Little Ice Age: Big Chill (History Channel's "Inconvenient Truth" About Global Cooling)

History Channel ^ | August 31, 2006

[PJ-Comix]

Not so long ago, civilization learned that it was no match for just a few degrees drop in temperature. Scientists call it the Little Ice Age--but its impact was anything but small. From 1300 to 1850, a period of cataclysmic cold caused havoc. It froze Viking colonists in Greenland, accelerated the Black Death in Europe, decimated the Spanish Armada, and helped trigger the French Revolution. The Little Ice Age reshaped the world in ways that now seem the stuff of fantasy--New York Harbor froze and people walked from Manhattan to Staten Island, Eskimos sailed kayaks as far south as Scotland, and two feet of snow fell on New England in June and July during "the Year Without a Summer". Could another catastrophic cold snap strike in the 21st century? Leading climatologists offer the latest theories, and scholars and historians recreate the history that could be a glimpse of things to come. Face the cold, hard truth of the past--an era that may be a window to our future.

[PJ-Comix]

Wait a minute! If we had unusual global cooling in previous centuries, then wouldn't our current "global warming" really be called getting back to normal? Also the promo of this show seems to indicate that we could have another cold snap again. Global Cooling. An Inconvenient Truth for Al Gore.

This show is on the tube right now. Very interesting plus it shows just how dopey Al Gore's "documentary" is.

[MarkeyD]

With 3 weeks of summer left, it was 40 in Boise this morning and 19 in Stanley.

[AmusedBystander]

That's ok. On one of the "global warming" shows on Discovery or National Geopraphic they talk about rising sea levels from all that melting ice and then a few minutes later they had some Australian geologist talking about some reef creature and he points to an ancient bed on dry land and states that some thousands years back that these were once under water. So apparently sea levels need to rise about 3 - 4 meters to get back over the top of that ancient bed while "scientists" today are concerned over changes in millimeters. Go figure.

[PJ-Comix]

This program is showing how lousy life was when it was cooler. So should we be CELEBRATING that things have warmed up?

[COEXERJ145]

It's a good show until the end when they say that man made global warming could bring about another ice age.

[BluH2o]

The French explorer/navigator Jacques Cartier discovered & navigated a portion of the St. Lawrence River in what is now eastern Quebec in 1534. His observations include writing about grapes growing on vines in the area he explored. Being somewhat familiar with this area of the world it must have been a whole lot warmer in that era than
today ... yet this study indicates it was much colder ... my response: BS!

[Political Junkie Too]

...an ancient bed on dry land and states that some thousands years back that these were once under water. So apparently sea levels need to rise about 3 - 4 meters to get back over the top of that ancient bed...

Unless it was continental plate tectonics that pushed it up out of the water.

-PJ

[PJ-Comix]

So warming will make us colder????

[COEXERJ145]

Yeah, that is the conclusion of the show but you won't see it until near the end.

[Fiddlstix]

Ping

[Izzy Dunne]

Interesting. I googled this:

In the year ensuing, 19 May, 1535, he began his second voyage with three small vessels, and, steering westward along the coast of Labrador, entered a small bay opposite the island of Anticosti, which he called the bay of St. Lawrence. Ile proceeded cautiously up the river, past the Saguenay and Cape Tour-mente, and anchored off a wooded and vine-clad island ; he called it, on account of the rich clusters of grapes

[Izzy Dunne]

that is the conclusion of the show but you won't see it until near the end.

That's the traditional place to have a conclusion.

;->

[PJ-Comix]

So I can cool down my home by turning on my heaters????

[PJ-Comix]

I think grapes also grew in England years ago.

[BluH2o]

He proceeded cautiously up the river, past the Saguenay and Cape Tour-mente, and anchored off a wooded and vine-clad island ; he called it, on account of the rich clusters of grapes ...

Jacques Cartier also landed and planted a cross at present day Gaspe ... at the eastern tip of the Gaspe Peninsula. He called the waters in the immediate area Le Bai de Chaleur ... translated, the Bay of Warmth, or warm waters.

[ArmyTeach]

Up here in the not-yet-frozen north, we're having highs in the 60s and nighttime lows in the low 40s. Dropping daylight at the rate of 7 minutes a day. I've seen it colder at this time of year, but winter is definitely on the way. Starting to dismantle my flower gardens.

[JimSEA]

I love Stanley and all the Sawtooth area. However from many camping trips to Redfish Lake and fishing the streams and lakes nearby, I'd say some "Global Warming" might help Stanley (at least in early September when it always seems to freeze).

[COEXERJ145]

That didn't come out quite the way I planned. LOL!

[arthurus]

Warming, cooling, we're all gonna die unless we turn over the entire economy to the Ecos' totalitarian ministrations. This is just as much a bid to take over the world as is the Islamic onslaught but this one is Communists.

[blam]

Thanks.

I'm watching it for the 3-4 time. I remember my grandparents talking about their parents and grandparents talking about how cold 'it used to be.'