Scientists Now warning of Ice Age to come

[RedGlitter]

Scientist: Forget Global Warming, Prepare for New Ice Age



Wednesday, April 23, 2008



Sunspot activity has not resumed up after hitting an 11-year low in March last year, raising fears that — far from warming — the globe is about to return to an Ice Age, says an Australian-American scientist.

Physicist Phil Chapman, the first native-born Australian to become an astronaut with NASA [he became an American citizen to join up, though he never went into space], said pictures from the U.S. Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) showed no spots on the sun.

He said the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7 degrees Centigrade.

"This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930," Chapman wrote in The Australian Wednesday. "If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over." • Click here to visit FOXNews.com's Natural Science Center.

[Critics quickly pointed out that Chapman may have been "cherry-picking" the data. A strong La Nina formation in the Pacific pushed down January temperatures over much of the Northern Hemisphere from where they had been a year earlier, but average global temperatures are still much higher than the 20th-century average, and the NOAA said last week that last month was the warmest March on record.]

The Bureau of Meteorology says temperatures in Australia have been warmer than the 1960-90 average since the late 1970s, barring a couple of cooler years, and are now 0.3 degrees Centigrade higher than the long-term average.

A sunspot is a region on the sun that is cooler than the rest and appears dark.

An alternative theory of global warming is that a strong solar magnetic field, when there is plenty of sunspot activity, protects the Earth from cosmic rays, cutting cloud formation, but that when the field is weak — during low sunspot activity — the rays can penetrate into the lower atmosphere and cloud cover increases, cooling the surface.

But scientists from the U.S. National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Bolder, Colorado published a report in 2006 that showed the sun had a negligible effect on climate change.

The researchers wrote in the journal Nature that the sun's brightness varied by only 0.07 percent over 11-year sunspot cycles, and that that was far too little to account for the rise in temperatures since the Industrial Revolution.

Chapman proposes preventive, or delaying, moves to slow the cooling, such as bulldozing Siberian and Canadian snow to make it dirty and less reflective.

"My guess is that the odds are now at least 50:50 that we will see significant cooling rather than warming in coming decades," he writes.

[yaaarrrgg]

It sounds like Chapman is a bit of a lone scientist. There's nothing wrong with dissenting views.

[Galbally]

Its wishful thinking, there is always a chance he might be right, but its pretty slim indeed, I really wish this climate destabilization wasn't happening to our planet at this moment, (i.e. when we are around), but it is, if we can at least get that through people's heads then that would be something.

[hoppy]

Most people will agree, big changes are on the horizon. The climate changes don't scare me near as much as the social changes. The one world everything sh*t. More and more government control. Fewer choices.

[YZGI]

I just wish they could tell me an accurate amount of eggs I can safely eat weekly..

[sunny104]

YZGI;845152 wrote: I just wish they could tell me an accurate amount of eggs I can safely eat weekly..


247 :-6

[YZGI]

sunny104;845204 wrote: 247 :-6
Do you hear a strange buzzing outside of you house about now?

[WonderWendy3]

bumpin' for RG:-6

[RedGlitter]

Hey, thanks Wendy! :-6

[Chezzie]

"President Bush told reporters he won't see Al Gore's documentary about the threat of global warming. He will not see it. On the other hand, Dick Cheney said he's seen the global warming film five times, and it still cracks him up." --Conan O'Brien

"According to a survey in this week's Time magazine, 85% of Americans think global warming is happening. The other 15% work for the White House." --Jay Leno

"They say if the warming trend continues, by 2015 Hillary Clinton might actually thaw out." --Jay Leno

[Chezzie]

Climate change will be considered a joke in five years time, meteorologist Augie Auer told the annual meeting of Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers in Ashburton this week.

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"We're all going to survive this. It's all going to be a joke in five years," he said.



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"It is time to attack the myth of global warming," he said.



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Water vapour was responsible for 95 per cent of the greenhouse effect

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The other greenhouse gases

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contributed only five per cent of the effect, carbon dioxide being by far the greatest contributor at 3.6 per cent.

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carbon dioxide as a result of man's activities was only 3.2 per cent of that, hence only 0.12 per cent of the greenhouse gases in total

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Human-related methane, nitrogen dioxide and CFCs

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0.066, 0.047 and 0.046 per cent respectively

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"That ought to be the end of the argument, there and then," he said.



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"We couldn't do it (change the climate) even if we wanted to because water vapour dominates."



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"It's become a witch-hunt; a Salem witch-hunt," he said.



Y2K01, deforestation, Ted Danson in 1985 saying the oceans would be destroyed in 10 years, eggs are good for you. eggs are bad for you, I could go on... It never ends. :wah::wah: