Record Cold To hit Global Warming Conference (Copenhagen To Break Dec 17th Record by 7 Degrees!)
Once again its bad timing for a global warming meeting as all time record cold temperatures are set to strike the the U.N. global warming conference in Copenhagen.
Last week “warmists” were confronted with reports that November Arctic Sea Ice growth exceeded the 1979-2000 average and that “in general, the ice edge is now at or slightly beyond its average location”.
The bad timing for “warmists” this time is that Copenhagen, home to the UN global warming conference until December 18th, is set to break the all time low temperature record for December 17th.
Here is a screengrab of Copenhagen weather from Weather Underground for Dec 17th 2008 that shows the all time cold record for that date (24 degrees) was set on Dec 17th 1997:
As can be seen from this screen grab from Weather Underground, forecasters are predicting this record will be shattered by 7 degrees as temperatures dip down to a record low of 17 degrees on Thursday December 17th:
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According to my calculation, the 24° F equals -4° C. And the 17° F predicted equals -8° C. Those temperatures can hardly be called records for December in Denmark.
According to DMI’s weather archive (DMI Denmark’s Meteorological Institute) the temperatures in Copenhagen and Northern Sealand have been down to around -10° C several times from in Decembers 1997 to 2005. In 2001 it even reached -15° C just before Christmas and -20° C on New Year’s Eve. Curiously, the temperature has hardly been able to reach the -5° C mark in 04, 06, 07, 08 and 09 (so far). See more on http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/en/vejrarkiv?region=7&year=2009&month=12 (mainly in Danish).
In December 1981 - actually on 17 December - the temperature reached -25.2° C in Jutland. This is officially the lowest temperature ever registered on a December’s day in Denmark. See more on http://www.dmi.dk/dmi/en/index/danmark/meteorologiske_ekstremer_i_danmark.htm (in Danish).
So to talk about the temperature will reach an “all time cold record” must be considered a truth with modifications…
24 degrees is not and could not possibly be a record low temperature in Copenhagen, which is where I live. You guys have fallen for silly science again. Take out an atlas and see where the city is located before you publicize such nonsense.
Sigh … no, it is not. See Lasse’s comments, above. The temperature here yesterday, December 17, was between two and seven degrees C below zero - nowhere even remotely near a record low, even for that particular day.
I don’t know if you guys are interested in any actual facts, but I live in Copenhagen, and the forecast for the coming week, December 14-21 2009, is completely normal. On the other hand, we’ve just had one of the warmest Novembers on record.
You can check the facts, if you’re interested, at the Danish Meteorological Institute (temperatures in celsius):
http://www.dmi.dk/eng/index/forecasts.htm