2008 will be coolest year since 1997

Reuters’ website, and other news papers, on and after the 16th of December 2008, report on this year’s average temperature continuing to drop lower and give excuses for why we are not seeing them rise like Global Warming doomsayers had predicted.

This year will be the coolest since 1997 but still the tenth hottest in a temperature record dating back 150 years, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday.

The global mean temperature for 2008 was 14.3 degrees Celsius (57.7 degrees Fahrenheit), climate scientists at the UK's Met Office Hadley Center and Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, who compiled data for the WMO, said.

"Human influence, particularly emission of greenhouse gases, has greatly increased the chance of having such warm years," the Met Office's Peter Stott said in a statement."

Chillier weather this year is partly because of a global weather pattern called La Nina that follows a periodic warming effect called El Nino.

The 10 warmest years measured since records began in 1850 have occurred since 1997, with global temperatures for 2000-2008 standing at almost 0.2 degrees Celsius above the average for the decade 1990-1999, the Met Office said.

I said this “La Nina” theory would be used to disregard the plain fact that global temperatures were going down and that Global Warming is looking like it is walking on thin ice.

Instead of telling us the planet is now cooling and not continuing to heat up like they predicted, they talk about now the last 10 years are the hottest on record. They seem to spin the bad news into something they can use or at least reshape it so they do not look foolish.