'Warmest Year on Record'? The Truth is Global Warming Has Halted

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...

2010: the warmest year on record that wasn't
Last year, the prediction was that 2010 will be the warmest year on record. Last Thanksgiving, the AP was ringing the Global Warming alarm bells (again) right when the CRU Scandal was unfolding: AP ignores CRU emails, instead says Global Warming accelerating! Quotes people in CRU emails! So much for that meme. From the UK Daily Mail: What happened to the 'warmest year on record': The truth is Global Warming has halted A year ago tomorrow, just before the opening of the UN Copenhagen world clima...

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...

Alarmist Doomsday warning of rising seas 'was wrong', says Met Office study
Alarming predictions that Global Warming could cause sea levels to rise 6ft in the next century are wrong, it has emerged. A Met Office study also rules out the shutdown of the Atlantic Ocean’s conveyor belt, which would trigger Arctic winters in Britain like those seen in the film The Day After Tomorrow. However, the report says the IPCC was right to warn of a sea level rise of up to 2ft by 2100, and that a 3ft rise could happen. The IPCC underestimated the danger posed by the melting of...

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...

Another Global Warming Consequence Exaggerated
Well this is unfortunate timing. Just as it is being reported that the Cancun climate talks are in danger of collapse, a report is published that debunks one more of the extreme Global Warming consequences claims. Alarming predictions that Global Warming could cause sea levels to rise 6ft in the next century are wrong, it has emerged. The forecast made by the influential 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which would have seen cities around the world submerged by water, now looks ...

Global experts: Warming could double food prices
Cancun, Mexico – Even if we stopped spewing Global Warming gases today, the world would face a steady rise in food prices this century. But on our current emissions path, Climate Change becomes the "threat multiplier" that could double grain prices by 2050 and leave millions more Children malnourished, global food experts reported Wednesday. Beyond 2050, when climate scientists project temperatures might rise to as much as 6.4 degrees C (11.5 degrees F) over 20th century levels, the plan...

After Surgery, Anesthetic Gases Add To Global Warming
What is this? The soothing gases delivered by anesthesiologists to get patients through a rough procedure or surgery have done wonders for pain management. Most gases used in anesthesiology eventually end up in the atmosphere where they trap heat even more effectively than Carbon Dioxide. But now scientists have found that these tools aren't so friendly to the environment. That's because three gases used commonly by anesthesiologists are maddeningly effective at trapping heat and warming the pla...

Rising Oceans Raise Questions on Island Nations
Like this Story? Share it: Katie Couric discusses the reignited debate over Global Warming in Washington D.C. Couric comments on scientists' opinions regarding Climate Change and newly elected skeptics in Congress. (AP) 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. The rising ocean raises question...

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’...

WikiLeaks and the Great Myth of Global Warming
Those who have studied the UN process on “Global Warming” aka Climate Change, know full well that it is little to do with climate but everything to do with advancing the interests of global corporations and international financiers. The Wikileaks revelations detailed in the Guardian demonstrate the accuracy of that assessment. The Great Myth revealed in the leaks, is the long held and deliberately promoted belief that the US is opposed to any measures designed to “control clima...

U.N. climate talks move into decisive phase
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — U.N. climate talks moved into their decisive week Monday with the agenda dominated by future cuts in Carbon Emissions and keeping countries honest about their actions to control Global Warming. Government ministers arrived in force to begin applying political muscle to negotiations that in the past week have narrowed some disputes, but which are likely to leave the toughest decisions for the final hours of the 193-nation conference on Friday. Delegates were feeling pre...

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...

Oh, about those dramatically rising sea levels caused by global warming
It's not going to happen. Put Al Gore back on Suicide watch. Alarming predictions that Global Warming could cause sea levels to rise 6ft in the next century are wrong, it has emerged. A Met Office study also rules out the shutdown of the Atlantic Ocean's conveyor belt, which would trigger Arctic winters in Britain like those seen in the film The Day After Tomorrow. ...

If an island state vanishes, is it still a nation?
CANCUN, 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. The rising ocean raises questions, too: What happens if the 61,000 Marshallese must abandon their low-lying atolls? Would they still be a nation? With a U.N. seat? With control of their old fisheries and their undersea minerals? W...

UN Global Warming Conference: Ted Turner Urges World to Follow Chinas Lead and Institute Global One-Child Policy
Because who wouldn’t be in favor of forced Abortions?… (Globe And Mail)- Climate Change and population control can make for a politically explosive mix, as media mogul Ted Turner demonstrated Sunday when he urged world leaders to institute a global one-child policy to save the Earth’s environment. Mr. Turner spoke at a luncheon where Economist Brian O’Neill from the U.S.’s National Center for Atmospheric Research unveiled his study on the impact of demographic trends on futu

Marshall Islands' Climate Change Dilemma: If It Vanishes Beneath Rising Sea Levels, Is It Still A Nation?
Cancun, 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. The rising ocean raises questions, too: What happens if the 61,000 Marshallese must abandon their low-lying atolls? Would they still be a nation? With a U.N. seat? With control of their old fisheries and their undersea minerals?...

Guarded hope at U.N. climate talks
CANCUN, Mexico -- Negotiators on Climate Change were raising their hopes Sunday after signs of modest progress in Mexico, but a dispute over the future of the Kyoto Protocol threatened to derail momentum. The 194-nation talks at the Caribbean resort city of Cancun were trying to finalize a general statement on the world's long-term action against Climate Change as envoys arrived for the main thrust of talks starting Tuesday. But with few expecting a full-fledged climate treaty anytime soon, the ...

U.S. Supreme Court to hear key global warming case
In a move that could significantly affect the U.S. approach to fighting Climate Change, the top court in the coming months will consider a lower ruling that allows states and environmental groups to sue utility companies under federal public nuisance law to make them reduce their greenhouse Gas Emissions. The Clean Air Act already gives the U.S. EPA the authority to regulate Greenhouse Gases, but the appeals court ruling in favor of the Lawsuit filed by Environmentalists, eight states, and New Y...

Global Warming Claims Against AEP, Utilities to Get U.S. High Court Review
The U.S. Supreme Court said it will hear an appeal by four power companies including American Electric Power Co. , agreeing to decide whether they must face a suit by states seeking a reduction in Carbon Dioxide emissions....

Nations 'rewriting climate plan'
The UN's former top climate official Yvo de Boer has accused Developing Countries, such as India and China, of trying to rewrite the Bali Action Plan. He says this confuses negotiations between more than 190 nations that have started this week in Cancun, Mexico. The number of heads of state expecting to attend the climate meeting is just 20, compared to the 120 who turned up at the Copenhagen summit. This year's conference opened on Monday 29 November with marked divisions between indu...

Cancun Climate Talks Enter Stretch Run
What is this? Political theater is best practiced on a sunny, sandy stage. Sierra Club Activists bearing the flags of more than 20 countries bury their heads in Cancun, Mexico's, sandy beach Friday to symbolize their view of how United Nations climate talks are progressing. The second week of negotiations kicked off Monday, with participants from 193 countries seeking to reach a deal that failed to materialize at last year's Copenhagen summit. "We cannot leave Cancun empty-handed," Connie Hedega...

UN climate talks move into decisive phase
CANCUN, Mexico - U.N. climate talks moved into their decisive week Monday with the agenda dominated by future cuts in Carbon Emissions and keeping countries honest about their actions to control Global Warming. Government ministers arrived in force to begin applying political muscle to negotiations that in the past week have narrowed some disputes, but which are likely to leave the toughest decisions for the final hours of the 193-nation conference on Friday. Delegates were feeling pressur...

Obama committed to climate goals: Chu (AFP)
Cancun, Mexico (AFP) – 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 percent 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 ou...

Tough UN climate talks move into decisive week
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — U.N. climate talks moved into their decisive week Monday with the agenda dominated by future cuts in Carbon Emissions and keeping countries honest about their actions to control Global Warming. Government ministers arrived in force to begin applying political muscle to negotiations that in the past week have narrowed some disputes, but which are likely to leave the toughest decisions for the final hours of the 193-nation conference on Friday. Delegates were feeling pre...