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Power Line: Global Cooling Alert

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Bloomberg.com: News

Parts of North America and Europe may cool naturally over the next decade, as shifting ocean currents temporarily blunt the global-warming effect caused by mankind, Germany’s Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences said.

Average temperatures in areas such as California and France may drop over the next 10 years, influenced by colder flows in the North Atlantic, said a report today by the institution based in Kiel, Germany. Temperatures worldwide may stabilize in the period.

Some Background on Ocean Temps.

Flopping Aces - Global Warming Causes Global Cooling

New MIT study validates hurricane prediction - MIT News Office

Hurricanes in some areas, including the North Atlantic, are likely to become more intense as a result of global warming even though the number of such storms worldwide may decline, according to a new study by MIT researchers.

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However, Emanuel says, the new work also raises some questions that remain to be understood. When projected into the future, the model shows a continuing increase in power, “but a lot less than the factor of two that we’ve already seen” he says. “So we have a paradox that remains to be explained.”

Seafoam hits fan over hurricane research - MIT News Office

Q: How do you feel about the media coverage of the new paper?

A: I thought [the Houston Chronicle story] wasn’t bad except for the title [which was “Hurricane expert reconsiders global warming’s impact”]. The actual content was okay. In other cases, the people you expect to put a spin on it, put a spin on it. Skeptics’ blogs reported that I’d reversed my position. Other blogs latched onto the fact that we’re still predicting a very substantial increase. There’s a lot to spin.

How do you write a paper that you know could be spun both ways? You just put out a paper that lays it out as best you can.

Q: Were you surprised by the reaction?

A: It is treacherous. Most of what I publish is not subject to public scrutiny; I’m writing for fellow scientists. But in this charged atmosphere [on global warming], most of what you write gets dissected by people outside the community.

[The Chronicle story] was clever to point out that people who are crowing [over the claim of a reversal] are in effect crowing over the same climate models that they spend most of their time criticizing.

When Fox News called me up, they started from the premise that I’d reversed myself. I said that’s really not true, it’s just that things are more complicated. It was a very short interview. I guess that’s what happens when people don’t spin things the way they think.

Record low temperature recorded at Dutchess Airport this morning | Poughkeepsie Journal.com

Record low temperature recorded at Dutchess Airport this morning

WAPPINGERS FALLS — Temperatures bottomed out at 29 degrees this morning at Dutchess County Airport, the lowest temperature recorded for today’s date since 1948, according to the National Weather Service.

The previous low for April 30 was recorded in 2007, when temperatures dropped to 31 degrees.

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Anchorage digs out from record April snowfall | KATU.com - Portland, Oregon | National & World News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Anchorage continues to dig out from a snowfall that set a record for the day and the month.

The National Weather Service says 17.2 inches fell at its office just south of Anchorage’s international airport and 22 inches fell in northeast Anchorage on Friday and Saturday.

The heaviest snow fell between 3 and 6 p.m. Friday at a rate of almost two inches per hour.

The monthly total at the weather service office is now 29.7 inches, breaking a record from 1963 when 27.6 inches fell during April.

The 15.5 inches that fell Friday is the third most for any one day in Anchorage. The record is the 25.7 inches that fell six years ago on March 17, 2002.

Now go watch The Great Global Warming Swindle

An “Inconvenient Truth” Al Gore would rather keep secret.

Clip Thanks to Flopping Aces and Newsbusters.

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Global temperatures ‘to decrease’

This would mean global temperatures have not risen since 1998, prompting some to question climate change theory.

and from the end of the article

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.”

Sounds to me like Mr. Scaife is hoping that the globe keeps warming.

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