Plummeting temperatures could send the world into a 'mini ice age' (tr)

Daily Mail ^ | Dec 27, 2017 | Phoebe Weston

[PIF]

We’re talking year round winter over most of the world, with some relatively warmer areas south of Texas, north of Panama. Europe, Russia will be mostly submerged in ice. North Africa will be very wet, the Sahara will blossom. Like that.

[PIF]

I don’t see the down side...

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You will when you hear the low rumbling growl of a smilodon ... or the cry of the local Dire Wolves ... perhaps the last things you’ll hear ...

[Snickering Hound]

[MarMema]

When I was growing up a new Ice Age caused by global cooling was all the rage.

Aaaaand. It's back!!

[HippyLoggerBiker]

see my post #51

Regards,
HLB

[Reily]

I think you and I must have read the same report!

Here’s a guy who if right, then we really really need global warming and lots of it.

https://www.iceagenow.info/

The thing is there is more physical evidence (not computer simulation!) to support this guy’s case, then there is for catastrophic warming.

The bottom line is there will be a major cooling (glaciation!) again simply because past history says so it’s just a matter of when! The last major glaciation was not the last ever major glaciation! That would only be if the case if something extraordinary happened regarding earth and all the interacting (nonlinear!) geophysical systems that make it up.

[TigersEye]

• January 10, 1871: Pall Mall Gazette – “Imaginary Change of Climate”
  “…a plentiful crop of speculation from weather prophets and projectors, and half-
  instructed meteorologists…We have often noticed…every season is sure to be
  ‘extraordinary,’ almost every month one of the driest or wettest, or windiest, coldest
  or hottest ever known. Much observation, which ought to correct a tendency to
  exaggerate, seems in some minds to have rather a tendency to increase it.”

• 1902: Los Angeles Times
  Glaciers are undergoing ‘their final annihilation’ due to warming.

• 1923: Chicago Tribune (Front page)
  “Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada”

• May 15, 1932: New York Times (Special supplement May)
  Continuing end of the last ice age, not human activity cause of warming trend.
  Melting Polar Ice Caps to Raise the Level of Seas and Flood the Continents

• May 23, 1969: New York Times
  “Worrying About a New Ice Age.”

• April 22, 1970 (Lenin’s birthday): First Earth Day event presentation
  George Wald, Harvard Biologist –
  “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against
  problems facing mankind.”

• 1970’s: Science, Science Digest, Newsweek, etc.
  Global cooling – ice age.

• June 24, 1974: Time
  “Another Ice Age?”

• June 30, 1989: San Jose Mercury News
  Noel Brown, senior UN environment official –
  Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if
  global warming is not reversed by 2000.

• 1997:
  U.S. Senate voted 95-0 that the U.S. should not sign on to the Kyoto protocols.

• 2006:
  Al Gore [alleged climate expert and Grand Klimatologist of the Klimate Klux Klan] –
  10 years to solve the global-warming problem.

• 2007:
  Chief of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) –
  “If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late.”

• December 2008:
  Al Gore [alleged climate expert and Grand Klimatologist of the Klimate Klux Klan] tells German audience –
  “…the entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in 5 years.”

• January 19, 2009:
  James Hansen, [alleged] climate expert and past head of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies –
  President Obama has only four years to save the Earth.

• December 2009:
  Al Gore [alleged climate expert and Grand Klimatologist of the Klimate Klux Klan] @ Copenhagen UN climate summit –
  75% chance Arctic Ocean ice-free in several years.

• November 10, 2013: Mother Jones article –
  “Climate deniers like to point to the so-called global warming ‘hiatus’ [17 years without warming].”
  Note: In the article below, the IPCC omits this fact!

• April 13, 2014:USA Today
  (IPCC states), “…global emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases have accelerated to unprecedented levels…”

But, here is reality!!

Global warming computer models confounded as Antarctic sea ice hits new record high with 2.1million square miles more than is usual for time of year

Government Data Show U.S. in Decade-Long Cooling

[MarMema]

That is funny!!

[MarMema]

Oh hey, it is subzero here this week.

[Eddie01]

About Smilodon...

Smilodon is an extinct saber-toothed cat which lived approximately 2.5 million to 10,000 years ago – from the Early Pleistocene Period through the Modern Period. It was first discovered during the early 19th century and was named by Peter Wilhelm Lund in 1842. This cat’s name means “saber-tooth.”

One of the most fascinating facts about Smilodon is that while it is often referred to as a saber-toothed tiger, it really wasn’t a tiger. No, tigers are in fact descended from the Panthera tigris family. Smilodon is actually distantly related to modern lions and cheetahs.

Just by looking at Smilodon pictures, you can clearly see that these cats were very ferocious. They were approximately 5 feet long, 3 feet high and weighed around 440 pounds. That makes them smaller than a modern lion in length but is also means they were a little bit heavier.

What seems really scary about these cats, however, were the size of their teeth. Their canine teeth were almost a foot long. However, its teeth were also very brittle and would often break off while they were using them. And once one of their teeth had broken, then it would never come back.

Smilodon also had jaws that were exceptionally weak. This combination of weak jaws and brittle teeth meant that this carnivore really couldn’t bite down with much force. That’s not to say they weren’t dangerous because that isn’t true at all. These big cats still managed to take down their prey without a whole lot of problems.

Paleontologists believe that it hunted by jumping down on its prey from tree branches. Then when it landed on its prey, it sunk its teeth into its neck. It would then leave its prey to bleed to death and then when it was dead, it would come back and eat it.

[MarMema]

Quite amusing, thanks.

Whatever happens it is certainly the fault of white people and probably mostly white men. /s

[Does so]

Valentina Zharkova at Northumbria University

IIRC, she leads the list of GW deniers.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Here in New Hampshire I was praying for global warming but all I got was a mini ice age.

I lived in Epping for 14 years. My son was born in Exeter Hospital. That was back when it was still Conservative and the Old Man was still on the mountain. We moved away not long after he fell. I have some great memories of that state.

[crusher2013]

They can’t get their crisis story straight, but they have the solution nailed down.

GIVE US YOUR MONEY, YOU SERFS!

[TigersEye]

...and probably mostly white men.

I have done all I can! ;-)

[MarMema]

Well we appreciate your efforts!

[kjam22]

Clearly the mandella effect has caused morons to forget it’s been really cold before.... in our lifetime

[Calvin Locke]

There's an advantage to a sustained cold snap. It can kill off the dormant larvae of a lot of various pests.

A very cold winter in '79-'80 got rid of the gypsy moths for years.

[butlerweave]

Relax Al you changed it from Global Warming to Climate Change to cover everything ,LOL

[RightGeek]

lol