The Little Ice Age:
How Climate Made History 1300-1850
by Brian M. Fagan
Paperback
Posted on 12/30/2010 10:21:23 AM PST by Signalman
The record-breaking snowfall and cold that hit the Northeast in December 2010 forced cancellation of 5,000 airline flights and one NFL football game, prompted six states to declare states of emergency, and left nearly 55 percent of the U.S landmass covered in snow.
to enter and exit their homes from third-story windows.
The year 1816 was called the year without summer because in the Northeast snow remained year-round in the shade of rocks and trees. It was apparently caused by the added chill of high-altitude volcanic ash circling and shading the Earth, happened during what today we call the little ice age that gripped the Northern Hemisphere from around 1400 A.D. until around 1850 A.D.
From America's Revolutionary War we have records of British soldiers dragging heavy cannons across the thick ice from Staten Island to Brooklyn.
During this era the harbors in Boston, New York City, Baltimore, and Philadelphia repeatedly froze shut in winter. The winter at Valley Forge was far more severe than those today.
We may be sliding back into a little ice age, as I argued long ago in my book "The Cooling." A bit of global warming might supply the atmospheric moisture that could make such a rapid return to Earth's normal colder ice climate happen.
But you would never know this listening to global warming advocates, who in recent days have proclaimed that global warming is the cause of the record-shattering cold and snow in the Northeast, Great Britain, and much of Europe.
A Dec. 22 editorial in Investor's Business Daily (IBD) put its finger precisely on the fallacy in such thinking. As philosopher of science Karl Popper observed, to be valid science a claim must be "falsifiable," testable in a way that can prove it wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
I won’t say the Warmists are sissies, but they admittedly lack testables.
It doesn't matter whether it gets hotter, colder, wetter, dryer, windier or less windy. No matter what the weather happens to be, it will always be Bush's fault.
Plus Algore will make even more money off of it.
Had snow here in Florida the last week.
The Little Ice Age:
How Climate Made History 1300-1850
by Brian M. Fagan
Paperback
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Interesting!
Happy New Year BenLurkin.
And to you FRiend. Looking forward to more of your excellent pings.
The solar max currently forecast is going to be the lowest since the Dalton Minimum, and it currently looks like the model is optimistic since the last four months have the sunspot levels going down.
Also, keep in mind that the coldest part of winter happens AFTER the winter solstice, AFTER the shortest day, and while the length of the day is INCREASING.
I think that it was Time magazine that had a cover warning about the coming ice age back in the seventies, or early eighties. The more things change, the more they stay the same. No doubt about it.
It’s the same type of people who warned of the threat of global warming, who were then warning of the return of the ice age. We also had record high temperatures in the summer of ‘78, I believe. I remember, we were living in Chadds Ford, PA. We had gas lines, and snow all winter, with a 20 minute drive to a grocery store. Then in June, we had 30 days of 98 degree temperature with 98% humidity. It rained some part of every day and the steam was coming up out of the ground under the trees. The shoes in my closet turned green with mold (no central air, just room air conditioners), but they were warning of an ice age.
He needs to check with Huffington Post or moveon.crap or someone more reliable like Weekly World News to see what the talking points for their scam is this week.
Claim that global warming causes warming is SO 1999!
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