UAH: Global Temperature Dives in May

[audtatious]

06.03.2008

Confirming what many of us have already noted from the anecdotal evidence coming in of a much cooler than normal May, such as late spring snows as far south as Arizona, extended skiing in Colorado, and delays in snow cover melting, (here and here), the University of Alabama, Huntsville (UAH) published their satellite derived Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit data set of the Lower Troposphere for May 2008.

It is significantly colder globally, colder even than the significant drop to -0.046°C seen in January 2008.

The global ∆T from April to May 2008 was -.195°C

UAH2008 1 -0.0462008 2 0.0202008 3 0.0942008 4 0.0152008 5 -0.180

Compared to the May 2007 value of 0.199°C we find a 12 month ∆T is -.379°C.

But even more impressive is the change since the last big peak in global temperature in January 2007 at 0.594°C, giving a 16 month ∆T of -0.774°C which is equal in magnitude to the generally agreed upon “global warming signal” of the last 100 years.

[themadscientist]

Oh no it's global cooling, yaaargh start burning coal or something quick!

[audtatious]

Need to pull them SUV's back out and crank up the heat

[themadscientist]

I doing my part, no catalytic converters in operation in my garage and open wastegates.

[audtatious]

I'm not. I have sniffers to deal with so I'm stock.

I'll burn some wood each weekend to make up for it.

[themadscientist]

My car gets "inspected" too.

[audtatious]

I'm sure it does

[AZhitman]

This is the first year since I moved to AZ in '84 that I've been happy with the weather the first week of June.

It's actually cool out tonight, and I drove my convertible today.

YAY GLOBAL COOLING - Algore can eat a flaming bag of chloroflorocarbons.

[themadscientist]

We should print a $0.74 cent bill with Al Gore on it, a sunken florida map on the back and holes punched in it with dangling chads. It would be useless and annoying like him.

[ADDirishboy]

This is the first year since I moved to AZ in '84 that I've been happy with the weather the first week of June.

It's actually cool out tonight, and I drove my convertible today.

YAY GLOBAL COOLING - Algore can eat a flaming bag of chloroflorocarbons.

watch him come out with a new documentary on how we are now causing "global cooling"

what a douche bag.

[ishkabibble]

I wish there were some global cooling today. 100 degrees with like 99% humidity. Sweat my arse off working on the NX.