RSSThe Warmest Year That Wasn’t
J.J. Jackson* | January 9, 2008
Well, this sort of actual news doesn’t come as a surprise to anyone with a brain. But for people wedded to the “we’re all going to die” from “man-made global warming” hysteria it will surely come as a shock to their system and emergency rooms around the nation will fill treating their mental short circuits.
THE STARK headline appeared just over a year ago. “2007 to be ‘warmest on record,’” BBC News reported on Jan. 4, 2007. Citing experts in the British government’s Meteorological Office, the story announced that “the world is likely to experience the warmest year on record in 2007,” surpassing the all-time high reached in 1998.But a funny thing happened on the way to the planetary hot flash: Much of the planet grew bitterly cold.
In South America, for example, the start of winter last year was one of the coldest ever observed. According to Eugenio Hackbart, chief meteorologist of the MetSul Weather Center in Brazil, “a brutal cold wave brought record low temperatures, widespread frost, snow, and major energy disruption.” In Buenos Aires, it snowed for the first time in 89 years, while in Peru the cold was so intense that hundreds of people died and the government declared a state of emergency in 14 of the country’s 24 provinces. In August, Chile’s agriculture minister lamented “the toughest winter we have seen in the past 50 years,” which caused losses of at least $200 million in destroyed crops and livestock.
Latin Americans weren’t the only ones shivering.
University of Oklahoma geophysicist David Deming, a specialist in temperature and heat flow, notes in the Washington Times that “unexpected bitter cold swept the entire Southern Hemisphere in 2007.” Johannesburg experienced its first significant snowfall in a quarter-century. Australia had its coldest ever June. New Zealand’s vineyards lost much of their 2007 harvest when spring temperatures dropped to record lows.
Closer to home, 44.5 inches of snow fell in New Hampshire last month, breaking the previous record of 43 inches, set in 1876. And the Canadian government is forecasting the coldest winter in 15 years.
But … but … Al Gore says the Earth is warming and that there is nothing we can do about it without cutting our carbon footprint. Obviously Al Gore and his acolytes need a little re-education of their own rather than trying to re-educate the rest of the world to accept their bizarre theories. Actually, they don’t need re-education … they should just get plain old educated at all we’d be better off.
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