Topic: Global Warming - Two More Reports

[Sandra]

A bit more about how we have actually been cooling down over the last few years :

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1220052/Austria-sees-earliest-snow-history-America-sees-lowest-temperatures-50-years-So-did-global-warming-go.html

[David]

Indeed, some experts believe we should forget global warming and turn our attention to an entirely differently phenomenon - global cooling.


Can I put my heating on now Sandra ?

[Sandra]

Mines been on and off for the last few weeks David 

It would have been on for longer but I cant really afford it so I would welcome a bit of global warming if we could get such a thing in the next few years.

[David]

No chance we will get poorer and colder  its a big con 

[sam]

just me, the UK is NEVER really cold.

Also cooling has been mentioned many times before especially in the UK with the warm Atlantic currents being diverted by the melting ice caps, because its global warming there. Its not a simple approach temperatures aren't just going to get hotter all over the place.. and of course we are just looking at short snap shots in time. I'm at 51N, Birmingham is 52N - temperature here this week -16C, in the UK around 15C.... go figure, local climate changes make a huge different in the UK its the water, Calgary the huge land mass and the massive mountains.

[gmax]

It's global cooling down here, the coldest start to October in 60 years, I'm almost out of firewood 

[mistybear]

Sydney has recorded it's warmest September in 150 years.

As was the tropics.....

Globe simmered in September

The Earth’s tropics sweated through their warmest September on record, scientists at the University of Alabama-Huntsville (UAH) reported Monday, with a temperature almost 1 degree F above average. For the planet as a whole, it was the second-warmest September since 1978, when UAH’s satellite-based temperature measurements began.

El Nino, a periodic natural warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean, is primarily to blame, says John Christy, professor of atmospheric science at UAH. However, the degree to which the atmosphere warmed was a surprise, as Christy noted that “a routine El Nino shouldn't cause the hottest tropical September in the past 31 years, but it did.”

Normally, warming in the atmosphere during an El Nino is linked to rising sea-surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific. But atmospheric temperatures this September were significantly warmer than might have been predicted based on sea-surface temperatures.

The warmest land areas in September included northern and southeastern Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, the Philippines, Canada, and the Arctic. One of the world’s few cooler-than-average spots was the central USA.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2009/10/globe-simmered-in-september.html

[David]

I'm on my way Misty 

[mistybear]

You might want to bring some of that lovely English rain with you, David. The longer the drought goes on and the more we have crop failures, the more expensive our food is becoming.
And we've had a couple of incredible dust storms....

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/23/2693643.htm

This video reminds me of the dust or sand storms photos I've seen from Iraq, but this is Australia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95tmYmeHf84

[David]

These were in our press Misty they looked amazing not that it could be much fun in them.....its nice here today,sunshine and fairly  warm....


Stick the kettle on Misty 

[Simon]

Yes, those red dust storms were incredible, but I'm glad I wasn't anywhere near one! 

[David]

They were pretty awesome but just like many of this type of things better viewed from a distance I think I doubt it was much fun being in the midst of it all.

Wonder what it did to cars and homes ?

[mistybear]

I was in Coffs Harbour, up the mid north coast of NSW, when it happened. Thankfully mum has a garage, as I had just washed the car a couple of days before, but it didn't escape completely. But there was a lot of really dirty cars around afterwards. The car wash did a roaring trade.
Michael said the winds here were up 100k's. The house is still covered in dirt, the back screen door is clogged with dirt and I'll have to steam clean the carpets to get them clean again. 

Stick the kettle on Misty 

Just did, having a nice cuppa, but yours is getting cold......

You might want to stay there though, it's 12.30pm and only 7c.

[Simon]

It was 17C here today! 

[mistybear]

I hope you are keeping fluids up Simon, wouldn't want you getting dehydrated or getting heat stroke. 

We managed 9.1 at 4.00pm.