ONE Messiah...
Posted on 06/24/2008 6:44:41 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
"The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth's climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic."
The Cooling World
Newsweek, April 28, 1975
There are ominous signs that the Earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production– with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self- sufficient tropical areas – parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia – where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.
The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars' worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.
To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world's weather. The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth's climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic.
"A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale," warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, "because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century."
A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972.
To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earth's average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras – and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average. Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the "little ice age" conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 – years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.
Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery. "Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data," concedes the National Academy of Sciences report. "Not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions."
Meteorologists think that they can forecast the short-term results of the return to the norm of the last century. They begin by noting the slight drop in overall temperature that produces large numbers of pressure centers in the upper atmosphere. These break up the smooth flow of westerly winds over temperate areas. The stagnant air produced in this way causes an increase in extremes of local weather such as droughts, floods, extended dry spells, long freezes, delayed monsoons and even local temperature increases – all of which have a direct impact on food supplies.
"The world's food-producing system," warns Dr. James D. McQuigg of NOAA's Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment, "is much more sensitive to the weather variable than it was even five years ago." Furthermore, the growth of world population and creation of new national boundaries make it impossible for starving peoples to migrate from their devastated fields, as they did during past famines.
Climatologists are pessimistic that political leaders will take any positive action to compensate for the climatic change, or even to allay its effects. They concede that some of the more spectacular solutions proposed, such as melting the Arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers, might create problems far greater than those they solve. But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies. The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.
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The Cooling World:
http://denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
Original Newsweek article with scary maps and graphs:
http://denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf
I've been beseeching my parents to stockpile food for the last year, but they're generally dismissive of my concerns.
That's because they're prolly evil Republicans who drive an SUV and a 400hp Benz. Worse, they don't recycle -- you must KILL THEM!
And they're 'dismissive' as us parents usually don't pay no mind to our kids about important stuff when they're 12.
the freaking Moonbats really do live with their parents.
ONE Messiah...
No, winning would be enough. All you have to do is get Obama elected and Global Warming would no longer be taken seriously by anyone, even the media. I remember thinking after the 1992 election that at least the media would stop whining about the economy and the environment. Both of those problems were fixed the day Clinton was elected two months before he was even inaugurated.
Top 1,000,000.
These stupid idiots don’t have enough common sense to know that their belief in the global warming hoax will bring on the very things they are so afraid of.
Maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me, but it sure looks like the peaks of the red line are leading the peaks on the blue line.
You're apparently reading the graph in reverse. 'Now' is on the right, not the left. CO2 increases FOLLOWED temperature increases. Moreover, the increased CO2 levels did NOT lead to further warming.
THE ACQUITTAL OF CARBON DIOXIDE
by Jeffrey A. Glassman, PhD
ABSTRACT:
"Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the product of oceanic respiration due to the well-known but under-appreciated solubility pump. Carbon dioxide rises out of warm ocean waters where it is added to the atmosphere. There it is mixed with residual and accidental CO2, and circulated, to be absorbed into the sink of the cold ocean waters. Next the thermohaline circulation carries the CO2-rich sea water deep into the ocean. A millennium later it appears at the surface in warm waters, saturated by lower pressure and higher temperature, to be exhausted back into the atmosphere. Throughout the past 420 millennia, comprising four interglacial periods, the Vostok record of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is imprinted with, and fully characterized by, the physics of the solubility of CO2 in water, along with the lag in the deep ocean circulation.
Notwithstanding that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, atmospheric carbon dioxide has neither caused nor amplified global temperature increases. Increased carbon dioxide has been an effect of global warming, not a cause. Technically, carbon dioxide is a lagging proxy for ocean temperatures. When global temperature, and along with it, ocean temperature rises, the physics of solubility causes atmospheric CO2 to increase.
If increases in carbon dioxide, or any other greenhouse gas, could have in turn raised global temperatures, the positive feedback would have been catastrophic. While the conditions for such a catastrophe were present in the Vostok record from natural causes, the runaway event did not occur. Carbon dioxide does not accumulate in the atmosphere."
http://www.rocketscientistsjournal.com/2006/10/co2_acquittal.html
Haven't you heard? "Ice Road Truckers" is actually filmed on a Top Secret sound stage deep in the sub-basement of a hidden bunker at the NSA building near Ft. Meade!
Few and far between? Not as long as there's a Pizza Hut delivery and Mom's credit card!
[TRANSLATION: We need Global Warming as an excuse to institute socialism.]
I have a radical change in policy for the KOmmies [and DUmmies] all of you stop breathing immediately.
[Thanx for that confirmation that Hansen is indeed a leftwing loon.]
Oil CEOs should be prosecuted, but the algores and Silky Pony can get away with all the BS they do?
[Which will pale in comparison to the HUGE mental problem you will have in 7 months if you do NOT take power.]
Hey KOmmie, you have seven MINUTES to stop breathing if you want.
[I'm already picturing leftwing monks in small universities preserving our knowledge and culture on scrolls as, outside, rightwing yahoo redneck barbarians destroy civilization in their pickup trucks.]
All that flyover country is for us rednecks and people who are bitter and cling to our guns or religion. You probably won't feel very welcome there. If you want a place with practical skills, you'd better go to a school that doesn't preach liberalism.
[Stockpiling DiGiorno pizzas.]
We Republicans are just going about our daily lives as we always have in the past. The sky ain't falling.
...and they miraculously returned as soon as GWB was inaugurated.
Wonder if there's a correlation between the number of homeless people and the onset of Global Warming? Hmmmmm. Something to consider.
Some of the DU FU’s have a higher moonbat content than others, IMHO. This one’s definitely up there.
[Or your KOmmie brains will fry.]
That ship has already sailed.
Okay, I'll go out on a limb here and predict some Heaven's Gate type departures from this world but beyond that I have no real idea what will happen.
Perception management --> a situation where someone creates facts and spews same. Operative word = creates aka lies for mass consumption.
EEEK! It already started with that sentence.
Did you check out that La Caja China video about cooking pork shoulder?
Dammit! There goes the personal jetpack I was promised....
Problem is, it is so hard to eat right in Candyland.
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