there wasn't enough money in globull cooling, so...
Posted on 04/20/2021 4:39:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I wrote last week about the coming Grand Solar Minimum, something that will have much more impact on the environment than anything we puny humans can do. It generated a lot of interest from all sides, so it’s time to delve deeper into what we can expect.
Starting with the hype: During the last grand solar minimum (GSM), the Maunder Minimum of 1645 to 1715, glaciers advanced, rivers froze, sea ice expanded -- in short, the Little Ice Age. Is another one is almost upon us?
Probably not. Maunder occurred at the tail end of a bi-millennial cycle. These cycles range between 2,000 and 2,600 years in length and see the Earth first warm, then cool. Gradual cooling had been going on for hundreds of years. Maunder just capped it off. Today we are a few hundred years into the warming phase of the subsequent bi-millennial cycle. Different starting conditions yield different paths.
The progressives say that we’re so deep into anthropogenically accelerated climate change (AACC) that there’s almost no time left to turn things around. If we don’t act now, it will be too late.
Nope, sorry squad members. What we can predict, instead, is an overall temperature reduction of 1 degree Centigrade by the end of the GSM. Afterward, natural warming at the rate of around 0.5 C. every hundred years will continue for the next 600 years or so.
That gives us a good 35 to 50 years to hone the science and come up with the best ways to mitigate the impact of unstoppable global warming on humankind; until, that is, it naturally reverses. See suggestions below for better uses of funding currently earmarked to address the “climate crisis.”
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Biden named Kerry to look after climate change. Kerry is an important democrat but is known to be unproductive. Kerry in the job means nothing actually gets done.
Appointing a figurehead panders to the envirowackos but assures nothing gets done.
Often editors who know nothing about the subject matter will get several iterations of changes and cutting for length. The article may come out completely different than what the author wrote. I don't know if that is what happened, but it has happened to me before. I agree with your observation though.
there wasn't enough money in globull cooling, so...
The Virginia state fossil is Chesapekten Jeffersonius, a really big scallop shell. It is found in the exposed river beds along the coastal plains in VA and NC. They didn’t swim upriver and climb up the banks to imbed themselves in the mud. The seas were much higher.
Could be.
How did the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 affect the global temperature?
Nearly 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide were injected into the stratosphere in Pinatubo’s 1991 eruptions, and dispersal of this gas cloud around the world caused global temperatures to drop temporarily (1991 through 1993) by about 1°F (0.5°C).
It would be interesting to see global average temperatures plotted on the same graph. Surface stations or satellite measurements. Not the BS surface station measurements with correction factors to make it match the global warming computer models that the warmists use.
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A global flood perhaps?
I kinda enjoyed the 4+” of snow that fell in the North of Houston, Texas this winter. Wasn’t too crazy about the 8 degree temp that one night though. lol
Anyhoo...it gets hotter than a mother here in Southeast Texas. Wouldn’t mind a bit of moderation for a spell.
” that at some time those limestone deposits were much lower and plate tectonics has forced the plate upwards.”
That is the wrong assertion to make.
There is no plate tectonic activity in FL since N.American plate separated from African place millions of years ago.
Ice melting raises sea level not ‘water on Earth’.
“if all of them were to melt, global sea level would rise approximately 70 meters (approximately 230 feet), flooding every coastal city on the planet.”
Plenty of ice left to raise sea levels.
“There is no plate tectonic activity in FL”
Yes, there is. You didn’t understand my comment about water on earth. Ice is water. There isn’t enough ice, water, or what the hell you want to call it to flood Florida to 100 feet.
“Ice is water. There isn’t enough ice, water, or what the hell you want to call it to flood Florida to 100 feet.”
BS!
Did you read the source? No you didn’t. Here, I’ll post the full quote.
“How would sea level change if all glaciers melted?
There is still some uncertainty about the full volume of glaciers and ice caps on Earth, but if all of them were to melt, global sea level would rise approximately 70 meters (approximately 230 feet), flooding every coastal city on the planet.”
As in 230 feet > 100 feet.
The source is FOS, as are you.
“The earth has been ice age 80% of it’s life.” Only if the Earth is just a million years old. There have been many periods of millions of years of continually warmer weather.
That is possible because there are no ice core records back that far. But they happen in a regular cycle about every 124k. And they have figured that they were once even more often and closer together than they have been the last 350k. And each warm period only pasts about 24k out of each 124k cycle. So by the records they do have back 350K it was cold about 80% of the time span.
Haven’t talked to you in awhile, good to see you are well. :)
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/abrupt-climate-change/Glacial-Interglacial%20Cycles
You are wise in the ways of politics. Politicians are experts at separating cause from effect, always in their own ideological interest.
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