice litany of global cooling stories here. The list from 2006/2007 includes Argentina, Peru, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, and South Korea, and was compiled by David Deming (a geophysicist, an adjunct scholar with the National Center for Policy Analysis, and associate professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma).

Update Jan 13th 2008:

• Snow in Baghdad for the first time in living memory!
• The heaviest snow in Iran for a decade
• National Geographic is also reporting that heavy snow and cold weather has also affected Afghanistan, India, and several Central Asian countries

And here we have some climate change protesters outside the State House in Annapolis chilling out:

I know it is fallacious to cherry-pick convenient and perhaps isolated events as “evidence” for anything. But heck, warm-mongers do it all the time, and why should they have all the fun?

It seems honey prices in the UK are set to soar by as much as 25% in the coming year.

And the reason? A dry spell followed by a cold summer in Argentina. Yes, that’s right, Argentina does not seem to be on the same planet as hothouse Earth.

Not only that, the UK Met Office states (a little vaguely admittedly) that bees in Australia and Eastern Europe “experienced many of the same problems“.

But wait, it gets yet more global – Iranian bees have also been chilling out:

“The average harvest of Honey is 7 to 10 Kilos which shows a downward trend in comparison with that of past years because of long lasting coldness of last year and increased rainfall” – Faraj Allah Molavi, the Executive of the Union of honey bee growers of the province East Azerbaijan here

Perhaps we should not be too surprised. The best efforts to measure global temperature seem to show no warming since 1998. One wonders at what point a blip morphs into a “critical anomaly” for warm-mongers?