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[Rogerdodger]

Even if one accepts some of the Global Whining franchise's temperature data, Sun activity or lack thereof and it's effect on the earth cannot be denied with any logic.
UNLESS you are a denier!
Look at what the low Sun activity, as evidenced by the low number of sunspots, did to temperature in the 1880's thru early 1900's.
And recently we have seen a "decade of cooler temperatures" accompanied by very low solar activity.
And that is in spite of supposedly rising CO2 levels, which may be helpful! See:


New Study: 'The Positive Externalities of Carbon Dioxide': 'Estimating the Monetary Benefits of Rising Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations on Global Food Production'

Edited by Rogerdodger, 18 October 2013 - 11:02 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

Sun says: I'm not quite dead yet!
28 solar flares in last seven days...
More may be coming.
October 31, 2013
The sun has erupted more than two dozen times over the last week, sending radiation and solar material hurtling through space - and scientists say more eruptions may be coming.
This shouldn't be unusual. After all, we are technically at solar maximum, the peak of the 11-year cycle of the sun's activity. But this has been a noticeably mellow solar maximum, with the sun staying fairly quiet throughout the summer. So when our life-giving star suddenly let loose with 24 medium strength M-class solar flares and four significantly stronger X-class flares between Oct. 23 and Oct. 30, it felt like a surprise.
Many of the flares originated from sunspot AR1884, a particularly active region of the sun that is currently facing Earth, almost at the center of the star. If this region stays active, it will continue to hurl radiation and solar material our way for about another week until it rotates out of sight.

Maybe this new solar activity will help keep us a bit warmer than we have been recently:
Oct 26, 2013
Chile hit with worst cold spell in 80 years
Freezing temperatures throughout mid-September hit the country’s fruit growers with the coldest frost since 1929.
“These frosts are the worst that agriculture has faced in 84 years, impacting the area from Coquimbo to Bio Bio,” the National Agricultural Society said.
Because of the lost production, fruit prices are expected to rise.
“All throughout November, December and January, prices of peaches, nectarines and plums will be higher because there will be shortages,” said Cristián Allendes, president of the Federation Fruit Producers. ”There will be half the volume of a normal year, so it is impossible for them to cost the same.”

Edited by Rogerdodger, 01 November 2013 - 06:44 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

There seems to be a world-wide epidemic of lying.
STUDY: Global warming 'pause' may last for 20 more years...

The graph shown above, based on a version published by Dr Ed Hawkins of Reading University on his blog, Climate Lab Book, reveals that actual temperatures are now below the predictions made by almost all the 138 models on which the IPCC relies.
Even IPCC report co-authors such as Dr Hawkins admit some of the models are ‘too hot’.
He said: ‘The upper end of the latest climate model projections is inconsistent’ with observed temperatures, though he added even the lower predictions could have ‘negative impacts’ if true.
But if the pause lasted another ten years, and there were no large volcanic eruptions, ‘then global surface temperatures would be outside the IPCC’s indicative likely range’.
Professor Curry went much further. ‘The growing divergence between climate model simulations and observations raises the prospect that climate models are inadequate in fundamental ways,’ she said.
If the pause continued, this would suggest that the models were not ‘fit for purpose’.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 04 November 2013 - 06:20 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

"They" changed from "Global Warming" to "Climate Change" just in time!
PS: There's is no climate change if you look at the historical record of the "Long Winter" of 1880's.
Just cycles related to Solar activity.

South Dakota, Washington state break snowfall
Also breaks record for shortest number of days between 4-inch snowstorms Spring to Fall.

Quote from NWS Facebook post. “this will mark a new record for the fewest number of days between the last 4+” snowfall in the Spring and the first 4+” snowfall in the Fall. This year will only be 197 days, which would break the old record of 203 days set in 1970, and would be a full 100 days shorter than the average of 297 days for the period of record since 1893.”

RECORD EVENT REPORT… NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD… WED NOV 06 2013

A RECORD SNOWFALL OF 5.7 INCHES WAS SET AT SIOUX FALLS SD YESTERDAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 1.5 SET IN 1959.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 08 November 2013 - 08:34 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

Obama grasps for climate legacy as second-term agenda crumbles
President Obama has a chance to craft a second-term legacy on climate change even as the rest of his agenda runs aground in Congress.
Gun control legislation is dead; immigration reform is on life support; and reaching a fiscal deal with Republicans appears to be a long shot.
To make matters worse, what was supposed to be his signature first-term achievement — ObamaCare — is suffering from a disastrous rollout.
But there’s one thing that’s going right for Obama: Executive action on climate change is moving full-speed ahead at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
“He may be able to do more through climate change [rules] because the EPA has the authority,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told The Hill on Thursday.

[Rogerdodger]

I love the way that "Global Whiners" demonize critical thinkers instead of discussing real FACTS.
Such as the world famous scientist George Clooney's latest rant:
Clooney declares global warming skeptics to be 'stupid' and 'ridiculous'...

I bet he has no Cloo about this reality:
Scientists Baffled By Lack Of Sunspots...
Something is up with the sun. "There is no scientist alive who has seen a solar cycle as weak as this one."
Scientists say that solar activity is stranger than in a century or more, with the sun producing barely half the number of sunspots as expected and its magnetic poles oddly out of sync.
To complicate the riddle, the sun also is undergoing one of its oddest magnetic reversals on record.

Normally, the sun's magnetic north and south poles change polarity every 11 years or so. During a magnetic-field reversal, the sun's polar magnetic fields weaken, drop to zero, and then emerge again with the opposite polarity. As far as scientists know, the magnetic shift is notable only because it signals the peak of the solar maximum, said Douglas Biesecker at NASA's Space Environment Center.
But in this cycle, the sun's magnetic poles are out of sync, solar scientists said. The sun's north magnetic pole reversed polarity more than a year ago, so it has the same polarity as the south pole.
Several solar scientists speculated that the sun may be returning to a more relaxed state after an era of unusually high activity that started in the 1940s.
The decline in magnetic activity could ease global warming, lowering the sun's luminosity by about 0.1%.

Recent global warming began after the Long Winter beginning in the late 1800's.
HEY GEORGE! THE EARTH MIGHT BE HEATED BY THE SUN!

Edited by Rogerdodger, 11 November 2013 - 10:11 AM.

[Rogerdodger]

Global Warming err...Climate Change seems to be causing the sun to weaken...AGAIN!

It's amazing how much effect we little humans can have on the mighty sun.

Calm solar cycle prompts questions about impact on Earth...
11/24/13
The surface of the sun has been surprisingly calm of late -- with fewer sunspots than anytime in in the last century -- prompting curious scientists to wonder just what it might mean here on Earth.
The number of spots counted since it kicked off in December 2008 is well below the average observed over the last 250 years. In fact, it's less than half.
The last time that happened, during the so-called "Maunder Minimum" between 1650 and 1715, almost no sunspots were observed. During the same period, temperatures dropped sharply on Earth, sparking what is called the "Little Ice Age" in Europe and North America.
As the sunspot numbers continue to stay low, it's possible the Earth's climate is being affected again.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 25 November 2013 - 12:40 AM.

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Geraldo Rivera faces possible lay-off as...

NOAA: 2013 Slowest Hurricane Season in 30 Years...

The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially ends on Saturday, Nov. 30, had the fewest number of hurricanes since 1982.
This year is expected to rank as the sixth-least-active Atlantic hurricane season since 1950, in terms of the collective strength and duration of named storms and hurricanes.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 26 November 2013 - 09:33 AM.

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DEEP FREEZE: Nearly 1,000 Record Low Temperatures Set...
Almost 1000 record low max temps vs 17 record high temps

Records in the last 7 days:

205 snowfall records.
969 Low Max. 203 Low temps.
17 High Temp.
61 High minimum.





Yes, those are snowfall records in Texas. And yes, it is still Fall.
Recent cold/snowstorms:

Bulgaria bracing for blizzard – Code orange for dangerous weather has been declared for half of Bulgaria.

Prince Harry’s race to South Pole resumed after blizzard

Arctic winds and heavy snowfall hitting Italy – One-and-a-half meters of snow in some places.

Another Valdez, Alaska, snow record – 14.7 inches (37 cm) of snowfall Sunday broke the Nov 24 record

Heavy ice delays Antarctic icebreaker for second year in a row – The Aurora Australis was due to return to Hobart more than a week ago

Heavy snow in Macedonia – The snow-cover is now of more than 30 cm (12 inches) in Popova Sapka and Pelister.

Heavy snowfall all over the Balkans: Heavy snowfall Monday night as a result of a low pressure front from Italy covers the Balkans.

Factory roof collapses under heavy snow – Nine killed – Highways closed and flights canceled in many areas.

Heavy snowfall in the mountains of Greece: Snow moving machinery is clearing roads this morning in the mountainous prefecture of Ioannina (Greece).

Massive snow dump on London, Ontario

Arctic Ice Extent Highest In A Decade

Global Sea Ice Area Highest In 25 Years, 6th Highest On Record

Edited by Rogerdodger, 29 November 2013 - 06:35 PM.

[Rogerdodger]

It's summer in Australia and it's SNOWING?

Snow falling. In Australia. In summer.


"That's almost more than they had in winter." Source: NewsComAu

Sleet, ice, deep freeze hit large swath of USA...

Montana cold records fall...

See: World Temperatures Drop again Jan 29 2012

Recently some forecasters have predicted that Canada may lose much of it's agriculture because of cooling.
LINK
June 2007:
Read the sunspots
June 20, 2007
Forget warming, beware the new ice age

Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth. Beginning to plan for adaptation to such a cool period, one which may continue well beyond one 11-year cycle, as did the Little Ice Age, should be a priority for governments. It is global cooling, not warming, that is the major climate threat to the world, especially Canada. As a country at the northern limit to agriculture in the world, it would take very little cooling to destroy much of our food crops, while a warming would only require that we adopt farming techniques practiced to the south of us.

(LINK)

PS: Did you know:
"In September, 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed the National Climate Program Act into law, in aid of predicting future climate and combating global cooling."

Edited by Rogerdodger, 09 December 2013 - 10:30 AM.