Thirty-nine years ago today, experts reported a northern hemisphere cooling trend of 0.1C to 0.2C per decade from 1950 to 1975.
The report, prepared by German, Japanese and American specialists, appears in the Dec. 15 issue of Nature, the British journal. The findings indicate that from 1950 to 1975 the cooling, per decade, of most climate indexes in the Northern Hemisphere was from 0.1 to 0.2 degrees Celsius, roughly 0.2 to 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
NASA used to show this cooling trend, but has now made it almost entirely disappear.
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The winter of 1978 was the coldest on record in the US, yet this date in 1978 was much warmer than today’s temperatures.
It is 25F right now in mid North Carolina. A far cry from 50F as shown for Jan 5th 1978. And that was a bloody cold winter.
OH Joy, the updated forecast is for 1F (–17C) for Sunday. Saturday will be 14F and Monday 12F
There are going to be a lot of frozen pipes here in NC.
Code is water pipes 12 inches underground and “waste
and soil piping leaving the building shall have a minimum cover of 3 inches. “
A lot of farmers run water piping only 3 to 6 inches under ground. (I insisted on a full three feet.)
Outstanding post. The NY Times article from this day in 1978 reporting on the “International Team of Specialists” is the final nail in the coffin of the idea that global cooling didn’t predominate climate thinking in the ’70s. Combine that with all the major news magazine covers on the ice age threat (Time, Newsweek etc) and this is a done deal.
In 1971 John Holdren, now the USA’s head warmist (Obama’s “Science” Czar) said:
By 1986 Holdren was saying this:
“A billion people could die from global warming by 2020.”
Yet in 2014 Holdren seemed confused about which direction the temperatures of the earth were going. Holdren had become a global warmcoldist:
I just cleared about 30 cm of snow at -20C from my driveway and I’m not too worried about 1C of warming that is well within measurement error.
You are not paid to sit in a coal-powered office and worry about it …
Forecast is similar to one in January 1976, with less snow forecast today compared to that one. Official temperature is 42F/6C. It is cloudy and not particularly windy at the moment. A coastal low is expected to form on the remains of a cold front that is approaching us currently. That’s the usual setup for snow here. A previous system pulls down cold air. A secondary system forms or tracks down to the Gulf, along its northern coast then turns north/northeastward heading up the coast (Hi NC in another 24 hours). If strong enough, a blizzard may develop as it heads northeastward along the coast. (That’s what the blizzard of March 1993 was, and what most nor’easters are.) The Gulf Coast sees these systems every winter. Some are warmer or weaker and thus don’t give a big snow. Typical timing has these roughly every week from late December through May, with the typical year seeing the tracks move northward in April, though they may still happen in late May (the cold snap that we had the week before Memorial Day, 1974).
The local hazardous weather outlook has 2 to 3 inches of accumulated mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain. Ugh, for freezing rain here (it is hilly to low mountainous) is a killer. [No, it is not economical for this area to over-prepare for icy weather. If/when it happens more regularly, we will do it. Whether people learn how to drive in it, generally, is a different story.]
I either stay off the roads or put on the chains.
Yep, that’s what we typically do (stay off the roads, which, ironically can worsen road conditions), so the mad rush is on to get supplies before it is too late and you have to make do with what you have.