I think I’d better buy a bigger greenhouse!
A very important lesson in science is found in how things change. People adore on-off, yes-no, up-down, etc. things because they are easy to understand. But a lot of nature is not like that.
For example, look at the temperature in the room you are in right now. If it was an either/or of “too hot” or “too cold”, you would be miserable all the time. Instead you have a large “normal” range, say 3-5 degrees in either direction, before you even notice. So your thermostat is set so that only outside of a range, does it turn on to normalize the temperature.
Extrapolate that to the world as a whole and you have a gigantic and complicated system that is very resistant to change. If things are too warm, the Earth gives off more heat. If it is too cool, the Earth absorbs more heat.
This simple fact is why carbon dioxide based man made global warming is such hooey. CO2 is a trace gas in our atmosphere, and man made CO2 is a trace amount of that trace gas. It is a bacteria on a flea trying to force an elephant to change course.
So what about global cooling? It is just as hard to predict as is global warming. All sorts of things can change when it happens, how it happens, and how long it lasts. It might take decades to arrive, happen very slowly, etc. Or it might take place quickly.
Bflr
(Post photo here of three battery-powered electric motorcycles with solar panels)
Global warming...food grows. Global cooling...say goodbye to the wheat belt in Canada.
Now now now... Don’t fret folks. We all know the sun has nothing to do with Earth’s climate.
It’s clear Professor Zharkova hasn’t been schooled by the smartest physicist to have ever lived: Al Gore.
I know he’s smart because he made a movie about ‘truths’ that may be inconvenient. And he invented the Internet.
You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909!
Damn. I just threw out my cold weather gear to make room for my global warming wardrobe.
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
Whe have volumes of papers by climate alchemists who have put their names out in public propping up a government-financed theory that these alchemists refuse to validate using the scientific method. Professor Zharkov may well be one of the few scientists still working once the charade of climate catastrophism is laid bare. Why now should she care about the opinions of government grant seekers?
I thought on this and concluded the cooling will cause the northward migration to cease and the southern migration from Canada to begin
The nations depending on Canadian wheat will starve
Not to be an alarmist here, but will winter be followed by a spring warming period?
Yes, I can certainly see that we're in a terrible cooling spell at the moment.
As I break into a sweat just sitting here are my keyboard typing.
Well, although I feel for the peeps in the colder zones here in Phoenix I hope for a, dare I say it, mild summer.