Wednesday, February 27, 2008
SAFE TO SPEAK OUT
“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receive any funding,” writes Dr. Joanne Simpson, “I can speak quite frankly.” Dr Simpson’s a warmening sceptic, and a fine time it is too for announcing climate change doubts:
According to the US National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the average temperature of the global land surface in January 2008 was below the 20th century mean (-0.02°F/-0.01°C) for the first time since 1982.
Someone tell Marian Wilkinson. In a planetwide manifestation of the Gore Effect, 2007 - the year Al Gore won a Nobel Prize and his film won an Academy Award - turns out to be a year of coldening:
All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.
Meanwhile, so much rain has fallen in Sydney this month that February should be renamed Flannery.
(Via Marc Morano)