THE official figures are not yet in, but 2008 is widely tipped to be the coolest year of the century.
WHILE the official figures are not yet in, 2008 is widely tipped to be declared the coolest year of the century.
Whether this is a serious blow to global warming alarmists depends entirely on who you talk to.
Anyone looking for a knockout blow in the global warming debate in 2008 were sorely disappointed, The Australian reports.
The weather refused to co-operate, offering mixed messages from record cold temperatures across North America to heatwaves across Europe and the
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A cool 2008 may not fit in with doomsday scenarios of some of the more extreme alarmists. But nor, meteorologists point out, does it prove the contrary, that global warming is a myth.
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Last year it was 22.48C. In 2006 it was 22.28C, and in 2005 22.99C.
Senior meteorologist with the National Meteorological Centre Rod Dickson said that based on data from January to November, 2008 might be the coolest this century but it was still Australia's 15th warmest year in the past 100 years.
"Since 1990, the Australian annual mean temperature has been warmer than the 1961-1990 average for all but two years, 2008 being one of those years," he said.
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Worldwide, 2008 was expected to be about 0.31C higher than the 30-year average to 1990, of 14C.
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A "knockout" blow?
ReplyDeleteThat blow was delivered a long time ago, when the IPCC began with a figure of 60% reduction in emissions, but was argued down to 10% because of political concerns about "the economy."
For the Australian to suggest anything otherwise is more of the criminally insane misinformation threatening to consign much of our region to sovereign exctinction, along with thousands of species.
They're just doing their usual right-wing thang, but it gets less amusing every day.