On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:19:32 GMT, Doug Bashford wrote:

in rec.radio.shortwave, David said about:
( OT) Global Warming, a primer . .


On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:30:14 +0000 (UTC), "Larry"
wrote:

It's going to be difficult for those people to explain the very real
fact that the earth has been measurably cooling for the last eight
years, in spite of an increase in CO2 levels.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/env...2006_warm.html

nasa.gov ???
That says:

Okay, let's stick with NASA. Last year, NASA published a report which said
that earth's oceans have significantly cooled since 2003
(http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006...n_Cooling.txt).

The World Meteorological Organization's data show that 2006 was cooler
than 2005, which was cooler than 2004, which was cooler than 2003, etc.,
and so the WMO agrees with the NASA observations. Since the oceans have
a large thermal inertia, they cool and warm significantly later than
does the atmosphere itself. Unfortunately, the WMO (http://www.wmo.ch)
has moved its data since I last accessed it, so I'll have to keep on
digging to find the graphs they produced.

An Assistant Professor of physics at MIT has summarized the data on his blog at
http://motls.blogspot.com/2006/12/20...r-in-last.html,
and you can access part of it there.

The question is not the temperature during the last decade as compared
to earlier decades, but rather the TREND in the current average annual
temperature (which is downward). As the NASA paper says, a downward
trending temperature is something which is not predicted by current
models, and NASA intends to improve its models to take this "speed
bump" into account.

Guess the models aren't that reliable after all ...

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