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View Poll Results: What do you think is causing the world temperature trends?

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  • Humans activity is causing it (global warming/cooling)

    1 33.33%
  • Solar activity is causing it

    2 66.67%
  • Other causes

    0 0%
  • I don't know / No opinion

    0 0%
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  1. Join Date
    Oct 2002
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    29,354
    #1
    [SIZE="4"]HEY BUDDY, IT'S COOLING[/SIZE]

    July 8, 2009 (LPAC) -- Even as the U.S. Senate and the Group of 8
    nations meeting in Italy continue their endless jabbering about
    greenhouse gases, nature is not cooperating.

    The global climate has entered a phase of cooling and
    reduced solar activity, which some experts believe could bring on
    serious crop failures and food shortages. The serious fear now is
    that the continued low activity of the Sun forebodes an extended
    period of cooling, perhaps enough to bring on another Little Ice
    Age. Anyone who is not addressing that reality is blowing bubbles
    in the wind.

    The global average temperature for the Earth has been
    decreasing over the past 8 to 10 years. The cooling that was
    shown by the satellite temperature data for May 2008 negated the
    entire globaly averaged temperature increase of 0.6 degrees
    Celsius for the past 150 years, which Al Gore says was dangerous
    global warming. The latest release of the global average
    satellite temperature data for June 2009 revealed another large
    drop in the Earth's temperature. This latest drop in global
    temperatures means, despite all of his scary stories of drowning
    polar bears and massive sea-level rise, the Earth's temperature
    has cooled 0.74 degrees Fahrenheit (0.39 degrees Celsius) since
    former Vice President Al Gore released his sci-fi horror comedy
    documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" in January 2006.

    One of the ways of gauging the likely future behavior of the
    Sun is by looking at the length of the solar cycles. The Sun
    normally goes through an 11-year long cycle of increase and
    decrease in activity, as exhibited by such phenomena as the
    appearance of visible spots on the surface. Records of these
    sunspots go back four centuries to the advent of telescopes.

    Solar cycles are normally 11 years long, but could be longer
    or shorter. The current solar cycle (number 23) is now 13 years
    long and solar cycle 24 has yet to start up in earnest.
    Historically, the last time a solar cycle was over 13 years in
    length was solar cycle 3, which preceded the Dalton Minimum, a
    cold period from 1796 to 1824 during what is called the Little
    Ice Age cause by low solar activity during solar cycle 4 and 5.
    During the Dalton Minimum, there were large crop failures and
    food shortages.

    Solar researchers admit that our knowledge of the sun is
    limited, but there have been certain correlations found between
    solar activity and the Earth's temperature. The best correlation
    is between length of solar cycle and the temperature during the
    following solar cycle, which was first demonstrated in 1991 by
    two Danish researchers, Egil Fris-Christensen and Knud Lassen.
    Australian geologist David Archibald, using this correlation,
    discovered that each 1-year increase in the solar cycle length
    will cause a 0.5 degree Celsius (C) decline in the Earth
    temperature during the following cycle. Based on Archibald's
    work, we could now expect a global average temperature decline of
    about 1.5 degrees C over the length of solar cycle 24. That is
    enough to cause serious climate change.

    If similar conditions occur after this present ongoing solar
    minimum, and there is a large drop in temperature due to an
    inactive Sun, the world could see further stress on the food
    supply.

    The recent continued inactivity of the Sun is consistent
    with forecasts that have been coming from Russia's Pulkovo
    Observatory in St. Petersburg, over the past 2 years. On Jan. 22,
    2008, senior scientist Khabibullo Abdusamatov, head of the Space
    Research Lab at the Pulkovo Observatory, said in an interview
    with RIA Novosti that, "temperatures on Earth have stabilized in
    the past decade, and the planet should brace itself for a new Ice
    Age rather than global warming."

    Abdusamatov warned correctly, at the beginning of 2008, that
    global temperatures would drop slightly that year, rather than
    rise, due to unprecedentedly low solar radiation in the past 30
    years, and would continue decreasing, even if industrial
    emissions of carbon dioxide reach record levels. According to
    Abdusamatov' s 2008 forecast, "By 2041, solar activity will reach
    its minimum according to a 200-year cycle, and a deep cooling
    period will hit the Earth approximately in 2055-60. It will last
    for about 45-65 years and by mid-21st Century, the planet will
    face another Little Ice Age."

    It is just nonsensical for policymakers in either the U. S.
    Congress or the Group of 8 to be talking about global warming and
    not about the very real prospect of 20 to 30 years of global
    cooling that will cause major food shortages and add more
    challenges in the face of the onrushing global economic breakdown
    crisis. Enjoy the Summer while you can. The fun will not last
    long--as President Obama is also now learning. (gbm)

  2. Join Date
    Jan 2009
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    5,576
    #2
    I watched this video about two months ago. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzSzItt6h-s"]YouTube - The Great Global Warming Swindle - Produced by WAGTV[/ame]

  3. Join Date
    Feb 2008
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    710
    #3
    A global cooling development:
    Northern sea ice growth a fluke, not end of climate change: researcher
    Thu Apr 1, 4:14 PM
    By Bob Weber, The Canadian Press

    Arctic sea ice is nearly back to average global levels for the first time in at least a decade after years of spectacular declines.

    The surprise growth at a time of year when ice is normally melting has triggered a blizzard of I-told-you-sos among online climate change skeptics.

    But the man whose data is behind the furor says a few weeks of cold weather in one part of the Arctic - not the end of climate change - has skewed the numbers.

    "It is not the end of global warming," said Mark Serreze of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., which publishes monthly sea-ice updates on its website.

    On Wednesday, the center posted a new graph showing that the extent of ice-covered Arctic Ocean has nearly returned to the 1979-2000 average.

    The graph was a significant surprise.

    Data from the last eight years shows that September sea ice was 22 per cent below that 20-year average. And until the beginning of March, this year's sea ice was on pace to match 2007's record low.

    What happened?

    It's called freaky Arctic weather.

    "All of the action is in the Bering Sea," Serreze said.

    "For the past several weeks, we've been under a rather unusual weather pattern, a cold pattern, that's given us this late spurt in ice growth in the Bering Sea. If you look at the rest of the Arctic Ocean proper, it is very warm."

    The Bering Sea, between Alaska and Russia, is caught between two low-pressure systems.

    "This is weather," said Serreze. "Don't conflate this with climate."

    Serreze notes that on the Atlantic side of the Arctic, ice is low.

    However, online climate change skeptics have seized on the data as proof that global warming is a hoax. By Thursday morning, hundreds of Twitter posts were referencing Serreze's graph - many linking to a Sydney Morning Herald blog that displays the graph without explanation or context.

    "An inconvenient fact," reads one post. "Arctic sea ice back to normal - oops."

    Another asked: "Will the hysterical eco-nuts be called out? NO!"

    Right-wing think-tanks such as the U.S.-based Heartland Institute had stories on the graph, but without comment from Serreze. Other online articles quoted climate skeptics as if they were the authors of the research.

    Even those who accept current climate change theories were fretting.

    "Is this another PR problem for global warming activists?" worried one online environmental newspaper.

    "Everyone's on this now," sighed Serreze. "What you're seeing now from the usual suspects is that it's the end of global warming, and we don't see it that way."

    Serreze points out that the satellite data his graph is based on offers no information on ice thickness. He suggests that most of the recent ice in the Bering Sea is likely to be very thin and won't last.

    "Once the winds change, temperatures change, we'll probably lose it pretty quickly."

    Serreze said the more important figure is sea-ice minimum, but that won't be evident until the end of the Arctic summer.
    http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/1...sea_ice_growth

  4. Join Date
    Aug 2004
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    22,705
    #4
    Not really shocking. We already know that these past two years represent a solar minimum, and many people have been saying that the warming trend will either slow down or stop this year.

    Ang pagbalik ng comeback...

  5. Join Date
    Dec 2005
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    #5

    Yes,- it is heavily dependent on the solar activities....

    9606:hippies:

Global Warming is now Global Cooling?