“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
I disgree with some of the info from the link. Some of the music from the 70’s was the best ever made. Disco still sucks though.
the solution to global cooling is/was identical to global warming
stop all industrial activity
Clearly the record cold snaps and snow falls are further proof of global warming.
I don’t know what effect it would have on global warming,global cooling,or climate change, but if we were to string up all the alarmists in our world it would sure be a hell of a lot more peaceful.
Are there any mental health professionals here that can explain why there are so many of the types we call “chicken littles” around these days?
Allah almighty! If these people aren’t crying in fear and panic about something they’re just not happy.
With all that snow and cold one has to ask if Al Gore made a quick trip to Denver.
I yearn for the days we used to call this weather.
Yeah well it’s not really a mystery….
Ira Einhorn is the classic example….green on the outside and red on the inside.
They didn’t seek to shut down all industrial activity…just ours….what the Soviets and Chinese were about was just fine with them.
Happy Lenin’s Birthday, everyone! I see my old stomping grounds in Minnesota is getting majorly snowed on today. Bet the floods will be exciting this year too.
That’s why I live in Ontario. Floods are restricted to river banks, and while we did get snow on the weekend it was brief and went away quickly. All the same, I could use some glowball warming right about now. Water in the wheelbarrow was still frozen about noon today, being the shadow of the barn and all.
One day the mammoths will be back.Worst April, I’ve ever seen in my life.
Lucky Phantom, in NW Ontario we were treated to a couple of feet of the white crap. I’m old enough to remember calling this stuff “weather” too.
I remember as a Kid in the 70’s hearing the hysteria about a new Ice Age coming and that we were all doomed / WTF?
I predict that by 2033 leading ecologists will warn that we have only 20 years to avert mass starvation and global catastrophe if we don’t do something.
Some related, unintentional self-satirizing…http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=B3nH8o8Of2E
F**k earth day! I’m spending this day on an exercise in wainwright where I’m commanding a 22 ton LAV 3 APC burning over 100 litres of diesel a day. Woohoo!
Revnant Dream said: “One day the mammoths will be back.”
Some guys in S. Korea are working on it. If they figure it out, I’m going to have a mammoth farm. Watch your step! ~:D
Texas Canuck, I feel your pain. Not taking the snow tires off until June at this rate.
“If present trends continue…”
Malthus became famous for projecting (not predicting, see UN on Climate) population figures, as much later did Ehrlich (who also did the same thing about most resources, such a coal, oil, minerals, etc), assuming nothing else would change. Less well-known is the late-Nineteenth Century journalist who projected New York City would be several inches deep in horse manure by the dawn of the Twentieth Century.
Not that projections are always wrong, far from it. King Henry worried about heating fuel – i.e. wood – running short, and started nationalizing forests and strenuously enforcing anti-logging laws. A “canny Scot” then calculated that the coal the people on his lands had long used to heat their homes could be dug up and sold in London cheaper than wood anyway, and provide better heat to boot. Next up: The Industrial Revolution…
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So true, John, so true. The point is the continuing trends never do. Time, circumstances and most important human technology always change them, particularly the latter.
I think that the many chilled Brits from over the past four or five years make two points crystal clear: a) medium term forecasts are very important for health and welfare; b) the “climate community” has no skill whatsoever in making these medium term forecasts. Long term global warming predictions, even if correct (and that is not likely) are pointless if a lot of people freeze before getting to the long term.
Less well-known is the late-Nineteenth Century journalist who projected New York City would be several inches deep in horse manure by the dawn of the Twentieth Century.
Well, he was right about the offices of the New York Times.