…over global warming. It would be nice to see Jim Hansen exposed in court for the fraud that he is.
Meanwhile, are we in for a mini ice age?
If Eyjafjallajokull induces an eruption of Katla, that event alone could force global temperatures down for 3 to 5 years. But there is much more at work here.
We have just exited the longest and deepest solar minimum in nearly 100 years. During this minimum, the Sun had the greatest number of spotless days (days where there were no sunspots on the face of the sun) since the early 1800s. The solar cycle is usually about 11 years from minimum to minimum — this past cycle 23 lasted 12.7 years. The long length of a solar cycle has been shown to have significant short term climate significance. Australian solar researcher Dr. David Archibald has shown that for every one year increase in the solar cycle length, there is a half-degree Celsius drop in the global temperature in the next cycle.
Using that relationship, we could expect a global temperature drop of one degree Fahrenheit by 2020. That alone would wipe out all of the warming of the last 150 years.
Better fire up those SUVs.
“Better fire up those SUVs.”
Well sounds like you agree that CO2 emission helps drive warming
by trapping more IR radiation in the atmosphere and that human
activity can dramatically alter that.
No, it doesn’t.
Why am I not surprised that Jack Lee is too stupid to recognize sarcasm?
Ahhhh…just the scenario I refer to when people tell me about global warming. I send them out to sites talking about the global COOLING that we had the year after Mt. Pinatubo.
I guess Gaia has her finger on out pulse. She just coughs up some volcano dirt and resets the thermostat.
Jack doesn’t know … himself.
In a vain attempt to cut through all of the snark, I would like to remark on some of the less-publicized content of some of the East Anglia “hacked” e-mails.
If I recall correctly, there was some discussion about how the expected warming signal has not materialized or been as strong as predicted since the 1998 temperature peak, and some speculation was offered that maybe since China is not cleaning the sulfer out of their coal, China was emitting a sulfate haze that was counteracting warming effect of CO2 emissions.
On one hand, you have a kind of environmentalist-religious contingent, people who speak of human kind as being a kind of “infection on the surface of the Earth” (yeah, tell me I never heard this from anyone, who am I going to believe, you or my ears?), and that any measurable perturbation of the natural-order-in-the-absence-of-humans is a moral evil.
On the other hand, you have some scientists with a genuine interest in finding out how the climate system works, and if humans are perturbing the climate, if there are sensible efforts to perturb it back. It seemed for the East Anglia people, that the Chinese sulfate emissions were counteracting to CO2 warming was “raining on their parade” of their strong confirmation bias. If that were indeed happening 1) I would think scientists would be really interested in finding out about it, and 2) sulfate emissions could potentially be regulated to balance out the effect of CO2 emissions from coal plants, doing less environmental harm.
The thing is the “humans are an infection of the Earth” crowd just can’t stomach the idea that perhaps we could simply “tune” to operations of coal-fired power plants to minimize their global impact. It is kind of like the account in the Bible where the prophet Jonah was told that the Lord was going to rain brimstone down on Nivevah and Jonah went on a hilltop to get a good view of the action, only the people in Nivevah changed their ways and the rain of brimstone got called off and Jonah was disappointed.
As to the effect of the Iceland-volcano-that-none-can-pronounce-let-alone-spell and the effect of the deep solar minimum, I see these as scientific opportunities to observe short-term changes into factors affecting climate and to quantify the changes. OK, OK, I am “cheering on” the volcano and the lack of sunspots out of snark as I want to see the Climate Mafia eat crow about their assertion that sunspots have nothing to do with climate. If the sunspot effect is for real, the Mafia will have to make sunspots accepted wisdom so they can say, “Oh, it is cool now only because the lack of sunspots is masking the warming trend, but when the Solar Max cuts in, boy you better watch out!”
Paul, I like the synchronicity of your name and the phrase “milankovitch cycles” in this context…
Don’t forget that the Gore’s have separated, so all that “Love Story” related global warming in Tennessee is over….
Tipper Gore announced today an amicable divorce from her husband of 40 years, former Vice President Al Gore, aka the Goreacle, due to irreconcilable differences. Specifically, she grew tired of him spending most of his time travelling in his obsessive search for ManBearPig and his campaign to alert the world to the risks of ManBearPig on the loose.
“ManBearPig REALLY REALLY exists!” the former VP insisted, “I’m thuper thuper cereal!”
Tipper grew more concerned about the impact of her husbands obsession as she became more involved with promoting public awareness of mental health issues. Tipper is seeking to have ManBearPig Psychosis declared an official mental disorder.
There is no word on whether she will keep the solar panels on her 9,000 square foot Tennessee mansion. Al will get the swank new Malibu beachfront home they recently purchased, where he hopes to live in an undersea paradise in the near future as rising sea levels put his property under water….
They remain divided over the Gulfstream business jet, with Al attempting to split it so he gets the jet and she gets the carbon footprint.
Tipper insisted there were no affairs involved in the split, “I know the only women Al spends time with are those tree hugging crunchies who don’t shave or use deodorant, so I’m not concerned about anything there.”
There remains some discussion over who gets custody of the internet….
I wonder who will get possession of the contents of the lock box? I hope Al didn’t hide that key TOO well. Of course, you do realize that Tipper and Al will always have that romantic moment together at the Democratic National Convention. It’s not everyday you get your face eaten in front of 40 million people.
The past two days we’ve been under a haze of smoke from the forest fires in Quebec, my local weather guy says temps have been four degrees below his forecast due to this smoke….
Yeah heathens!!!
Don’t you realize this Global cooling is a gift from thy lord God Al Gore!!!
…send offerings to his foundation or he shall take the cold away and yea shall be condemed to eternal summer!!
😉