US Cooling

A synthesis of reports of the

 National Climatic Data Center:

Most Recent 12-Month Period (Feb. Jan.) 1998-2011

Average = 54.09 deg. F

Trend = – 0.96 deg. F/ Decade (- 9.6 deg. F/century)

Even as the concentration of carbon dioxide continues to rise, global temperatures have not kept pace. For the contiguous United States, temperatures are in free-fall.

The U.S. has be most comprehensive data set, but I think we can safely say Europe is freezing.  

I wonder if the last two months are included in the numbers.

The UN and so on have reported an increase of temperature will occur during these years.  The government should recalibrate thermometers so we are actually warming, like they do with the inflation and unemployment numbers so the party line is not adversely affected.