Posted on 10/14/2009 9:52:49 AM PDT by Errant
Those who ignore the geologic perspective do so at great risk. In fall of 1985, geologists warned that a Columbian volcano, Nevado del Ruiz, was getting ready to erupt. But the volcano had been dormant for 150 years. So government officials and inhabitants of nearby towns did not take the warnings seriously. On the evening of November 13, Nevado del Ruiz erupted, triggering catastrophic mudslides. In the town of Armero, 23,000 people were buried alive in a matter of seconds...
For ninety percent of the last million years, the normal state of the Earth's climate has been an ice age. Ice ages last about 100,000 years, and are punctuated by short periods of warm climate, or interglacials. The last ice age started about 114,000 years ago. It began instantaneously. For a hundred-thousand years, temperatures fell and sheets of ice a mile thick grew to envelop much of North America, Europe and Asia. The ice age ended nearly as abruptly as it began. Between about 12,000 and 10,000 years ago, the temperature in Greenland rose more than 50 °F.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I wonder if the author is related to the Demming who was the American QC guru that transformed Japanese manufacturing into a high quality source it is today. He was rejected by Detroit’s automakers who became lethargic with poor QC.
very cheery reading. yikes.
DEEP QUIET: Today, the sun is entering its 13th consecutive day without sunspots. Just a few years ago, such a stretch of blank suns would have been unthinkable. Now it's routine. So far this year, the sun has been spotless 79% of the time, topping the 73% mark recorded in 2008. Long after many forecasters thought solar minimum would be finished, the quiet is not only continuing, but actually deepening. Are sunspots gone for good? Researchers discuss the question in an article from Science@NASA.
Ah yes, the Toyato Production System. Eli Goldratt had some things to say about that as well.
Not sure but this Demming is David Deming a geophysicist and associate professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma.
CO2 levels would have to be 10X as much to have any effect on temperature. It is still too dilute to make any diff.
CO2 is a lagging indicator of warming. The oceans hold much of the planet’s CO2. When they are warmer they absorb less. It stays in the atmosphere... after the Earth has warmed.
The absence of hurricanes this year is welcomed by many people.
There is nothing scientific about my observation but I am happy that no Katrina's or Camile's have been headed toward land.
The Atlantic hurricane season is officially from 1 June to 30 November.
Ping.
Coming ice age? It’s a good thing I really like winter clothes!
Time to secure more before the inflation hits!
Bump.
Gee, ya’ think that’s why the Chinese have been busily recolonizing Africa?
Ah Hah! “The Ice Age Cometh”
I wish you $&*#% Freepers would lay off Global Cooling.
Please spare us - that piece of crap and its sanctimonious lecturing .... makes me wanna puke all over again
Obama will bankrupt us if that fails he will freeze us with his geo-cooling idea and if after that we are still kicking he will bring in his brother muslims to kill us off. Pick your poison.
Storms menace CA...
Heavy snow expected in PA...
Chicago record breaking cold continues...
Montana records fall...
CHILL MAP...
lol, it wasn’t me...
Wow. Wonder if this is true. (Even Hansel and Gretel were just abandoned, not eaten by their parents.) Would guards really place prisoners arrested for petty crimes in a cell where they were guaranteed to be eaten alive. Dang.
This guy’s opinions don’t count because he is a geoPHYSICIST, not a climatologist. You see, a physics background is nothing compared to the rigors of climatology. /HUGE SARC, but that’s the current AGW meme.
Also, here’s an important quote: “Earth’s climate is controlled by the Sun. In comparison, every other factor is trivial. The coldest part of the Little Ice Age during the latter half of the seventeenth century was marked by the nearly complete absence of sunspots.”
For some reason, AGW cultists just can’t understand how that burning ball of thermonuclear fire about 1.5 million times the size of Earth could affect climate. Actually, the reason is simple: delusion.
“basically all the worst parts of the bible”— Billy Bob Thorton in Armageddon.
I found this article Solar Physicist Predicts Ice Age among others very interesting and informative.
Interesting handle you have.
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies...
Rivers and seas boiling...
Forty years of darkness...
Earthquakes, volcanoes...
The dead rising from the grave...
Human sacrifice...
Dogs and cats living together...
Mass hysteria...
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