OT: Some Global Warming

Everyone who's concerned about global warming or cooling should move to where I live :-) It's 3 am here now and the thermometer on the porch of my unheated house reads 57 deg F. The lowest I measured last winter was 54 in January. And I think we stayed well below 90 last summer.

Mumbai? ...Jim Thompson

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Just about very winter I hear about some place getting record cold or record snow - ever since I first paid much attention to this starting in the winter of 1976-1977.

Lately it appears to be places near the North Atlantic getting hard-hit, maybe starting with a major USA Northeast Corridor snowstorm that broke Boston's single-storm snowfall record. When progression of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation forces temperature patterns in the North Pacific to change, watch it become someone else's turn to get spectacular newsworthy winter weather.

And regardless of PDO, AMO and El Ninos and La Ninas, merely random factors can bring 1% of the portion of the world that gets snow (even if only once a century) their worst snowstorm in a century. Same for cold snaps.

- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)

Hell, no. And Mumbai *is* a hell compared to where I live on the opposite end of the country. I've been to Mumbai several times and it's hot and humid most of the time. It's not bad in January.

The hottest I've ever endured was about 115 in South India. Where I live (Aizawl, Mizoram), the highest I ever personally measured was about 95 deg F some 20 years ago. And there's almost always a cool breeze in summer. It's 11:30 am now and the thermometer reads 68.5 F.

Some of today's headlines:

Winter Could Be Worst in 25 Years for USA...

3 Deaths Due To Cold in Memphis...

PAPER: GAS SUPPLIES RUNNING OUT IN UK...

Vermont sets 'all-time record for one snowstorm'...

Iowa temps 'a solid 30 degrees below normal'...

Seoul buried in heaviest snowfall in 70 years...

Historic ice build-up shuts down NJ nuclear power plant...

Beijing -- coldest in 40 years...

Miami shivers from coldest weather in decade...

John

Looks like every winter now I see posts here saying how here and there have their worst snow or cold in a decade or a centory or on record or whatever.

Latest monthly determination of lower tropospheric temperature by UAH is in, December 2009: .28 degree C warmer than the 1979-1998 baseline.

This has a graph of this global temperature index from its start at the beginning of 1979 to now. This is the least-warming of the 5 major indices of global temperature trends.

The UAH lower troposphere temperature index, v. 5.2, in text file format is here:

- Don Klipstein ( snipped-for-privacy@misty.com)

People don't notice 0.28 C average temperature rise. They do notice feet of snow on their roads and people dying from the cold.

Between Climategate, the ludicrous conference in Copenhagen, and the recent, killing cold around much of the world, I suspect the AGW panic is on the decline.

John

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Maybe all that anti-carbon stuff has worked already! ;-)

We've taken out TOO MUCH CO2, and we're all freezing as a result. Better stop the anti-CO2 nitwits, and PRODUCE MORE!!!!! ;-P

Cheers! Rich

John