It’s colder and glaciers are growing

Posted by Jonathan Williams on Oct 28th, 2008
2008
Oct 28

Dennis T. Avery, author of Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, wrote an article a couple days ago in the Canada Free Press pointing out that Alaska’s glaciers are actually growing due to colder, sunspot related temperatures.

Alaska’s glaciers grew this year, after shrinking for most of the last 200 years. The reason?  Global temperatures dropped over the past 18 months. The global mean annual temperature has been declining recently because the solar wind thrown out by the sun has retreated to its smallest extent in at least 50 years. This temperature downturn was not predicted by the global computer models, but had been predicted by the sunspot index since 2000.

 

The solar wind normally protects the earth from 90 percent of the high-energy cosmic rays that flash constantly through the universe. Henrik Svensmark at the Danish Space Research Institute has demonstrated that when more cosmic rays hit the earth, they create more of the low, wet clouds that deflect heat back into outer space. Thus the earth’s recent cooling.

 

Unusually large amounts of Alaskan snow last winter were followed by unusually chilly temperatures there this summer. “In general, the weather this summer was the worst I have seen in at least 20 years,” says Bruce Molnia of the U.S. Geological Survey, and author of The Glaciers of Alaska. “It’s been a long time on most glaciers where they’ve actually had positive mass balance (added thickness).”

Hmm…you see that? The temperature models didn’t predict this downturn in temperature but the sunspot had it right since 2000.

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