Here Comes The Mini Ice Age

The Lid/UK Mail ^ | 1/10/10 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

Back in September a climate Scientist, named Mojib Latif predicted that the earth was facing a mini "ice age," 20-30 years of global cooling. Latif said the cooling would be the result of changes to ocean currents and temperatures in the North Atlantic, a feature known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Latif also said that the NAO may be partly the cause of warming during the past 30 years (he also said he is not a global warming skeptic).

The prediction of this non-skeptic challenge some of the Church of Global Warming's most holy beliefs, like the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in summer by 2013, only a bit more than three years from now.

The US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, says that Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007, and even the most committed global warming moonbats do not dispute this. Ah, it must be a trick, the ice is going to disappear by growing. Just like the cooling is the result of global warming.

The scientists’ predictions about the effects of changes to ocean currents, also undermine the standard climate computer models, which assert that the warming of the Earth since 1900 has been driven solely by man-made greenhouse gas emissions and will continue as long as carbon dioxide levels rise.

[palmer]

Assuming that the total radiant energy from the sun that is reaching earth is constant, how can air or water currents affect the average temperature?

The global temperature measured by satellite bounces around a lot. The basic reason is that weather (clouds, rain, water vapor, etc) is uneven and causes global cooling or global warming depending on how it adds up. It most certainly does not add up to zero, (e.g. the current freeze in the USA is not "balanced" by warm weather elsewhere).

As far as ocean currents and such, they cause global warming or global cooling on a slightly longer time scale. For example just a bit of extra wind across the Pacific (part of the ocean/atmosphere currents) will cause a great deal of extra evaporational cooling and presto, global cooling.

[palmer]

But as one famous scientists kinda once said, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Not for weather. For just one example, the current cooling in the US is not balanced out by warming elsewhere.