April 23, 2008
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/its_global_cooling_thats_the_real_threat/
Geophysicist Phil Chapman warns we really may face doom, and sooner than
you think - from global cooling:
THE scariest photo I have seen on the internet is
http://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.
The double-sunspot (below) is marked on the sun photograph (above) by
the question mark.
Chapman notes that the world has not warmed since 1998, and last year
was unusually cold:
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. ...
The next descent into an ice age is inevitable but may not happen for
another 1000 years. On the other hand, it must be noted that the cooling
in 2007 was even faster than in typical glacial transitions. If it
continued for 20 years, the temperature would be 14C cooler in 2027. By
then, most of the advanced nations would have ceased to exist, vani****ng
under the ice, and the rest of the world would be faced with a
catastrophe beyond imagining.
We cannot really know, but my guess is that the odds are at least 50-50
that we will see significant cooling rather than warming in coming
decades.
Which means the billions we're spending to "stop" global warming may not
just be wasted, but are hurrying what will kill us more surely.
UPDATE
The shots of Antarctic ice in An Inconvenient Truth were actually
computer generated. What else did Gore make up in his movie)
--
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
".it should not be surprising to see hordes of former Reds, or of those
who otherwise would have become Reds, turning from Marxism and becoming
the Greens of the ecology movement. It is the same fundamental
philosophy in a different guise, ready as ever to wage war on the
freedom and well-being of the individual." Dr. George Reisman's book
Capitalism
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