Thursday, February 19, 2009

Global Cooling Continues - Global temperatures for 2008 below the average for the past 30 years

Global Cooling Continues

By James M. Taylor | The Heartland Institute
Publication date: 03/01/2009

Continuing a decade-long trend of declining global temperatures, the year 2008 was significantly colder than 2007, and global temperatures for the year were below the average over the past 30 years.

The global temperature data, reported by NASA satellite-based temperature measurements, refuted predictions 2008 would be one of the warmest on record.

Data show 2008 ranked 14th coldest of the 30 years measured by NASA satellite instruments since they were first launched in 1979. It was the coldest year since 2000.

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