Posted on 12/18/2009 5:31:12 PM PST by tobyhill
In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada's wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy spring has delayed planting and may well bring a disappointingly small harvest. Rainy Britain, on the other hand, has suffered from uncharacteristic dry spells the past few springs. A series of unusually cold winters has gripped the American Far West, while New England and northern Europe have recently experienced the mildest winters within anyone's recollection.
As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
“when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades.”
Of course it does, because everyone knows when the Earth warms (allegedly), we can certainly expect to see the planet engulfed in a blanket of ice. Yep, that makes all the sense in the world.
When it gets warm, it's global warming. When it gets bone-crushing cold and snowy, you guessed it, global warming.
That jumped out at me as well.
Climate change has become the new religion
“There are ominous signs that the Earths weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth.”
Newsweek, too. All the experts were predicting a new ice age in the mid-1970s:
http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
The biggest snow in the Washington, DC area since 1982 is forecasted to welcome Obama back home from the Global Warming Scam Conference.
There are ominous signs that the Earths weather patterns have begun to change dramatically...”
I predict that within 1,000 to 3,000 years we will enter another ice age based on previous patterns. One of these days these goof-balls will be correct. Of course then it will be too late.
The previous global cooling alert from the mid 70’s was pretty much at the end of the cool period - and then temps began to rise. Pretty much the same as Global Warming, which peaked in the late 90’s (and that is based on the crummy IPCC data.)
The consequence is that many of them are next to air conditioners, or at the end of jet runways.
We know that the situation is so bad the measured temperatures for the last 25 to 30 years are probably not adequate for anything, least of all predicting the climate in the distant future.
Once we switched over to total satellite based temperature coverage of the entire globe it was observed that the average global temperature was stable or declining.
Now how did that happen so suddenly?
Yes, it’s snowing and has been since 14:00hrs. My state went through almost 5 years of drought....then this year we have had more rain and snow then Seattle. There are cycles of weather. Ask any farmer over 50 yrs old.
the ice age worry seems a whole lot more cogent than worrying about global warming. Not that the anthropogenic causation theory has any merit in either case.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKoUwttE0BA
From - of all places - Copenhagen Denmark.
The truth... IMHO.
Just saw all six parts of this documentary. I have only a BS degree in Physics and not an advanced degree. Also have been an astronomy / cosmology enthusiast my entire life (built my first telescope from a kit in the third grade). Having worked in product / applications development, process / manufacturing engineering and formal R&D most of my career, the arguments, investigations, concepts and finally elucidation of the mechanisms of this theory are profoundly powerful and persuasive.
Especially when they go from showing the epochal correlations over 100s of millions of years, to the correlation between cosmic ray flux and ocean temperature over the last 40-50 years (next to last section I believe). AS OPPOSED TO TREE RING DATA which had to be conveniently discarded when over this same recent period since 1961, the ring data DIVERGES from the temperature record --- during this same time frame the cosmic ray flux and the ocean temperature tracks VERY nicely.
This addresses directly your observation about being "off" 30 years ago in what was happening.
When a theory "works" on both 100 million year historical scale AND recent decadal scale (with contemporaneous, measured and NOT inferred data) at the same time - this is POWERFUL evidence that the theory is robust and correct. The power of H2O and cloud cover (via cosmic-ray flux as "catalyst") providing an "iris" effect directly changing the surface warmth, hugely more important than trace-level CO2 which supposedly results in a slight mid-level troposphere warming (NOT surface warming).
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