Group: alt.energy.renewable
From: "Ouroboros_Rex"
Date: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: Discount The Inconvenient Cooling


"00NBZ" <00NBZ@dooooooooodooooooo.com> wrote in message
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> April 02, 2008 at 12:02am
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> http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/discount_the_inconveniet/
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> Dr Faustus smells sulphur as a global warming church issues a warning:
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> The Hadley Centre feels the need to post an urgent warning on its data
> site, alerting users to the fact that the recent global temperature
> decline is "misleading". If you follow the link, January 2008, you find
> the Met Office explanation: the cooling is due to la Nina conditions which
> have circulated cold water in the southern hemisphere oceans - and when
> that is over, well, it will be back to the "underlying rise over the
> longer term almost certainly caused by man-made emissions of greenhouse
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> Strangely, Hadley Centre does not feel it necessary to point out that the
> period since the late 1970s has been characterised by more frequent and
> more pronounced el Nino and less frequent and less pronounced la Nina
> oscillations than in the previous quarter century.
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> So while the cooling in early 2008 can easily be discounted as natural
> variability due to la Nina, none of the warming noted by Hadley from 1975
> to 2007 may be attributed to el Nino.

Exactly.