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[Rogerdodger]

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All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.
Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming.
For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on. No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact:



Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn't itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.

[mss]

And why do we not see this data in all the major media. Even the weather channel is still telling the dangers of warming. BECAUSE TRUTH DOES NOT PAY

[stocks]

Fascinating that the interest in global warming reached a fever pitch just before the turn. Sentiment and E-wave top in place?

[Rogerdodger]

It just may be because they made them move the temperature sensors away from the heater vents and burning trash barrels.

[Rogerdodger]

Tulsa had a record ice storm just before Christmas.
We are STILL trying to remove the debris despite a virtual army of workers hauling away tree limbs in huge dump trucks
The ice storm that hit the area in December left the city covered with nearly 3 million cubic yards of debris.

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Feb 26, 9:13 PM (ET)

In Boston, for example, 49.6 inches of snow has fallen this winter, or 19.3 inches more than normal. In Madison, Wis., where it never had snowed more than 76.6 inches, the city already had seen 77 inches by Feb. 12.

Last week, Grand Rapids, Mich., shattered its December-February snowfall record of 85.1 inches set in 1951-52. As of Tuesday afternoon, 90.4 inches had fallen. And though the month doesn't end until Friday, the city has a new February record of 37.1 inches, surpassing 1990's 35.5 inches.

On Tuesday, snow fell from Illinois to New England, with more than 6 inches on the ground by late morning in northern Indiana and Ohio. Up to 16 inches of snow was possible across northern Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, the National Weather Service said.

In Chicago, more than 50 inches has fallen since the beginning of December, which is about 15 inches above normal and makes this the first winter since 1978-79 the area has seen more than 50 inches of snow, said Amy Seeley, a weather service meteorologist.

Snowy weather and fluctuating temperatures have led to Chicago having to fill in more than 60,000 potholes since Dec. 1 - nearly twice the number filled during the same period last year and, as any Chicago driver can tell you, a fraction of those out there.

Some communities are running low on road salt, scrambling to find more and reporting in some cases a spike in traffic accidents because roads are not sufficiently salted.

Officials at Southern Illinois University are lamenting ice, not snow, after it forced them to cancel classes three times this month.
"Snow, you can plow that right off," said school spokesman Rod Sievers. "But the ice was just brutal, brutal."

Edited by Rogerdodger, 27 February 2008 - 11:09 AM.

[mss]

We even got snow here on Signal mtn last night and this morning with wind chill 18*, at the moment it has got up to 21*, warming up.