All right, after I get to trying 'Grand Theft Auto' I'll give equal time to your game.

…and somebody got paid to tell us that Dallas has an Urban Heat Island affect! Don’t forget they throw in the fact that ozone is bad for you..... which has nothing to do with any CO2 increase. These folks are mixing pollution, urban sprawl, overfishing of krill and scientists dumping garbage in the Antarctic for the last 100 years as being caused by a rise in CO2! Have they no shame?
Come on why don’t they have a segment about AGW causing the time space continuum to be affected causing Dr. Who to save us all from the ghost of Christmas past?.
Can anybody say: “complete supposition and fantasy masquerading as science fact!”
Slick garbage is still garbage.
Meanwhile here in central NY another night, another frost…..so much for the apple crop!
You know we really could use 30 days added to our growing season.

AGW, the latest excuse to turn the world socialist...behold, a high tech, star wars, laser lighted crystal ball complete with dire predictions and the final solution all wrapped into one big sphere of lies...just to think, you used to be able to go down the street and for 5 bucks, MADAM SNAKEOIL could do the SAME THING with a little co2, uh, dry ice, crystal ball, and one deck of cards...from the article, we know the antarctic survey blows 45 mil a year, i wonder what about the rest of the pilferers...common denominator in all of it is government...PONTIFICATED, UNDEBATED, UNACCOUNTABLE scary stories designed to take your five bucks, make you feel good, then later on penniless, you realize you have been had...where in the hell is josie wales and john wayne...perhaps his name is "SMOKIN JOE B", MCKINTYRE, COLEMAN, MCKITRICK OR WATTS?"...have a nice day, dudes and dudettes...

Google Earth is awesome, but the Met needs to prove that they can forecast the weather next week, instead of wasting our time with their ever changing (and consistently wrong) long-term predictions.

Nearly every link on their web site has something about "climate change" in the title.

After you get done looking at this neat "tool", you should go look at MET office's other site where they show that IF a pig had wings it COULD fly.

I must say though, pretty colors on the globe and I am glad they correctly noted that any real warming will not occur until 2020 or so. I would imagine that in 2015, when Dr Hansen and Al Gore inform us that "real" warming will not occur until 2030, but we will still need to act IMMEDIATELY to save the planet from its' fever, the MET guys can adjust the scales accordingly.

Beyond that, the speculation and relatively rapid increase in heat at the poles is interesting since it plays into their's and everyone else's supposed "fears".

Can someone tell me why the land masses warm much more greatly than the oceans? Since we are talking climate, and we all know that the ONLY thing that matters when talking climate is CO2, and since we also all know that CO2 blows around in the atmosphere, it would seem to me that warming would be more uniform over the globe.

Seems horribly inconsistent to me.

Good grief -- how frightening. My part of the country (North Texas) changed from green to yellow. If only my eyesight was good enough to read the scale.
Thank goodness for Solar Cycle 24 (where is that damned minimum anyway), PDO and inevitable (if not imminent) glaciation.

mark b,

if you would take those rose-colored co2 glasses off, you would find out in the summertime, in texas, it gets warmer and sometimes drier...during the summertime, grass unless watered, turns from green to brown...by the way, that grass lives off co2...its a life sustaining gas and a good thing...at least your giving the real, uh natural, causes to why texas has, like the rest of the world, been cooling down for the past ten years...

Can someone tell me why the land masses warm much more greatly than the oceans? Since we are talking climate, and we all know that the ONLY thing that matters when talking climate is CO2, and since we also all know that CO2 blows around in the atmosphere, it would seem to me that warming would be more uniform over the globe.

Please see page 6 of "Direct Testimony of James E. Hansen", posted today by Gary B on another thread here. Let me try and paraphrase the top paragraph here:

Water has much larger thermal inertia than land. The ocean averages 4 km (2.5 miles) in depth. The temperature of this large mass of water therefore rises more slowly than land during warming periods and falls more slowly during cooling periods.

It looked like an "artist's interpretation" rather than output from a model. I see the Met has a Flash animation on their website which does look like it came from a model, but it is not interactive:
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/models/temperature_anim.html

bt,

The temperature of this large mass of water therefore rises more slowly than land during warming periods and falls more slowly during cooling periods.

I guess that explains why the ocean temperatures have been falling recently (last 5-10 years) when we have had unprecedented warming over the last 150 years.

Paul, are you talking about the entire volume of the ocean, or just the top 100 meters of ocean surface?

Paul: Just another "inconvenient truth" that the Climate Fascists (term I coined for the AGW crowd, though I have seen it used elsewhere) choose to ignore since it refutes their ridiculous fiction of (human produced) CO2 induced climate change.

Right now, planet Earth is experiencing INVISIBLE warming, or, if you prefer, warming with a cloaking device (apparently, the Klingons have gotten hold of it). Conveniently, for the sheep among us, the Climate Facists can continue to demand "action" (read: stripping individual liberties, additional giovernment control and taxation) to "solve" the invisible "crisis" as doom remains, though completely hidden from any real world observation, hidden just around the corner. /sarcasm

OK, well I knew that. Really I did.

So, I suppose the Met office has allowed for the "lag time" in heating due to the water's greater heat uptake inertia. Guess it wasn't clear to me on that account. It seems to me though that what we observe in the running of the model is a solar feedback thing not CO2.

Leads me to wonder if this isn't some sort of long term (hundreds of thousands of years or so)cycle in which land mass is flooded thereby reducing the overall heat in the system by increasing the area that can "cool" the atmosphere.