Cooling Kills: Governments Must Shift to Cold Preparation

Pajamas Media ^ | 02/16/2014 | TOM HARRIS AND DR. MADHAV KHANDEKAR

[HereInTheHeartland]

Climate change covers all of it!

[cripplecreek]

I can handle the cold if I don’t have to pay $4.20 for propane.

[Paine in the Neck]

Hot or cold, leave the government out of it. They only make things worse.

[Nifster]

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

Lordy save us from the ‘smart’ folks. Giving us breath taking information about the coldest weather in 30 years. Oh my. Oh my.

Read what the winter was like during Valley Forge when modern luxuries were not available.

‘Climate science’ is being used by the leftists to further their agenda.

[palmer]

Meteorology textbooks show that such cold weather outbreaks happen often due to distortions in the boundaries of the polar vortex — and have nothing to do with global warming, or cooling, however caused.

True and there is causation in the other direction. One way the earth as a whole cools is by transporting heat to the poles, especially in the polar winter. The reason is that more heat can be radiated to space on average if that pole isn't as cold. Therefore the waviness in the jet helps lead to global cooling. The sun may be involved since it is has been generally shown that low solar activity leads to more jet waviness.

One clarification: the polar vortex is in the stratosphere and is only partly related to the polar jet at the tropopause. When the polar jet is strong and stable it helps pump up the polar vortex. Then when the stratosphere suddenly warms the vortex is elongated or splits in two, sometimes three pieces. The causes of such warmings are somewhat of a mystery, although amplified waves in the polar jet do play a role. Solar magnetic activity can play a role as well, although not as a primary driving force. The main thing to remember is that the polar jet needs to be stable, not wavy to pump up the polar vortex.

One more quick point: the global warming climate models generally predict a less wavy jet over the long run, so people who say the opposite are basically ignorant.

[Nifster]

“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.”

That paragraph is from Newswek Magazine April 1975

[cripplecreek]

One way the earth as a whole cools is by transporting heat to the poles

Hot to cold is the natural state of the universe

[central_va]

I can handle the cold if I don’t have to pay $4.20 for propane.

Houses down here aren't built for Michigan temps so we use as much propane in VA as in MI. I paid $3.99/gal two weeks ago BECAUSE I RAN OUT, I started in NOV with 840 gallons ( $2.09/gal ) and to repeat I RAN OUT. Usually 840 gals (max allowed in a 1000 gal tank ) lasts almost all year for my house. GloBULL warming my a$$.

[cripplecreek]

I’m buying a couple of 100lb cylinders so I can trade them through a farmer who gets the farm use tax break.

I’m having a half tank delivered tomorrow and I’ll keep it but I’m going to run my water heater and stove off the cylinders. I’m also going to start using my small woodstove after installing it this spring.

[central_va]

Last couple of years I have been real lazy but in fact I have two well maintained chain saws and a new wood slitter that I have never used. I plan on using them all spring and summer. The enviro-kooks want play “gloBULL” warming? Well some trees are going to die....

[spokeshave]

Not to worry...King Canute Obama is on this like a lazer....

"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow,and our planet began to heal.

Welcome King Barack "Canute" Obama the Great.....

...Obama issues an Executive Order to the Sun...

....to increase it's magnetic field....

and make a good crop of sunspots before elections in 2016....

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining. They predict that by 2016 there may be no remaining sunspots, and the sun may stay spotless for several decades.

The last time the sunspots disappeared altogether was in the 17th and 18th century, and coincided with a lengthy cool period on the planet known as the Little Ice Age....and lasted 400 years.

Good luck surviving with no electricity and GE modified seeds.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news203746768.html#jCp

[goodnesswins]

Sheesh...now the global cooling will be something to freak bureaucrats out...IT IS CALLED WEATHER....The COLUMBIA RIVER between Oregon and Washington used to freeze. I may live to see it happen again!!

[backwoods-engineer]

They won't prepare. They'll still be screaming, "CARBON FOOTPRINT" when there are footprints in the snow in July in the central US. They'll still be screaming, "GLOBAL WARMING" when the food crops fail because it's not warm enough for them to mature.

We're heading for a civilization-level FAILURE.

[Nifster]

precisely

[ClearCase_guy]

"What's new?"
"I don't know, but I think we need government to fix it."

"Is the world warming up?"
"I don't know, but I think we need government to fix it."

Is the world cooling down?"
"I don't know, but I think we need government to fix it."

Hey, I have an idea -- why don't we just tell the government to back off?

[spokeshave]

Update here:

http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/20130911_OurCoolingClimateCapitolHill16thSeptember2013.pd

[central_va]

In the 1960’s the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River used to freeze over, sometimes completely. Maybe that will start happening again.

[spokeshave]

And just to put it in context...Norway is not known as a major wheat producer.....

Norway’s wheat production impacted by Climate Change Posted on October 5, 2013 by Guest Blogger

Guest essay by David Archibald

A correspondent in Oslo writes:

“The official view in Norway is in contrast to what the people experience because of cooling weather: Late spring gives flooding and avalanches when late snow-melting in the mountains. Water pipes freeze because of early and deep frost in the winter. Insect populations down 40% in 5 years because of cool and wet summers. This of cause is bad for pollination of fruit and berries. The grain harvest in Norway this summer is down 18% from average the last 5 years, despite increase in area and better seeds. But officially it is getting warmer.”

Some of those observations are anecdotal but some facts can be checked – Norwegian wheat production for example. The following figure shows Norwegian wheat production from 1960. Wheat production is off 48% from its peak:

More here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/05/norways-wheat-production-impacted-by-climate-change/

[Little Bill]

I bought a pellet stove in 2008 when propane prices started going crazy. I costs me the equivalent of a tank of propane to heat my house all winter plus the 130 gallons for cooking and hot water. About $1100 and it has been damned cold in East Central NH.