Exceptional Global Cooling past 12 months

by SamCogar Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:55 am

Tuesday we told you about several areas around the planet experiencing record cold and snowpack — in the face of all the predictions of global warming.

Now there is word that all four major global temperature tracking outlets have released data showing that temperatures have dropped significantly over the last year. California meteorologist Anthony Watts says the amount of cooling ranges from 65-hundredths of a degree Centigrade to 75-hundreds of a degree.

He says that is a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years. Watts says it is the single fastest temperature change ever recorded — up or down.

Some scientists contend the cooling is the result of reduced solar activity — which they say is a larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,333328,00.html

And this is what Anthony Watts said:

January 2008 - 4 sources say “globally cooler” in the past 12 months

January 2008 was an exceptional month for our planet, with a significant cooling. January 2007 started out well above normal.

January 2008 capped a 12 month period of global temperature drops on all of the major well respected indicators. I have reported in the past two weeks that HadCRUT, RSS, UAH, and GISS global temperature sets all show sharp drops in the last year.

Here are the 4 major temperature metrics compared top to bottom, with the most recently released at the top: (click link below to see graphs)

1. UK’s Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature anomaly (HadCRUT) Dr. Phil Jones:
2. NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Dr. James Hansen:
3. University of Alabama, Huntsville (UAH) Dr. John Christy:
4. Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA (RSS):

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/january-2008-4-sources-say-globally-cooler-in-the-past-12-months/