And who wants Global Warming when you can face avalanches, deep snow, and record cold?
How much fun can you have with 2 meters of snow on your house, and none of that evil coal powered electricity?
What’s happening in Europe and Russia over the last two weeks is not just your average cold-snap. Temperatures reached -28C in Moscow. One point in Russia hit -52.8C (-68F) on Monday.
Jo Nova has posted this interesting link-filled piece ranging from reports of European and Russian cold to Turkish lamentations over Green policy misdirection.
And last summer they had record heat spells, seeing any pattern yet?
Quite a few GreggM: the AO; NAO; PDO; the Aleutian Low; Siberian High…
You mean, it is warmer in summer, and colder in winter?
What kind of winter will New Zealand and Australia get, after the extremely cool weather they are having this summer? Can you tell us?
We’ve been getting record heat spells over the last ten years and record cold spells. The entire system is becoming destabilized, if it totally destabilizes, we are in for interesting times!
Oh dear GreggM, you really have taken a large draught of the Kool-Aid, haven’t you?
Your claim of “records” refers only to our guesstimates since c1880 (always bearing in mind thermometric coverage and recording were largely sporadic and geographically sparse for the bulk of the period). Even if you choose to discount warm periods during the Holocene you surely realize earth has been significantly warmer during the period of life on earth. Similarly you must know that whilst earth is in an ice age we are currently enjoying an interglacial warm period – it’s been much, much colder and fairly recently. Even if you rely solely on contemporary recorded history we are still far from the Dickensian winters of the Maunder Minimum.
If you are truly worried about earth’s climate changing wildly why don’t you do yourself (and the rest of us) a favor and plot earth’s actual temperatures in a spreadsheet for yourself? The reason I suggest this is that it gets you away from the absurdly magnified “anomaly” figures published and shows you how stable the planet’s temperature really is.
All you need is a spreadsheet program (likely already installed on the computer you are using) and the official data (if you don’t know where to find it there are links to the major time series data from “Global warming at a glance” here: http://junksciencearchive.com/MSU_Temps/Warming_Look.html ). Depending on whether you choose to do as NASA recommend or Hadley’s CRU either add the annual anomaly to 14.0 °C or 13.9 °C to derive an actual temperature relative to the freezing point of water at sea level and then convert it to absolute temperature (if you don’t know and don’t want to look it up that means adding 273.15 to derive the temperature in kelvins (K).
When plotting I suggest you limit the ‘Y’ axis to a range of say 270-300, these basically being the temperatures experienced by life on earth and sufficiently restrained that you will still see the plotted variation (if you default to a zero-based ‘Y’ you’ll end up with a line too flat and fine to distinguish variation on most displays).
If that is all too much for you, here’s a tip: earth’s temperature while people have been trying to measure it has been tightly rangebound at 288 ± 0.5 K – i.e., base ± 0.2%.
Given that earth undergoes almost 4 °C drift through the year (coldest in January and hottest in July due to continental configuration) each and every year life on earth experiences a global mean of 288 ± 2.0 K, hemispherically there are 12 °C cycles through the year and latitudinally from near zero at the equator to greater than fifty degrees in the higher populated latitudes just what is it that makes you so petrified of trivial changes in a statistical artifact we call the global mean?