Is The World Cooling, Not Warming ?!
Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book. Only one problem: It’s not true, according to an analysis of the numbers done by several independent statisticians for The Associated Press.
The case that the Earth might be cooling partly stems from recent weather. Last year was cooler than previous years. It’s been a while since the super-hot years of 1998 and 2005. So is this a longer climate trend or just weather’s normal ups and downs?
Four independent statisticians who examined 130 years of temperature data and found no trend of cooling, contradicting what has been recently claimed in some news reports and a recently released book.
The problem is that comparing unusually hot years like 1998 or 2005 to the years after them can make it look like a cooling trend is taking place. Depending on the starting point, statisticians say, different trends emerge.
“The last 10 years are the warmest 10-year period of the modern record,” said the chief of NOAA climate monitoring. “Even if you analyze the trend during that 10 years, the trend is actually positive, which means warming.”
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November 6th, 2009 at 7:32 am
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May 24th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
I always like Sunny weather and disliked gloomy rainy weather.:,”
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:28 pm
the weather these days is hotter than the previous decades, i guess it is the effect of global warming”~-