Rex Murphy's column in the Globe today, "So where's that global cooling alert?" was composed a bit hastily. He should have done a little research on global temperatures first.
Mr. Murphy failed to check measurements of global temperature before writing that, "things have gotten cool" and complaining that no meteorologists have spoken up about how solid the "theory of global warming" can be given that Toronto seems to be "having a Newfoundland summer".
Let's look at the actual measurements. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climate Data Center has data showing that this past June had the second highest globally averaged land and sea temperature ever recorded. How can that be given that those of us in the middle of North America have been experiencing a cool wet summer? Well, It turns out that other parts of the world - the north and eastern Pacific, north-western Atlantic, Africa, Southern Europe, and Siberia were much warmer than normal. Averaged over the globe, the relatively cooler interior of North America got canceled out and then some.
There has been no global cooling alert this summer because there hasn't been
any global cooling.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
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Did you send that little fact in to the comments section under his piece?
No, but I wrote a letter to the editor. There were already 160 comments online, so it didn't seem very useful to add one more.
Typical conservatives who don't realize global warming means more erratic weather patterns.
Speaking of checking facts, Rex Murphy is not a "typical conservative". He ran as a nfld tory candidate in 1975 and then as a liberal candidate in 1985 and 1987. I notice he's regularly accused of being either left wing or right wing, depending on who he's offended on a particular day.
This G&M article is yet another example of morally bankrupt Canadian media espousing the policies of the Republicans in the U.S.
T-Rex's wilful ignorance about the difference between weather and climate is pathetic. Worse still the churlish little moron thinks Toronto's weather is indicative of 'global' cooling. It speaks volumes for The Globe that they would run such a load of tripe but, then again, they also run plenty of garbage from the likes of Blatchford, Gee and Wente.
Wow, check out the satellite photos in the link from lyrical's comment. 2007 was really a big year for arctic sea ice loss.
Wait...there's more.
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