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2008 Is the Coldest Year of the 21st Century
dtjohnson writes "Data from the United Kingdom Meteorological Office suggests that 2008 will
be an unusually cold year due to the La Nina effect in the western
Pacific ocean. Not to worry, though, as the La Nina effect has
faded recently so its effect on next year's temperatures will be
reduced. However, another natural cycle, the Atlantic
Multidecadal Oscillation, is predicted to hold global temperatures
steady for the next decade before global warming takes our planet into
new warmth. If these predictions are correct, there must be
a lot of planetary heat being stored away somewhere ... unless the heat
output from the sun
is decreasing
rather than increasing
or the heat being absorbed by the earth is decreasing due to changes in
the earth's albedo."
But what will I do with all my "Gore 2012" buttons?
"Computers are a lot like Air Conditioners" "They both work great until you start opening Windows"
Here comes a raging global warming debate... haven't seen this on the Internet in 5 seconds.
Hopefully for this one we'll get some cashiers, makeup artists and puppeteers to weigh in with their expert environmental opinion, just to mix things up.
I'm a big tall mofo.
Score one fer bloody pirates, mate!
Uranus is the one that is into that freaky European sex, right?
You didn't hear that they renamed it in honor of Nina Reiser?
~ I am logged on, therefore I am.
This picture says it all - is it global warming or global cooling?
slashdot rocks
If we are lucky, global warming and nuclear winter will cancel each other.
OK, who knocked Sol up?
I’m old enough to remember 16K of memory being described as “whopping”
Quit paying the ACs, that only makes them post more.
Doing stuff is overrated. Hitler did stuff! And look where that led! Wouldn't we all have been better off if he had just stayed home and gotten high?
What were we talking about again?
You are fired. You are not allowed to be part of the climate debate every again.
Please do not come into our discussion with obvious reasons for short term events. We have spent many years working many late nights to come up with theories that aren't likely to be proven during our life time and are based on theoretical data. It took as many years of research to find data based on other theories and concepts that have yet to be proven.
We do not welcome your kind in our group. We are respectable scientists with families and lives. Your ideas could seriously undermine our ability to obtain grant money for research in far away lands, and, as a direct result may also result in starving Ethiopians losing out on the slave wages we pay them to move all of our 'equipment' around for our research. Think of the sled dog teams that will no longer get a whole $10 bill for carrying us 200 miles north of any human with an ounce of self preservation in the northern hemisphere.
Please, before making such statements again, consider how the children will be effected by your statements.
Thank you
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
So you're saying that 'AC' button in my car doesn't activate an anonymity cloak for when I want to drive quickly through speed check areas or flip off cop cars? Uh oh.
which is totally what she said
Yeah, who would have thought that it was possible to make it through childhood to being an adult and still have all their teeth!
Just kidding.... :-)
Actually, the "carbon credit" is soon to be renamed to an "indulgence".
help me i've cloned myself and can't remember which one I am