One can reasonably argue that this is a La Nina event and therefore cyclical rather than a sign of cooling or not-warming (January 2000 was also in a La Nina). Which is all well and good except for a couple of things. First, scientists used to think that El Nino's and La Nina's didn't heat or cool the world so much as redistribute it across the surface. Now, with satellites being able to watch the whole world at the same time, they are being forced to rething this proposition.
Second, while climate scientists can reasonably argue that current cold temperatures are cyclical rather than part of a longer trend because they are an La Nina, they did NOT make this same argument when the 1998 El Nino produced cyclically hotter temperatures. All I remember about 1998 is Mann, Gore, Hansen and company all saying 1998 was the hottest year on record and proof of global warming.
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Actually re el nina etc the scientists didn't know they existed until like 2 decades ago.
But fishermen did.
As my uncle Wes used to say we're going to have weather today.
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