Not surprisingly, in an election year, the area around Washington, D.C., has had "above normal" temperatures.

Why oh why is PM Harper so gong ho on this junk file? With putting his strongest man, Jim Prentice on it...I'm hoping it's all to deal with selling our energy to the US with maximum return tied to some sort of carbon exchange with minimum damage. Smoke and mirrors to keep the Suzukoids and Queerbeckers of the land happy I guess.

Also being that Ottawa does not yet know where Obama stands on this AGW crap other than keeping tires pressure to spec, maybe Harper is just being proactive.

How long is it going to take before one of our leaders start to tell it like it is?: The world is not burning up!...How many snow storms, bad summer yields from shorter, colder summers, big city budgets for winter road maintenance in the red with mayors screaming for financial help and people screaming for heating assistance will it take before this sham is exposed?

Telling voters who are already scared of a problem that you know about it and are ready to deal with it is a much better electoral tactic than telling them the problem is hogwash and there's nothing to be scared of. Hypochondriacs are never convinced of their hypochondria by the ethical doctors who refuse to treat them; they're only convinced, if at all, by enduring the quacks who indulge them until they finally realize something's wrong not with their health, but with their perceptions.

It does strike me as telling to see that two of the very few points on the map where temperatures actually *were* above normal were New York and Los Angeles. That these two cities are about the single biggest global MSM production centres couldn't possibly have anything to do with how the MSM has treated this issue, could it?

No, of course not. Reporters and editors are far too objective and neutral a bunch of people to assume that what they see outside their window necessarily and accurately represents the entirety of the world, now. Aren't they?

yep. truth.

Stephen - perfect analysis !!

here in southern Alberta we are having one of the warmest and most pleasant falls in many years. Which proves absolutely nothing.

The map shows that areas of the primary economy, where wealth is created (mining, fishing, agriculture, forestry) are suffering from 'wealth creation mitigation' through colder temperatures.

The areas of the secondary economy, where wealth is destroyed (densely populated areas full of consumers that consume and don't produce) is suffering from 'wealth destruction acceleration', if only for the increased air conditioning one would need to keep that warmness bearable.

The combination of higher weather-related input costs in the primary producer economy and softness in bulk commodity futures should send a message to the politicos in the secondary consumer economy but, regretfully, doesn't. Costs increase, so the government response is to increase regulation. Compliance increases, and primary wealth creation decreases. But hey! There are many more votes in the consumer economy than the producer economy.

You think things are bad now? Wait for a couple more cycles of the above.

JSS

Of course,the upside of colder seasonal temps is that Toronto will blow its' snow-clearing budget early in the season. Residential areas with wide streets will get plowed to within a metre of the sidewalk; higher density residential areas won't get plowed at all.

JSS

Yes indeed that little red splash on the east coast is Virginia ....... go figure!

I wish they'd just let this global warming go for a few more years - at least until Canada warms up a few degrees...

Only 6 months till spring.

Agreed, Blair. One of the misconceptions that my critics hold of me is that I'm "against" global warming. Wetter summers, longer growing season - what's not to like?

We were promised Global Warming and we have been forced to pay for it (directly and indirectly), we got just the opposite. We are now forced to sue - Sazookey, Goricle, Deyawn, Orbama, Jacko, Dopeset, PaulieII, the Cretian..snake oil salesmen, all. Your own money must pay for your 'social engineering' mistakes..borrow from Unca Mo to pay us off, he should still have some of that Saddam oil $$.

Yeah, Gord Tulk.And that 3.6" of white,frozen sno....errr....CO2 on my lawn this AM is warming me up just wonderfully!!

Code red in Virginia?

Gore must have turned his McMansion bathrooms lites on.

dont you just hate when a beautiful theory is destroyed by ugly facts.

As I look out my rain-streaked windows at Vancouver, I can only believe in global dampening.

jeez, it's not raining in bc, naw, couldn't be. i remember 52 straight days when it rained at some point every day.

The map shown for Jan-Oct 2008 is interesting.
Notice the states which are at "much cooler" next to "near normal" or "in the case of Va.- "much above normal" next to "near normal".
Odd that there should be so many of these cases.

It should be noted though that the first sunspots in around 200 days are starting to finally reappear. The lack of sunsport activity for the last while is what alot of people are attributing that as the cause for the last few years of cooling. I'm definitely of the opinion that we don't understand climate enough to blame it on humans (I think they ignore other factors too much, namely solar insolation), but we could see some warming days so remember the sunspot facts to have an answer ready for the inevitable cries of doom as temperatures increase moderately over the next couple years.

Yes, blasts from the frozen north [that's you guys] are once again blowing unimpeded across the Dakotas down through the friendly environs of Iowa. The red rocket is retired for the season.