please bring back the summer heat. i hate the cold. i hate everyone who got on the global warming thing and got everyone to stop using hairspray. i want global warming back! how can it be a bad thing?
Abandon ship!

Check out my guide to buying a sports bra! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NHgkL79hRI

Over 1/4 million year the Earth was a lot hotter should be: Over 1/4 million year's ago, the Earth was a lot hotter

Hiway I am PROOF

A great piece of computational graphics by Jeff Id showing Arctic Sea ice in the satellite era has been posted on YouTube. Read the background and find the link here on Anthony Watts' site: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/05/31/arctic-sea-ice-time-lapse-from-1978-to-2009-using-nsidc-data/#more-8121 Note that the Great Lakes are included at the lower right.

"Being ignorant is not so much a Shame, as being unwilling to learn." — Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1755

Google and Wikipedia are not substitutes for education or intelligence. —cornercube, 2009

McLean, J. D., C. R. de Freitas, and R. M. Carter (2009), Influence of the Southern Oscillation on tropospheric temperature, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, D14104, doi:10.1029/2008JD011637.

“The surge in global temperatures since 1977 can be attributed to a 1976 climate shift in the Pacific Ocean that made warming El Niño conditions more likely than they were over the previous 30 years and cooling La Niña conditions less likely” says corresponding author de Freitas.

“We have shown that internal global climate-system variability accounts for at least 80% of the observed global climate variation over the past half-century. It may even be more if the period of influence of major volcanoes can be more clearly identified and the corresponding data excluded from the analysis.”

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/23/surge-in-global-temperatures-since-1977-can-be-attributed-to-a-1976-climate-shift-in-the-pacific-ocean/

Google and Wikipedia are not substitutes for education or intelligence. —cornercube, 2009

FCOL.....this thread is over four years old...???

Albert Gore, Jr., who allegedly received a (barely) passing grade in Introductory Earth Science, his only college science class, is considered by some to be a modern Messiah and tireless proponent of saving the Earth from global Warming:

Conan: Now, what about … you talk in the book about geothermal energy …

Al: Yeah, yeah.

Conan: and that is, as I understand it, using the heat that’s generated from the core of the earth …

Al: Yeah.

Conan: … to create energy, and it sounds to me like an evil plan by Lex Luthor to defeat Superman. Can you, can you tell me, is this a viable solution, geothermal energy?

Al: It definitely is, and it’s a relatively new one. People think about geothermal energy — when they think about it at all — in terms of the hot water bubbling up in some places, but two kilometers or so down in most places there are these incredibly hot rocks, ’cause the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees, and the crust of the earth is hot …

you can find a link to the video here:

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/18/video-the-goracle-on-geothermal-temperatures/

Google and Wikipedia are not substitutes for education or intelligence. —cornercube, 2009

If the current research results are correct and we are entering a multi-year period of quiet sun comparable to the Maunder Minimum, with an accompanying period of global cooling, then "hot enough" may take on some nostalgic significance.

On top of recent data from Voyager that has confounded the expectations of solar scientists, it's shaping up to be an interesting year.

Google and Wikipedia are not substitutes for education or intelligence. —cornercube, 2009

For those interested in the science, the CLOUD experiment at CERN has provided strong evidence of a link between cosmic rays and cloud formation.

 

Nigel Calder gives a good introduction and background:

 

http://calderup.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/cern-experiment-confirms-cosmic-ray-action/

Google and Wikipedia are not substitutes for education or intelligence. —cornercube, 2009

wow, seven or so years later and this thread is still going.

 

hi there hiway, goldeneye, reno and cornercube. happy new year in april. I haven't been here in a long long time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgYqIvnPvqQ I need some more fans.