On May 19, 12:09 am, "V-for-Vendicar"
<Just...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "00ZNB" <00...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>
> > One of the most dramatic results of the record cold over much of the
> > planet
>
> What dramatic cold?
>
> 2007 Tied for Earth's Second Warmest Year Andrea Thompson
> LiveScience Staff Writer
>
> January 16, 2008
>
> The year 2007 has tied 1998 for the Earth's second warmest this century,
> NASA
> scientists announced today.
>
> Climatologists at the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Sciences
(GISS)=
> in
> New York used temperature data from weather stations on land, satellite
> measurements of sea ice temperature since 1982 and data from ****ps for
> earlier
> years to construct a record of global average temperatures going back
for
> over a
> century.
>
> The GISS analysis has 1934, 1998 and 2005 tied as the warmest years in
the=
> United States (with 2005 being the warmest globally).
>
> The eight warmest years globally in the past century have all occurred
sin=
ce
> 1998, and the 14 warmest years have all occurred since 1990.
>
> The greatest observed warming in 2007 occurred in the Arctic, which
> experienced
> a record sea ice melt this summer, opening up the fabled Northwest
Passage=
> for
> the first time.
>
> "As we predicted last year, 2007 was warmer than 2006, continuing the
stro=
ng
> warming trend of the past 30 years that has been confidently attributed
to=
> the
> effect of increasing human-made greenhouse gases," said NASA GISS
Director=
> James
> E. Hansen.
>
> A minor flaw in the GISS record discovered last year did not affect this
> analysis, the scientists noted.
>
> Hansen says that warming can be expected to continue, with another
record
> warm
> year coming soon, though it is unlikely to be 2008.
>
> "Barring a large volcanic eruption, a record global temperature clearly
> exceeding that of 2005 can be expected within the next few years, at the
> time of
> the next El Nino , because of the background warming trend attributable
to=
> continuing increases of greenhouse gases," Hansen said.
>
> El Nino tends to have a warming effect on temperatures in many areas,
whil=
e
> the
> volcanic ash that an eruption spews into the air has a cooling effect.
>
> While most scientists agree the planet is warming, the trend does not
> proceed
> constantly upward year-by-year. Other factors cause hikes and dips in
the
> generally trajectory of the global temperature chart, which has been
mostl=
y
> trending upward since the beginning of the 20th century.
Moron,
Got to go to work so more later. Here is another link to tide you
over,
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2007/feb/feb07.html
"The December 2006-February 2007 winter season temperature was marked
by periods of unusually warm and cold conditions in the U.S., but the
overall seasonal temperature was near average, according to scientists
at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C."
And
"February as a whole was 1.8=B0F (0.9=B0C) below the 20th century average
of 34.7=B0F (1.5=B0C), colder than two-thirds of the Februarys in the 113-
year record for the contiguous U.S. Thirty-six states in the eastern
two-thirds of the nation were cooler than average, while Texas and the
eleven states of the West were near average to warmer than average.
The warmer-than-average seasonal temperatures in the more heavily
populated regions of the Midwest and East helped reduce residential
energy needs for the nation as a whole for the winter season. Using
the Residential Energy Demand Temperature Index (REDTI - an index
developed at NOAA to relate energy usage to climate), NOAA scientists
determined that the nation's residential energy demand was
approximately 3 percent lower than what would have occurred under
average climate conditions for the season.
Seasonal energy demand would have been lower if not for February's
colder temperatures. For the month, temperature-related residential
energy demand was approximately 6 percent higher than what would have
occurred under average climate conditions for February."
--Mike Jr
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