Maybe we should call it glo-bull warming. Mike sent me this from the NOAA website.
The average temperature in April 2008 was 51.0 F. This was -1.0 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 29th coolest April in 114 years. The temperature trend for the period of record (1895 to present) is 0.1 degrees Fahrenheit per decade.
Quick! Call Pope Albert I of the Church Of AGW! Wait a minute! This is "climate change". That's the new mantra. Anyway, we're supposed to have a cooling trend for the next ten years.
And look! We just had a volcano erupting and shooting ash into the stratosphere.
SANTIAGO, Chile - The long-dormant Chaiten volcano blasted ash some 20 miles into the Andean sky on Tuesday, forcing the last of thousands to evacuate and fouling a huge stretch of the South American continent.A thick column of ash climbed into the stratosphere and blew eastward for hundreds of miles (kilometers) over Patagonia to the Atlantic Ocean, closing schools and a regional airport. Citizens of both countries were advised to wear masks to avoid breathing the dangerous fallout.
Y'know that could cause global cooling. Time to build some coal fired power plants and piss off Jon Acuff who wrote the following letter to the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation. You have to wade through some letters about the incompetence of the Atlanta city gummint (go figger) before you get to his but I'll post it in its entirety.
Would you buy a 20-year-old car that was being sold to you as new? What about a 20-year-old computer? Why then would Cobb EMC want to be part of Power4Georgians, a coalition to build coal-fired power plants in Georgia? It's bad enough that Georgia already has the two most polluting coal-fired power plants in the country. Now, Cobb EMC and Power4Georgians want to add another, using the same outdated, polluting technology that was used 20 years ago.The best part of the deal? The primary use of this "new" dirty power will be for sale to other states, since Georgia has no shortage of power, only water, which these plants use enormous amounts of. Doesn't this speak directly to the allegations of mismanagement and poor decision-making by Cobb EMC?
Jon, you ignorant asshole! We're gonna need all the coal fired and nuclear plants that we can build. The electricity has got to come from somewhere to power all of those electrical cars that you libs want. Ditto if we move into hydrogen. It takes electricity to make hydrogen. For your information, coal fired plants have become much cleaner than the 20 year old plants that you are talking about. The gummint has set stringent emission levels for all new plants that are built.
Jon, you are stuck on stupid.
As is the Nebraska Nitwit.
Posted by denny at May 10, 2008 12:09 PMWho is this "Nebraska Nitwit" of which you speak?
Several of us are offended.
Posted by: LarryInOccupiedElkhorn on May 10, 2008 01:24 PMLarry that would be Teresa The Dumb One! You will get to know her. Believe Me!
Did ya'll see the pictures that Rush was talking about! They are fuckin awesome! As he said, Take a look at those pictures then tell me that changing a stupid light bulb is going to make a shits different!
Posted by: kerrcarto on May 10, 2008 03:09 PMKerrcarto - wow. I await the pope's tie in on this one. maybe he will blame the bush wedding......I'm smelling Nobel prize number 2!
Posted by: patrick on May 10, 2008 03:43 PMNo sunspots. There has been 1 in the past 21 days. Global cooling is a helluva lot scarier than global warming. Watch the trend:
http://www.spaceweather.com/
On a side note, from one who lived thru the eruption of Mt St Helens...we were told that the dust fallout would kill us and that we had to sweep it away, for if we added h2o to clean or driveways and roofs, it would harden like concrete and stop up and the storm drains..well Our plants did great in subsequent years (Yakima apple land was a boom), it was a cinch to clean and may I say lots of fun with the hose making patterns...and no lung problems...I would have to look back but was AlGore the one who was warning us back then Too!!!???
Posted by: ty guy on May 11, 2008 04:11 AMThose are US temperatures, though. At some point next week we will get the aggregate global data for April, and that may tell a different story.
This year, at least, North America is not experiencing any temperature anomoly, but the planet is. If I recall correctly, the average temperature for the Contiguous 48 for Jan-Mar was the 62nd warmest on record, showing no anomoly. However, the average temperature for the entire planet, including cool North America, was the 11th warmest on record for that period. Still no evidence of warming since 1998, but a big difference between our experience and the total effect.
Regular readers know that I am a fairly intense AGW skeptic, but we need to argue it straight.
Finally, GOC readers will almost certainly be pleased to read that global warming will not harm great tits.
Posted by: TigerHawk on May 11, 2008 07:23 AMMe thinks that Liberals are wasting their time in college. They sure aren't learning anything about economics or the law of conservation of energy.
Posted by: Mark on May 12, 2008 12:01 AMI'm waiting for algore and his sky-is-falling Chicken Little alarmists to blame the volcanic eruption on global warming.
Posted by: thatjerryguy on May 12, 2008 09:31 AM