Climate Change Raises 2008 Cat Losses to $200 Billion Says Munich Re
International News • December 31, 2008
Munich Re has released its annual report on the natural catastrophes that occurred in 2008, which it describes as "one of the most devastating years on record." 2008's major catastrophes included ...
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Global warming: Reasons why it might not actually exist
2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved, according to
the Telegraph's Christopher Booker. Sceptics have long argued that there
are other explanations for climate change other than man-made CO2 and
here we look at some of the arguments put forward by those who believe
that global warming is all a hoax.
Last Updated: 1:51PM GMT 30 Dec 2008
Some icebergs are melting -but not necessarily because of mankind's
actions Photo: REUTERS
Temperatures are falling, not rising
As Christopher Booker says in his review of 2008, temperatures have been
dropping in a wholly unpredicted way over the past year. Last winter,
the northern hemisphere saw its greatest snow cover since 1966, which in
the northern US states and Canada was dubbed the "winter from hell".
This winter looks set to be even worse.
The earth was hotter 1,000 years ago
Evidence from all over the world indicates that the earth was hotter
1,000 years ago than it is today. Research shows that temperatures were
higher in what is known as the Mediaeval Warming period than they were
in the 1990s.
The earth's surface temperature is not at record levels
According to Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies analysis of
surface air temperature measurements, the meteorological December 2007
to November 2008 was the coolest year since 2000. Their data has also
shown that the hottest decade of the 20th century was not the 1990s but
the 1930s.
Ice is not disappearing
Arctic website Crysophere Today reported that Arctic ice volume was
500,000 sq km greater than this time last year. Additionally, Antarctic
sea-ice this year reached its highest level since satellite records
began in 1979. Polar bear numbers are also at record levels.
Himalayan glaciers
A report by the UN Environment Program this year claimed that the cause
of melting glaciers in the Himalayas was not global warming but the
local warming effect of a vast "atmospheric brown cloud" over that
region, made up of soot particles from Asia's dramatically increased
burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.
Temperatures are still dropping
Nasa satellite readings on global temperatures from the University of
Alabama show that August was the fourth month this year when
temperatures fell below their 30-year average, ie since satellite
records began. November 2008 in the USA was only the 39th warmest since
records began 113 years ago.
Subject: Here we go again....
Global warming: Reasons why it might not actually exist
2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved, according to
the Telegraph's Christopher Booker. Sceptics have long argued that there
are other explanations for climate change other than man-made CO2 and
here we look at some of the arguments put forward by those who believe
that global warming is all a hoax.
Last Updated: 1:51PM GMT 30 Dec 2008
Some icebergs are melting -but not necessarily because of mankind's
actions Photo: REUTERS
Temperatures are falling, not rising
As Christopher Booker says in his review of 2008, temperatures have been
dropping in a wholly unpredicted way over the past year. Last winter,
the northern hemisphere saw its greatest snow cover since 1966, which in
the northern US states and Canada was dubbed the "winter from hell".
This winter looks set to be even worse.
The earth was hotter 1,000 years ago
Evidence from all over the world indicates that the earth was hotter
1,000 years ago than it is today. Research shows that temperatures were
higher in what is known as the Mediaeval Warming period than they were
in the 1990s.
The earth's surface temperature is not at record levels
According to Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies analysis of
surface air temperature measurements, the meteorological December 2007
to November 2008 was the coolest year since 2000. Their data has also
shown that the hottest decade of the 20th century was not the 1990s but
the 1930s.
Ice is not disappearing
Arctic website Crysophere Today reported that Arctic ice volume was
500,000 sq km greater than this time last year. Additionally, Antarctic
sea-ice this year reached its highest level since satellite records
began in 1979. Polar bear numbers are also at record levels.
Himalayan glaciers
A report by the UN Environment Program this year claimed that the cause
of melting glaciers in the Himalayas was not global warming but the
local warming effect of a vast "atmospheric brown cloud" over that
region, made up of soot particles from Asia's dramatically increased
burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.
Temperatures are still dropping
Nasa satellite readings on global temperatures from the University of
Alabama show that August was the fourth month this year when
temperatures fell below their 30-year average, ie since satellite
records began. November 2008 in the USA was only the 39th warmest since
records began 113 years ago.