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The hottest year on record is still 1998 according to the WMO, and 2008 is expected to be cooler than last year (NASA disagrees, having 2005 as the warmest year, but another agency, the UK's Hadley Centre is in concurrence with the WMO).
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Global temperatures 'to decrease'
Can you direct me to a model that predicted this stabilization in global temperatures? A ten year time period of stabilized temperatures that isn't captured by models indicates that there causal mechanism explanation is flawed. |
[GLOBAL]Global temperatures for 2008 will be slightly cooler than last year as a result of the cold La Nina current in the Pacific, UN meteorologists have said.[/quote] That's weather and the BBC is not a govt or a peer reviewed publication
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When you look at climate change you should not look at any particular year," he said. "You should look at trends over a pretty long period and the trend of temperature globally is still very much indicative of warming.
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That quote is from your source.
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Adam Scaife, lead scientist for Modelling Climate Variability at the Hadley Centre in Exeter, UK, said their best estimate for 2008 was about 0.4C above the 1961-1990 average, and higher than this if you compared it with further back in the 20th Century.
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Again from your source.
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Mr Scaife told the BBC: "What's happened now is that La Nina has come along and depressed temperatures slightly but these changes are very small compared to the long-term climate change signal, and in a few years time we are confident that the current record temperature of 1998 will be beaten when the La Nina has ended."
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Basically saying this is an argument agaisnt Global warming is like saying a few cold winters is an ice age.
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I believe this is the answer to your question. It has a number of peaks and troughs but a clear trend
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thats a scary one huh?
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This is a topic I would gladly argue all day long. it's like being armed with a bazooka in a knife fight
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NCDC: Climate of 2008 - March I dont see here it's been real 'cold' lately and neither does our conservative govt. T
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The global surface (land and ocean surface) temperature was the 2nd warmest on record for March in the 129-year record, 1.28° F (0.71° C) above the 20th century mean of 54.9° F (12.7° C). The warmest March on record (+1.33° F/0.74° C) occurred in 2002.
The global land surface temperature was the warmest on record for March, 3.3° F (1.8° C) above the 20th century mean of 40.8° F (5.0° C). Temperatures more than 8° F above average covered much of the Asian continent. Two months after the greatest January snow cover extent on record on the Eurasian continent, the unusually warm temperatures led to rapid snow melt, and March snow cover extent on the Eurasian continent was the lowest on record.
Although the ocean surface average was only the 13th warmest on record, as the cooling influence of La Niņa in the tropical Pacific continued, much warmer than average conditions across large parts of Eurasia helped push the global average to a near record high for March.
Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent was the fourth lowest on record for March, remaining consistent with boreal spring conditions of the past two decades, in which warming temperatures have contributed to anomalously low snow cover extent.
Some weakening of La Niņa, the cold phase of the El Niņo-Southern Oscillation, occurred in March, but moderate La Niņa conditions remained across the tropical Pacific Ocean.
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ScienceDaily (Apr. 19, 2008) — The average global land temperature last month was the warmest on record and ocean surface temperatures were the 13th warmest. Combining the land and the ocean temperatures, the overall global temperature ranked the second warmest for the month of March. Global temperature averages have been recorded since 1880.
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....El Nina is winding down
Are you really saying we are not experiencing global warming Shek or are you just saying you can make a counter argument? Leaving cause out of the picture