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- Posted by Gaye5,
Boy you people just do not give up! The fact is the sun is at a low point in its sun spot cycle and a cycle lasts approximately 11 years. The last two peaks were around 1991, 2000 and we are due for a peak in 2011.
I have heard conservatives stating it was an increase in the suns energy output that was responsible. Now you are telling me that the sun is not putting as much energy out so we are having a colder winter? I suppose if we have a hot summer you will tell me the sun suddenly started producing more energy.
The fact is we are seeing sea ice and glaciers melting from locations that have historically been frozen year round. The net loss of ice is a long term net effect that provides a great way of determining whether the climate of a specific region is changing.
We do not know the full impact of global warming but it is clear that the net loss of glacial ice from high altitudes and latitudes bears watching.
However, I suppose the critics of global warming will not agree until Memphis replaces New Orleans as a seaport. - Reply to this comment
- Last month, Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, shrugged off manmade climate change as "a drop in the bucket." Showing that solar activity has entered an inactive phase, Prof. Sorokhtin advised people to "stock up on fur coats."
He is not alone. Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon.
The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850. Crops failed through killer frosts and drought. Famine, plague and war were widespread. Harbours froze, so did rivers, and trade ceased.
It''s way too early to claim the same is about to happen again, but then it''s way too early for the hysteria of the global warmers, too.
lgunter@shaw.ca - Reply to this comment
- And it''s not just anecdotal evidence that is piling up against the climate-change dogma.
According to Robert Toggweiler of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University and Joellen Russell, assistant professor of biogeochemical dynamics at the University of Arizona -- two prominent climate modellers -- the computer models that show polar ice-melt cooling the oceans, stopping the circulation of warm equatorial water to northern latitudes and triggering another Ice Age (a la the movie The Day After Tomorrow) are all wrong.
"We missed what was right in front of our eyes," says Prof. Russell. It''s not ice melt but rather wind circulation that drives ocean currents northward from the tropics. Climate models until now have not properly accounted for the wind''s effects on ocean circulation, so researchers have compensated by over-emphasizing the role of manmade warming on polar ice melt.
But when Profs. Toggweiler and Russell rejigged their model to include the 40-year cycle of winds away from the equator (then back towards it again), the role of ocean currents bringing warm southern waters to the north was obvious in the current Arctic warming. - Reply to this comment
- There have been so many snow and ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in the past two months.
In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950.
And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its "lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past.
The ice is back.
Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year.
OK, so one winter does not a climate make. It would be premature to claim an Ice Age is looming just because we have had one of our most brutal winters in decades.
But if environmentalists and environment reporters can run around shrieking about the manmade destruction of the natural order every time a robin shows up on Georgian Bay two weeks early, then it is at least fair game to use this winter''s weather stories to wonder whether the alarmist are being a tad premature. - Reply to this comment
- Some of you might be interested in this. Australia has had the coldest SUMMER in 50 years..and the world has had the coldest winter..
Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age
Lorne Gunter, National Post Published: Monday, February 25, 2008.
Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966.
The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average."
China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century. Temperatures in the normally balmy south were so low for so long that some middle-sized cities went days and even weeks without electricity because once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them.
OK, so one winter does not a climate make. It would be premature to claim an Ice Age is looming just because we have had one of our most brutal winters in decades. but keep reading.. - Reply to this comment
- I suppose I''m going to have to die before anybody will acknowledge what I have written in regards to global warming and some ideas to resolve this issue (as well as other issues) that I have conceptualized (almost a year ago in fact). Please, it drives me absoultely crazy when I hear Al Gore, or anyone else on TV saying "we need to think of something soon..."
www.notthatmike.blogspot.com
It''s all there, maybe they''re not the best ideas, but in fact somebody has thought of something. Please, just read the 1st 4 chapters, it wont take that long, I promise! - Reply to this comment
- Stahl actually wants to listen to *** Cheny about global warming!!! (its on the 4th page of this..."interview".
The word creeep, comes to mind, Leslie.
Duh. - Reply to this comment
- It''''s all there, maybe they''''re not the best ideas, but in fact somebody has thought of something. Please, just read the 1st 4 chapters, it wont take that long, I promise!
Posted by MDMichaud at 07:37 PM : Mar 31, 2008
I did you a favor and tried to read your piece. I got through the first two chapters and had to stop, because your ideas make no sense, and the fact that you thought of "something" doesn''t help things. Doing "something" does not equate to doing something "good". First, your proposal for changing deserts into fertile land leaves out crucial elements like conversion rates and scale. How much water does it take to properly irrigate a certain area of land? What is the evaporation rate of a given surface area of water, considering changing temperature and humidity? Even if you solved that issue, you have the issue of having ground that will support vegetation, which is the much larger problem. Again, you probably suggest that all of this can be solved with enough money, but it cannot. Like most "solutions" being discussed today, the environmental cost of the solution would be much greater than the problem they are trying to fix. Biofuels is a perfect example. Biofuel production on any large scale is non-sustainable due to the enormous demands on water to produce biomass. - Reply to this comment
- TELL CHRIS DODD TO SHUT THE ____UP!!
HEY GUY, NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY.
YOU ARE A SORE LOSER, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE!!
PAST CT RESIDENT SPRAKS OUT.
DO EVERYONE A FAVOR AND RETIRE OR MOVE TO THE KENYA - Reply to this comment
- I wonder why Lesley Stahl chose *** Cheney as a non-believer of Global Warming and didn%u2019t mention John Coleman as a non-believer?
John Coleman is the Weather Channel founder and he recently published an op-ed at ICECAP in which he called "global warming the greatest scam in history."
I made the mistake of watching a CBS News program after a sporting event - it won''t happen again. - Reply to this comment
