This year could be one of the top 5 warmest

[simplysimon]

BBC Link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8377128.stm)

This year will be one of the top five warmest years globally since records began 150 years ago, according to figures compiled by the Met Office. The UK's weather service projects that, unless there is an exceptionally cold spell before the end of the year, temperatures will be up on last year.
Climate sceptics had pointed out that the temperature rise appeared to have stalled in the last decade or so.
That was caused in part by the Pacific La Nina current, which cools the Earth.
But the influence of La Nina declined in the spring and the Met Office project that, barring a very cold December, this year will be the fifth warmest on record.
Other sources say it could even be the third warmest.
The last ten years have been in the top 15 warmest on record. And this summer the UK enjoyed temperatures higher than the long-term average.
Although the Met Office was pilloried after forecasting a "barbecue summer", it was their rainfall forecast, not the projected temperatures, that was wrong.
Next year we will see the influence of the warming El Nino current, and the Met Office says there is a 50% chance that global temperatures will hit an all-time high.

So, either it will hit an all time high or it won't. Yup that sounds like a 50% chance to me. Stating the bleedin' obvious in a fear mongering fashion :D

[gripit]

"This year will be one of the top five warmest years globally..."

...out of the last 5 years! :)

Yup, since the con artists have been exposed, we can expect a barrage of goblygook to once again, con the masses :rolleyes:

[lightgiver]

Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html

http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=82756&id=41506

along with a galactic alignment?

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/07aug_southpole.htm

Data collected in 2005 from NASA missions to Mars show that the carbon dioxide "ice caps" are melting. The most widely accepted explanation is that fluctuations in the planet's orbit are causing the changes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_ice_cap#Mars

[yozhik]

Data collected in 2005 from NASA missions to Mars show that the carbon dioxide "ice caps" are melting.

Oh great :mad: ... now those pricks at Copenhagen will be discussing some way to make us pay tax for Mars now too ...

Wasn't it greenhouse gases emitted by the multitude of observer craft, telescopes, sensors and satellites that we sent to explore Mars?

Fuck me sideways ...

[rollotomaz1]

Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html

http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=82756&id=41506

along with a galactic alignment?

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/07aug_southpole.htm

Data collected in 2005 from NASA missions to Mars show that the carbon dioxide "ice caps" are melting. The most widely accepted explanation is that fluctuations in the planet's orbit are causing the changes.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_ice_cap#Mars

On reflection I would say they are correct

[lightgiver]

Oh great :mad: ... now those pricks at Copenhagen will be discussing some way to make us pay tax for Mars now too ...

Wasn't it greenhouse gases emitted by the multitude of observer craft, telescopes, sensors and satellites that we sent to explore Mars?

Fuck me sideways ...

TPTB love tax,that is their wages;)

Why do you think they are planning to go to Mars,probably already there.

More tax,yes.:(

[plainsight]

How convenient, right after the Climategate blow.

And how can this year be the warmest, we barely had, at least in my country, couple of summer days above 30 degrees and NO drought. Hail storms were the major problem.

[largejack]

Take our big gun turn it round and point the infowar at the BBC folks. They're taking the piss and they want their precious Copenhagen.

HIT em, hit em, hit em, with the freedom gun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The BBC is dead, and it hasn't got the guts to die with dignity.

Personally I think it's time we all rise up and create a revolution. I've spoken on local newspaper sites and they're basically agreeing that an infowar is here in this country. All we need is leaders.

[thedefender]

Look at the story Yahoo! Put up yesterday.

Over 100 icebergs drifting to N.Zealand: official
Mon Nov 23, 2:09 am ET

SYDNEY (AFP) – More than 100, and possibly hundreds, of Antarctic icebergs are floating towards New Zealand in a rare event which has prompted a shipping warning, officials said on Monday.

An Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist said the ice chunks, spotted by satellite photography, had passed the Auckland Islands and were heading towards the main South Island, about 450 kilometres (280 miles) northeast.

Scientist Neal Young said more than 100 icebergs -- some measuring more than 200 metres (650 feet) across -- were seen in just one cluster, indicating there could be hundreds more.

He said they were the remains of a massive ice floe which split from the Antarctic as sea and air temperatures rise due to global warming.

"All of these have come from a larger one that was probably 30 square kilometres (11.6 square miles) in size when it left Antarctica," Young told AFP.

"It's done a long circuit around Antarctica and now the bigger parts of it are breaking up and producing smaller ones."

He said large numbers of icebergs had not floated this close to New Zealand since 2006, when a number came within 25 kilometres of the coastline -- the first such sighting since 1931.

"They're following the same tracks now up towards New Zealand. Whether they make it up to the South Island or not is difficult to tell," Young said.

New Zealand has already issued coastal navigation warnings for the area in the Southern Ocean where the icebergs have been seen.

"It's really just a general warning for shipping in that area to be on the alert for icebergs," said Maritime New Zealand spokesman Ross Henderson.

The icebergs are smaller remnants of the giant chunks seen off Australia's Macquarie Island this month, including one estimated at two kilometres (1.2 miles) and another twice the size of Beijing's "Bird's Nest" Olympic Stadium.

Young earlier told AFP he expected to see more icebergs in the area if the Earth's temperature continues to increase.

"If the current trends in global warming were to continue I would anticipate seeing more icebergs and the large ice shelves breaking up," he said.

When icebergs last neared New Zealand in 2006, a sheep was helicoptered out to be shorn on one of the floes in a publicity stunt by the country's wool industry.

[jimmi]

So that'll be a barbecue summer then?

[the nine]

like the last 2 indian summers we have supposed to be getting here in the uk!!!
but it pissed down as usual :rolleyes:

i am going to start using the phrase.."thats bigger bullshit than the bbc"
when ever i hear something silly ;)

[thedefender]

like the last 2 indian summers we have supposed to be getting here in the uk!!!
but it pissed down as usual :rolleyes:

i am going to start using the phrase.."thats bigger bullshit than the bbc"
when ever i hear something silly ;)

Bigger Bullshit Channel

;)