March 2011 ended up as the coolest March globally since March of 1994. The actual global temperature anomaly for the lower troposphere last month was negative 0.026 C.Despite this one month anomaly, the warming trend is 0.145 degrees/decade. Yes, that's what the linked site said: 0.145 degrees increase over ten years. If the trend continues, a hundred years from now the average global temperature for the lower troposphere will increase 1.45 degrees. A hundred years from now, 1.45 degrees warmer.
I can't make this stuff up.
[Oh, by the way: March was also the month that some countries shut down some nuclear reactors following the Japanese nuclear disaster and went back to fossil fuel in some cases to produce electricity.]
[Japan is home of the Kyoto Protocol. Goes nuclear to a) save money; and, b) lessen the carbon footprint, and ends up with the disaster they are dealing with, all for 1.45 degrees over the next hundred years.]
April 25, 2011
ReplyDeleteBruce, FWIW, here is the latest “Ivory Tower”, fracking “Scare Story” along with some UK links about NoHotAir Blogger Nick Grealy that you should check out.
Study: Gas from ‘fracking’ worse than coal on climate - By Ben Geman - 04/10/11 02:40 PM ET - Cornell University professors will soon publish research that concludes natural gas produced with a drilling method called “hydraulic fracturing” contributes to global warming as much as coal, or even more.The conclusion is explosive because natural gas enjoys broad political support – including White House backing – due to its domestic abundance and lower carbon dioxide emissions when burned than other fossil fuels. Cornell Prof. Robert Howarth, however, argues that development of gas from shale rock formations produced through hydraulic fracturing – dubbed “fracking” – brings far more methane emissions than conventional gas production. See http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/155101-report-gas-from-fracking-worse-than-coal-on-climate
Readers of this reply should also check out the UK’s Nick Grealy’s nohotair blog at:
http://www.nohotair.co.uk/component/content/article/139-shale-gas/1908-absolutely-everything-you-ever-need-to-know-about-fracking.html and also see See http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2010/12/17/uk-government-wont-stand-in-the-way-of-fracking/# And Nick Grealy ‘s profile at http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/nick-grealy/a/a93/111
Yes, I saw the story when it first came out. I'm waiting for the actual report to come out. Something tells me that the administration won't be racing to embrace coal.
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