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Earth science remains unsettled (Global Cooling On The Way!)
The Valley Independent (Pittsburgh) ^ | June 25, 2007

Posted on 06/25/2007 6:30:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

So the science of global warming is "settled," eh? Chill, Al Gore. We're heading into an era of global cooling. R. Timothy Patterson, Ph.D., is a real scientist and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre, Department of Earth Sciences, at Carleton University.

"Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth. Beginning to plan for adaptation to such a cool period ... should be a priority for governments.

"It is global cooling, not warming, that is the major climate threat to the world ... ," he says.

Hundreds of studies, Dr. Patterson says, indicate that the sun drives climate change. "By comparison (carbon dioxide) variations show little correlation with our planet's climate on long, medium and even short time scales."

How does the sun affect climate? During high sunspot periods, solar output increases, providing more heat. The stronger solar wind shields the planet from cosmic rays.

Cosmic rays contribute to the formation of clouds. With less cloud cover, an even greater amount of heat arrives.

In periods of solar cooling, the higher levels of cosmic rays stimulate cloud formation, reducing further the energy reaching us.

As we learn more about climate, the "settled" conclusions of global-warming alarmists appear more ridiculous.

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: algore; climatechange; globalwarming; science

1 posted on 06/25/2007 6:30:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can anybody say, “Maunder Minimum?”


2 posted on 06/25/2007 6:32:35 PM PDT by stboz
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
How does the sun affect climate? During high sunspot periods, solar output increases, providing more heat.

Imagine that.

3 posted on 06/25/2007 6:34:49 PM PDT by randog (What the...?!)
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To: randog
...... as the Global WarmingTM, oops Climate ChangeTM hoax/fad/chic unravels of its own absurdity every day

What a shame all those Carbon Credit frameable investment documents will be completely worthless soon

/laughs

4 posted on 06/25/2007 6:44:52 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Image hosted by Photobucket.com
5 posted on 06/25/2007 6:51:13 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: randog
Hotter sun, hotter planet. Cooler sun, cooler planet. I believe I first read about this theory in Duh! magazine.
6 posted on 06/25/2007 7:01:45 PM PDT by libertarianPA (http://www.amarxica.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth. Beginning to plan for adaptation to such a cool period ... should be a priority for governments

Who wants to bet that after 2020, the enviro-fascists start calling for increases in CO2.

For crissake people! We have to get the Earth back to its "normal" temperature!!!
7 posted on 06/25/2007 7:03:58 PM PDT by libertarianPA (http://www.amarxica.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Global Cooling? My bad!...Get a coat!

8 posted on 06/25/2007 7:04:08 PM PDT by ricks_place
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Holy crap!...err... I mean... WOW! The Valley Independent in Charleroi. Just down the river. Haven’t read the rag in years and they go and print something factual. Go figure.


9 posted on 06/25/2007 7:04:33 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Am I missing something or should some sort of energy folks be making a solar collector that is absorbing all of the new and upcoming sun energy bursts into some sort of battery/storage cells to make an energy reservoir? Hmmm


10 posted on 06/25/2007 7:09:20 PM PDT by Rosamond
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To: stboz

Mon duhr minny mum.


11 posted on 06/25/2007 7:10:11 PM PDT by biggerten (Love you, Mom.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gore Luddites might be tempted to go lynch Samuel Heinrich Schwabe, but he died in 1875.


12 posted on 06/25/2007 7:11:26 PM PDT by xJones
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To: xJones
Gore Luddites might be tempted to go lynch Samuel Heinrich Schwabe, but he died in 1875.

They'll just smear him as a tool of the oil coal industry.

13 posted on 06/25/2007 7:18:42 PM PDT by randog (What the...?!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Up or down, we as humans have got to take the long view. I doubt we’d handle either warming or cooling well with our current setup and outlook.

Imagine having the UN guide us through an ice age. But wait long enough and we’ll have one, unless the climate cycles of the last 3 million years suddenly stopped when Al met Tipper.


14 posted on 06/25/2007 7:20:40 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: ricks_place
Image hosted by Photobucket.com warming, cooling it was 50/50, so i took a shot...

15 posted on 06/25/2007 7:21:20 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: Chode

That’s hilarious


16 posted on 06/25/2007 7:22:20 PM PDT by libertarianPA (http://www.amarxica.com)
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To: libertarianPA
Image hosted by Photobucket.com 8^)
17 posted on 06/25/2007 7:23:27 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Noooooooo...no Global Cooling!!! I grew up in Minnesota. I’m done with the cooling. No, I say, bring on Global Warming-—oh yaaah...you betcha!


18 posted on 06/25/2007 7:25:47 PM PDT by NordP (The greatest gift God can give us is LIFE. The greatest gift man can give to another is FREEDOM.)
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To: Mr_Moonlight
What a shame all those Carbon Credit frameable investment documents will be completely worthless soon

They were always worthless; it's just taking an inordinately long time for the type of morons who write for the Huffington Post to realize it.

19 posted on 06/25/2007 7:26:51 PM PDT by HHFi
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It is no wonder that AlGore wants us to immediately accept his solutions for global warming and pay up fast. Once that monster is created and we commit to feed it vast sums of $$, we’ll be looking at a similar ripoff for global cooling. We used to put people like this in jail for a long time.


20 posted on 06/25/2007 7:32:41 PM PDT by caisson71
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To: biggerten

You have a future in broadcasting.


21 posted on 06/25/2007 7:37:48 PM PDT by stboz
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To: HHFi

Reminds me of the French “Great Mississippi Bubble” of the 1700s: http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/irving.htm


22 posted on 06/25/2007 7:42:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Fred Thompson/John Bolton 2008)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does this mean I should sell all that Coppertone stock I just bought?


23 posted on 06/25/2007 7:46:02 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

One word son: “Igloos”.


24 posted on 06/25/2007 7:52:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Fred Thompson/John Bolton 2008)
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To: fanfan; GMMAC; xcamel; DaveLoneRanger; Baynative; calcowgirl; sourcery; Clive; sionnsar; ...

ping


25 posted on 06/25/2007 8:04:35 PM PDT by Reform Canada (Kyoto=>More Unemployment=>More Poverty=>More Homeless=>More Crime=>More Rape & Murder)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well I for one wish global cooling would get here now instead of in November. It gets really hot in Sacramento during the global warming months.
26 posted on 06/25/2007 8:14:24 PM PDT by Anti-Christ is Hillary (If Moreen Dowd can call herself a journalist then so can I.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

bump


27 posted on 06/25/2007 8:15:54 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):

Other References:


28 posted on 06/25/2007 8:21:01 PM PDT by sourcery (Double Feature: "The Amnestyville Horror" and "Kill the Bill, Vol. 2")
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To: sourcery

Bookmark


29 posted on 06/25/2007 8:29:11 PM PDT by pepperdog
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

PSSSST hey lets cool it on the GLOBAL WARMING HOAX....a lot of folks are gonna be minus heavy duty earmark money and lose big grants of all sorts, shapes n sizes. goberment werkers are gonna be thrown out of their featherbeds on their ears and into snowbanks to freeze and to starve.....

,,,,,,,,,or worse they might have to get actual jobs where they’ll be forced to to put in 8 hour days and be productive. heck 8 hours of work and a glass of water’ll sure enough kill most of em. you want to be responsible for that kind of carnage?


30 posted on 06/25/2007 8:34:00 PM PDT by flat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

PSSSST hey lets cool it on the GLOBAL WARMING HOAX....a lot of folks are gonna be minus heavy duty earmark money and lose big grants of all sorts, shapes n sizes. goberment werkers are gonna be thrown out of their featherbeds on their ears and into snowbanks to freeze and to starve.....

,,,,,,,,,or worse they might have to get actual jobs where they’ll be forced to to put in 8 hour days and be productive. heck 8 hours of work and a glass of water’ll sure enough kill most of em. you want to be responsible for that kind of carnage?


31 posted on 06/25/2007 8:35:18 PM PDT by flat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

senor goracle,

doan look now senor pero su pantalones, they are down an areround sus ankles....sobre thees caliente global idea

you have.....better cierre su boca immediatamente.

si


32 posted on 06/25/2007 8:44:52 PM PDT by flat
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To: libertarianPA
Who wants to bet that after 2020, the enviro-fascists start calling for increases in CO2.

No the earth will cool because of the sun and the greens will claimed they did it and "beat" global warming with carbon credits...

33 posted on 06/25/2007 8:48:05 PM PDT by tophat9000 (My 2008 grassroots Republican platform: Build the fence, enforce the laws, and win the damm WAR!)
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To: NordP
I’m done with the cooling. No, I say, bring on Global Warming-—oh yaaah...you betcha!

*snort* Since we're fixing to leave the Northeast to move back home to Mississippi, I wouldn't mind a bit of that global cooling, especially when the summers are upper 90's, both in temp AND humidity!

34 posted on 06/25/2007 8:52:07 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Chode

“warming, cooling it was 50/50, so i took a shot... “

But either way, send me your money. Warmer, cooler; it’s a crisis either way.
And only the govt can solve a crisis.


35 posted on 06/25/2007 8:59:14 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
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To: SuziQ
You see, SQ...THAT's why everyone likes livin' in San Diego...warm days (inland) and desert conditions at night = very cool once the sun goes down. We have pretty low humidity, too. Bad for skin, but great for living ;-)

Nite all!

36 posted on 06/25/2007 9:25:18 PM PDT by NordP (The greatest gift God can give us is LIFE. The greatest gift man can give to another is FREEDOM.)
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To: Reform Canada; GMMAC; Pikamax; Former Proud Canadian; Alberta's Child; headsonpikes; Ryle; ...
Canada ping.

Please send me a FReepmail to get on or off this Canada ping list.

37 posted on 06/26/2007 4:50:55 AM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; ...
Can't trust Democrats or a Liberal to keep a promise.

Gore keeps promising us Global Warming.

I need global warming, I deserve it and I won't be denied it.

But despite Gore's promises, it looks like my heating bill is going to go up again next time I renew my natural gas contract.

Perhaps I should start burning coal again.

38 posted on 06/26/2007 4:53:46 AM PDT by Clive
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To: Chode

http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/miniStates_both/language/www/US/ID/boise.gif


39 posted on 06/26/2007 6:38:55 AM PDT by MarkeyD (Just another country bumpkin looking forward to Fred!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wait for it, its gonna be a “We have always been at war with Eurasia moment”.

I’d even be willing to bet Al Gore goes along with it, unless hes got too attached to his pet cause, in which case he’ll be dropped like a hot potato by the rest of the environuts.


40 posted on 06/26/2007 12:19:46 PM PDT by oakcon (Dulce et Decorum est pro Patria mori)
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To: MarkeyD

yup, handy item...


41 posted on 06/26/2007 4:18:48 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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