Matt Davies for February 09, 2010

I love this cartoon!

excuse me but it is now climate change. the tool has no measurements and that’s why global warming is a hoax … . .

the sea levels are probably going down as more water gets dumped on land by snow storma

No, silly, the sea level is going down because it is flowing off the edge of the flat planet.

Great Cartoon.

The Far Rights/Republicans way of dealing with the truth is: 1’s Deny It, 2nd Say it isn’t true, 3rd Make fun of the people who are telling you the truth, 4th make up lies about it, 5th Deny it, 6th If is still alive ignore it.

You woudnt know the truth if it bit you on the @ss.

i get such a charge out of my adorable mom - my republican fox listening dobson lovin although educated believe it or not mom - she said (ref the great snow storms we’re gettin’) “well i guess al gore is feeling the egg on his global warming face” i don’t argue with her - nobody argues with the mother-machine

^I’m sure you do you hormy old goat!

Great toon! HA HA HA HA HA!!!

Do you ever get the sense that the artists draw such ‘toons just to provoke the unending flame wars in these comment pages?

So, for the Al-Goraphobes in the room, just to reiterate: Weather does not equal Climate.

The denail/believer blather is just fiddling while Rome burns. Eventually, humanity will pay for its short-sightedness.

Hello, wake up. Science is never over, the debate is always on, your theory must explain ALL evidence, you cannot pick and choose your data.

If you want a Global Warming theory, then it must account for ALL global weather data. You must be able to accept conflicting data. You don’t get to vote on a theory.

I predict Global Warming in the Northern Hemisphere beginning in early April peaking sometime in August followed by Global Cooling in the Northern Hemisphere with low temperatures in January.

I have a very good theory to explain this. I have mountains of data (compared to the tea cup of Global Warming data) that supports the theory. The theory has a predictive capability and STANDS ON ITS OWN.

The truth need no champion. The truth stands on its own and stands the test of time.

I think that the extremes we are getting in climate is possibly due to the hot air from one side colliding with the cold indifference of the other.

^Good one. As I keep saying, let’s have this discussion in 10 years.

Sometimes it’s too cold to snow because the frozen air won’t hold any moisture. Slight warming then allows snowstorms when a little dampness blows in. Complex weather patterns don’t fit on bumper stickers.

Ajax, do you know anything about science at all? There is no such thing as certainty in science, but there are patterns, especially in something as complex as climate science. And the patterns are extraordinarily clear.

“A Planet Without Ice” pretty well sums up the variation in models, and debunks all the “debunkers” but they won’t read it because it’s written by someone who actually uses facts.

The first decade of the 21st century was the warmest ever on Earth according to data released by scientists at NASA.

The U.S. space agency’s data also revealed that 2009 was the second warmest year since temperature records began in 1880, and only narrowly cooler than 2005, the warmest year ever.

2008 was the coolest year of the decade but this was attributed to a strong La Nina which causes extensive cooling of the central and eastern Pacific Ocean.

James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) said in a statement: “There’s substantial year-to-year variability of global temperature caused by the tropical El Nino-La Nina cycle. When we average temperature over five or ten years to minimize that variability, we find global warming is continuing unabated.”

In the past three decades, GISS report surface temperature records show an upward trend of about 0.2 degrees Celsius (0.36 degrees Fahrenheit) per decade.

In total, according to GISS, average global temperatures have increased by about 0.8 degrees Celsius (1.5 degrees Fahrenheit) since 1880.

GISS sources its data using over one thousand weather stations around the world, satellite observations of sea surface temperatures, and research station data from Antarctica – all of which, they say, is readily available to the public.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/01/22/nasa.warmest.decade.data/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

Toon right on spot!

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