The world is experiencing a severe cold spell. This is what Britain looks like now from the weather satellite. Florida is seeing temperatures that haven’t been seen in decades. What is going on ?
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in summer by 2013.
According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007– and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.
Whoa ! I thought “the world’s most eminent climate scientists” were all telling us we were about to fry. What happened to those swimming polar bears with no ice to rest upon ?
It really is ironic that the year the CRU scam collapsed, we start a severe cold trend. This sort of thing only happens in fiction, right ? This may be more than a cold snap.
Fossil evidence clearly demonstrates that Earth’s climate can shift gears within a decade, establishing new and different patterns that can persist for decades to centuries. In addition, these climate shifts do not necessarily have universal, global effects. They can generate a counterintuitive scenario: Even as the earth as a whole continues to warm gradually, large regions may experience a precipitous and disruptive shift into colder climates.
I think this statement is a bit of ass covering in 2003 when the warmists still held sway and were perfectly capable, as we have seen, of spiking any “skeptic” piece submitted to a journal. The “regional” theory might be a sop to the warming fraternity who might otherwise have had a word with the editors at Wood’s Hole to spike this paper.
This new paradigm of abrupt climate change has been well established over the last decade by research of ocean, earth and atmosphere scientists at many institutions worldwide. But the concept remains little known and scarcely appreciated in the wider community of scientists, economists, policy makers, and world political and business leaders. Thus, world leaders may be planning for climate scenarios of global warming that are opposite to what might actually occur.
So maybe this is the first year of a new ice age. A 100 year “Gore effect.” Of course, the “Little Ice Age” lasted 1000 years.
Tags: global warming, science
The hubris of those scientists who pretend to have a firm grasp on the future of climate is palpable. It seems to fly in the face of good science practices. The climate is no test tube in a controlled environment. The variables are too vast for a comprehensive understanding today of future climate. This would seem to be indisputable among the reasonable.
The interplay between science and politics here clearly perverts the former and serves the worst elements of the latter.
The space program is another example. We would be much, much farther along with unmanned flight. Look at PIoneer. It has left the solar system. The space station is a money trap.
Doc, we should have had men on Mars no later than ’79.
As much as I view the Chinese as ultimately our enemies, perhaps they’re destined to drag mankind forward when it comes to “governmental” technology such as national bases on the moon and ultimately elsewhere.
BILL
I think the Chinese have a long term problem that will keep them busy and they are not much of a threat. We may have a bigger threat right here in the US Congress.