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The University of Alabama MSU lower tropospheric data just released showed this May was the 4th coldest May for the globe since that record began in 1979. It was also below the average for both hemispheres. It trailed only 1985, a weak El Nino at the tail end of the El Chichon cold period, 1989, a summer following a strong La Nina, and 1992, the year after Pinatubo. It was just 0.003 colder than 1993, another Pinatubo affected year that ranked 5th.
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May is the continuation of at least 6 years of dropping global temperatures, and a case could be made that temperatures have dropped for 10 years now.
The graph above shows how the three major temperature records have all shown decreases since at least 2002.
In other news, Solar Cycle 24 has not gotten off to a great start since the sun is virtually spotless and has been for many months now. That does not bode well for our climate.
Geophysicist Philip Chapman, a former NASA astronaut-scientist and former president of the National Space Society:
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“It is time to put aside the global warming dogma, at least to begin contingency planning about what to do if we are moving into another little ice age.”
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