Posted on 08/26/2006 12:18:52 AM PDT by carlo3b
NewsTrack - Science
Russian scientist predicts global coolingMOSCOW, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A Russian scientist predicts a period of global cooling in coming decades, followed by a warmer interval.
Khabibullo Abdusamatov expects a repeat of the period known as the Little Ice Age. During the 16th century, the Baltic Sea froze so hard that hotels were built on the ice for people crossing the sea in coaches.
The Little Ice Age is believed to have contributed to the end of the Norse colony in Greenland, which was founded during an interval of much warmer weather.
Abdusamatov and his colleagues at the Russian Academy of Sciences astronomical observatory said the prediction is based on measurement of solar emissions, Novosti reported. They expect the cooling to begin within a few years and to reach its peak between 2055 and 2060.
"The Kyoto initiatives to save the planet from the greenhouse effect should be put off until better times," he said. "The global temperature maximum has been reached on Earth, and Earth's global temperature will decline to a climatic minimum even without the Kyoto protocol."
Similarly, I predict that for a period of time it will be warmer and for a different period it will be cooler.
I regret the run-on links in #40.
Those should have posted as live links.
Based on what criterion? This assumes that the current levels of CO2 are optimal or higher than optimal. Optimal for whom? By what measure? If solar emmissions are decreasing and cooler temperatures are undesirable, a person living in Moscow might quite reasonably disagree.
China has acknowledged a policy of "build now & clean up later" in their bid to catch up economically with the west. They are so far behind us economically that I don't think they can survive their current policy--surely they will choke on their own filth before they reach where they want to be.
Scattered reports from both the Chinese government and other concerned organization paint China as an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen.
What's next? Global Saming?
Texans can't wait for the Little Ice Age to commence.
Damn Straight! (pardon my French) I'm thinking about an INDOOR job!
That's what I've heard about China, too. Filthy air, horrible water pollution that is so bad that the Russians complain. The PRC is paying an awful price to stock the shelves of Wal Mart.
So it's far better for people in rich countries to burn it in their clean burning vehicles with catalytic converters and other emission controls on them, than by third worlders riding 2 cycle motor scooters and other highly polluting gadgets widespread in the developing world.
It has been said, that the emissions coming out of the tailpipe of a brand new, good running American car can actually be cleaner than the polluted air going into it if that car were to be driven in a place like Shanghai...
So gentlemen... start your engines!
No matter what happens, it's global warming.
Which change favors more snow in Aspen and Vail. If its global cooling, I'm all for it.
Example: The glaciers and polar ice are melting and that will cause the oceans to rise, thus sinking some low-lying areas and some islands (due to global warming).
Now comes the revelation that the glaciers are actually increasing...and, of course , they jump in and say that the increase was due to global warming [it's a religion].
But now that the glaciers are increasing, what happens to their dire warnings of increased sea-levels.
This is what happens when liberals dabble in science.
Within the next year, I predict a drastic drop in temperature, a mini-ice age of short duration, followed by another period of global warming.
Don't you get it that global warming causes the polar icecaps to melt which opens up a passage for the cooler waters in the artic to mix with the warmer waters of the southern Atlantic which in turn does something weird which causes land temps to cool down?
BTTT!
Los Angeles is like that a lot too.
I remember driving through the L.A. Basin last year. Coming down from Cajon Summit on I-15, it was like driving into a brown wall.
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