Report: Earth On Brink Of An Ice Age
Here is my latest post from Conservatives with Attitude!
Looks like our future ‘carbon footprints’ will be outlined in ice and snow. Al Gore will not be happy. From Pravda.ru:
The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.
Ice cores, ocean sediment cores, the geologic record, and studies of ancient plant and animal populations all demonstrate a regular cyclic pattern of Ice Age glacial maximums which each last about 100,000 years, separated by intervening warm interglacials, each lasting about 12,000 years.
Most of the long-term climate data collected from various sources also shows a strong correlation with the three astronomical cycles which are together known as the Milankovich cycles. The three Milankovich cycles include the tilt of the earth, which varies over a 41,000 year period; the shape of the earth’s orbit, which changes over a period of 100,000 years; and the Precession of the Equinoxes, also known as the earth’s ‘wobble’, which gradually rotates the direction of the earth’s axis over a period of 26,000 years. According to the Milankovich theory of Ice Age causation, these three astronomical cycles, each of which effects the amount of solar radiation which reaches the earth, act together to produce the cycle of cold Ice Age maximums and warm interglacials.
Additionally, the report takes head on Global Warming theory:
During the 1970s the famous American astronomer Carl Sagan and other scientists began promoting the theory that ‘greenhouse gasses’ such as carbon dioxide, or CO2, produced by human industries could lead to catastrophic global warming. Since the 1970s the theory of ‘anthropogenic global warming’ (AGW) has gradually become accepted as fact by most of the academic establishment, and their acceptance of AGW has inspired a global movement to encourage governments to make pivotal changes to prevent the worsening of AGW.
The central piece of evidence that is cited in support of the AGW theory is the famous ‘hockey stick’ graph which was presented by Al Gore in his 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth.” The ‘hockey stick’ graph shows an acute upward spike in global temperatures which began during the 1970s and continued through the winter of 2006/07. However, this warming trend was interrupted when the winter of 2007/8 delivered the deepest snow cover to the Northern Hemisphere since 1966 and the coldest temperatures since 2001. It now appears that the current Northern Hemisphere winter of 2008/09 will probably equal or surpass the winter of 2007/08 for both snow depth and cold temperatures.
The main flaw in the AGW theory is that its proponents focus on evidence from only the past one thousand years at most, while ignoring the evidence from the past million years — evidence which is essential for a true understanding of climatology. The data from paleoclimatology provides us with an alternative and more credible explanation for the recent global temperature spike, based on the natural cycle of Ice Age maximums and interglacials.
So, here we have more evidence that the Global Warming alarmists are simply wrong. The Earth has never been stagnant in terms of climate. It is ever-changing. The idea that we are responsible in any way for these changes, or that we can do anything about it, is ridiculous.
Yet, I’m sure the Global Warming zealots like Al Gore will march on with their radical agenda. An agenda that limits our freedom and damages our economy with things like grass mileage standards on lawnmowers, ‘cow taxes’ on farmers and restrictive, overbearing greenhouse-gas emission standards. And, unfortunately, they’re bound to get their way with this Congress and Barack Obama running things.






January 15th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Lobbyists control this debate. Our current energy suppliers stand to lose the most from changes in the methods we use to generate electricity. They pay to keep their position.
January 17th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
I would trust the science of ‘commies’ over the ’science’ of those who rely on (read: influenced by) grant money from pro-AGW politicians.
With respect to CO2 (”Global warming due to carbon emmisions is real.”), I wholeheartedly disgree. For more on that I would start by referring you here:
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