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[Travis T. OJustice]

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[Travis T. OJustice]

Heat island effect countering natural cooling.

[JAKraig]

While I will not doubt your reasoning that warmer air can possibly hold more moisture the recorded temperatures do not show warmimg but instead show alarming cooling except for the peninsula. Temperatures for the last year are as much as 30°F below normal. With temperatures that cold every drop of moisture is squeezed out of the air and deposited on already growing glaciers. Those growing glaciers mover under their own weight and flow into the ocean cooling it. This cooling of the southern oceans will have an effect on the rest of the world.

For a long time I have not worried about the current solar minimum. It happens every eleven years, but this one has gone on a year longer than normal. There was a small sunspot a few days ago that looked like it was high enough in the upper hemisphere to be a sunspot for a new cycle, no one knows. If the sunspots don't get back to normal soon I am afraid that we will be worrying about dramatically lower temperatures. In the 1820’s when this happen there were frosts in July and August in NY. If we don't have a growing season we won't be able to feed ourselves. I'm afraid that cold is much worse than hot.

[Islander7]

“...I’m afraid that cold is much worse than hot...”

Of course it is! There are benefits to warming, such as longer growing seasons, areas now too cold for crops would be usable, etc.

Look for folks to scream about the cold this winter. It looks like it will be a brutal one.

[SuziQ]

Bottom line... the earth goes in cycles.

It's not the earth, it's the SUN. 1995 to 1998 were the last three years of a solar maximum, in the middle of a sunspot cycle. We're now in a time between sunspot cycles. The old one has finished, but the new one is relatively weak, so the longer it's weak, the less warming happens on earth.

Folks who actually do SCIENCE are predicting a solar minimum around 2030, that may even rival the Maunder and Dalton minimums, which created mini ice ages in the Middle ages and the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Remember Valley Forge,the ice on the Delaware that Washington had to go through on Christmas Morning to surprise the Hessians, and Londoners skating on the Thames?

[SuziQ]

Check THIS link! New Little Ice Age Instead of Global Warming?

[saganite]

Look for folks to scream about the cold this winter. It looks like it will be a brutal one.

According to the Farmer’s Almanac it will be a brutal winter for the US except for the Southeast. I’m glad to be a current resident of the Southeast. ;^)

[saganite]

If we don’t have a growing season we won’t be able to feed ourselves

There was another post today with the news that corn and soybean harvests are underperforming this year. The reason? Late spring planting and a cooler than normal winter.

[unique_geek]

Thanks!
The earth does go in cycles, its just cycles caused by the sun. I guess I should have expounded more on that. ;)

[Uversabound]

The earth goes in cycles is exactly right. How do we reverse or put a stop to the global warming hoax? Seems like it is full steam ahead.

The libs are so extreme. Where have they been before this, throwing garbage out their windows?

—The save a watt generation...: )

[Uversabound]

The earth goes in cycles is exactly right. How do we reverse or put a stop to the global warming hoax? Seems like it is full steam ahead.

The libs are so extreme. Where have they been before this, throwing garbage out their windows?

—The save a watt generation...: )

[MahatmaGandu]

Here’s another list of info on this subject that I use quite often: http://z4.invisionfree.com/Popular_Technology/index.php?showtopic=2050