What happened to the 'warmest year on record'?

'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: ...

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...

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’...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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, China close in on accord on key climate issue
Cancun, Mexico – The United States and China appeared close to agreement Wednesday on a key issue that has troubled Climate Change negotiations, boosting prospects that talks on Global Warming will score their first success in years. Analysts said the tone over measuring emissions had softened between the two major protagonists in the 193-nation talks. Over the past year they repeatedly exchanged accusations of reneging on commitments and undermining the talks. The much disputed issue in...

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...

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?...

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...

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...

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...

``If they would rather die,'' said Scrooge, ``they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population
Dear Ted -- If you are so concerned with over-population why don't you do the Earth and ALL of us a favor and take Dickens' advice? Globe and Mail : Ted Turner urges global one-child policy to save planet SHAWN McCARTHY 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 ...

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...

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. ...

UN Climate Summit, Cancun, Mexico: Climate Conmen Sending You Back 100 Years
As most of you know, last week I was down in Cancun, Mexico reporting on the U.N. Climate Change Summit (officially called COP16/CMP6). It was several days of sun, surf, and U.N. conmen. I am back in the saddle here at home but Friday I went from the warm white sands of Cancun back to the cold white snow of Chicago. Where’s all that Global Warming when you need it? At least I have the modern conveniences of Natural Gas to keep my house warm and coal and nuclear-fired electricity to power m...

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....

WikiLeaks memos reveal "climate change" con game
As a follow-up to Dan's article below about yet another doomsday Global Warming prediction that appears to be wrong, I would like to direct your attention back to the Wikileaks document dump, specifically the memos about Climate Change. Science blogger Anthony Watts has read numerous Wikileaks diplomatic cables related to climate change and has noticed a common theme -- an attempt by Second World nations to siphon wealth and political power from First World nations, all in the name of Third Wo...

Food prices rise with temperature
Published: Dec. 6, 2010 at 11:24 AM U.S. President Barack Obama eats a nectarine following a town hall meeting at Kroger's Supermarket in Bristol, Virginia on July 29, 2009. UPI/Pete Souza/The White House Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- If average Global Temperatures keep rising prices for vital food resources could rise by more than 130 percent, an analysis released in Mexico finds. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said a temperature increase of 2 degrees Celsius, about 3.6 de...

More nations may pledge carbon limits at UN talks
** CORRECTS NATURE OF THE EVENT ** Members of the group World Wildlife Fund stand around a map made of candles during an event to make a call for a strong deal to leaders joined at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010. The slow-moving U.N. talks on combating Global Warming took a step forward with revised for a $100-billion-a-year climate aid fund and other issues for debate by the world's environment ministers this week. More countries are expect...

Guarded hope at UN climate talks
Negotiators on Climate Change were raising their hopes Monday 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 UN-led negotiation...