Time Immortal

Apparently, the temperature decrease over the last twelve months has basically undone the previously observed rises in same (rises which were said, by Al Gore and others, to be “permanent”).

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.

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The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C — a value large enough to wipe out nearly all the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year’s time. For all four sources, it’s the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn’t itself disprove that carbon dioxide [CO2] is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it.

Others have demonstrated just how inconsequential CO2 is in the grand scheme of global average temperature. This new development merely serves as one more argument in favour of the suggestion that humanity really doesn’t have much at all to do with changes in that average temperature, especially not when compared to the big glowing ball in the sky.

Which seems reasonable to suggest, given that the Sun is…well…our star (and thus responsible for basically all the energy that the atmosphere traps, thus making this chunk of rock we call Earth a habitable place), and given that other planets in the Solar System also show warming and cooling trends that match the changes in how energetic the Sun is.

Of course, now we’re likely to be told that humanity is causing the globe to head for a new ice age, and that we need to ratify the Kyoto Protocols immediately in order to stave off the impending “big chill.”