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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (56904)	12/16/2008 2:50:35 PM
From: MJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224744

Washington, D.C. area is now on the edge of a cold front----will it dump, ice or snow-----and for how long? Obama may get a lesson in not-global warming------if the cold and snow become a possibility for inauguration. Washington, D.C. area does not deal well with global cold and snow and ice. mj

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (56904)	12/17/2008 8:46:37 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224744

NASA: 2008 is coolest year since 2000 So far this year, the Earth's surface air temperature is the coolest it's been since 2000, according to data released today from NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies. Despite the coolness, the year was still 3/4 of a degree warmer than the long-term average and was the ninth-warmest since instrumental measurements began in 1880. All nine of the period's warmest years have occurred in the past 11 years, since 1998. This data encompasses the past 12 months of data, from December 2007 through November 2008. The final tally for the year may shift slightly once the information for this month is factored in. The map (above) shows that most of the world has been quite warm this year, especially across Europe, Asia, and the Antarctic Peninsula. North America has been close to its long-term average. Much of the Pacific Ocean was cooler than normal, due to the effects of a strong La Nina, a natural cycle of cooler ocean water in the Pacific. As is noted in the NASA press release about this, this data has been thoroughly checked for mistakes, and does not include the errors in the October data that caused a media firestorm last month. Meanwhile, a separate analysis of temperature data released today by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center reports that the global temperature for the month of November was the fourth-warmest all-time. NCDC's data also confirms that the Earth's temperature for the year 2008 should be the ninth-warmest on record. (Graphic from NASA shows 2008's global surface temperature anomalies in Celsius; click to enlarge)