Coming of the Ice Age - 2016
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Posted By: Medclinician
Subject: Coming of the Ice Age - 2016
Date Posted: December 30 2015 at 8:34am
The research on this as well as posting has gone on for years. Summing up many posts and data the gist of all this is the following.
1) We
are technically still in an ice-age due to the existence of ice upon
the planet. Nested within the ice-age cycles are the glacials and right
now we’re in an interglacial, and have been for about 10,000 years.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43298115/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/lack-sunspots-may-have-aided-little-ice-age/#.VoQFroZpGpI - http://www.nbcnews.com/id/43298115/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/lack-sunspots-may-have-aided-little-ice-age/#.VoQFroZpGpI
2) A dearth of bright spots on the sun might have contributed to a
frigid period known as the "little ice age" in the middle of the past
millennium, researchers suggest.
From the 1500s to the 1800s, much of Europe and North America were plunged into what came to be called the http://www.livescience.com/1349-sun-blamed-warming-earth-worlds.html - little ice age .
The coolest part of this cold spell coincided with a 75-year period
beginning in 1645 when astronomers detected almost no sunspots on the
sun, a time now referred to as the http://www.space.com/205-natural-sunblock-sun-dims-strange-ways.html - Maunder Minimum .
3) There is a heated debate to whether pollution and technology experiments i.e. HAARP are messing up our weather.
The Tin hats are having a part with "conspiracy theories" about HAARP. HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) is a
little-known, yet critically important U.S. military defense project
which has generated quite a bit of controversy over its alleged weather
control capabilities and much more. With the current world conference which was held to generate cooperation and a global weather agreement to stop "global warming" there is a real question if we are currently going to experience warmer or colder temperatures.
4) As I posted and has been state by scientists - diluting the Gulf Stream waters by melting ice from the North Pole could result in drastic temperature drop in North American and parts of Europe. There was a documentary stating this. Recent American government report that believes the collapse of
thermohaline circulation will take place around the year 2010 and impose
a minor ice age on Europe.
Could Dublin acquire a climate like
Spitzberg, and London like that of Siberia? The Gulf Stream is a
powerful surface current, driven by the Trade Winds.
Its origins lie in the Gulf of Mexico and it carries the tropical
waters from the Florida Strait to the great banks of the United States,
where it heads eastward, carrying its warm waters to the borders of the
North Atlantic. As soon as the tropical waters hit the Arctic Ocean,
they cool abruptly and plunge towards the abyssal zone to form a loop,
known as "thermohaline circulation." Then, like an immense conveyor belt
that slows down in the ocean depths, it sets out again southward to
rejoin the beginning of the Gulf Stream. 5) A lot of data being put out has been called to questions whether some blatant statements are false and meant to create government programs which will make a lot of people a lot of money and will do nothing to help our climate. Changing bus schedules is not going to stop a mini-ice age.
6) The rise of C02 in the atmosphere is a claim some have made which ties industrial nation pollution to global warming. Is this true or are there much greater cycle which we have no control over which are about the chill us all out a lot? 7) Some of the climate scientists are about as accurate in their predictions as a wave of new book authors with ambitious theories. One must balance the science versus the desire to make money. What is the truth? We have some really unusual weather patterns developing because of El Nino and La Nina. The weather is getting even more unpredictable. We could have polar vortexes bringing icy conditions to the U.S. and Europe and if the whole climate change thing escalates enough - shut down much of the northern United States.
Right now it's real cold where I am and I am running two heaters. How about you? Medclinician
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: December 30 2015 at 8:48am
So in 2004 they released a movie called The Day After Tomorrow. Great movie really and it does have a bit of science behind it. If this melting continues and the water dilutes and we get intense cold in the U.S. and Europe all the plans to deal with global warming will be frozen along with the people who promoted them.
Medclinician - not if - but when
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: December 30 2015 at 9:40am
Climate Myths courtesy of Robert M. Carter
LAYING TEN GLOBAL WARMING MYTHS
Myth 1 Average global temperature (AGT) has increased over the last few years.
Fact 1 Within error bounds, AGT has not increased since
1995 and has declined since 2002, despite an increase in atmospheric CO2
of 8% since 1995.
Myth 2 During the late 20th Century, AGT increased at a dangerously fast rate and reached an unprecedented magnitude.
Facts 2 The late 20th Century AGT rise was at a rate of 1-20
C/century, which lies well within natural rates of climate change for
the last 10,000 yr. AGT has been several degrees warmer than today many
times in the recent geological past.
Myth 3 AGT was relatively unchanging in
pre-industrial times, has sky-rocketed since 1900, and will increase by
several degrees more over the next 100 years (the Mann, Bradley &
Hughes “hockey stick” curve and its computer extrapolation).
Facts 3 The Mann et al. curve has been exposed as a
statistical contrivance. There is no convincing evidence that past
climate was unchanging, nor that 20th century changes in AGT were
unusual, nor that dangerous human warming is underway.
Myth 4 Computer models predict that AGT will increase by up to 60 C over the next 100 years.
Facts 4 Deterministic computer models do. Other equally valid (empirical) computer models predict cooling.
Myth 5 Warming of more than 20 C will have catastrophic effects on ecosystems and mankind alike.
Facts 5 A 20 C change would be well within previous
natural bounds. Ecosystems have been adapting to such changes since
time immemorial. The result is the process that we call evolution.
Mankind can and does adapt to all climate extremes.
Myth 6 Further human addition of CO2 to the atmosphere will cause dangerous warming, and is generally harmful.
Facts 6 No human-caused warming can yet be detected that is
distinct from natural system variation and noise. Any additional
human-caused warming which occurs will probably amount to less than 10
C. Atmospheric CO2 is a beneficial fertilizer for plants, including
especially cereal crops, and also aids efficient evapo-transpiration.
Myth 7 Changes in solar activity cannot explain recent changes in AGT.
Facts 7 The sun’s output varies in several ways on many time
scales (including the 11-, 22 and 80-year solar cycles), with
concomitant effects on Earth’s climate. While changes in visible
radiation are small, changes in particle flux and magnetic field are
known to exercise a strong climatic effect. More than 50% of the 0.80 C
rise in AGT observed during the 20th century can be attributed to solar
change.
Myth 8 Unprecedented melting of ice is taking place in both the north and south polar regions.
Facts 8 Both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are growing in thickness and cooling at their summit. Sea ice around Antarctica
attained a record area in 2007. Temperatures in the Arctic region are
just now achieving the levels of natural warmth experienced during the
early 1940s, and the region was warmer still (sea-ice free) during
earlier times.
Myth 9 Human-caused global warming is causing dangerous global sea-level (SL) rise.
Facts 9 SL change differs from time to time and place to
place; between 1955 and 1996, for example, SL at Tuvalu fell by 105 mm
(2.5 mm/yr). Global average SL is a statistical measure of no value for
environmental planning purposes. A global average SL rise of 1-2 mm/yr
occurred naturally over the last 150 years, and shows no sign of
human-influenced increase.
Myth 10 The late 20th Century increase in AGT caused an increase in the number of severe storms (cyclones), or in storm intensity.
Facts 10 Meteorological experts are agreed that no increase in
storms has occurred beyond that associated with natural variation of
the climate system. comment: So - depending on whose computer
model you run you can get just about anything. In some conclusions the
common sense factor is noticeably absent.
Medclinician
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Posted By: jacksdad
Date Posted: December 30 2015 at 12:11pm
"One paper (authored by Carter) was described by Bob Ward, of the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics, as “probably the worst paper ever published on climate change”."
http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/07/09/australian-university-dumps-bob-carter-advisor-multiple-global-climate-science-denial-groups - www.desmogblog.com/2013/07/09/australian-university-dumps-bob-carter-advisor-multiple-global-climate-science-denial-groups
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Posted By: jacksdad
Date Posted: December 31 2015 at 10:17am
I posted this in the "severe weather" thread, but it bears repeating. Strange things afoot with the weather...
Freak storm pushes North Pole 50 degrees above normal to melting point
By Angela Fritz December 30 at 7:12 PM (This story has been updated to include buoy measurements that confirm the North Pole temperature climbed above 32 degrees on Wednesday.) A powerful winter cyclone — the same storm that led to two tornado outbreaks in the United States and disastrous river flooding — has driven the North Pole to the freezing point this week, 50 degrees above average for this time of year. From Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning, a mind-boggling pressure drop was recorded in Iceland: 54 millibars in just 18 hours. This triples the criteria for “bomb” cyclogenesis, which meteorologists use to describe a rapidly intensifying mid latitude storm. A “bomb” cyclone is defined as dropping one millibar per hour for 24 hours. NOAA’s Ocean Prediction Center said the storm’s minimum pressure dropped to 928 millibars around 1 a.m. Eastern time, which likely places it in the top five strongest storms on record in this region. [Washington, D.C., eclipses warmest December on record by an enormous margin] “According to the center’s records, the all time strongest storm in this area occurred on Dec. 15, 1986, and that had a minimum central pressure of 900 millibars,” Mashable’s Andrew Freedman reported on Tuesday. “The second strongest storm occurred in January 1993, with a pressure of 916 millibars.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/12/30/freak-storm-has-pushed-north-pole-to-freezing-point-50-degrees-above-normal/ - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/12/30/freak-storm-has-pushed-north-pole-to-freezing-point-50-degrees-above-normal/
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: December 31 2015 at 9:23pm
jacksdad wrote:
I posted this in the "severe weather" thread, but it bears repeating. Strange things afoot with the weather...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/12/30/freak-storm-has-pushed-north-pole-to-freezing-point-50-degrees-above-normal/ - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/12/30/freak-storm-has-pushed-north-pole-to-freezing-point-50-degrees-above-normal/
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I just saw this and I have a New Year update. The question is if this melts the ice are we going to get the dilution effect on the Gulf Stream and have an extreme cold wave in North America and Europe very soon. It's a good thing I restarted this thread again for 2016. We are in for some real surprises perhaps. http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/01/01/temperatures-spike-almost-50-degrees-in-north-pole.html?intcmp=hpbt3 - http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/01/01/temperatures-spike-almost-50-degrees-in-north-pole.html?intcmp=hpbt3
There has been a heat wave of sorts in the North Pole this week that
might even have Santa trading in his sleigh for swim trunks.
Temperatures were as much as 50 degrees above average
on Wednesday– almost reaching 32 degrees Fahrenheit in portions of the
Arctic Circle that average 20 below zero at this time of year.
Meteorologists and experts at the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration blame the strange weather on winter
cyclones over the Atlantic near Iceland that pushed warm air far up from
the south. Another storm in the Arctic north of Greenland - helped by
low-pressure system that also produced blizzards in New Mexico,
tornadoes in Texas and flooding in Missouri - was also to blame. Medclinician comment: We are due for some colder weather soon despite this.
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Posted By: jacksdad
Date Posted: January 01 2016 at 10:26am
Reminds of the Chinese curse about living in interesting times
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: January 04 2016 at 12:06am
The Arctic and East Greenland have to deal with a longer melting season. I do not see any possibility for an ice-age. http://www.prescribedevolution.com/global-warming-and-the-future-of-life/ - http://www.prescribedevolution.com/global-warming-and-the-future-of-life/ http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/22521-climate-disruption-dispatches-with-dahr-jamail - http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/22521-climate-disruption-dispatches-with-dahr-jamail
Planet Earth is warming up faster than predicted in any model. http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/climate-change-energy-and-sustainability/climate-disruption-are-we-beyond-worst-case-scen-0 - http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/climate-change-energy-and-sustainability/climate-disruption-are-we-beyond-worst-case-scen-0 . Peter Ward https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ward_%28paleontologist%29 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ward_(paleontologist) studied life-extinction processes and is warning for H2S-"purple" oceans as the outcome of climatechange. (Others warn that methane could give Earth a Venus-like climate in 2090).
Volcanic eruptions in the past did have cooling-effects but with the present climate models it could possibly even worsen the climate system, since they also could cause methane and H2S release. Solar activity now is having a coolong effect on the climate, blaming global warming on the sun is incorrect.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: January 04 2016 at 2:25am
If the predictions on rapid climatechange escalations are correct (and I surely hope they are not !!!) life on this planet is in acute danger. When you think of how Fukushima happened in combination with very strong storms and the spread of nuclear power plants near water/shore rapid climate escalation will mean escelation of "nuclear accidents".
Some scientists already claim that Fukushima itself is a very serious treath for live on Earth. Storms, increasing Earthquake risks (due to global warming and redistribution of pressure on the Earths crust-melting of (land) ice (Antarctica, Greenland etc), lack of cooling water will make nuclear power even more dangerous that it already is.
In my opinion we, as humans, should do everything possible to make risks smaller, even if we are already full-speed in a dead-end street.
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: January 06 2016 at 9:23am
http://phys.org/news/2016-01-current-pace-environmental-unprecedented-earth.html#nRlv - http://phys.org/news/2016-01-current-pace-environmental-unprecedented-earth.html#nRlv
news dated January 5, 2016
University of Bristol
Cabot Institute researchers and their colleagues today published
research that further documents the unprecedented rate of environmental
change occurring today, compared to that which occurred during natural
events in Earth's history.
The research, published online on 4 January in Nature Geosciences reconstructs the changes in http://m.phys.org/tags/atmospheric+carbon+dioxide/ - atmospheric carbon dioxide
(pCO2) during a global environmental change event that occurred about
120 Million years ago. New geochemical data provide evidence that pCO2
increased in response to volcanic outgassing and remained high for
around 1.5-2 million years, until enhanced organic matter burial in an
oxygen-poor ocean caused areturn to original levels.
comment: We in the midst of an approaching global climate change. While the effects of El Nino and La Nina are fairly unpredictable, a new model needs to be developed as the ice continues to melt and dilute a stream between the U.S. and Europe which warms both areas.
It has been stated while this may not bring about an event as dire as "The Day After Tomorrow" it could produce further weather instability and either widely diverse warming or cooling on the East Coast, heavy rain on the West Coast, and further tornado and severe storm activity in the Midwest.
Medclinician http://phys.org/news/2016-01-current-pace-environmental-unprecedented-earth.html#jCp -
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: January 22 2016 at 8:47am
Snowmageddon
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/22/capital-in-crosshairs-dc-braces-for-potentially-historic-snowstorm.html?intcmp=hpbt1
That could put this snowstorm near the top 10 to hit the East, with the
weekend timing and days of warning helping to limit deaths and damage,
said Kocin, who compared it to "Snowmageddon," the first of two storms
that "wiped out" Washington in 2010 and dumped up to 30 inches of snow
in places.
The most intense part of the storm will come Saturday morning from
around 4 a.m. through 12 p.m," said Fox 5 DC meteorologist Gary McGrady.
"We can expect heavy snow, possibly 2 inches per hour, and blizzard
conditions with 30 to 35 mph winds creating legitimate whiteout
conditions." McGrady added that his forecast called for between 1 and 2
feet of snow to fall in the national capital region before all was said
and done.
comment: in California the skies are dark - so we have something coming even here. There has been some bad weather to this point, but with all the bad news in the world, we return to the core of it all for many in the U.S. - a storm - New York. It never came for Christmas and traditionally many were denied what they were used to living in the predictably cold New York in the dead of winter.
The question is, is this part of any pattern that is about to finally start and bring in a long period of cold and nasty storms? The word vortex is not being touched. Strap yourself down New York. It could be a bumpy ride.
Medclinician
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: January 22 2016 at 8:49am
Published on Jan 22, 2016 A
major snowstorm event is taking place right now across the east coast.
Blizzard Warnings are in effect with the potential of up to three feet
of snow. Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Trenton, and New York
City are some of the major locations under Blizzard Warnings.
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: January 23 2016 at 6:44am
Halfway through the storm in the Northeast, conditions are getting bad. It is estimated there is still 17 hours to go and already snow is piling up around the White House where there was no accumulation before. The Metro system in Washington D.C. was shutdown last night as well as the one in Philadelphia. One of the primary concerns is will there be power outages and how long will it take them to dig out. If it is this hard for these state to deal with one severe storm, how would they deal with a climate change that bring Arctic like conditions over months or even years?
Medclinician
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: January 23 2016 at 6:49am
Did they know this storm was coming or were they able to predict it sometime before it hit? Not really. It was known as a "sleeping giant" and some will only say they think it was formed by a low pressure area which formed in the North Atlantic area off the coast.
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: January 23 2016 at 9:31am
http://robertscribbler.com/2016/01/23/blizzard-fueled-by-ocean-heat-cripples-eastern-us-floods-coast-with-historic-storm-surge/ - http://robertscribbler.com/2016/01/23/blizzard-fueled-by-ocean-heat-cripples-eastern-us-floods-coast-with-historic-storm-surge/
The Arctic is still getting above freezing temperatures. Parts of the land-ice on Greenland are melting-in January !!!!! I do not see any sign of an ice-age !
The cold parts of the US is getting is being pushed from the Arctic ! There is serious danger of flooding for the US East Coast: Along the coast, Jonas’s impacts began to look more like those of Superstorm Sandy than of a typical winter snowmaker. Winds on the Eastern Shore of Virginia hit a peak hurricane force gust of 85 miles per hour earlier this morning as Jonas gorged on record warm Atlantic Ocean waters and intensified. These strong winds combined with astronomical high tides and a climate change related pile up of Gulf Stream waters off the US East Coast to push tides to the second highest level on record for Delaware beaches. http://www.weather.com/storms/winter/news/winter-storm-jonas-forecast-blizzard-warning-january-22 - According to the Weather Channel : On Saturday morning, the water level at Lewes, Delaware, rose to 9.27 feet, a storm surge of more than 4 feet. This is the highest level on record at that gauge, beating 9.20 feet on March 6, 1962. Record flooding has also been observed in at least three New Jersey locations (Great Channel at Stone Harbor, Cape May Harbor, Delaware Bay at Cape May).
see also http://arctic-news.blogspot.nl/2016/01/why-america-should-lead-on-climate.html - http://arctic-news.blogspot.nl/2016/01/why-america-should-lead-on-climate.html
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: January 23 2016 at 2:22pm
This is all well and good but Denver is having a historic warm winter. We have a small snow storm then 45 - 55 degree weather.
We can't stop it look to China and all their pollution to the earth the U.S.A. does not do half as much pollution as China!
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: January 23 2016 at 9:33pm
I also posted this in the dungeon, from Paul Beckwith-facebook:
It’s just that simple... https://www.facebook.com/taras.d.14 - TARAS D · https://www.facebook.com/notes/taras-d/its-just-that-simple/10156564067195389 - ZONDAG 24 JANUARI 2016 https://www.facebook.com/notes/taras-d/its-just-that-simple/10156564067195389# - 1. Global warming is real. It’s here and it’s happening “faster than anyone expected”. It has entered the abrupt phase. Abrupt? Yes, last climate change took several thousand years to unfold, this time it’s going to take decades. 2. Global warming is exponential. This means that it is slow to start but once it accelerates, it’s going to change the face of this planet. Remember: “The Hotter It Gets, The Faster It Gets Hotter”. The temperature will keep rising at an ever accelaring rate until it reaches some equilibrium. Right now the equilibrium looks to be 6-8C above pre-industrial levels. The last time such a temperature difference happened (8C below normal), New York was under a mile of ice. With 6C above normal, Paris is in the middle of a dessert. 3. Global warming is weather mayhem. Many think the weather will get warmer. While it’s true when it comes to average temperatures, the weather will get more unpredictable and more severe. Severe storms, severe droughts, severe winters, severe hothouse summers, all across the globe. 4. Global warming is migration on global scale. Contrary to popular belief, migration will occur before sea level rise. Sea level rise will happen after people leave their coastal cities. Droughts and extreme weather events will force people to migrate into other areas, causing tension, leading to civil unrest, civil wars and then whole scale invasions that haven’t been seen since barbarians invaded Rome. 5. Global warming is now irreversible. We had a chance to stop it and reveres it 40 years ago. We had a chance to stop it 20 years ago. We had a chance to slow it down 10 years ago. Today, even if we stop burning fossil fuels, the temeratures will shoot up within weeks. Burning coal produces sulphates and aerosols and they stay up in the air for a few weeks keeping us cool, then they fall out. As long as we burn coal, this global dimming effect will remain, if we stop burning coal, the temperatures will shoot up by 1.2C within weeks. 6. Global warming is habitat killer. Our eco system depends on stable temperatures that we’ve experienced for the past 10,000 years. Slight changes in weather patterns and temperatures, cause eco systems to change or die. Think about having mild winters in the agricultural heartland of North America, all pests that winter kills will be able to survive and destroy our crops. Extreme weather destroys habitat, which destroys flora and fauna, which we depend upon in order to live. When habitat is gone, so will humans. 7. Global warming has feedbacks. These feedbacks are either positive or negative. Negative feedbacks slow global warming down or reverse it, positive feedbacks make global warming worse. Unfortunately, positive feedbacks are prevalant in the warming world and some of these have caused temperatures to jump 5-10C in matter of decades. For example, warming Arctic ocean can cause a release of just 2% of methane in a small part of the Arctic Ocean. This can cause temperatures to rise 1.2C within a year, causing sea ice to disappear completely in the Arctic and thaw the permafrost. This positive feedback can cause all the methane to be released within decades, ensuring temperatures rise 5-10C within decades. This will kill all living things on the planet. Solution: The best solution is to stop burning all fossil fuels now. If we do, we might still have a chance to have some humans survive. We must prepare for very difficult times ahead. We must teach people how to farm, begin a massive depopulation program (if we don’t do this volunteraly, nature will do it for us, indiscriminately). Resilience should be our goal. Sustainability will only ensure humanity’s extinction. These are tough choices, but they must be made soon. We have, at most, 10 years left. Maybe less. Technology, green or otherwise will have no effect on global warming anymore. Green tech will cause temperatures to rise quickly, and without fossil fuels to extract rare earth metals and iron, copper ores, green techs are dead in the water. Green technology is a solution to the wrong problem. The real cause Global warming is overpopulation, but that’s a different argument. Bonus: Once global warming picks up pace, all nuclear power stations will be in danger of meltdown. If we don’t shut them down now properly and store spent fuel safely, we could experience Fukushima style meltdowns around the globe. This event will destroy all life on Earth, forever.
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: January 24 2016 at 2:50am
Once more...
While global warming having been officially ignored by the political arm
of the Bush administration, and Al Gore's conference on the
topic during one of the coldest days of recent years provided joke
fodder for conservative talk show hosts, the citizens of Europe and the
Pentagon are taking a new look at the greatest danger such climate
change could produce for the northern hemisphere - a sudden shift into a
new ice age. What they're finding is not at all comforting.
In quick summary, if enough cold, fresh water coming from the melting
polar ice caps and the melting glaciers of Greenland flows into the
northern Atlantic, it will shut down the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europe
and northeastern North America warm. The worst-case scenario would be a
full-blown return of the last ice age - in a period as short as 2 to 3
years from its onset - and the mid-case scenario would be a period like
the "little ice age" of a few centuries ago that disrupted worldwide
weather patterns leading to extremely harsh winters, droughts, worldwide
desertification, crop failures, and wars around the world.
Here's how it works.
If you look at a globe, you'll see that the latitude of much of
Europe and Scandinavia is the same as that of Alaska and
permafrost-locked parts of northern Canada and central Siberia. Yet
Europe has a climate more similar to that of the United States than
northern Canada or Siberia. Why?
It turns out that our warmth is the result of ocean currents that
bring warm surface water up from the equator into northern regions that
would otherwise be so cold that even in summer they'd be covered with
ice. The current of greatest concern is often referred to as "The Great
Conveyor Belt," which includes what we call the Gulf Stream.
The Great Conveyor Belt, while shaped by the Coriolis effect of the
Earth's rotation, is mostly driven by the greater force created by
differences in water temperatures and salinity. The North Atlantic Ocean
is saltier and colder than the Pacific, the result of it being so much
smaller and locked into place by the Northern and Southern American
Hemispheres on the west and Europe and Africa on the east.
As a result, the warm water of the Great Conveyor Belt evaporates out
of the North Atlantic leaving behind saltier waters, and the cold
continental winds off the northern parts of North America cool the
waters. Salty, cool waters settle to the bottom of the sea, most at a
point a few hundred kilometers south of the southern tip of Greenland,
producing a whirlpool of falling water that's 5 to 10 miles across.
While the whirlpool rarely breaks the surface, during certain times of
year it does produce an indentation and current in the ocean that can
tilt ships and be seen from space (and may be what we see on the maps of
ancient mariners).
This falling column of cold, salt-laden water pours itself to the
bottom of the Atlantic, where it forms an undersea river forty times
larger than all the rivers on land combined, flowing south down to and
around the southern tip of Africa, where it finally reaches the Pacific.
Amazingly, the water is so deep and so dense (because of its cold and
salinity) that it often doesn't surface in the Pacific for as much as a
thousand years after it first sank in the North Atlantic off the coast
of Greenland.
The out-flowing undersea river of cold, salty water makes the level
of the Atlantic slightly lower than that of the Pacific, drawing in a
strong surface current of warm, fresher water from the Pacific to
replace the outflow of the undersea river. This warmer, fresher water
slides up through the South Atlantic, loops around North America where
it's known as the Gulf Stream, and ends up off the coast of Europe. By
the time it arrives near Greenland, it's cooled off and evaporated
enough water to become cold and salty and sink to the ocean floor,
providing a continuous feed for that deep-sea river flowing to the
Pacific.
These two flows - warm, fresher water in from the Pacific, which then
grows salty and cools and sinks to form an exiting deep sea river - are
known as the Great Conveyor Belt.
Amazingly, the Great Conveyor Belt is only thing between comfortable
summers and a permanent ice age for Europe and the eastern coast of
North America.
Much of this science was unknown as recently as twenty years ago.
Then an international group of scientists went to Greenland and used
newly developed drilling and sensing equipment to drill into some of the
world's most ancient accessible glaciers. Their instruments were so
sensitive that when they analyzed the ice core samples they brought up,
they were able to look at individual years of snow. The results were
shocking.
Prior to the last decades, it was thought that the periods between
glaciations and warmer times in North America, Europe, and North Asia
were gradual. We knew from the fossil record that the Great Ice Age
period began a few million years ago, and during those years there were
times where for hundreds or thousands of years North America, Europe,
and Siberia were covered with thick sheets of ice year-round. In between
these icy times, there were periods when the glaciers thawed, bare land
was exposed, forests grew, and land animals (including early humans)
moved into these northern regions.
Most scientists figured the transition time from icy to warm was
gradual, lasting dozens to hundreds of years, and nobody was sure
exactly what had caused it. (Variations in solar radiation were
suspected, as were volcanic activity, along with early theories about
the Great Conveyor Belt, which, until recently, was a poorly understood
phenomenon.)
Looking at the ice cores, however, scientists were shocked to
discover that the transitions from ice age-like weather to
contemporary-type weather usually took only two or three years.
Something was flipping the weather of the planet back and forth with a
rapidity that was startling.
It turns out that the ice age versus temperate weather patterns
weren't part of a smooth and linear process, like a dimmer slider for an
overhead light bulb. They are part of a delicately balanced
teeter-totter, which can exist in one state or the other, but transits
through the middle stage almost overnight. They more resemble a light
switch, which is off as you gradually and slowly lift it, until it hits a
mid-point threshold or "breakover point" where suddenly the state is
flipped from off to on and the light comes on.
It appears that small (less that .1 percent) variations in solar
energy happen in roughly 1500-year cycles. This cycle, for example, is
what brought us the "Little Ice Age" that started around the year 1400
and dramatically cooled North America and Europe (we're now in the
warming phase, recovering from that). When the ice in the Arctic Ocean
is frozen solid and locked up, and the glaciers on Greenland are
relatively stable, this variation warms and cools the Earth in a very
small way, but doesn't affect the operation of the Great Conveyor Belt
that brings moderating warm water into the North Atlantic. courtesy of http://www.commondreams.org/author/thom-hartmann - Thom Hartmann further comment: The key question here is did a period of global warming precede the last Ice Age or at least a period of intense cold? Can this happen in a few years instead of centuries?
Yes, the ice may be melting at the North Poles, but this very process could shut down the Gulf Stream. Even if this "Ice Age" were not global - it could seriously freeze most of North America and Europe. Granted people living in the Equatorial Regions might yawn yet as was portrayed in The Day After Tomorrow, we (in the U.S.) might find many of us on the Mexican border trying to climb and head south over the wall that Donald Trump intends to build.
One cannot help but see the irony here. There are more storms coming to New York and the East Coast. With its dense population and our vulnerable airports, they may bravely get through this Storm of the Century today, but more are coming.
point: Where we have an Ice Age that only effects the northern part of the U.S. and Europe when planes cannot even fly (as there was a period of serious ice shards downing jets) across the Northern Atlantic, it might be technically not an Ice Age, but New York won't think it matters.
I will proceed with my book, Coming of the Ice Age, and serious belief that global warming may have proceeded the last Ice Age or at least where there was a flash freezing of dinosaurs standing munching on food when it hit. Some say it was a comet that shifted our axis, but I rather think that our models are askew.
Weather is not rocket science and we cannot base our predictions on the database we have which only really extended on observable scientifically recorded weather for the last several hundred years.
Perhaps we won't have any glaciers in the Bay Area in California even if Northern U.S. becomes Snowland but sitting in a boat over where I used to live after the Great Earthquake of 2016 won't be much comfort.
Even more so - telling a New Yorker when all the airports are shut down and warming current that had saved them is no longer working -"It's not an Ice Age - really we are in the middle of a period of global warming." won't seem that significant or even important.
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: January 24 2016 at 8:40am
Perhaps the best understanding of the Gulf Stream which was discovered by Benjamin Franklin could be explained visually. What if someone had already put up a convincing and thought provoking documentary of what I have been trying to say for the last year? They have. You may watch this and other very interesting documentaries at
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/
Gets popcorn, coffee, and an extra pillow for my chair. I am glad I am not in New York, and am starting to really understand - what is this Gulf Stream I have been talking about and how could its disruption by the current melting of the Icecap and glaciers plunge us into a mini-ice-age?
It is very possible. "Rather than wondering if it will occur, the authors believe it's more of a question of when." If not within our lifetimes, easily within those of our children. Do we care enough about them to try and change this if it all we can? We should at least try.
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: January 24 2016 at 9:41am
Okay, maybe not the day after tomorrow, or even the day after that, but soon. Yes, there is global warming and things are melting, but perhaps it is that which is about to take us into - another Ice Age. Medclinician
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: February 18 2016 at 8:41am
The return of Polar Vortexes and freaky weather.
Well, yes. Weather has always been rather unpredictable with weathermen sometimes talking about clear blue skies when it is pouring rain outside. Last night we had a brief burst of rain and storm in California which is followed this morning by an almost clear blue sky in California after days of record heat for this time of year.
http://krqe.com/2016/02/18/rain-snow-hit-california-shifting-weather-back-to-winter/ - http://krqe.com/2016/02/18/rain-snow-hit-california-shifting-weather-back-to-winter/
Despite mammoths being quick frozen (now debunked by one scientists as actually because of an earthquake in the mud) still the Gulf Stream continues to dilute and the glaciers melt and we are seeing really strange weather just about everywhere.
No Christmas cold for New York and between storms they have had balmy warm temps. This was a day of "no news" as we await a possible Armageddon as Turkey prepares to invade Syria, so I thought I would crank up the Ice Age thread despite most telling me - yes - we still may have one in North American and Europe but no big deal - because the tropics will remain the tropics.
Speaking of Armageddon the Russian are getting ready to upgrade their nukes so they can do a Bruce Willis sequel journey to take out a nasty meteor on a near collision course with Earth.
Despite all the Hoopla at the big global warming conference and deep discussions, is anyone doing anything to cut the C02 emissions besides stall the date when they will do so?
For one, it would be nice to see rain in our little desert California which really needs it.
Is this a no news - no weather day? Look like the Ice Age will have to wait.
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Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: February 18 2016 at 2:13pm
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/18/1487141/--It-s-unraveling-every-piece-of-it-is-unraveling-they-re-all-in-lockstep-together - 'It’s unraveling, every piece of it is unraveling, they’re all in lockstep together'
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/18/1487141/--It-s-unraveling-every-piece-of-it-is-unraveling-they-re-all-in-lockstep-together
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: February 19 2016 at 3:03am
http://robertscribbler.com/2016/02/18/no-winter-for-the-arctic-in-2016-nasa-marks-hottest-january-ever-recorded/ - http://robertscribbler.com/2016/02/18/no-winter-for-the-arctic-in-2016-nasa-marks-hottest-january-ever-recorded/
Not only did January show the highest temperature departure from average for a single month — at +1.13 C above NASA’s 20th Century base-line and about +1.38 C above 1880s averages (just 0.12 C shy of the dangerous 1.5 C mark). But what we observed in the global distribution of those record hot temperatures was both odd and disturbing. There, in the Arctic lands of now-thawing glacial ice and permafrost — over Siberia, over Northern Canada, over Northern Greenland and all throughout the Arctic Ocean zone above 70 North Latitude — temperatures averaged between 4 and 13 degrees Celsius above normal. That’s between 7 and 23 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than usual for the extraordinary period of an entire month. It would be bad if it were only a case that warmth in the Arctic just resulted in the ever-more-rapid melting of glaciers — forcing seas to rise by centimeters, inches and feet. It would be rather bad if polar warming amplified as white ice on land and over the ocean withdrew — https://www.wunderground.com/climate/SeaIce.asp - turning a heat-reflecting surface into dark blue, green, and brown heat-absorbing feature . It would be pretty amazingly bad if such heat also resulted in permafrost thaw — https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/frozenground/methane.html - again worsening human-forced warming by unlocking up to 1,300 billion tons of carbon and eventually transferring about half of that into our atmosphere . And it would be rather bad if all that extra heat in the Arctic started to meddle with the Northern Hemisphere’s weather — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAiA-_iQjdU - by altering the flow of the Jet Stream . By resulting in very persistent drought-producing ridges and storm-producing troughs. Sadly, these events are no longer just hypothetical. The sea ice is retreating. The permafrost is thawing. The glaciers are melting. And the flow of the Jet Stream appears to be weakening.
(DJ) Temperatures will follow CO2 and Methane rising meaning sealevelrise. We are on the wrong side of the worst-case-scenario.
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Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: February 19 2016 at 3:24am
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/18/1487512/-Open-thread-for-night-owls-Exxon-prepared-for-climate-change-while-discrediting-climate-scientists - Open thread for night owls: Exxon prepared for climate change while discrediting climate scientists
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/18/1487512/-Open-thread-for-night-owls-Exxon-prepared-for-climate-change-while-discrediting-climate-scientists
the big oil companies have simultaneously been lying about climate change while preparing for it
their actions constitute a crime against humanity and should be prosecuted accordingly
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: April 06 2016 at 3:02pm
Could not believe this. Looking at the thermometer and it is 86 degrees here in Monterey, Ca and I look and see we have another arctic blast coming. I really had to look at this one twice. We had record warm sea water here a few weeks ago and I still believe the ice shelves will melt in the north, the Gulf Stream dilute, and we will have arctic weather here.
So I found this...
http://www.vencoreweather.com/blog/2016/4/6/1210-pm-another-arctic-blast-for-the-late-week-and-weekend-and-possible-accumulating-snow - http://www.vencoreweather.com/blog/2016/4/6/1210-pm-another-arctic-blast-for-the-late-week-and-weekend-and-possible-accumulating-snow
Low temperature records were broken this morning in parts of the
Mid-Atlantic region and Northeast US (e.g., Dulles and BWI Airports
bottomed out at 24 degrees) and this is by no means the end of the
unusual cold weather. Temperatures will modify some this afternoon and
turn much milder on Thursday, but more Arctic air is poised to pounce on
the region by the weekend and freezing conditions are quite likely in
parts of the Mid-Atlantic on both weekend mornings. In addition to the
upcoming late week and weekend cold, accumulating snow is a threat as a
very energetic upper-level pattern develops in the Northeast US. Waves
of energy will rotate around a deep upper-level trough of low pressure
at the end of the week and the result could be a storm near the
Mid-Atlantic coastline by Saturday.
Clouds are moving in here and the sky is nearly covered. Go storm!
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: April 07 2016 at 4:38am
http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/forecastmaps?LANG=en&UP=0&R=0&MORE=1&DAY=0&MAPS=over&CONT=euro&LAND=GL&TOFD=tag# - http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/forecastmaps?LANG=en&UP=0&R=0&MORE=1&DAY=0&MAPS=over&CONT=euro&LAND=GL&TOFD=tag# and http://www.weather-forecast.com/maps/Greenland?symbols=none&type=lapse - http://www.weather-forecast.com/maps/Greenland?symbols=none&type=lapse
I get the impression that Greenland is getting above normal temperatures. The jet-stream is being disrupted, bringing "wierd weather" in the northern hemisphere.
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: April 09 2016 at 8:22am
Polar Vortex on the way... all is not well with the Gulf Stream - weird weather... http://rungreatlakes.org/2016/04/09/the-polar-vortex-and-its-general-suckitude/ - https://rungreatlakes.org/2016/04/09/the-polar-vortex-and-its-general-suckitude/
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: May 21 2016 at 11:43am
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160509085744.htm - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160509085744.htm
From 2002 to the beginning of 2016, the mass of the Antarctic ice-sheet
decreased on average by about 100 gigatons a year. This mass loss equals
100 cubic kilometers of water. If this water volume was evenly
distributed over the total area of Germany the resulting water layer
would be 28 centimeters thick -- every year. This would translate into
0.27 millimeters over the ocean corresponding to 9% of the global mean
sea-level rise.
comment: with decreasing temps coming from La Nina in the Gulf Stream there could be extreme global cooling. With extreme spin of the Global Warming situation, although perhaps not a true Ice Age, the cooling of what warms the U.S. and Europe could give us "Day After Tomorrow scenarias which icy temps.
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: May 21 2016 at 11:44am
Repeating colds temps not seen for more than a hundred years...
Medclinician CWN jb
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: May 21 2016 at 10:43pm
Interesting video ! Ignores CO2, methane, global warming gas and comes up with solar minimum/maximum that is not regarded as science for influence on global climate.
The (remote) possibility for an ice-age could be in meltwater from both Greenland and Antarctica. That meltwater is sweet-on top of warmer salt water. In winter that meltwater could maybe turn into sea-ice at a larger level than when there was not so much meltwater in those regions.
On the other side there is that much warming going on that la nina does not make that much of a difference. El nino was not the main cause for global warming, more a "side effect contributing to warming" an extra ingrediënt-not the main dish.
The trend in Antarctica is going to look more and more like the one in the Arctic; increased melt, mostly due to warmer seawater. A big danger can become "ice-tsunami's". Ice with its basis on the seafloor but eroded by warmer seawater. That (west-antarctic) ice may break and drop into the sea (Totten glacier in East Antarctica has the same problem) causing a tsunami.
https://summitcountyvoice.com/2016/04/30/climate-antarctic-ice-shelf-retreat-may-be-irreversible/ - https://summitcountyvoice.com/2016/04/30/climate-antarctic-ice-shelf-retreat-may-be-irreversible/ or https://paulbeckwith.net/ - https://paulbeckwith.net/
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: June 02 2016 at 7:34am
One thing is for certain. There is so much money involved in the whole global warming thing, it is very possible that data has been manipulated or deleted from the net which does not support the overall causes or the coming of a small Ice Age in the U.S. and Europe. While not global, the severe drops in temps could basically ground planes and freeze most of New England and Europe due to dilution of the Gulf Stream which is clearly measurable and increasing.
It seems rather ironic that they have a big summit over how to change bus schedules and other non-solutions to huge issues, while ignoring that the melting of the ice in the north pole could bring about severe cold.
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Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: June 02 2016 at 8:47am
from the post "Peak Global Warming"
"What we should now expect are rapidly declining global temperatures
after February 2016, the apex of the 11-year cycle #24 solar heating."
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2016/05/99-percent-chance-2016-will-be-hottest.html - ‘99 percent chance’ 2016 will be hottest year http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2016/05/99-percent-chance-2016-will-be-hottest.html
March,April, continued to set record highs
interesting theory he puts forth will have to watch things CLOSELY
if his theory is correct we will know soon enough
thanks for the post
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Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: June 02 2016 at 10:44am
the UK is unseasonably cold right now
Is It Really Summer? U.K. Natural Gas Trades Like It’s Winter
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-02/is-it-really-summer-u-k-natural-gas-trades-like-it-s-winter
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: July 03 2016 at 12:37pm
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/06/30/the-mysterious-cold-blob-in-the-north-atlantic-is-starting-to-give-up-its-secrets/?postshare=2611467303077037&tid=ss_fb - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/06/30/the-mysterious-cold-blob-in-the-north-atlantic-is-starting-to-give-up-its-secrets/?postshare=2611467303077037&tid=ss_fb
Is the cold blob south of Greenland (mostly) the result of melting (land) ice or could it be that that cold blob was caused by several cold winters ? How does this effect the gulfstream and the possibility of a new ice-age ? The debate goes on, there is obviously still a lot to learn !
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: July 03 2016 at 3:06pm
Dutch Josh wrote:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/06/30/the-mysterious-cold-blob-in-the-north-atlantic-is-starting-to-give-up-its-secrets/?postshare=2611467303077037&tid=ss_fb - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/06/30/the-mysterious-cold-blob-in-the-north-atlantic-is-starting-to-give-up-its-secrets/?postshare=2611467303077037&tid=ss_fb
Is the cold blob south of Greenland (mostly) the result of melting (land) ice or could it be that that cold blob was caused by several cold winters ? How does this effect the gulfstream and the possibility of a new ice-age ? The debate goes on, there is obviously still a lot to learn ! |
It is cold here in northern California. Fourth of July used to be a sizzler with cooking temps and miserable heat that lasted until very early in the morning. For the last few years - and we have gone back and forth - I have talked to people convinced that the melting of the North Pole ice would mess up the Gulf Stream and actually bring about a U.S. - European "Ice Age."
Now it really doesn't matter if it is a formal Ice Age. If most of the northern U.S. is put in "The Day After Tomorrow" weather it would ruin the East Coast, air traffic, and large parts of Europe would freeze. So much PR pushing the global warming and yet it may be that very phenomena no matter who is causing it that in the next few years bring in major climate changes.
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: July 03 2016 at 3:15pm
Once upon a time in the future - as they argued about global warming and predicted years of drought and pollution. Pop Secret - lemonade - dark chocolate and ...
http://www.amazon.com/Day-After-Tomorrow-Dennis-Quaid/dp/B000NDMRCS - https://www.amazon.com/Day-After-Tomorrow-Dennis-Quaid/dp/B000NDMRCS
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: July 05 2016 at 10:50pm
https://robertscribbler.com/2016/07/05/fahrenheit-85-9-near-arctic-ocean-shores-extreme-heatwave-settles-in-over-north-central-siberia-canadas-northern-tier/ - https://robertscribbler.com/2016/07/05/fahrenheit-85-9-near-arctic-ocean-shores-extreme-heatwave-settles-in-over-north-central-siberia-canadas-northern-tier/
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: July 21 2016 at 7:42am
Are we headed for global cooling versus a current heat wave (dome) in New York and blistering temperatures throughout the U.S. this weekend? Could be. Not really giving up on the fact that the Gulf Stream continues to be diluted as the Norhern Ice Cap continues to melt and this could ruin what makes the East Coast and much of Europe warmer when it should be covered in ice.
A lot of money riding on the whole global warming myth which although it may be creating record temperatures globally, it would give us an "Ice Age" in the United States in Europe. Yes, we could still flee to the Tropics but this would be irrelevant if most of the big cities such as New York, Chicago, and D.C. airports were literally shut down.
So enjoy the balmy weather New York - well perhaps not enjoy the sweltering Heat Dome. Relief is on the way.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/07/no_author/junk-scientists-flipflop-global-cooling/ - https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/07/no_author/junk-scientists-flipflop-global-cooling/
These currents, which today drive the Gulf Stream, bring
warm surface waters north and send cold, deeper waters south. But they
weakened suddenly and drastically, nearly to the point of stopping, just
before several periods of abrupt climate change, researchers report
today in Science. In a matter of decades, temperatures plummeted in the
north, as the currents brought less warmth in that direction. Meanwhile,
the backlog of warm, southern waters allowed the Southern Hemisphere to
heat up.
AMOC slowdowns have long been suspected as the cause of the climate
swings during the last ice age, which lasted from 110,000 to 15,000
years ago, but never definitively shown. The new study “is the best
demonstration that this indeed happened,” says Jerry McManus, a
paleo-oceanographer at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth
Observatory, and a study author. “It is very convincing evidence,” adds
Andreas Schmittner, a climate scientist at Oregon State University,
Corvallis. “We did not know that the circulation changed during these
shorter intervals.”
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Another question is whether the AMOC—currently known to be in decline—could drop off suddenly today, as depicted in the 2004 movie The Day After Tomorrow, causing temperatures to plummet across northwestern Europe.
Schmittner says the past provides an eye-opener. “It’s evidence that
this really did happen in the past, on short time scales.” But McManus
says that studies looking deeper into the ice ages have found that the
1500-year climate oscillations tend not to be nearly as strong during
interglacial periods. “It would suggest that this kind of thing
isn’t so likely to happen today,” he says. On the other hand, he adds,
“In most interglacials, Greenland didn’t melt … and Greenland is
currently melting.”
Read more: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/crippled-atlantic-conveyor-triggered-ice-age-climate-change - http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/crippled-atlantic-conveyor-triggered-ice-age-climate-change Medclinician
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Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: July 21 2016 at 10:25am
A Global Temperature Rise Of More than Ten Degrees Celsius By 2026?
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2016/07/a-global-temperature-rise-of-more-than-ten-degrees-celsius-by-2026.html
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: July 23 2016 at 10:14am
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Posted By: jacksdad
Date Posted: July 23 2016 at 11:04am
With all due respect, Med - Monckton is a joke. He's still claiming he's a member of the House of Lords when he's not. He inflates his own resume, and plays to the crowd with his ridiculous theories. A climate change denier that will say anything to back up his claims. He'd be laughable if the stakes weren't so high for future generations.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: July 24 2016 at 4:30pm
Well, to get ready for the possible mini ice age, I have a one/two man saw and I was going to get a hole put in for the second grip to make it a two man. However, it cost so much to put the hole in it I instead bought a two man saw. I have all the wedges and sledge hammers, splitters so I can get my own wood cut and split it.
My fall project is to make a foldable sawbuck. It looks pretty easy to make, and I will store it in my garage.
I just had my chimney sweep in to sweep and he helped my purchase all the stuff I need to clean my own chimney. I will not do my own sweep unless TSHTF but if you burn 2 cords you need to clean your chimney. Some people burn 4 cords a winter and would need to clean 2 times that year.
I feel pretty ready if things turn cold but if things turn hot, nothing you can do but have lots of spray bottles and netting to be able to sleep out side.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: July 24 2016 at 4:39pm
LOL, just put bed netting hoop on my wish list on Amazon. Well, when I buy two they are only 9 dollars, I will be ready for cold or hot... as best as I can be prepped.
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Posted By: jacksdad
Date Posted: July 24 2016 at 5:35pm
Serious subject, I know, but it made me smile because it reminded me of my late Mother - one of her biggest fears was a chimney fire. We had coal fires back then, and if you built it up too high, she'd panic and get a spray bottle to douse it. As kids, we used to give her such a hard time over it because we'd never seen the damage they caused.
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: July 25 2016 at 5:05am
jacksdad wrote:
With all due respect, Med - Monckton is a joke. He's still claiming he's a member of the House of Lords when he's not. He inflates his own resume, and plays to the crowd with his ridiculous theories. A climate change denier that will say anything to back up his claims. He'd be laughable if the stakes weren't so high for future generations.
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There definitley needs to be more research on the claims here. Monckton does appear to be highly intelligent. There are some sentences he uses which are like Franz Liszt compositions he wrote that only he could play - very difficult to keep up with but containing some truths and evidence. Perhaps simple-speak here is a better answer.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-cooling-real-inconvenient-truth-140500879.html - http://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-cooling-real-inconvenient-truth-140500879.html
It’s
the Real Inconvenient Truth—right now the world is getting colder. And
it’s likely to get even colder for the next 20 years—before a new,
stronger cycle of sunspots begins, as they have for eons. They are
statistically very, VERY accurate. But
there’s more, and it’s A Sad Truth: there is ample evidence that
suggests private scientists and public servants have been manipulating
the basic raw data that most everyone relies on to calculate climate
change. (This story has great timing as the IPCC–International Panel on
Climate Change–just released Part 5 of their most recent major
assessment on climate science (even they can’t bring themselves to call
it Global Warming anymore).) There
are some investment trends that come out of this new Truth, and some of
it is as simple as get long snowmobile makers and get short lawn
mowers. One trend is that Global Cooling should bring more seasonality
in oil and gas prices, making energy ETF and commodity traders happy. comment: Also it would appear some are trying to make it criminal or put into place ways to stop people from questioning global warming or climate chance.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/22977-professor-wants-to-use-rico-to-punish-climate-change-deniers - http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/22977-professor-wants-to-use-rico-to-punish-climate-change-deniers “Those who intentionally misled the public about climate change should be held accountable,” Kraft concluded his article.
Kraft went so far as to refer favorably to those who would use the
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to pursue
charges against major fossil fuel companies for “knowingly deceiving the
public — and investors — about the dangers of climate change.” comment: This gets disturbing. Basically if we are seeing even a warm period which is melting the icecaps and Greenland, it is likely diluting the Gulf Stream which if it is bad enough will bring on "local ice Age" to the United States and Europe. We are seeing periods of climate instability which could rapidly reverse the sweltering heat in the U.S. right now to Arctic temperatures.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: July 25 2016 at 8:55am
Jacksdad, what a smart mom you had/have! A chimney fire will take over a house very fast.
Now my friends who's parents NEVER cleaned their chimney lived in an old house with a stone fireplace that was 3.5 feet thick between rooms and 6 feet long all solid stone. You could see the fires they had at the top of the chimney which showed the burn. They were lucky the roof did not catch fire.
I do not want to have a problem if TSHSF.
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Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: July 25 2016 at 1:17pm
another inconvenient truth
from the post "Peak Global Warming"
"What we should now expect are rapidly declining global temperatures
after February 2016, the apex of the 11-year cycle #24 solar heating."
one of the main proponents of the "earth is cooling" theory
said that starting in March of THIS year we would see "rapidly declining temperatures"
hmmmm not so much
we CONTINUE to set HIGH temp records around the world
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: July 26 2016 at 8:36am
Satori wrote:
another inconvenient truth
from the post "Peak Global Warming"
"What we should now expect are rapidly declining global temperatures
after February 2016, the apex of the 11-year cycle #24 solar heating."
one of the main proponents of the "earth is cooling" theory
said that starting in March of THIS year we would see "rapidly declining temperatures"
hmmmm not so much
we CONTINUE to set HIGH temp records around the world
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It is because we are watching events which are melting things and destroying a balance which could spell dismal low temps in the U.S. in Europe. This may be regional and oddly as everone is sweltering in the heat, I sit by the ocean and it is cold here in Monterey. Why is that?
76 degrees and it will be 53 tonight. Despite the almost religious warnings of massive earthquakes and a like 4.6 in Eureka recently, nothing is shaking here either.
The ice caps are melting at an accelerated rate.
There will be no way to save coastal cities from massive flooding. If they don't freeze from a mini-ice age, they will drown. Most of the population in the world, the major cities are close to water, ocean, or waterways. We cannot just move New York, LA, Seattle, or Chicago. If it goes high enough, we won't need an earthquake to create seaside property in Death Valley.
Humans never have had or probably never will the understanding of that which goes beyond their personal lifetimes.
This is not old news. We may be on the verge of the next Ice Age. Perhaps the first warnings are now dated as is The Day After Tomorrow - but our climate in serious trouble. It is not just a matter of cursing the CO2 or companies putting out gases which may only account for less than 1% of the temperature changes. It is much like the weather predicting cloudy skies when there is pouring rain outside. A big weather convention - promiseds to change bus schedules and conserve energy as the Amazon rainforest is disappearing and that may ruinour oxygen supply. Yet, the real question is and remains. Can we find a precadent in history where there was serious global warming before a serious ice age? The search continues. People are arguing still and not without reason. It can happen - not in a hundred years - but soon.
Subscribe to the Discovery Channel for more great videos such as this. http://www.discovery.com/
Medclinician
"Are we on the verge of the next ice age or a great flood that may consume the world's coastlines?"
Published on Jun 17, 2016 The Next Ice Age? - Warnings From the Ice - PBS (full length documentary). Thanks for watching
"But some scientists figure there are critical thresholds that once crossed could trigger the sudden change.
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Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: July 26 2016 at 4:49pm
Jim Inhofe’s Granddaughter Asked Him Why He Didn’t Understand Global Warming
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/07/26/3802201/inhofe-granddaughter-climate-understanding/
" http://www.koco.com/health/deadly-heat-wave-scorches-central-and-eastern-us/40865908 - Right now, the United States, http://www.newson6.com/story/32513644/oklahoma-heat-wave-continues-some-relief-next-week - including Oklahoma , is in the middle of a record-breaking http://www.koco.com/health/deadly-heat-wave-scorches-central-and-eastern-us/40865908 - heat wave" http://www.koco.com/health/deadly-heat-wave-scorches-central-and-eastern-us/40865908 - http://www.koco.com/health/deadly-heat-wave-scorches-central-and-eastern-us/40865908 - "
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 02 2016 at 6:51am
http://www.isthereglobalcooling.com/%20 - http://www.isthereglobalcooling.com/
There were three ice ages with more CO2 than today, one had fifteen times more. CO2
has never been observed in the geological record to be a driver of the
climate, even when levels were significantly higher than today. CO2,
by itself, can not cause much warming. For there to be dangerous
warming, other things must occur, which would accelerate the warming,
called positive feedbacks. The most likely is increased atmospheric
water vapor. Positive feedbacks have not been observed to exist in the
past and when CO2 levels were signficiantly higher than today.
Atmospheric humidity is also actually in decline. http://c3headlines.typepad.com/.a/6a010536b58035970c014e5fb61316970c-500wi - link
Global temperatures were mostly warmer than today in the prior 8,000 years, the Holocene. http://climate.geologist-1011.net/HoloceneTemperatures.png - link
Did
you know that in the past the Roman Period and Medieval Period were
both warmer than today. The world then cooled several degrees from
approx. 1450 to 1850. This period was called the Little Ice Age (a
period of glacial advance, the same glaciers that have been in retreat
until recently). Global temperatures the past 10,000 years were also
often warmer than today.These temperature variations were not caused by
man. They were caused entirely by natural forces.
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Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: August 02 2016 at 7:27am
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2016/08/the-remarkable-inconsistency-of-climate.html - The remarkable inconsistency of climate change denial http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2016/08/the-remarkable-inconsistency-of-climate.html
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Posted By: Dutch Josh
Date Posted: August 02 2016 at 8:53am
mhhensel on facebook-links
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/soundings/iasi/m2/t1/D1/mr_ch4.074.gif - http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/soundings/iasi/m2/t1/D1/mr_ch4.074.gif
also CO is exploding in the Arctic (via https://eyes.nasa.gov/eyes-on-the-earth.html - https://eyes.nasa.gov/eyes-on-the-earth.html )
It looks like all that could be expected from a warming Arctic, melthing permafrost, disappearing sea-ice etc is unfolding. I did not see recent Arctic sea-ice extent data-numbers are proberbly (very) bad.
I would love to see some sign of an ice-age, Med but what I see is the opposit in a very alarming way.
Looking at http://cci-reanalyzer.org/forecasts/#ARC-LEA - http://cci-reanalyzer.org/forecasts/#ARC-LEA the Arctic is warming up. It could be that "winter may be something of the past" for a large portion of the globe.
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Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: August 04 2016 at 9:12am
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2016/08/crisis-on-high-in-himalayas-climate.html - Crisis on high: In the Himalayas, a climate disaster is unfolding that will impact the lives of more than 1 billion people
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2016/08/crisis-on-high-in-himalayas-climate.html
"Half a century of research shows the temperature has increased by 1.5
degrees in the area, more than double the global average. More than 500
glaciers have completely disappeared, and the biggest ones are
retreating rapidly."
yeah about that ice age thingy.....
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Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: August 04 2016 at 4:35pm
Hothouse 2090: Category 6 Hurricane A Grey Swansong For Tampa
https://robertscribbler.com/2016/07/29/hothouse-2090-category-6-hurricane-a-grey-swansong-for-tampa/
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 05 2016 at 11:36am
Satori wrote:
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2016/08/crisis-on-high-in-himalayas-climate.html - Crisis on high: In the Himalayas, a climate disaster is unfolding that will impact the lives of more than 1 billion people
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2016/08/crisis-on-high-in-himalayas-climate.html
"Half a century of research shows the temperature has increased by 1.5
degrees in the area, more than double the global average. More than 500
glaciers have completely disappeared, and the biggest ones are
retreating rapidly."
yeah about that ice age thingy.....
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Perhaps we should go on video - lol - this is a great topic - yes, things are melting. See what many are talking about is a climactic sudden event - i.e. a rapid dilation of the Gulf Stream The water has to go somewhere. Now here's a new question. Do we have any evidence of this type of phenomena - i.e. global warming - just a few years before a drastic climate change? Like freezing dinosaurs or even Mastadons in their tracks. Kind of hard to slow freeze a standing up "elephant".
If we only have "The Day After Tomorrow" in Northern U.S. and Europe - is there someone going to be sitting in a parka saying "well technically this is not an ice age" and the other guy saying "Well it sure feels like one .
Someone like - you and I - hope not.
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: August 29 2016 at 4:36pm
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/08/09/solar-physicist-sees-global-cooling-ahead/%20" rel="nofollow - https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/08/09/solar-physicist-sees-global-cooling-ahead/
To most of us the sun seems unchanging. But if you observe its
surface, it is seething with vast explosions and ejections. This
activity has its origin in intense magnetic fields generated by swirling
currents in the sun’s outer layer – scientists call it the solar
dynamo.
It produces the well-known 11-year solar cycle which can be seen as sunspots come and go on the sun’s surface.
But models of the solar dynamo have only been partially successful in
predicting the solar cycle – and that might be because a vital
component is missing.
After studying full-disc images of the sun’s magnetic field,
Professor Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University and colleagues,
discovered that the sun’s dynamo is actually made of two components –
coming from different depths inside the sun.
The interaction between these two magnetic waves either amplifies
solar activity or damps it down. Professor Zharkova’s observations
suggest we are due for a prolonged period of low solar activity. Medclinician
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Posted By: Satori
Date Posted: August 31 2016 at 4:38am
Nasa: Earth is warming at a pace 'unprecedented in 1,000 years'
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/30/nasa-climate-change-warning-earth-temperature-warming each month since October 2015 setting a new high mark for heat." "
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Posted By: Medclinician
Date Posted: October 21 2017 at 8:28am
Will be continuing this thread for 2017-2018. We have a really bad winter coming.
Medclinician
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