I have a friend who claims he and his family live in Winnipeg.
So out of curiosity I had a look on-line at their current weather.
I am now convinced that he is lying about living there. Nobody could live there. Here is the current (Just after Midnight, Tuesday morning Dec 23 2008) and forecast weather for the next few days!
And those temperatures are degrees ° Celcius. I know I could not live there! Hope you all survive the winter there.
John
In lieu of the term “Global Warming”, the committee has decided to adopt the term “Gullible Warming” for all future reports.
Fact: Temperature is a measure of the average energy within matter. The hotter the matter, the more energy.
Fact: Energy/Temperature has a tendancy to move from a higher state to a lower state. i.e. Higher temperature matter tends to lose energy to surrounding matter with a lower temperature.
Fact: The inner core of the Earth is about 7000 degrees Celcius. The mantle is just below 1000 degrees Celcius. Then there is the surface where we all live and we know how much cooler it is where we reside.
So, heat has always migrated from the inside of the Earth toward the surface. This will continue for millions of years to come. The effect is that this cools the Earth. The energy rising to the surface passes up through the atmosphere into the cold of space as radiated heat.
We also receive some heat from the Sun. This is the source that Gullible Warming pundits always quote. If /(when) the Sun stopped/(s) shining, we will cool at a faster rate. But for now, the Earth is still in cooling mode. Remember, the core is still at around 7000 degrees C. Maybe we are cooling at a faster rate! This would explain why “some” measured surface temperatures are higher now than 100 years ago. But we are still cooling.
Grrrrrrr.
It has started again. New reports are saying that we are in an un-precedented increase in the Earth’s temperature..
A quote from the news today… “The Earth has been warming at a rate of 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade for the last 30 years, according to the research team led by James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.”
Now here is my take on this..
The minimum recorded temperature in my home town, Perth, Western Australia had, until last year, never (yes, NEVER) been recorded lower than 32F, or 0 Celcius in the 100+ years that data has been gathered. This last winter the city had it lowest ever winter morning temperature. Looks to me like that would be evidence that things are getting colder!
There is no such thing! The Earth is a living planet and as such there will always be cyclical changes in temperatures. Now, is this cycle 10 years, 100 years, 10,000 years or longer? It is a big planet, so I suspect the cycle will be LONG.
What happens when the Earth warms up?
Well it is a proven theory that the warmer a body, the more energy it will radiate. So, as the Earth warms, (over some long term cycle) it will also begin to radiate more energy. This will catch up with its rate of warming at some stage, and cause a net cooling effect to begin.
The question only remains, what is the cyclical term in thousands of years?
We are fooling ourselves saying that this year is warmer than last year. We need to look at the BIG picture.
So There!
JG
