I wish they could give us that amount of detailed information on Mars, Jupiter, Pluto and the moon Triton as to why they are warming in excess of 2 degrees celsius.

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One can only hope that NOAA, once again, will not have to go back and correct their temperature records. Are they accurate measurements from the correct month this time?

Now lets all run in circles and scream about Global Warming®! This article certainly warrants multiple panic attacks as well as a massive government takeover of private businesses and lives.

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Yes Goracle, lets BS about a sensor malefunction of used to present daily information and not point out that
in the article itself it said "...preliminary data, which are subject to revision. Additional quality control is applied to the data when later reports are received several weeks after the end of the month and as increased scientific methods improve NCDC’s processing algorithms." The way that real science is done instead of processing it through bias as your comments show.

Six weeks of wrong data that was discovered by themselves looking at the data. Wow. Maybe you or anyone else should read the impact of the error of the F15 sensor drift.

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2009/022609.html

I remember a little faux pas with satellite data showing no temperature increases as a constant point with the denialists. It didn't jib with any other geophysical evidence. On further examination it was discovered that the satellite's orbit was slowly decaying and that wasn't compensated for in the data. Tres surprise. One of the denialists strongest so called pieces totally wiped.

What a surprise that denialists don't like it. Nothing like responses based on gut reactions especially from people with concrete worldviews.

As for the other planets showing warming. What a load. Satellite data clearly measures the solar output this planet receives. Guess what, it doesn't explain didley because it hasn't gone up.

What other geophysical factors warm up the other planets is germaine to them and them alone. It's a red herring explanation to try to marginalize the field. Too bad so many people take the bait.

Marginalize, obfuscate, ..., the usual. AGW wasn't even mentioned in the article until the denialists did their usual knee jerk response to any and all data. Which is very appropos because their response had very little intelligence in it as usual.

Looks like the paid alarmists are thinning as fast as the Arctic ice cap...

http://tinyurl.com/crcfog

But I'm gonna shriek in terror and run around the room anyway! Will NOAA ever live down the shame?

What is happening here at Green Car Congress? Why the occupation now of this site be people who just spew right-wing disinformation? Like the smoke screen that used to be put up about the dangers of cigarette smoke by the industry,their appologists, and the true believers? Can't you guys go be happy talking and listening to Rush Limbaugh and crew...
Or perhaps you are accomplishing that which you want to-throw up enough BS so that everyone gets disillusioned, and gives up on real change? sort of like the paid informant or saboteur...

Looks like the "Congress" here is being subjected to a harsh dose of reality. Healthy. But discomforting.

What is happening here at Green Car Congress? Why the occupation now of this site be people who just spew right-wing disinformation?

Like the smoke screen that used to be put up about the dangers of cigarette smoke by the industry,their appologists, and the true believers?

Actually, if you care to READ the science it's all very plain. Natural variation accounts for 90-98% of earth's climate. But, if you are looking to make money off scare tactics aimed at the human population - by all means, disregard the science:

http://tinyurl.com/d32cm6

Remember,

1. The earth is not warming
2. If it is warming, it is not man's fault.
3. If it is man's fault, the earth is not warming very much
4. If it is warming very much, a warmer world won't be bad
5. If it is bad, there's nothing you can do about it

Repeat

China is opening 1-2 coal powered plants per week.
Let's tax our energy supply to make ourselves feel good and accelerate the move of our factories to China.

If anyone needs to read the science it's the anti-AGW crowd. A website isn't a science journal. It isn't peer reviewed. There is little to zero peer reviewed science that contradicts AGW.

AGW is the accepted view of every internationally recognized scientific organization. That includes ironically the petroleum scientists.

As for the ice cap. Let's take a look.
The picture was dated june/july. The arctic ice cap maximum is march/april, the minimum is sept/oct. So the july date is supposed to make people think that it's warm where they are and so it should be the least amount of ice. Total fallacy. By the time that picture was taken and the minimum ice cap is reached, over 50% of the ice would be melted. The other is that its a magnified picture of the area that has yet to melt anyway. Another is that a single picture with zero analysis is totally subjective and it's obvious where the bias lays.

Just because you can find others that share your views don't justify those views. It certainly isn't science.

China is also spending 2 times as much on alternative power than the US (over 10 billion in 2005 compared to US 5 billion). The cost of mitigating the effects of AGW will be bourne by the first world as the instructure we invested in becomes inadequate or even bypassed or destroyed. Katrina is the least of it. Elevated sea levels combined with surges can damage most coastal cities quite easily and the developed nations will also suffer from that. If the first world actually spent money on improving itself instead of the dead ended self indulgent stuff that they do, then they wouldn't be in the straights that they are in now.

aym:

You could even add that China will be the first nation to:

1) capture CO2 from their coal fired power plants on a very large scale.

2) build 120+ large up-to-date nuclear power plants.

3) have 10+ million homes equip with solar panels.

4) mass produce EVs and PHEVs.

5) export EVs and BEVs.

6) have 10+ million EVs and PHEVs on the roads.

7) etc etc

Climate Change is caused by the Sun's activity..
Global warming is caused by Greedy politicians wanting to Tax us even more.

There is nothing wrong with improving the efficiency of cars but it's a total waste to focus any effort on lowering CO2. The plants of the world love all the extra CO2.

Yes February was the ninth warmest month for the globe but also the coldest June for the Northeast and Europe. I was turning on the heat just yesterday and I happen to live in Boston.

".....but it's a total waste to focus any effort on lowering CO2. The plants of the world love all the extra CO2." Mr Robertq222, do you have proof of that?

I really wonder if there is a limit to the concentration of CO2 that plants can efficiently process. But using that logic, if plants love all the extra CO2, can we conclude that more oxygen is better for O2 breathing life forms? The answer is no - continual breathing of enriched oxygen can cause health issues. It also can be a fire hazard.

No need to spout right wing misinformation as someone mentioned. In my neck of the woods there was more snow last year than normal and my fuel consumtion for the winter was higher in spite the fact I was freezing my b__ls off.