WE did it. For once, we acted collectively, as humans, huddled together on a fragile planet, rather than as selfish individuals. And we did it: we beat global warming.
So now let’s move on.
According to the Bureau of Meteorology, 2010 was Australia’s coldest year since 2001. Since logic tells us the planet can’t be getting hotter and colder at the same time, we can confidently pronounce global warming dead, buried and comprehensively beaten.
This victory happened because individuals pulled together, within nations, and then the nations of the world themselves pulled together. Meetings were held in places such Kyoto. Rousing speeches were made by world leaders. People clapped and felt good about themselves. Documents were signed.
Clearly, with each meeting, each speech, each inked treaty, global warming was pushed back.
Here in Australia, we also did our bit, big time. We declared global warming the great moral challenge of our generation. We talked confidently about doing something or other. (OK, I can’t remember what it was, and we never actually did it, but then we talked about doing something different . . . though maybe not straight away.)
Anyway, it worked, because last year was the coldest year since 2001.
Beautiful! We did it! Yea!!!! The world can get back to living!
Don’t forget Oz is upside down so all the CO2 heat must have dropped off the world.
…and the good citizens of Canby, OR helped! In the summer of 2008over half the residents put out election-campaign-type signs in their front yards reading “Stop Global Warming Now!” Was it ever effective! December 2008-January 2009 saw the coldest temperatures and the longest period of snow cover on the ground in a decade.
Some signs must have gotten removed for lawn mowing the summer of 2009 and were not replaced, but December 2009 still saw above-average snow cover. Signs are pretty much all gone now, but December 2010 was still colder than the average over the last 10 years. Alas, it stands to reason that, with the signs gone, the warm weather will return. But when it does, the citizens of Canby will be ready again!!!
The oceans must be smoking because it does not look like any countries set all time hot records in 2010.
According to Hansen it’s really hot up North.
heaven?
In Greenland (where I live) 2010 was five to ten degrees warmer than a decade before. Though the beginning of 2011 seems much colder than last year.
Did you live there in the 1930s?