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Amidst Global Warming Hysteria, NASA Expects Global Cooling
Townhall Finance ^ | January 30, 2019 | Mike Shedlock

Posted on 01/31/2019 11:34:06 AM PST by CedarDave

Those promoting CO2 as the reason for global warming are hucksters and those taken in by hucksters.

Please consider NASA Sees Climate Cooling Trend Thanks to Low Sun Activity.

“We see a cooling trend,” said Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center. “High above Earth’s surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy. If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold.”

The new data is coming from NASA’s Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry or SABER instrument, which is onboard the space agency’s Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) satellite. SABER monitors infrared radiation from carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitric oxide (NO), two substances that play a vital role in the energy output of our thermosphere, the very top level of our atmosphere.

“The thermosphere always cools off during Solar Minimum. It’s one of the most important ways the solar cycle affects our planet,” said Mlynczak, who is the associate principal investigator for SABER.

The new NASA findings are in line with studies released by UC-San Diego and Northumbria University in Great Britain last year, both of which predict a Grand Solar Minimum in coming decades due to low sunspot activity. Both studies predicted sun activity similar to the Maunder Minimum of the mid-17th to early 18th centuries, which coincided to a time known as the Little Ice Age, during which temperatures were much lower than those of today.

If all of this seems as if NASA is contradicting itself, you’re right — sort of. After all, NASA also reported last week that Arctic sea ice was at its sixth lowest level since measuring began. Isn’t that a sure sign of global warming?

All any of this “proves” is that we have, at best, a cursory understanding of Earth’s incredibly complex climate system. So when mainstream media and carbon-credit salesman Al Gore breathlessly warn you that we must do something about climate change, it’s all right to step back, take a deep breath, and realize that we don’t have the knowledge, skill or resources to have much effect on the Earth’s climate.

Incredibly Complex Systems

See the problem? Alarmists take one variable, CO2 that is only a tiny part of extremely long cycles and make projections far into to the future based off it.

When I was in grade school, the alarmists were worried about global cooling. Amusingly, I recall discussing in science class the need to put soot on the arctic ice to melt it to stop the advance of glaciers.

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report said we have only 12 years left to save the planet. It triggered the usual frantic and ridiculous reactions.

NBC News offered this gem: “A last-ditch global warming fix? A man-made ‘volcanic’ eruption” to cool the planet.” Its article proclaimed, “Scientists and some environmentalists believe nations might have to mimic volcanic gases as a last-ditch effort to protect Earth from extreme warming.”

Geo-engineering: Ignoring the Consequences

Watts Up With That discusses Geo-Engineering: Ignoring the Consequences.

From 1940 to almost 1980, the average global temperature went down. Political concerns and the alleged scientific consensus focused on global cooling. Alarmists said it could be the end of agriculture and civilization. Journalist Lowell Ponte wrote in his 1976 book, The Cooling.

The problem then was – and still is now – that people are educated in the false philosophy of uniformitarianism: the misguided belief that conditions always were and always will be as they are now, and any natural changes will occur over long periods of time.

Consequently, most people did not understand that the cooling was part of the natural cycle of climate variability, or that changes are often huge and sudden. Just 18,000 years ago we were at the peak of an Ice Age. Then, most of the ice melted and sea levels rose 150 meters (490 feet), because it was warmer for almost all of the last 10,000 years than it is today.

During the cooling “danger,” geo-engineering proposals included:



“Taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere,” as advocated by the IPCC in its October 8 news conference, is also foolish. Historic records show that, at about 410 parts per million (ppm), the level of CO2 supposedly in the atmosphere now, we are near the lowest in the last 280 million years. As plants evolved over that time, the average level was 1200 ppm. That is why commercial greenhouses boost CO2 to that level to increase plant growth and yields by a factor of four.

The IPCC has been wrong in every prediction it’s made since 1990. It would be a grave error to use its latest forecasts as the excuse to engage in geo-engineering experiments with the only planet we have.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: carbondioxide; climatechange; climatechangefraud; co2; globalcooling; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; globalwarmning; muslimoutreach; nasa
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Much more at the link including "Extreme weather not proof of global warming, NASA on global cooling" and "Greatest Two-Year Global Cooling Event Just Took Place."

Shedlock says:
"Watts Up With That" accurately labels global warming hysteria as the CO2 Derangement Syndrome.
That's an excellent synopsis of the current state of affairs so please give it a good look.

Finally, even if you still believe man-made global warming is a threat, please ponder the notion that governments will not do anything sensible about it.

1 posted on 01/31/2019 11:34:06 AM PST by CedarDave
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To: CedarDave

bkmrk


2 posted on 01/31/2019 11:34:56 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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4 posted on 01/31/2019 11:36:15 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: CedarDave
..The thermosphere always cools off during Solar Minimum.

oh yeah, just like the room always goes dark during Light Switch minimum..

5 posted on 01/31/2019 11:36:59 AM PST by SGCOS
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To: CedarDave

Uh, oh. Martin’s gonna get sent to re-education camp. Shouldn’t have told the truth, Marty.


6 posted on 01/31/2019 11:39:45 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: CedarDave

Finally! A Climate Change thread that doesn’t need any Goebbel’s pictures.


7 posted on 01/31/2019 11:43:34 AM PST by C210N (Republicans sign check fronts; 'Rats sign check backs.)
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To: CedarDave

I’m pretty sure that Russian lady said that years ago.


8 posted on 01/31/2019 11:45:21 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: CedarDave

[Incredibly Complex Systems]

“It would be a shock to our antiquated systems”

Jack Nicholson


9 posted on 01/31/2019 11:46:09 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: VTenigma

Valentina Zharkova?


10 posted on 01/31/2019 11:49:59 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: CedarDave
“Scientists and some environmentalists believe nations might have to mimic volcanic gases as a last-ditch effort to protect Earth from extreme warming.”

I can help with this. Hell, I already do so on a daily basis.

11 posted on 01/31/2019 11:51:41 AM PST by mbarker12474
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To: CedarDave

Today, there was this bit of meteorological info on Twitter:

It’s -7 degrees in Hell, Michigan, right now, with a wind chill of -28. You know what that means people…

Hell has literally frozen over.

— Derek Wallbank (@dwallbank) January 30, 2019


12 posted on 01/31/2019 12:03:34 PM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: mbarker12474
“Scientists and some environmentalists believe nations might have to mimic volcanic gases as a last-ditch effort to protect Earth from extreme warming.”

I can help with this. Hell, I already do so on a daily basis.

I love spicy foods. Downside is having windows open all the time to ventilate the house, even though it's cold. Doing my part also!

13 posted on 01/31/2019 12:04:31 PM PST by roadcat
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To: colorado tanker

Yep, Marty needs to get his head right. Something ain’t right about that boy.


14 posted on 01/31/2019 12:08:16 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: CedarDave

Will cooling cost more than warming ?


15 posted on 01/31/2019 12:10:33 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: CedarDave

RE: article reference about “potential” Geoengineering measures -
US and UK have been engaged in SRM - Solar Radiation Management for over two decades.
You just have to look up...

UK Oxford University Geoengineering Program
http://www.geoengineering.ox.ac.uk/www.geoengineering.ox.ac.uk/what-is-geoengineering/what-is-geoengineering/

US Gov’t Stratospheric Aerosol Injection - Tactics and Costs for 15 year program -
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae98d


16 posted on 01/31/2019 12:25:22 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: DuncanWaring
Valentina Zharkova?

Yes, she said it again last fall:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/valentinazharkova/index?tab=articles

17 posted on 01/31/2019 12:45:28 PM PST by CedarDave (Democrats: Creating a dependency class using open borders and voter fraud to get and keep power.)
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To: lolligag

That is the underlying principal of all human governments. Control is what it is all about. Helping people? Adding productivity ? Feeding the poor ? All lipstick on the pig.


18 posted on 01/31/2019 1:57:56 PM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: CedarDave

Stupid NASA. Someone needs to inform them that the “science is settled”.


19 posted on 01/31/2019 2:06:59 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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To: CedarDave

Bookmark


20 posted on 01/31/2019 2:42:11 PM PST by aquila48
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