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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: briann on April 24, 2008, 01:21:29 AM
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Some Scientists speculate another Ice age may be coming:
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."
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[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.]
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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.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352241,00.html
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I was disgusted to see Pat Robertson sitting next to Al Sharpton in a commercial promoting Al Gores Gorebull warming campaign. I guess all the bashing by the media got Pat to take a left-wing stance on this issue.
This news article makes it even more ridiculous.
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Well there was global warming now new ice age; nothing our briliant politicos won't solve with new eco tax raising and gay mariages in every country... ::)
It's obviusly that scientists don't know what's going on but they're still to proud and to set in their idolatric reason worship to consult the Holy Bible to learn true reasons. When G-d intent to punish someone firtst HE takes his sanity away.
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where it goes .7 degrees celcius will go up .7 degrees celcius or on several locations up on average .7 degrees celcius. My theory is that where it changes in one spot will change on avg on other spots...If it is dryer here than normal, it will be even wetter on avg of the changed dryness on other areas.
the issue wtih pollution and temperature change and i even the thought of "global warming" is that when there is too much pollution, the weather tends to change more rapidly and more extremely...
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Al Gore will have to put down his Global Warming sign and pick up his Global Cooling sign!
He's serial you know! ;D
(http://www.worstedwitch.com/pix/2006/05/03/gore.jpg)
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Al Gore will have to put down his Global Warming sign and pick up his Global Cooling sign!
He's serial you know! ;D
(http://www.worstedwitch.com/pix/2006/05/03/gore.jpg)
super cereal!
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Al Gore will have to put down his Global Warming sign and pick up his Global Cooling sign!
He's serial you know! ;D
(http://www.worstedwitch.com/pix/2006/05/03/gore.jpg)
super cereal!
Yep- REAL fruit loop. THIS IS GLOBAL WARMING? Gore is a FREAK. What a joke of a human species
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Global warming exists, it's just a question if it's human related or not.
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Global warming exists, it's just a question if it's human related or not.
Yes, there is no question that over the last 30 years theres been a warming trend. But its become a laughable topic as the left has gone crazy trying to blame everything from hurricanes to recent cold-spells on not using the right kind of light bulb.
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I believe there is an Ice age coming.
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.
If this theory is correct, I mean.