2010: the warmest year on record that wasn't

Global Warming Stopped...15 Years Ago
How inconvenient: A year ago tomorrow, just before the opening of the UN Copenhagen world climate summit, the British Meteorological Office issued a confident prediction. The mean world temperature for 2010, it announced, 'is expected to be 14.58C, the warmest on record' - a deeply worrying 0.58C above the 19611990 average. World temperatures, it went on, were locked inexorably into an everrising trend: 'Our experimental decadal forecast confirms previous indications that about half the years ...

What happened to the 'warmest year on record'?
A year ago tomorrow, just before the opening of the UN Copenhagen world climate summit, the British Meteorological Office issued a confident prediction. The mean world temperature for 2010, it announced, 'is expected to be 14.58C, the warmest on record' - a deeply worrying 0.58C above the 19611990 average. Met Office officials openly boasted that they hoped by their statements to persuade the Copenhagen gathering to impose new and stringent carbon emission limits - an ambition that was not to b...

'Warmest Year on Record'? The Truth is Global Warming Has Halted
© Daily Mail Winter's icy grip: Drivers and Pedestrians battle through blizzards in Kent last week. A year ago tomorrow, just before the opening of the UN Copenhagen world climate summit, the British Meteorological Office issued a confident prediction. The mean world temperature for 2010, it announced, 'is expected to be 14.58C, the warmest on record' - a deeply worrying 0.58C above the 1961-1990 average. World temperatures, it went on, were locked inexorably into an ever rising trend: ...

Experts: Glacier melt speeds up, risking lives
CANCUN, Mexico — The lives and livelihoods of people in South Asia are at "high risk" as Global Warming melts Glaciers in the Himalayas, sending floods crashing down from overloaded mountain lakes and depriving farmers of steady water sources, U.N. and other international experts reported. Worldwide, "since the beginning of the 1980s, the rate of ice loss has increased substantially in many regions, concurrent with an increase in global mean air temperatures," the U.N. Environment Program ...

Temperature may hit high in 2010
The global average temperature could reach a record high in 2010, according to the UK's Met Office. Forecasters predict that the annual figure for 2010 will be 14.58C (58.24F), 0.58C (1.04F) above the long-term average of 14.0C (57.2F). They say the combination of Climate Change and a moderate warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean are set to drive up temperatures next year. The current record record is 14.52C (58.14F), which was set in 1998. "The latest forecast from our climate scientis...

Climate goal may spell end for some coral reefs
FILE - In this Dec. 2005 file photo provided by the National Park Service shows National Park Service fisheries biologist Jeff Miller examining the Coral Reef in the Buck Island Reef National Monument in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, after bleaching from record hot water followed by disease has killed ancient and delicate Caribbean coral.According to coral experts like Roberto Iglesias the so-far elusive goal of world climate talks at the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, limiting glo...

Experts: Glacier melt speeds up, risking lives
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) - United Nations and other international experts say the lives and livelihoods of people in South Asia are at "high risk" as Global Warming melts Glaciers in the Himalayas. The glacier melt is sending floods crashing down from overloaded mountain lakes and depriving farmers of steady sources of water. The U.N. Environment Program says that worldwide, "since the beginning of the 1980s, the rate of ice loss has increased substantially in many regions, concurrent with an increa...

Warmest year ever? 2010: An Unexceptional El Nino Year
If the media headlines are to be believed 2010 is heading to be either the warmest or in the top three warmest years since the instrumental Global Temperature records began 150 years ago, and proof that the world is getting ever warmer. But looking more closely at the data reveals a different picture. 2010 will be remembered for just two warm months, attributable to the El Nino effect, with the rest of the year being nothing but average, or less than average temperature. 2010 will ther...

Brrrrr! It's the Warmest Year Ever!
Brigstocke: Cwoss (Photo: Hollingworth) One of the things that makes hectoring, joke-free comedian Marcus Brigstocke weally, WEALLY cwoss are people who go: “If Global Warming is happening how come it’s so cold outside?” As he explains here (about 20 mins in) in his latest veritable Stalin show trial of a mirth routine: “The weather where you live is not the global climate. The temperature is not the same the world over.” Indeed, Marcus. Thanks for that. It’...

Hot Off The Presses, Or Six Hundreths Of A Degree Of Separation
The Daily Mail's David Rose notes that the British Meteorological Office has lowered its 2010 yearly temperature forecast slightly from this time last year. This means that Global Warming is over, the cult of climatological change has been completely debunked, and Al Gore is fat. Never mind that Britain, just as it was last winter and the winter before, was deep in the grip of a cold snap, which has seen some temperatures plummet to minus 20C, and that here 2010 has been the coolest year since 1...

More satellite images of snow-bound UK
IMAGE: This is an image of snow-bound UK from space by MERIS on Nov. 29.  Click here for more information. Earth observation scientists at the University of Leicester have recorded stunning images of the UK’s winter landscape by orbiting satellites. European Space Agency satellite instruments have been observing the icy blast in the UK from their vantage points in space. Leicester scientists have used two instruments, MERIS and AATSR, which have returned stunning images of a snow-boun...

World Bank makes a play for climate finance role
By CAP’s Richard Caperton. Yesterday, a group of multilateral development banks - including the World Bank Group - made the case for their role in managing climate finance.  These banks clearly have the appropriate tools to move the significant amounts of capital called for in the Copenhagen Accord, but there are still questions about their ability to direct that capital to Climate Change mitigation and adaptation. Multilateral development banks - or “MDB’s”

Experts: Glacier melt speeds up, risking lives
An Activist from Via Campesina, an international movement of peasants, holds a container filled with incense during the 'Global Forum for Life, Environmental and Social Justice', an alternative event parallel to the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. According to the UN weather agency, 2010 is "almost certain" to rank among the three Hottest years on record, and the 2001-2010 decade is the warmest period since the beginning of weather records in 1850. United N...

AGW Today: Marshall Islands Could Disappear Due To Sea Rise
Unshockingly, this breathless report comes from a reporter in.......exotic Cancun, Mexico, rather than from the Marshall IslandsCANCUN, Mexico - Encroaching seas in the far Pacific are raising the salt level in the wells of the Marshall Islands. Waves threaten to cut one sliver of an island in two. "It's getting worse," says Kaminaga Kaminaga, the tiny nation's Climate Change coordinator.Two things to pre-notice: if all the Glaciers and ice are melting, and they are composed primarily of f...

Climate summit in Cancun intent on progress
Cancun, MEXICO - The U.N.-sponsored climate talks, which began here a week ago, entered a new phase Monday, as delegates and high-ranking ministers from nearly 200 countries settled into vast, sunless meeting rooms, intent on restoring the credibility of a process aimed at slowing Global Warming. While last year's climate talks in Copenhagen produced little despite attracting more than 100 heads of state, some experts suggested this wonkish two-week meeting in a resort better known for colleg...

US is committed to climate goals: govt
President Barack Obama is determined to meet US commitments to cut down on Carbon Emissions despite an election rout at home, his energy secretary told climate negotiations on Monday. Obama pledged at last year's Copenhagen conference that the United States will reduce the emissions blamed for Global Warming by 17 per cent by 2020 from 2005 levels. But a bill to require carbon cuts died in the Senate. "President Obama has said the United States will meet our Copenhagen commitments," Energy Secre...

If Cancun Climate Talks Falter, Blame the US
The most recent round of United Nations-led Climate Change negotiations began this week in Cancun, and although international expectations are muted this year, the stakes are still high. As Mother Jones‘ Kate Sheppard explains,"The 2010 meeting could make or break the future of global negotiations.” This is the sixteenth Conference of the Parties, convened by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). After the tepid results of last year’s conferen...

Emissions from Deforestation Lower than Earlier Estimates, Study Says
A study by ecologists employed at a U.S. consulting firm says that Carbon Emissions from destruction of tropical forests are likely half of previous estimates, a finding that could affect international efforts to compensate developing nations for leaving forests intact. The new analysis, presented during the international climate talks in Cancun, says Deforestation accounts for about 8 percent of global carbon emissions, with a likely range of 5 to 12 percent, according to Winrock International...

Is There a Plan B for Cancun?
The United States framed the agenda for the Cancun climate talks last month when it called for a “balanced” outcome from the negotiations. By that, it meant that it wanted to see progress on all key elements of the Copenhagen Accord. Most countries accepted that as a guiding principle for the talks, even if they were skeptical of its wisdom. But after eight days, with tensions remaining over transparency rules and the future of the Kyoto Protocol, it is unclear......

Cancun Climate Change Quote of the Day
The Guardian is reporting that the Indian environment minister rebuked rich countries here at the U.N. Climate Change conference for failing to keep their promises to deliver $30 billion in climate aid to poor country by 2012. As the Guardian reports: [Minister Jairam Ramesh] said: "The grand bargain at Copenhagen was President Obama telling the four heads of state: do you agree on transparency in return for money which can start flowing to vulnerable countries? The question is: has the money s...

WRI Climate Solution Proposal at Cancun Gets Approval From Nicolas Stern
One problem besetting climate negotiations, both at Copenhagen and at Cancun, is a lack of trust. This is because there has been no consistent metric by which to measure progress globally. Each nation provides their own monitoring and reporting. The solution, just launched this week at the Cancun climate talks by the World Resources Institute (WRI), is an independent network that will track countries’ progress toward cutting emissions and providing climate finance, by convening independent...

Bolivia Alleges U.S 'Blackmail' At Climate Change Negotiations
Should the rights over water resources be returned to the S'gor state govt? Cancun, Mexico, 7 DECEMBER, 2010: Bolivia alleged that the United States was using "Blackmail" tactics at Climate Change negotiations to force other countries to accept its position. "We are not sold to anyone. We are not bought. We are not scared," Bolivia's Ambassador to the United Nations Pablo Solon told reporters at a press briefing here. Solon said that the integrity of the negotiations at the current Cancun 16th U...

IEA director calls for action at Cancun
Published: Dec. 7, 2010 at 10:03 AM Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- There is no time to waste in finding a comprehensive environmental solution because the tab for green energy is rising, the IEA director said from Mexico. International Energy Agency Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said world leaders needed to find the political will during climate talks in Mexico to advance the agenda beyond vague commitments reached at last year's summit in Denmark. "Despite the positive steps taken last year ...

Cancun climate talks: Island states plead for survival
Among the delegates from 190 nations wrestling over international climate agreements in Cancun this week, there is nary a hint of the skepticism over Global Warming that has surfaced in the U.S. Congress, where oil, coal and other industrial interests have battled Climate Legislation to a standstill. Floods in Pakistan, fires in Russia, typhoons in Vietnam, drought in Mexico -- every nation seems to have a tale of climate-related woe.  The most vulnerable nations include the small island s...

Group brings Cancun delegates to nearby village without electricity
In case you were unaware, the United Nations is holding a climate summit right now in Cancun. They are sunning and making big plans to limit international Economic Growth, because they are convinced that the observed phenomenon of Global Warming will result in a disaster right out of some movie. (Cancun, Mexico) On Wednesday, December 8th, CFACT will bring COP16 delegates and press to tour La Libertad, a Mexican community only minutes from the comforts of the Cancun tourist zone, where the poor ...