AUGUSTA, Ga. - ICECAP, the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project, a U.S. non-profit corporation composed of various climate experts, released new data today showing the global cooling trend continues. According to a report issued by Matt Vooro, the earth is cooling since 2002 at .195 degrees Celsius per decade. Various institutions including the U.K. Met Office Hadley Centre report data showing a general cooling trend over the globe since 1999.

ICECAP also provides a climate change scorecard which suggests climate models have drastically over-predicted warming over the globe. In fact, the 2006 ICECAP Greenhouse Warming Scorecard notes an observed global warming of .6 degrees Celsius for the period 1900 to 2000 compared to the 2001 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) forecast of 1.1 to 3.3 degrees Celsius warming. The scorecard goes on to conclude that perhaps 45 percent of the warming observed over the last century can be attributed to spurious urban warming.

The IPCC 2007 report suggests a nominal global warming of anywhere between .20 degree and .80 degree Celsius per decade through the end of the century. Clearly, this trend has yet to develop.

For more information on the ICECAP data, click here.
 

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