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Old April 4th, 2008, 03:59 PM
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Default Re: Global Warming Cools Down

Here's more stuff, inspired by a passing sound bite from Art Bell's program on the long term warming and cooling phenomena in our solar system. I did my "Google" not on global warming but global cooling. And the first two entries are from Drudge...

JimB

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"Global temperatures 'to decrease'
"Global temperatures will drop slightly this year as a result of the cooling effect of the La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said. By Roger Harrabin
"BBC News environment analyst
"The World Meteorological Organization's secretary-general, Michel Jarraud, told the BBC it was likely that La Nina would continue into the summer.
"This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory.
"But experts say we are still clearly in a long-term warming trend - and they forecast a new record high temperature within five years.

More at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7329799.stm

World Bank accused of climate change "hijack"
Fri Apr 4, 2008 5:26am EDT
By Ed Cropley
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Developing countries and environmental groups accused the World Bank on Friday of trying to seize control of the billions of dollars of aid that will be used to tackle climate change in the next four decades.
"The World Bank's foray into climate change has gone down like a lead balloon," Friends of the Earth campaigner Tom Picken said at the end of a major climate change conference in the Thai capital.
"Many countries and civil society have expressed outrage at the World Bank's attempted hijacking of real efforts to fund climate change efforts," he said.
More at: http://www.reuters.com/article/envir...rpc=22&sp=true
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Global Cooling?
by Dennis Avery
"The official thermometers at the U.S. National Climate Data Center show a slight global cooling trend over the last seven years, from 1998 to 2005...Actually, global warming is likely to continue—but the interruption of the recent strong warming trend sharply undercuts the argument that our global warming is an urgent, man-made emergency. The seven-year decline makes our warming look much more like the moderate, erratic warming to be expected when the planet naturally shifts from a Little Ice Age (1300–1850 AD) to a centuries-long warm phase like the Medieval Warming (950–1300 AD) or the Roman Warming (200 BC– 600 AD)...Bob Carter, a paleoclimatologist from Australia, notes that the earth also had strong global warming between 1918 and 1940. Then there was a long cooling period from 1940 to 1965. He points out that the current warming started 50 years before cars and industries began spewing consequential amounts of CO2. Then the planet cooled for 35 years just after the CO2 levels really began to surge. In fact, says Carter, there doesn't seem to be much correlation between temperatures and man-made CO2...For context, Carter offers a quick review of earth's last 6 million years. The planet began that period with 3 million years in which the climate was several degrees warmer than today. Then came 3 million years in which the planet was basically cooling, accompanied by an increase in the magnitude and regularity of the earth's 1500-year Dansgaard-Oeschger climate cycles..."

More at: http://acuf.org/issues/issue62/060624cul.asp
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