Does anyone realize that we have had global cooling for 10 years now?

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And for example the temp. in New Hampshire can vary up to 100 degrees, e.g. in mid Jan. it may hit a high of 70 degrees for 1 or 2 days, and other days during winter can go down to as much as 20-30 below zero, yet people say Global Warming is indicated when the temp. varies a 1-2 degree above normal.
 
Sorry, you've totally avoided the reason why. At the start of last year (2008) climate scientists predicted that 2008 would be a cooler year. Reason being that we're in the middle of the La Nina cycle, and at the bottom of a solar minimum. Yes there are natural cycles.

Solar fluctuations account for about .1c between their highest and lowest points, which aren't a deal maker/breaker. Having said that we're in the middle of a minimum that started in about 2006 and that's predicted to end around 2010.

Much more important is the ENSO cycle (El Niño - Southern Oscillation). We know there was an El Niño peak in 2005 and an even stronger one in 1998. We know that those years were the hottest years on record. And we know that the La Nina in between those was 2000, and... now.

So a far more accurate comparison year to compare it to is 2000, not 2005, etc. And the temp records clearly show that the 2000 average temp was lower than 2008.

Apples with apples, we're well on course for very dangerous warming in our lifetimes.
 
global warming does not just make our globe hotter but colder as well. as you can see when our earth is warm, our polar ice caps melt and it creates more water in our oceans. sun heats earth. water evaporates and create clouds then the clouds starts to do form and then the wet/cold/snow weather comes into play. this can make things get really cold during winter but when summer comes then it gets really hot because the sun is closer to the earth than winter.
 
The important thing is the mean AVERAGE temperature.

Naturally temperature appear to oscillate with a roughly constant mean for the past 600,000 years,[1]

Natural oscillations tend to lead to relatively quick changes in temperature, for example the El Nino Southern Oscillation can change Pacific temperatures by up to 5C. But the average temperature change this causes over decades or centuries is minimal.

The same is true for the Summer/Winter cycle (the northern hemisphere has a lower heat capacity so dominates this cycle), the 11 year solar cycle etc.

Humans appear to be introducing a constant increasing trend thanks to greenhouse gases (as well as other changes, like reflectivity etc). This is the important aspect.

Temperatures now are lower than 1998, but this doesn't mean that global warming is over. 1998 was a very strong El Nino[2]. Stronger than any year since, partly explaining its warmth.

2008 was still warmer than any year before 1997. So you could say we've continued warming since 1996, or any year before. Current climate models expect ocean currents and the likes to hold back warming for years, but human caused global warming is still the accepted theory[3].
 
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