Forget global warming, ‘Little Ice Age’ to begin in 10 years
Global warming may mean beachfront property in Macon someday, but the Earth may have to go through a cold spell first.
Polar bears would have had plenty to eat if they'd made it to London during the late 1600s.
Fox Nation sums up the complicated science with this low-key headline: Global Warming Be Damned, We Might Be Headed for a Mini Ice Age
According to the pocket-protector crowd at the annual meeting of the solar physics division of the American Astronomical Society, the sun, due to reduced sunspot activity, is going to be a bit cooler soon.
When? Maybe as soon as 2021, or never.
How much cooler will the Earth get if sunspot activity decreases? No one knows exactly, but probably a fraction of a degree Celsius, which probably isn’t enough to lure another NHL franchise to Atlanta.
But, the last time such a thing happened, in the late 17th Century, the good folks of London were ice skating on the Thames and villages in the Swiss Alps were destroyed by expanding glaciers.
Wired Magazine throws ice water on the heated discussion with this exciting headline: Sunspot Drop Won’t Cause Global Cooling
At most, reduced sunspots will offset rising global temperatures for a few years, perhaps a couple decades, said NASA climatologist David Rind in the Wired article.
“To point to this as something that could in any way ameliorate greenhouse gas warming is folly,” said climatologist Michael Mann of Penn State University.
I guess I’ll keep the snow skis in the attic.
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Politically Neutral
June 16th, 2011
1:26 pm
Observer, I agreed with everything you said until the “World Order” thing. I don’t see many politicians campaigning on weather issues anymore (since Shallow Al). And I certainly don’t think that President Obama is trying to create any “World Order”. If you have proof, give evidence. I don’t think either major party is trying to do anything other than pad their own narcissistic pockets. But I also don’t think that humans are causing “Global Warming”. We’ve been warming since the last Ice Age. And the cycle towards the next Ice Age will continue. We may get slightly warmer before the cooling begins, but NY will be under a mile of ice in 100,000 years or less. Why are we humans so arrogant on one hand, and so self-depreciating on the other?!?!?!
What do the scientists say about global warming
June 16th, 2011
1:32 pm
Definitive Proof: Majority Of Scientists Do Not Support Man Made Warming Theory
Survey of peer reviewed studies reveals less than 50% of published scientists believe global warming is man made. More skeptics than advocates among scientific community while IPCC claim majority endorse the theory.
Steve Watson
A new survey of over 500 peer reviewed scientific research papers on climate change, written between 2004 and 2007, has concluded that less than half endorse what has been dubbed the “consensus view,” that human activity is contributing to considerable global climate change.
In direct conflict with assertions by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that a scientific consensus agrees it is 90% likely that man is responsible for warming, Medical researcher Dr. Klaus-Martin Schulte’s survey contends that only 45% support the theory and that is only if you include papers that merely lean towards endorsement.
Though the survey has not yet been released, the results have been submitted to the journal Energy and Environment, and science blog DailyTech has obtained a pre-publication copy which states:
Of 528 total papers on climate change, only 38 (7%) gave an explicit endorsement of the consensus. If one considers “implicit” endorsement (accepting the consensus without explicit statement), the figure rises to 45%. However, while only 32 papers (6%) reject the consensus outright, the largest category (48%) are neutral papers, refusing to either accept or reject the hypothesis. This is no “consensus.”
The figures are even more shocking when one remembers the watered-down definition of consensus here. Not only does it not require supporting that man is the “primary” cause of warming, but it doesn’t require any belief or support for “catastrophic” global warming. In fact of all papers published in this period (2004 to February 2007), only a single one makes any reference to climate change leading to catastrophic results.
The introduction and the summary of the IPCC’s report was written entirely by politicians under the mandate of the UN, the input of actual scientists was minimal. In addition, all sections that were written by selected scientists were edited to comply with the report summary.
Some of the scientists involved even admitted that the IPCC models failed to accurately predict climate change and that “none of the climate states in the models corresponds even remotely to the current observed climate”.
By contrast, the ISI Web of Science database covers 8,700 journals and publications, including every leading scientific journal in the world and is not directly influenced by any governmental body.
Infowars.net
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Definitive Proof: Majority Of Scientists Do Not Support Man Made Warming Theory
Survey of peer reviewed studies reveals less than 50% of published scientists believe global warming is man made. More skeptics than advocates among scientific community while IPCC claim majority endorse the theory.
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Politically Neutral
June 16th, 2011
1:32 pm
“tired of misuse of term”, I don’t know what planet you live on. Maybe one run by the UN. But if you base your decisions on the UN’s policies, you’re sadly misguided. The underlying policy of the UN is to shift the world’s wealth from the US and other industrial nations, to third-world nations. It’s the “Robbing Hood” effect. The UN wants to tax the US and give it to Africa under the guise of Climate Change.
cracking up
June 16th, 2011
1:36 pm
A bunch of educated guessers GUESSING about something they have no real idea of.. God’s going to do what He’s going to do..
Another observer
June 16th, 2011
1:37 pm
Politically neutral,
Wonder what happened to all the old 60s radicals and the old communists around the globe after the fall of communism? They simply joined and then hijacked the environmental movement. Why? Because the movememt is anti- capitalist, anti- U.S., etc. Take a look at the political background of a lot of people worldwide that are in green movements. You would be stunned to see how many of them were former communist advocates or far left people in their own countries and how virtually everyone in the green movement is far left on a political spectrum of issues that has nothing to do with global warming.
Politically Neutral
June 16th, 2011
1:39 pm
UGA 1999, President Obama wants you to drive a car that consumes less gasoline in order to lower our dependence on foreign oil, not because of global warming. I wish one of the Bush oilmen had taken that stance. The greatest threat to the US today is our gluttony for foreign oil. Period.
Politically Neutral
June 16th, 2011
1:43 pm
Cracking up, who/where is God? And if he/she is in control, why did he/she allow Jews to be slaughtered by Hitler? Did God create this one little planet and surround it by trillions and trillions of stars, planets, and the rest of the Universe, just for our amusement?
DannyX
June 16th, 2011
1:50 pm
Thanks to the state of Georgia there is no global warming.
The day time high in south Georgia is currently around 70 degrees. The unemployed in Atlanta are going to be pleased with the picking conditions. Clear blue skies. Don’t believe the liberal media, its not near 100. The liberal media lie. Now I’m not telling all those unemployed Atlanta folk to forget the shady hat. You’ll need one.
All is well in Red State Georgia, global warming has been fixed. The illegal immigrant mess has been fixed. The unemployment problem, all fixed.
Don’t forget the sunscreen.
Jerome
June 16th, 2011
1:50 pm
Remember how in the 80’s they predeicted by 2020 that Miami would be under water? Well looks like they were wrong and my parents still have the same amount of beachfront property as thet did 20 years ago.
UGA 1999
June 16th, 2011
1:54 pm
Politically….first you need to get off your needs and stop worshipping Barry. Second I agree that we should lower our dependance on foreign oil, but the way to do that is to produce more oil domestically. Simple supply and demand.