'Fox and Friends' Reports Global Cooling

'Fox and Friends' Reports Global Cooling

By Justin McCarthy (Bio | Archive)
Thu, 02/28/2008 - 14:21 ET

With new data out of the earth’s significant cooling, at least one morning show picked it up, predictably "Fox and Friends." On the February 28 edition, co-host Brian Kilmeade noted that worldwide snow cover is the highest it has been in over forty years. Steve Doocy quoted a meteorologist in California who noted that the temperature has dropped by "a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the last 100 years" and "it’s the single fastest temperature change ever recorded up or down."

Alarmists argue that such a short term temperature change is insignificant compared to trends over the last century. However, they change their tune when temperatures are higher than normal for a day. After a few mild days in January 2007, "Good Morning America" anchor Diane Sawyer questioned if global warming is the culprit. "Today" co-host Meredith Vieira went further wondering if we are "all gonna die."

The transcript is below.

STEVE DOOCY: Al Gore, this news for you. It is cold, not just in New York City, but, it’s interesting. Over the last day or so, all four major global temperature tracking outlets have released data showing that temperatures have dropped significantly over the last year. So while there’s all this hysteria about global warming. In fact, perhaps, we should be talking about global cooling.

AL GORE VOICE OVER: Is that necessary?

BRIAN KILMEADE: Yeah

DOOCY: Yeah.

KILMEADE: Snow is covering more of North America, and much more of Asia. It’s greater than any time since 1966. So it goes in the- it just flies in the face of a movie that got him an Emmy, and an Oscar, a Pulitzer, I don’t know what else-

GRETCHEN CARLSON: A Pulitzer?

DOOCY: A Tony?

KILMEADE: A Tony.

CARLSON: He’s taking his global warming to Broadway?

DOOCY: Something like that.

KILMEADE: Grammy.

DOOCY: I wonder who will play him. Anyway, there is one meteorologist out in California who says that the amount of cooling ranges from about .65 of a degree Centigrade, to .75 of a degree. I know that’s a little esoteric, but he says that’s a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the last 100 years. And says it’s the single fastest temperature change ever recorded up or down. And just to back it up, got a map right now. I’m just going to show you how cold it is in a portion of the United States of America. Look at the current wind chill. It feels like ten below right now in Rochester. It feels like seven in New York City, zero, zip in Pittsburgh.

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A Century of Global Warming Erased

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 14:34 ET by allanf

According to the report:

A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out most of the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

" All in one year's time.

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 14:49 ET by danbo

" All in one year's time. " Refresh my memory. Weren't we told that climate always changes gradually? Over hundreds and thousands of years?

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

I guess this means that my

Fri, 02/29/2008 - 15:51 ET by Conservative Blues

I guess this means that my corkscrew light bulbs are really working. I apologize to all you global warmingists that I ever doubted you. Thank you for your efforts to entice us to change our habits and counter the terrible effects of the evil Americans and their military/industrial complex. Your light bulbs have erased 100 years of progress.

Ecclesiastes 10:2 - "The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."

I have to laugh at the story;

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 21:01 ET by DEVILDOCMOM

our weather was wonderful today in Tucson, 80 degrees...but I found this story quite interesting. http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/85737/225389.php

Where's the Goracle???

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 14:37 ET by Bayshoreman

Where's the Goracle to help explain all this to us?? The oceans are rising with water and now the sky is falling with snow...what shall we do? If only the Goracle would come down from OZ and join hands with the Obomacle to give us HOPE and assure us that it is not too late for us to CHANGE our evil, ignorant ways. I'm just sooo scared...Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh my!!!

The Goracle

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 14:58 ET by Clear thinker

The Goracle...

My guess is he's snowed-in somewhere.

Hehehehehe!

"Abstain from McCain"

The Goracle

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 15:32 ET by fonzie2178

is still on his 50-foot pedestal refusing to debate his position on global warming. He could commit suicide by jumping off his ego. I hope he didn't sell his snowblower yet! LOL

Maybe, but my guess is that

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 15:41 ET by Hermano

Maybe, but my guess is that he would land in a nice fluffy-soft snow bank to avoid any injury. Damn.

Good One Fonzie!

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 17:10 ET by Bayshoreman

"He could commit suicide by jumping off his ego." ROFL

AlGore's disappearance...

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 22:22 ET by goldenthroat

AlGore has gone into hibernation at his 10,000 square foot, energy guzzling home somewhere in the middle of the Volunteer State until this frigid weather blows over.

He and Nipper - ah, Dipper - is it Tripper? - probably have enough firewood from the Tennessee forests to keep them global warm and cozy until spring.

Doesn't the thought of that just give you a pain where a pill can't reach?

"Yeah! That's the ticket!" - Tommy Flanagan

Al Gore's Hypocritical Home

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 22:56 ET by PopularTech

Gore home's energy use: 20 times average (WorldNetDaily)
- Al Gore's residence uses considerably more energy than the average American home = True (Snopes)

Bush's Ranch House 'Far More Eco-Friendly' Than Gore's (CNSNews)
- George W. Bush's eco-friendly ranch compared to Al Gore's energy-expending mansion = True (Snopes)

The Anti 'Man-Made' Global Warming Resource

Irony is fun

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 23:00 ET by general company

"Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest". Mark Twain

This is typically myopic...

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 14:40 ET by c5then

"Alarmists argue that such a short term temperature change is insignificant compared to trends over the last century."

Show anyone the chart of the NYSE for the last 100 years and then a single year drop that takes it almost all the way back to the starting point and ask them if that is "significant".

Show me any data that is charted for a period of time and a drop by 90% in 1/100th the time period and argue that it's not significant.

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

P-Tr Boundary

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 14:44 ET by Lord Elicani

How about an event that wiped out 95% of all life on Earth? Just a scratch to biodiversity, no?

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet?

easy to explain

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 14:56 ET by inquiringmind

It's the warming that's causing the cooling, do'n cha know.

How long will it take high

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 15:15 ET by TE

How long will it take high priest Al Gore to claim credit for the cooling trend because he and other members of his cult have committed themselves to "carbon offsets" or other such frauds?

-

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 22:42 ET by dahliatravers

He did but no one could hear him over the engine roar of his private jet.

Global Cooling

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 15:27 ET by Goodie

Will AlGore return all the money he has collected while delivering his Michael Moore type mis-information? Maybe he can buy coats for the homeless with the $100million + he has made.

Sure, it's freezing now, but

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 16:01 ET by Chris Norman

Sure, it's freezing now, but in a hundred years, it's going to be sweltering, just you wait and see, we must act now!!!!

Chris.... I would like to

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 16:06 ET by Clear thinker

Chris....

I would like to be around until then just to see. I mean 100 years would be great, because by then (according to Al Gore) my mountain top property would be beachfront property and be worth millions!

"Abstain from McCain"

CT, I guess that was my

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 16:33 ET by Chris Norman

CT,

I guess that was my point, what they say will happen and must stop, we won't be around to see not happen.

CO2 meter reading

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 16:45 ET by acadia1755

I have asked Tim Ball to see if they could Install a CO2 meter inside the conference room in New York Next week.

In most crowded rooms the level reaches 2000 ppm or more if there are a lot of people even with reasonable ventilation.

A Meter showing CO2 at over 1000ppm would send a Shock wave around the Alarmist world. Hope they give it a try.

Mining regulations allow up to about 5000 ppm for up to 15 minutes but that is with safety margins. http://www.friendsofscience.org/

I assume that if it gets to

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 19:45 ET by danbo

I assume that if it gets to 2000 ppm they would cross the tipping point. And there would be a climate crises in the meeting room. With bad weather extremes. Maybe a tornado? A hurricane?

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

The only meteoroligical

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 20:01 ET by NL207

The only meteoroligical disturbance possible amidst such a gathering is a s*** storm.

GLOBAL COOLING...

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 16:56 ET by danybhoy

I look at "Global Cooling" & the coming ice age with my glass half full...I love hockey, I love the NHL, I love the Minnesota Wild, where do so many of todays hockey players learn how to play the game? On the outdoor rinks & frozen ponds in the cities & towns across the northern US & Canada, as well as in Europe.

Take the positive from the news, always take the positive.

"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise" Mark Levin

"Take the positive from the

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 18:34 ET by Chris Norman

"Take the positive from the news, always take the positive."

DB,

To paraphrase Brooks Atkinson, "Can one draw sweet water from a foul well?".

And Atkinson was paraphrasing...

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 18:40 ET by goldenthroat

Chris,

He was just putting his own spin on James 3:11 - "Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?" (NIV)

You're welcome.

See, there's the difference

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 19:04 ET by Chris Norman

See, there's the difference between us: you quote The Bible and I quote a long gone New York Times theatre reviewer. :)

And my dad

Fri, 02/29/2008 - 10:52 ET by FastEd

always asked algore for proof!

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

Past Perfromance is best indicator of future performance

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 17:25 ET by Kuso Jiji

Algore's long history of lying attests to the fact that he is full of shit. Why on God's green earth would anyone believe anything this jerk has to say?

Damn those cows and SUVs

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 18:45 ET by wizardjr

Now they've gone and done it! It's the Global Cooling caused by the Global Warming. See we told ya so! </sarc> :-))

wizard... LOL...it is

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 19:22 ET by bigtimer

wizard...

LOL...it is going to take a whole lot of hot air to spin their way out of all of this...but they will in their own unrealistic way...as only they can do, with Forest Gore leading the way.

I heard a spoof on Gore on Rush today...he was portrayed as Forrest Gore...it was pretty funny.

These guys are just getting

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 19:16 ET by FastEd

THIS side of the story now, 'cause if the demolibs maintain power(?), then they can deny it, or blame Rove and his nafarious weather machine.

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

Wait a minute Guys...it's still has to be "reported"

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 19:42 ET by JayTee

The MSM still has to cover this years severe Winter results...out of sight out of mind...especially in Bali.

Then there IS Summer coming up.....the MSM may lie in wait in the Snowmobile until the Temp hits 98 degrees on a warm June day, and pounce on the Global Warming bandwagon like Jan. 2008 didn't happen.

Maybe a Cold March will come into play.....especially if those Stupid Sunspots stay MIA for awhile.

A few degress Tilt in the Earths axis of rotation, away from the Sun...and we have WINTER........and NASA "Scientists" can't grasp the fundamentals of Solar mechanics. Al Gore I understand as being an Ignorant Peace Prize-Nik, but Mr. H. at NASA needs to lay low for awhile...

Yea, this cooling

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 20:43 ET by GregE

Yea, this cooling thing......NBC can't report it. After all, the mothership GE, creator of Green Week, has too much moola to make on warming.

erasure

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 22:36 ET by meteor79

Just thought you all might be interested... One of the "sources" listed in this post discussing this recent cooling notes:

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I wish to state for the record, that this statement is not mine: “–a value large enough to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years”

There has been no “erasure”. This is an anomaly with a large
magnitude, and it coincides with other anecdotal weather evidence. It
is curious, it is unusual, it is large, it is unexpected, but it does
not “erase” anything. I suggested a correction to DailyTech and they
have graciously complied.

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My thoughts exactly.... How does a large drop in temperature over a few months "erase" a long term trend? This makes no sense....

Easily Explainable

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 22:49 ET by Snappy

Global warming..errr Climate Change is not an exact science, yes I know, the debate is over, but its not exact. The extremely hot years we have had since the siberian weather stations went offline have catapulted us up the temperature scale creating a "cold vacume" if you will in its wake, which has temporarily pulled the temperature down. This phenomena has been seen in the past and usually doesnt get much media coverage. It generally happens in the northern hemisphere between september and march, But putting all that aside, the one common theme with all this warming and now drastic cooling is the fact the George Bush is still president and as rightly so, we should simply lay all blame in that direction.