Global Warming Carries On
by Jo Abbess
15th April 2008
Today, Oisin from Climate Change News Digest pointed me in the direction of the NASA data for all the years 1880 to the present :-
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt
I did a simple experiment. I imported the data into © Microsoft ® Excel ™ and did two things :-
1. Charted the data line for each month and year superimposed (see chart above).
2. Charted a trendline for each month (left as an exercise for the reader).
I found four clear results, which you are encouraged to see for yourselves :-
a. The trendline for the period 1880 to 2008 for each month is rising.
b. The trendlines are diverging : the Winter months of January, February and March are getting hotter, faster.
c. There have been a couple of cold months in the past that are outliers, just like January and February were for 2008.
d. As of March 2008, the cooling effect of La Nina ENSO appears to be over.
This is very serious stuff.
So, why is Gordon Brown following the money crisis, when the Climate Change is so critical ?
Why does he think that any intervention can keep the Economy growing, given the global problems with food, Climate and Energy ?
And why does he think that OPEC can increase oil production, when they have most likely hit peak production ?
https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/TargetCO2_20080407.pdf
7th April 2008
James Hansen et alia.
Humanity today, collectively, must face the uncomfortable fact that industrial civilization itself has become the principal driver of global climate. If we stay our present course, using fossil fuels to feed a growing appetite for energy-intensive life styles, we will soon leave the climate of the Holocene, the world of prior human history. The eventual response to doubling preindustrial atmospheric CO2 likely would be a nearly ice-free planet. A rising price on carbon emissions and payment for carbon sequestration is surely needed to make drawdown of airborne CO2 a reality.
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7345928.stm
14th April 2008
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he understands people’s fears over the economy and insisted that keeping it on track was his “sole focus”. “We are on the side of home owners, business and individuals,” he said. As in past crises, ministers would do “everything in our power to keep the economy moving forward”, he said.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUKN154723382…
15th April 2008
Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Tuesday called on the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to boost production to counter rapidly rising oil prices, adding his voice to similar requests from the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush. “We are not producing enough oil … and we can take collective action to persuade OPEC and others to get the oil price down,” Brown said in an interview on Sky Television.