Take the Global Warming Test

[glockmail]

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/start.html

100% for me. :D

[chloe]

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/start.html

100% for me. :D

It didnt give me a score

[glockmail]

It didnt give me a score I don't think it tracks the score, just tells you if you got each of the ten answers correctly or not.

[chloe]

I don't think it tracks the score, just tells you if you got each of the ten answers correctly or not.


oh I got 2 wrong I guess I failed LOL:coffee:

[glockmail]

oh I got 2 wrong I guess I failed LOL:coffee: 80% is a B, dear. You did fine.

[revelarts]

Very "COOL" test. 1 wrong for me.

[HogTrash]

The test claims I gave an incorrect answer on the first question but in my opinion that is debatable as I believe the climate has in fact been cooling.


http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/11/years-global-cooling-coming-say-leading-scientists/
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Updated January 11, 2010
30 Years of Global Cooling Are Coming, Leading Scientist Says

FOXNews.com

From Miami to Maine, Savannah to Seattle, America is caught in an icy grip that one of the U.N.'s top global warming proponents says could mark the beginning of a mini ice age.

NASA Earth Observatory

December temperatures compared to average December temps recorded between 2000 and 2008. Blue points to colder than average land surface temperatures, while red indicates warmer temperatures.
From Miami to Maine, Savannah to Seattle, America is caught in an icy grip that one of the U.N.'s top global warming proponents says could mark the beginning of a mini ice age.

Oranges are freezing and millions of tropical fish are dying in Florida, and it could be just the beginning of a decades-long deep freeze, says Professor Mojib Latif, one of the world's leading climate modelers.

Latif thinks the cold snap Americans have been suffering through is only the beginning. He says we're in for 30 years of cooler temperatures -- a mini ice age, he calls it, basing his theory on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the world's oceans.

Latif, a professor at the Leibniz Institute at Germany's Kiel University and an author of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, believes the lengthy cold weather is merely a pause -- a 30-years-long blip -- in the larger cycle of global warming, which postulates that temperatures will rise rapidly over the coming years.

At a U.N. conference in September, Latif said that changes in ocean currents known as the North Atlantic Oscillation could dominate over manmade global warming for the next few decades. Latif said the fluctuations in these currents could also be responsible for much of the rise in global temperatures seen over the past 30 years.

Latif is a key member of the UN's climate research arm, which has long promoted the concept of global warming. He told the Daily Mail that "a significant share of the warming we saw from 1980 to 2000 and at earlier periods in the 20th Century was due to these cycles -- perhaps as much as 50 percent."

The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSICD) agrees that the cold temperatures are unusual, and that the world's oceans may play a part in temperatures on land.

"Has ocean variability contributed to variations in surface temperature? Absolutely, no one's denying that," said Mark Serreze, senior research scientist with NSIDC. But the Center disagrees with Latif's conclusions, instead arguing that the cold snap is still another sign of global warming.

"We are indeed starting to see the effects of the rise in greenhouse gases," he said.

Many parts of the world have been suffering through record-setting snowfalls and arctic temperatures. The Midwest saw wind chills as low as 49 degrees below zero last week, while Europe saw snows so heavy that Eurostar train service and air travel were canceled across much of the continent. In Asia, Beijing was hit by its heaviest snowfall in 60 years.

And as for the cold weather?

"This is just the roll of the dice, the natural variability inherent to the system," explained Serreze.
http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/01/global_cooling.php
Global Cooling?
11 Jan 2010 10:34 am

On the one hand, I would like to think that we have been overstating the degree to which anthropogenic factors have influenced global warming trends. On the other hand, well, I'm one of the few people in DC who moved here at least partly so I could luxuriate in its glorious August weather. Thus my heart is quailing at the possibility that this might be true:

Prof Latif, who leads a research team at the renowned Leibniz Institute at Germany's Kiel University, has developed new methods for measuring ocean temperatures 3,000ft beneath the surface, where the cooling and warming cycles start.

He and his colleagues predicted the new cooling trend in a paper published in 2008 and warned of it again at an IPCC conference in Geneva last September.

Last night he told The Mail on Sunday: 'A significant share of the warming we saw from 1980 to 2000 and at earlier periods in the 20th Century was due to these cycles - perhaps as much as 50 per cent.

'They have now gone into reverse, so winters like this one will become much more likely. Summers will also probably be cooler, and all this may well last two decades or longer.

'The extreme retreats that we have seen in glaciers and sea ice will come to a halt. For the time being, global warming has paused, and there may well be some cooling.'

I am hereby taking up a new cause: the relocation of the US capitol to, say, Raleigh.

Not that I am taking predictions of the weather all that seriously. 'Twas but a few months ago when I was reading the climate change community writing that the recent cooling trend had been a fluke, and that we were scheduled to return to record warm temperatures . . . why, this very winter!

Oops.

Still, it might be worth investing in some long johns . . .

[Mr. P]

100%..for what's worth.

[Kathianne]

100%..for what's worth.

Me too.