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This is a follow up to the 2009 post here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170524023553/http://freakonomics.com/2009/10/15/a-headline-that-will-make-global-warmin
by awb 6y ago
This is a follow up to the 2009 post here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20170524023553/http://freakonomics.com/2009/10/15/a-headline-that-will-make-global-warming-activists-apoplectic/ https://web.archive.org/web/20170524023553/http://freakonomi...
which cites a BBC article stating:
> For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.
> Professor Easterbrook says: “The PDO cool mode has replaced the warm mode in the Pacific Ocean, virtually assuring us of about 30 years of global cooling.”
Needless to say, the 2009-2039 "cooling cycle" isn't off to a great start.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoYou can an article saying anything. But the global ice meltoff is not imaginary. I like to say, on a summer day you defrost your freezer. The kitchen, of course, gets cooler for a while. But once the ice is gone, its a hot summer day everywhere.
- bioinformatics 6y agoSo profound and poetic.
- SV_BubbleTime 6y ago> But once the ice is gone, its a hot summer day everywhere. Well that’s an extra depressing way to put it to me for some reason.
- titzer 6y agoThis is why a Blue Ocean Event (BOE) would really signal the start of a whole new climate regime. Not only because of the albedo change, but the energy that goes into melting ice is enormous; that heat energy would instead be transferred to the ocean water itself.