{"id":443096,"date":"2010-03-18T13:02:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T17:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79628"},"modified":"2010-03-18T13:02:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T17:02:48","slug":"so-much-for-global-cooling-2010-temperatures-flirt-with-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/443096","title":{"rendered":"So Much for Global Cooling: 2010 Temperatures Flirt With Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This winter, environmental advocates cringed at every falling snowflake, knowing full well that climate change skeptics would point to them as a refutation of global warming, or even evidence of &#8220;global cooling.&#8221; (Donald Trump <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/pagesix\/global_cooling_7njz5ZtpFblMuF5Vf7LJmN?loc=interstitialskip\">went so far<\/a> as to call for the Nobel Committee to rescind Al Gore&#8217;s Peace Prize amid heavy snow last month.)<\/p>\n<p>But now the Northeast&#8217;s snowy January and February have given way to a balmy March &#8212; and, more meaningfully, global temperatures have been setting records in 2010. Check out this graphic from the <a href=\"http:\/\/discover.itsc.uah.edu\/amsutemps\/execute.csh?amsutemps\">University of Alabama<\/a>:<span id=\"more-79628\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/temp-lines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-79629\" title=\"temp lines\" src=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/temp-lines-480x335.jpg\" alt=\"temp lines\" width=\"480\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The yellow line represents average temperatures over the past 20 years. The purple line indicates record highs over the same period. And that green line &#8212; the highest of all? That&#8217;s global temperatures so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s just as silly to point to a few warm months as evidence of global warming as it is to point to a few cold ones as evidence of global cooling. But add to these data points the fact that the 2000s were the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/environment\/article6948629.ece\">hottest decade on record<\/a>, and you start to see a trend that a few flurries can&#8217;t call into question.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2010\/03\/17\/global-cooling-hottest-january-february-march-uah-satellite-data\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateprogress%2FlCrX+%28Climate+Progress%29\">Joe Romm<\/a>, who also points out that the slightly different <a href=\"http:\/\/data.giss.nasa.gov\/gistemp\/tabledata\/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt\">NASA data<\/a> show January and February to be tied for the second-hottest on record.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This winter, environmental advocates cringed at every falling snowflake, knowing full well that climate change skeptics would point to them as a refutation of global warming, or even evidence of &#8220;global cooling.&#8221; (Donald Trump went so far as to call for the Nobel Committee to rescind Al Gore&#8217;s Peace Prize amid heavy snow last month.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}