Quick Fact: Hannity again wrong on 2009 temps in attack on global warming
On his radio show, Sean Hannity baselessly asserted that 2009 is "the 9th coldest year on record" to claim that "global warming is a crock," "it's been proven a lie," and "it's a huge cover-up." In fact, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), and Britain's Met Office have stated that, to date, 2009 is among the warmest years on record.
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Hannity: 2009 is "the 9th coldest year on record"
From the December 1 broadcast of ABC Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show:
HANNITY: Yeah, global warming is a crock, and it's been proven a lie. And it's a huge cover-up. And [White House press secretary] Robert Gibbs, the propagandist, is out there saying, "Despite this outright lie, climate change is still happening." And yet, it's the 9th coldest year on record that we have chronicled.
Fact: Major climate data centers indicate that thus far, 2009 is among the warmest years on record
NOAA's National Climatic Data Center stated in its October Global Analysis that "[f]or the year to date, the global combined land and ocean surface temperature of 14.7 °C (58.4 °F) tied with 2007 as the fifth-warmest January-through-October period on record." Similarly, a GISS comparison of 2009 temperature to the two years with the warmest annual means found that 2009 year-to-date global temperature ranks fifth warmest out of 130 years. The BBC also reported on November 24 that "[t]his year will be one of the top five warmest years globally since records began 150 years ago, according to figures compiled by the Met Office." The BBC further reported that "[o]ther sources say it could even be the third warmest."
Fact: Monthly U.S. temps not representative of global climate
NOAA stated in its October "National Overview" that "[t]he average October temperature of 50.8°F was 4.0°F below the 20th Century average" and that "[f]or the nation as a whole, it was the third coolest October on record." Hannity may be mistaking the U.S. national October temperature for the global annual temperature. Globally, October was "the sixth warmest October on record," according to NOAA. And data for the year thus far, rather than for one month, indicate that 2009 is among the warmest years on record for the planet.
See. Denier need that conspiracy thing to validate their views. It's the glue that holds their "theories" in place. Without the conspiracy, their arguments fall apart.
The problem with conspiracies, the more people involved, the more difficult it is to make them work.
To make the deniers conspiracy work, some nefarious cabal would have to convince ALL these educated people involved at NOAA, NASA, Florida State, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, all the organizations noted at USCUSA, etc. (links below) to be a part of some grand big lie.
And there has to be some motivation do be a part of it - which is? Just what is in it for them?
And this has to apply only to anyone associated with studying climate change. The conspiracy cannot apply to any other branch of science. Otherwise, we wouldn't have any of the technological advances we enjoy today.
If we apply Occam's razor, we see that the simplest explanation is there is overwhelming evidence of human-caused climate change, and the world's scientists are in consensus about it.
The pieces to the deniers claims just don't fit.
I think I'll stick with the simple explanation on the side of the experts and reality. It just makes more sense than some ill-defined, nebulous conspiracy.
That's the nut of it, SLRTX, motive. I just saw a comment from one of the usual idiots on another thread, some babbling about a multi-billion dollar industry in grants and taxes.
First of all, I would figure a credible scientist with some good data that refuted any of the facts showing Climate Change would be in very high demand. The incentive would seem to be in finding evidence favorable to those corporations (and the GOP) who are working so hard to ignore the truth.
Second, these "follow the money" deniers seem to think nothing of the influence of those with a real financial interest in continuing the business-as-usual model that has been causing destruction for decades or more.
It really must take a lot of hard work in the willful ignorance department to belong to the GW denial cult.
WRONG???
You could knock me over with a feather.
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Anecdotal, I know. I'm just saying.
But yeah, that's all weather. But Global Climate Change means warmer global temperatures. Some regions will be colder, and there will be more extremes until temperatures stop increasing. More records broken, more droughts and floods.
Droughts = Global warming
Extreme Cold = global warming
Extreme Heat= global warming
Is there anything weather or climate wise that occurs that you don’t related to global warming?
Too bad you reject reality so strenuously.
LONDON — The chief of a prestigious British research center caught in a storm of controversy over claims that he and others suppressed data about climate change has stepped down pending an investigation, the University of East Anglia said Tuesday.
The university said in a statement that Phil Jones, whose e-mails were among the thousands of pieces of correspondence leaked to the Internet late last month, would relinquish his position as director of Climatic Research Unit until the completion of an independent review.