The Next Ice Age

American Thinker ^ | April 22, 2009 | Bruce Walker

[neverdem]

Special Earth Day Issue  Arpil 22, 2009

 

UFOs and AGW

The Next Ice Age

Green up, Man! It's Freaking Earth Day!

Saving Our Planet, One Guilt Trip at a Time

A Lenin's Birthday Story

As Earth Day again brings forth disciples of the religion of inanimate matter, we would do well to examine just how little we know about our world.  Doubtless a prominent theme in this Earth Day will be the great peril of global warming.  Our planet is growing warmer because of sinful man, and if government does not take drastic steps to curb our activities, then our wicked ways will bring rising oceans, drowning cities, and countless other plagues upon us.

Is the Earth warming?  Any professor who wants tenure will say, "Yes!" now.  Any bureaucrat who values his job will genuflect to this tenuous theory.  But we do not know if the planet is gradually warming or, if it is warming, why it is warming.  More fundamentally, we do not know the direction of any climate change:  is our planet growing warmer or growing cooler?

Thirty years ago, Leftists were writing books like, The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age, which made the case that the CIA was deliberately concealing scientific evidence that the world was about to enter a dangerous cooling period.  The book demands fuel economy, recycling, better insulated homes or we were all doomed (does this sound familiar?)

But it was not just Leftist conspiracy theorists who a few short were years ago accusing the government of lying to us about global cooling.  Even books for schoolchildren like The New Ice Age by Henry Gilford, cautioned thirty years ago that the temperature of the earth had been steadily cooling and that a new ice age was certain. What investigative reporters and schoolbook publishers were insisting during the Carter and Reagan presidencies was being endorsed by some great scientists as well.

Sir Fred Hoyle is one of the leading cosmologists in human history.  No scientist today can claim greater intellectual stature than Hoyle, particularly about our planet in the universe.  In 1981, Hoyle published a book, Ice: How the New Ice Age will Come and How We Can Prevent It, in which this brilliant giant of natural sciences warned of the next ice age.  The consequences, Hoyle warned, would be disastrous.  It would:

"...hopelessly compromise the future...This is why our modern generation must take action to avoid catastrophe, an ultimate catastrophe besides which the problems that concern people, media, and government from day to day are quite trivial."

Hoyle, writing only a decade before the whole global warming jihad became chic science, had studied the climatic trends, the astronomical effects, the impact of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere -- everything, really, that the druids of global warming cite today -- and he had come to exactly the opposite conclusion as today's politically correct science of official global warming. 

 Hoyle concluded, "There is no chance of avoiding another ice age, unless we take deliberate action to prevent it."  He accepted the tenuous premise that human technology could actually change the course of climatic change, and he insisted that, unless government acted, another ice age would produce horrific effects upon the human race.   (By almost any standard, another ice age would cause more death and suffering than another warming period.  Warming brings relative comfort, not harm.)

Fred Hoyle had a definite plan for how to keep the planet from disastrously cooling.  Cold water from the floor of the ocean must be pumped to the surface of the sea, which would increase the heat stored in the ocean.  This could not be done too quickly, he cautioned, because that would risk the surface of the ocean becoming cool too.  The process must be carefully managed by collective human effort, and if this was done, mankind might be spared the horrors of an almost certain new ice age.

A world class scientist who only a couple of decades ago had thoroughly studied the issue, concluded that the planet was cooling dangerously and not warming, and proposed a radical government program to address the crisis.  How long did Hoyle believe that it would take to sufficiently warm the planet to prevent the next ice age?  About two thousand years.  Is Hoyle right?  Is he wrong?  No one really knows today. 

Our planetary climate is changing.  No scientists doubt that.  But what is happening in climatic change is unclear.  The same scientists who cannot predict the weather in Iowa this June confidently tell us that they know just what will happen on Earth in fifty years.  No one can even predict that next year a meteor will not hit our planet and destroy much of human civilization.  No one could predict the tsunami that killed millions a few years ago.  But the direction of planetary climatic change is supposed to be easy stuff.

The only issue of course is power.  If we are entering a new ice age, what should government do?  It should encourage private initiative and stockpiling, gradual relocation of people away from the poles and toward the Equator, and maybe the creation of new ways of keeping generating heat.  What if Hoyle was wrong and we are entering a period of global warming?  What should government do?  The same fundamental thing:  rely on personal initiative, private enterprise, trial and error over time at that most effective level of the marketplace. These, not massive government control, are the answer to man's well-being and survival.

We live in a world that is constantly changing in a million different ways.  We may enter an ice age or a warming period.  We may dodge asteroids and we may avoid the collapse of the West Coast into the Pacific.  Whatever our unpredictable future, only one thing is sure:  man, the adaptable and rugged animal, guided by his own initiative and enterprise is the answer.  Politically correct science and earth-worshipping priests are not. 

Bruce Walker is the author of two books:  Sinisterism: Secular Religion of the Lie, and his recently published book, The Swastika against the Cross: The Nazi War on Christianity.

[21twelve]

I’m more concerned about cooling at the moment. And I agree - leave it to the capitalists to be able to quickly react to these changes. Whichever way they go.

[Myrddin]

The global warming hoax focuses on CO2 because it provides an excuse to strangle the energy resources that drive our capitalist economy. It makes no difference that it is a total lie. Scientific phenomena point to a coming ice age. There is no evidence for "global warming". The hoax is completely driven by the anti-capitalist ideology. Facts are irrelevant.

[Myrddin]

And I agree - leave it to the capitalists to be able to quickly react to these changes. Whichever way they go.

Only if we avoid another mass extermination of humanity by the communists/marxists/socialists.

[HiTech RedNeck]

As the saying goes, it’s an ill wind that blows no good. Moderate global warming would dry up some land areas and thaw out others, so suitable farm locations would change.

[snarks_when_bored]

The Next Ice Age

I'm going to use charcoal briquets in my backyard barbecue pit tomorrow evening: smudging up the atmosphere might help in the fight against global cooling...

[21twelve]

“...so suitable farm locations would change.”

******************* I got a National Geographic last summer(?). One article talked about how the northern U.S. moose population is going down, too warm, etc. What a terrible thing.

In the SAME issue there was a story about some pretty song bird, that for the FIRST TIME EVER had been seen north of the Rio Grande in the U.S. Bird watchers were jubilant, newspapers sent reporters, it was WONDERFUL!

(They are all a bunch of idiots!)

[HiTech RedNeck]

As we speak, pilot projects are underway to digest cellulose (i.e. vegetative waste) into fuels using genetically engineered microorganisms. If this scales successfully, we will have achieved a virtually closed loop solution to the energy needs of the foreseeable future. It will add no more CO2 to the atmosphere than the vegetation was able to take out of the atmosphere when it grew. Agriculture countries will be the big energy producers and we can ostracize former oil countries.

[SuziQ]

Our planet is growing warmer because of sinful man, and if government does not take drastic steps to curb our activities, then our wicked ways will bring rising oceans, drowning cities, and countless other plagues upon us.

Ah yes the sins against Mother Nature, as recounted by those in the Church of Environmentalism. But we have the opportunity to buy indulgences in the form of carbon credits, so there is some hope for our souls. /s

[SuziQ]

There is no evidence for "global warming". The hoax is completely driven by the anti-capitalist ideology. Facts are irrelevant.

Actually, there WAS some global warming in the 1990's. It was NOT, however, the result of any human activity, just as the likely coming cooling period will not be, either.

That big old yellow-face that rise every morning will determine what our climate will be. In the 90's there were an abundance of sunspots, and we were warmer. Those sunspots have diminished since the end of the 90's, and the planet has been cooling steadily. At this point, there hasn't been a single sunspot in almost two months. If we end up having a sunspot minimum, similar to the Dalton Minimum in the late 1700s through the early 1800s, continues we could very well be headed for another Little Ice Age like the world experienced then.

SirKit and I have proposed that if we do have a minimum, it should be named for Algore, and another freeper suggested Hansen, so we think it should be called the Hansen-Gore minimum, to cement for posterity the utter idiocy of those two men.

[neverdem]

Bound to Burn Very good essay needing references/links

Global Cooling Earth's Little-Known Threat

New York touts climate-saving plan to lock away CO2

Some noteworthy articles about politics, foreign or military affairs, IMHO, FReepmail me if you want on or off my list.

[SuziQ]

The problem with that idea is that when there is Global Cooling, agriculture is negatively affected, so the crops needed for the fuels, might not be as abundant.

We should have nuke plants, so at least there will be reliable sources of power for heating. Too bad the greenies are such weenies about nuclear power, since it doesn't create the CO2 that burning fossil fuels does.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If we get Global Cooling, then it’s back to the old fossil fuels for a while. We got lots of coal and so does China.

[c-b 1]

I’m going to celebrate earth day by driving my 4 wheel drive pickup with the huge engine that burns tons of gas, all day.

[jonrick46]

The same closed loop system is provided with the algae-oil process. In fact, algae-oil production is enhanced when the CO2 discharge from a fossil fuel power plant is pumped into the system. A coal fired electric plant would maximize its energy production by putting its CO2 discharge into the growing of algae-oil, which becomes a transportable energy source.

Algae-oil also feeds off raw sewage from humans and animals. There is no special treatment. All you need is a pipe to the algae growing facility. The food we eat gets a second use after it is flushed down a toilet. Once that sewage becomes algae-oil you can use it to farm more food.

Algae-oil is very efficient. It requires less space and less energy than setting up a crop field, and then use the crops to feed a fermenter. With proper techniques, it is possible to grow 20,000 gallons of algae-oil per year per acre.

Algae-oil has more energy per unit than ethanol.

Algae-oil does not have the problems when transported through pipeline that ethanol does. Ethanol has the property of absorbing water. The water in ethanol can corrode the steel in pipelines. If the ethanol absorbs too much water in the pipeline system, it becomes unusable as a fuel.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[djf]

Coming soon, to a theatre near you!

Rated R due to violence and that cannibalism thingie...

[CapnJack]

I had no idea it was earth day.

I'll take my old “very” smokey Dodge Cummins diesel to work today instead of the Jetta.

Every time I “step on it” a nice plume of black smoke comes out. Just to irritate the Volvo crowd.

[RSmithOpt]

Yup, and there's a new facility just 10 mi north of the house that is doing work on that very project. From what I've read, certain algae strains can provide various transportation fuel types.

A few thousand acres of corn and a few other crops are being grown around the facility to provide the cellulose needed in the process for the bio-diesel / bio-fuels production.

Though basically a research center, Novozymes, is geared towards creating specific enzymes to work with specific algae to make the conversions needed on a marketable scale for biodiesel production. The plant employs approximately 350 people and is the largest multi-purpose enzyme manufacturing plant in the United States.

[Star Traveler]

Well..., whatever it is — global warming or global cooling — they are both correct.

What is *not correct* is “Anthropogenic Global Warming” and the following documentary will help anyone understand that one. You should have it with you at all times for anyone who asks... :-)

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It’s one thing to gripe and complain about these things and disagree with it, but it’s quite *another* to convince your friends and neighbors and relatives and coworkers...

THEREFORE..., it’s also absolutely necessary for people to know the information in the following documentary. If there were simply *one* video that you could see and/or show people you know... this would be the *one*...

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The following is an *excellent* video documentary on the so-called “Global Warming” I would recommend it to all FReepers. It’s a very well-made documentary.

“The Great Global Warming Swindle”

If you want to download it, via a BitTorrent site (using a BitTorrent client), you can get it at the following link.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3635222/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle
[this is a high-quality copy, of about a gigabyte in size...]

It’s worth seeing and having for relatives, friends, neighbors and coworkers to see.

Also, see it online here...
http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/great_global_warming_swindle.php
[this one is considerably lower quality, is a flash video and viewable online, of course...]

Buy it here...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000WLUXZE
[this one would be the very highest quality version, on a DVD disk, of several gigabytes in size...]