Blatant Reality

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.

Lawrence Solomon, the author of The Deniers, points to the decrease in solar activity as yet another sign that we are heading towards a period of global cooling.

In yet another sign that the Earth could be heading in to a period of global cooling, NASA reports that the solar wind is now at a 50-year low, the lowest that NASA has seen. This change in solar activity, which began to occur about a decade ago,  coincides with the end of the climb in global temperatures that had been underway for decades.

 

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As a result of the diminished solar wind, cosmic rays are entering the Earth’s atmosphere in greater number. Research at the Danish National Space Institute shows that cosmic rays increase cloud cover on Earth, and that this cloud cover can have a cooling effect. Does this help explain why global temperatures plateaued a decade ago, and why they are now decreasing? Stay tuned!

Yes, I for one will definitely stay tuned and you should as well.

As you may have well heard, sunspot activity is almost nonexistent at the moment. These spots, along with the sun’s overall activity, have been attributed to having one of the strongest affects on earth’s climate. A lack of sunspots is often associated with colder periods and oftentimes, Ice Ages.

What this all means for our current Global Warming debate is this period of solar inactivity will allow us to observe the temperature changes while closely observing the sun’s involvment.

The Ulysses solar probe reports a 13% drop in temperature, a 20% drop in density, and a 30% drop-off in the sun`s magnetic field, marking this as the weakest period of solar wind on record (records go back to the 1960`s).

 

What does this mean? The Heliosphere is thinning, and thus will block fewer cosmic rays.  Heinrick Svensmark theorizes that an increase in cosmic rays reaching the Earth will drive cloud formation, increase the planet`s albedo, thus cooling it.

 

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This will allow us to see if we are really in the throes of Anthropogenic Global Warming; if temperatures rise (and they haven`t since 1998) then factors other than solar activity are driving climate trends, if not then the greenhouse gas theory is falsified.

If it gets colder during this period of low sunspot doesn’t necessarily mean that the debate will be over. It will just lend more credence to those of us who believe Global Warming is more of a natural occurrence. The anthropological global warming people will just say that it would have gotten a lot colder if our greenhouse gases weren’t there. I can’t wait to see that day because, depending on how cold it gets, environmentalists will basically have to admit that our CO2 saved us from colder conditions in order to keep up their CO2 climate change ruse.

Agricultural Meteorologist Drew Lerner is unarguably considered a denier but is lending his voice to the growing number of dissenters who are predicting that Global Cooling is right around the corner.

This brave, against-the-grain prognostication that the Earth’s average temperature could be actually starting to decrease comes from agricultural meteorologist Drew Lerner, who in circles of the global warming in-crowd is known as a “denier.”

 

Apparently this is because his opinion is based on a well-grounded theory that global warming and cooling are largely affected by factors such as solar radiation, Arctic winds, water vapor and the El Niño/La Niña phenomena, and less by the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere.

 

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Lerner bases his cooling forecast on cycles of the sun — the single driving force for the entire energy equation on the planet. How much energy we receive from the sun determines how warm or cold temperatures are in the oceans and polar regions, which in turn affects climate.

 

The amount of energy emitted by the sun started a downward cycle around 1983, according to Lerner. If information Lerner has gathered is correct, there is evidence that a decline in the sun’s energy will correlate to a decline in Earth’s temperatures within 25 to 30 years. If it’s 25 years, the cooling off process should be starting this year and will continue over the next 10 to 15 years. His theory is that it will take a few years before the cooling is uniform throughout the atmosphere. “We could start seeing actual cooler temperatures in 2013 and beyond.”

Here’s a great article that points the increasing evidence against global warming and the mounting evidence in favor of a cooling world.
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Dr. Don Easterbrook is predicting that for the next 30 years we will experience a global cooling. This all will be caused by, according to Easterbrook, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation Shift.

Addressing the Washington Policymakers in Seattle, WA, Dr. Don Easterbrook said that shifting of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) from its warm mode to its cool mode virtually assures global cooling for the next 25-30 years and means that the global warming of the past 30 years is over.

 

The announcement by NASA that the (PDO) had shifted from its warm mode to its cool mode is right on schedule as predicted by past climate and PDO changes (Easterbrook, 2001, 2006, 2007) and is not an oddity superimposed upon and masking the predicted severe warming by the IPCC. This has significant implications for the future and indicates that the IPCC climate models were wrong in their prediction of global temperatures soaring 1F per decade for the rest of the century.

Read the rest of the article for some great images and graphs of how the Pacific Decadal Oscillation correlates with previous warmings and coolings.

More and more scientist seem to be agreeing that the age of “Global Warming” has now ended and a new cooler age will begin. Take a look:

Meteorologist Anthony Watts says that the total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65 C up to 0.75 C, a value large enough, he says, to erase nearly all the global warming recorded over the past 100 years.

 

In a news conference held in Orlando, Fla., John L. Casey, director of the Space and Science Research Center, issued a landmark declaration on climate change.

 

“In an opinion echoed by many scientists around the world, the Space and Science Research Center (SSRC), today declares that the world’s climate warming of the past decades has now come to an end. A new climate era has already started that is bringing predominantly colder global temperatures for many years into the future.

 

“In some years this new climate will create dangerously cold weather with significant ill-effects worldwide. Global warming is over — a new cold climate has begun.”

The party’s over…

I’ve had a pretty busy day so I’m just going to leave you the link to this article. It talks about four different scientists views about how global warming will be ending soon and global cooling may begin. Check it out.

Hat tip Watts Up With That?

New research is suggesting that the earth may start experiencing global cooling as early as this year. This in itself isn’t all that interesting because other scientists are predicting the earth will experience global cooling within the decade. What really makes this particular research interesting is that it points to a new culprit that has yet to be blamed for climate change: the Moon.

New findings released in the peer reviewed book “Global Warming — Global Cooling, Natural Cause Found”, meteorologist and climate researcher David Dilley utilizes nearly a half million years of data linking long term gravitational cycles of the moon as the cause for the present global warming, rises in carbon dioxide levels, and for 2200 global warming cycles during the past half million years.

 

Mr. Dilley of Global Weather Oscillations has found seven different types of recurring gravitational cycles ranging from the very warm 460,000 year cycle down to a 230 year recurring global warming cycle. All of the gravitational cycles coincide nearly 100 percent with 2200 global warming events during the past half million years. This includes the earth’s current warming cycle which began around the year 1900, and the first stage of global cooling that will begin during 2008 and 2009.

 

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Global temperatures have cooled during the past 12 months. During 2008 and 2009 the first stage of global cooling will cool the world’s temperatures to those observed during the years from the 1940s through the 1970s. By the year 2023 global climate will become similar to the colder temperatures experienced during the 1800s

This is a very interesting theory and I will definitely be following it closely.

Hmmm… Hopefully Frank J. doesn’t get a hold of this over at IMAO because it might just give him another reason to Nuke the Moon.

Update 7/10/2008: If the link to the story takes too long to load, here is the PDF alternative.

The Astronomical Society of Australia has issued a warning about global COOLING within the next decade. Read more about it at the link below.
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http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3709