tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5814418.post2890896554828569967..comments2024-01-17T16:51:31.413-06:00Comments on Right-Wing & Right Minded: Proof Of Global Cooling?Christopher Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07422080978963114933noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5814418.post-47260307992813493862008-02-29T02:34:00.000-06:002008-02-29T02:34:00.000-06:00Sounds like GW didn't need to appoint an Oil lobby...Sounds like GW didn't need to appoint an Oil lobbyist as head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality after all. Or... maybe he did... <BR/><BR/><BR/>NOAA: 2007 a Top Ten Warm Year for U.S. and Globe<BR/><BR/>Six of the 10 warmest years on record for the contiguous U.S. have occurred since 1998, part of a three decade period in which mean temperatures for the contiguous U.S. have risen at a rate near 0.6°F per decade.<BR/><BR/>The warmer-than-average conditions in 2007 influenced residential energy demand in opposing ways, as measured by the nation's Residential Energy Demand Temperature Index. Using this index, NOAA scientists determined that the U.S. residential energy demand was about three percent less during the winter and eight percent higher during the summer than what would have occurred under average climate conditions.<BR/><BR/>For 2007, the global land and ocean surface temperature was the fifth warmest on record. Separately, the global land surface temperature was warmest on record while the global ocean temperature was 9th warmest since records began in 1880. Some of the largest and most widespread warm anomalies occurred from eastern Europe to central Asia.<BR/><BR/>source: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2007/ann/ann07.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com