Sorry To Ruin The Fun, But An Ice Age Cometh
by Phil Chapman
THE scariest photo I have seen on the internet is www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time image of the sun from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, located in deep space at the equilibrium point between solar and terrestrial gravity.
What is scary about the picture is that there is only one tiny sunspot.
Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously.
All four agencies that track Earth’s temperature (the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Christy group at the University of Alabama, and Remote Sensing Systems Inc in California) report that it cooled by about 0.7C in 2007. This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record and it puts us back where we were in 1930. If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over.
There is also plenty of anecdotal evidence that 2007 was exceptionally cold. It snowed in Baghdad for the first time in centuries, the winter in China was simply terrible and the extent of Antarctic sea ice in the austral winter was the greatest on record since James Cook discovered the place in 1770.
It is generally not possible to draw conclusions about climatic trends from events in a single year, so I would normally dismiss this cold snap as transient, pending what happens in the next few years.
This is where SOHO comes in. The sunspot number follows a cycle of somewhat variable length, averaging 11 years. The most recent minimum was in March last year. The new cycle, No.24, was supposed to start soon after that, with a gradual build-up in sunspot numbers.
It didn’t happen. The first sunspot appeared in January this year and lasted only two days. A tiny spot appeared last Monday but vanished within 24 hours. Another little spot appeared this Monday. Pray that there will be many more, and soon.
The reason this matters is that there is a close correlation between variations in the sunspot cycle and Earth’s climate. The previous time a cycle was delayed like this was in the Dalton Minimum, an especially cold period that lasted several decades from 1790.
Northern winters became ferocious: in particular, the rout of Napoleon’s Grand Army during the retreat from Moscow in 1812 was at least partly due to the lack of sunspots.
That the rapid temperature decline in 2007 coincided with the failure of cycle No.24 to begin on schedule is not proof of a causal connection but it is cause for concern.
It is time to put aside the global warming dogma, at least to begin contingency planning about what to do if we are moving into another little ice age, similar to the one that lasted from 1100 to 1850.
There is no doubt that the next little ice age would be much worse than the previous one and much more harmful than anything warming may do. There are many more people now and we have become dependent on a few temperate agricultural areas, especially in the US and Canada. Global warming would increase agricultural output, but global cooling will decrease it.
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This has been the featured converstions of people like Joe Bastardi and other scientists such as the founder of the Weather Channel. Weather and climate change are cyclical. No government and no person can influence those changes any more than they can hold up their hands and stop a tornado.
Poor Goracle and Heidi Cullen. Oh what wi-lllll they do when they get fired?
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:12 pmOH SHIT! We (you, not me) have to get rid of them twisty light bulbs! Humans can control global climate! the algore says so! We can stop global cooling!
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:22 pmSteve
Yunz got room down there in NC?
Last Ice Age my area was buried …
Oh! To Hell (freezing over) with it …
Duck Fuck Recipe
4 parts Tanqueray® gin
1 part Stolichnaya® vodka
fill with beer
Find a large shot glass. Fill 80% of the way with Tanqueray Gin. Fill another 15% with Stoli Vodka. Fill to the rim with cheap “Ice” beer (best results w/Busch Ice).
Pimpslap Recipe
1 oz Bacardi® 151 rum
1 oz Everclear® alcohol
1 oz Wild Turkey® 101 bourbon whiskey
1 oz Tanqueray® gin
Stir ingredients together in a cocktail glass, and consume in one.
Happy Birthday Motherfucker Recipe
1 1/2 oz Absolut® Citron vodka
1 1/2 oz Tanqueray® gin
1 1/2 oz DeKuyper® Raspberry Pucker schnapps
1 1/2 oz triple sec
1 1/2 oz sweet and sour mix
1 1/2 oz orange juice
1 1/2 oz rum
Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well, strain into a highball glass, and serve.
SALUTE!
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:34 pmMother Earth is sitting back shitting herself to death, laughing over the pathetic and arrogant idiocy of the human race.
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:35 pmWhat consummate jackasses we are to think we have any kind of control over what happens on this planet.
Algore needs to be beaten to a fine and fluid pulp and fed to
a colony of fire ants.
Glad LBA & dril were made official contributors, this site only gets better with time!
Well I sure hope oil prices come down, ’cause when things shift back to a cooling cycle, we’re gonna need more heating oil.
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:43 pmHere’s how the cosmic ray flux works:
http://www.sciencebits.com/ice-ages
similar to the Wilson Cloud Chamber:
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:47 pmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_chamber
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chxv5G6UFl0
drillanwr,
your a gin head? if so you do not drink vodka martinis. ever.
I have a gin recipe from my youth,
LUGNUT
lots of cheap gin, ie calvert
large bottle of real lime juice
not enough tonic water
not enough ice
be too far from a store to resupply
start by drinking bad gin and tonics
run out of tonic and ice
take bottle of gin in right hand, bottle of lime juice in left
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:51 pmtake large hit of gin, follow immediately with large hit of lime juice
say LUGNUT
pass to left
The above is NOT Pat Dollard calling A.S. Wise “sweetie” …
Was me … forgot where I was on the site when I commented …
Woopsie, Pat! I made a poopsie!
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:54 pmdrill, room here in NC, but if your coming to Charlotte, hurry ’cause the new yorkers and illegal ‘cans are filling it up fast
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:55 pmdrillanwr,
your a gin head? if so you do not drink vodka martinis. ever.
I have a gin recipe from my youth,
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NO! vodka martinis …
Gin/tonic/lime
Vodka/tonic/lime
Vodka/Squirt
What can I say? I like bitter/sour …
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:58 pmDrillanwr,
If you ever hit Jamaica, order a Tanqueray® and Ting.
Ting is the local ’squirt’ type drink, but not as sweet as squirt. I have drinken enough of them to lose my feet.
True drinkers do not drink sweet drinks.
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:04 pmDrill
thats hilarious! you wrote thank ya sweetie, i was wondering for a minute why pat would write something like that
this was a great article. and very interesting.
and BTW i couldnt agree more with A.S. Wise
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:14 pmSweet drinks go down too easy … and come UP just as easy.
Cures you of sweet drinks real fast like.
As sweet as I go is margaritas … and typically just the lime ones. Forget strawberry or whatever what-not flavor. Just gimmie the one with salt on the glass.
Used to like whiskey sours … until I got sick on them. Still have a hard time with whiskey.
However, once in a blue moon I like to order a Long Slow Comfortable Screw Against the Cold Hard Wall (in Mexico … if I’m daring) With A Kiss … and that’s IF I can get the damn drink name correct. Usually they know what you’re talking about.
I tend to NOT drink soda (’pop’ up in my area), but did when I was a kid. Usually Squirt.
And when I get the stomach flu … no ginger ale for me … tonic water. It REALLY works. Try it next time (also great for ‘morning sickness’, ladies).
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:21 pmyou’re right on!
I have thought that all along. how ’sinfully’ prideful have humans become to start thinking we are a big enough deal to do this kind of damage to planet earth. or to believe we can fix it. just lunacy when you get right down to it.
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:24 pmKurt, I have been laying out phrases like, “Glad to know you are more powerful than the hand of God” to the global warming nuts jobs.
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drillanwr, I left MI last year, and that’s where they make Red Pop. A soda is a cracker, a pop is a pop. They got it wrong down here.
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:28 pmthere ya go buddy. thats the angle i go with on the issue.
seems halfway blasphemous to believe we’re responsible for ‘natural’ earth cycles. i mean all we had to do was wait around for a few years and the earth is cooling itself.
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:36 pmHell Steve …
Go further south to Georgia and it’s ALL Coke … No matter if it’s Sprite, root beer, Pepsi … They call everything “Coke” …
It’s “pop”, dammit!
But I rarely EVER drink any.
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:43 pmNo Absolut® vodka. No, No, No…
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:23 pmLone wolf
interesting links
well, if I remember, in the ice ages, the Cromagnons could walk till America, or canoing from Aquitaine to Canada and New york, UK wasn’t an island… Well what about the muslins ?
ya’ll need to build a fence a lot more wide, cause they shall be able to join America without boats or planes
April 24th, 2008 at 1:49 amWe must adapt, overcome and survive. Thats what seperates us from the animals. Money and instinct will provail. Bring it on.
April 24th, 2008 at 3:15 amTry Ketel One Vodka instead of Absolut
April 24th, 2008 at 7:58 amRemember? We don’t drink Absolut?
Replace Absolut-ly stupid with Grey Goose.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:16 amwell, if I remember, in the ice ages, the Cromagnons could walk till America, or canoing from Aquitaine to Canada and New york, UK wasn’t an island… Well what about the muslins ?
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Hell! I think we’d be more worried about the French “walking” over …
Just messin’ with ya, franchie …
April 24th, 2008 at 8:33 amI know one of the above drink recipes mentions the banned/abolished/dreaded Absolut vodka …
You WILL notice the recipe DOES say “Motherfucker” in the title … Hence the use of Absolut
April 24th, 2008 at 8:37 amDrill, I prefer the south way
April 24th, 2008 at 8:39 amwoo hoo icebergs floating past my window can’t wait
April 24th, 2008 at 2:59 pmI’ll try to sample all of them over the weekend - probably with cheaper booze than in your recipies. Pimpslap - if I don’t like it, could always burn it through the Blazer’s gas tank. Might be Tuesday until I can respond………..
April 24th, 2008 at 3:22 pmSomeone PLEASE convince GlobAl Gore that what God created, man can not destroy…we are merely along for the ride.
My my…how times have changed:
http://neoconexpress.blogspot.com/2007/02/time-like-newsweek-predicted-iceage-in.html#
April 24th, 2008 at 4:10 pmMight be Tuesday until I can respond………..
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Wow, RQ!
You’re tough!
I have whole weeks from my 20s I ain’t responded to yet
April 24th, 2008 at 4:34 pmgotta love living in Florida
April 24th, 2008 at 6:55 pmbeen there before: its called the north slope of alaska in the winter time.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:57 pm