What’s going on with our weather? (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). It’s just logical that a decrease in solar activity –which is going on now–cools the Earth, while increase sunspot activity warms it up, but in fact, it seems to work the OPPOSITE way.
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August 2010 was the second hottest August in the 32-year satellite temperature dataset, with a global average temperature that was only a tiny percentage cooler than the record set in August 1998.
According to atmospheric science researcher Dr. John Christy, that difference is well within the error range of the measurement, however, so the two months might as well be tied for the hottest August in 32 years, and he’s sure of his data because his team uses microwave sounding units on NOAA and NASA satellites to get accurate temperature readings for almost all regions of the Earth.
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Speeding Up AND Slowing Down – The world works in mysterious ways: While Arctic sea ice has been diminishing in recent decades, ice in the Antarctic has been increasing slightly. Something strange is going on out there.
Researcher Jiping Liu says, “We wanted to understand this apparent paradox so that we can better understand what might happen to the Antarctic sea ice in the coming century with increased greenhouse warming.”
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Or is it too late? One researcher thinks that looking at the dollar figures might spur big companies (and big government) to ACT.
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