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Should Big Chill Be A Bigger Worry?
IBD Editorials ^ | 27 June 2007 | Staff

Posted on 06/27/2007 5:10:56 PM PDT by Kitten Festival

Climate Change: Reputable scientists now say the long-term threat to climate is severe cooling, not rising temperatures. In fact, our carbon emissions may just have prevented the next ice age.

Chicken Little may have to be measured for a winter coat, if the observations of R. Timothy Patterson, professor of geology and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre of Canada's Carleton University, are accurate. Writing in Toronto's National Post, Patterson reported on his research that involved analysis of core samples of more than 5,000 years of mud recovered from the bottom of Western Canada's fjords.

In summary, his research showed "a direct correlation between variations in the brightness of the sun and earthly climate indicators (called proxies)." Patterson notes that hundreds of other studies using proxies from tree rings in Russia's Kola Peninsula to water levels of the Nile show exactly the same thing.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: climatechange; democrats; environment; globalwarming; greenhousegases; hotair
Back to Global Cooling!
1 posted on 06/27/2007 5:11:04 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
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To: Kitten Festival

This guy most be a kook! He disagrees with the UN!!?? /sarcasm


2 posted on 06/27/2007 5:12:46 PM PDT by RightthinkinAmerican (If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do Humanitarians eat?)
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To: Kitten Festival
Image hosted by Photobucket.com listen. warming, cooling, it was 50/50... so i took a shot!!!

3 posted on 06/27/2007 5:16:11 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: Kitten Festival
The Earth cooling signifigantly would be far more destructive to life as we know it than a warming globe. I’d rather see mass uncomfortability and the occasional extreme weather from warming than the mass extinctions and global starvation that would inevitably ensue from a cooled (signifigantly) globe.
4 posted on 06/27/2007 5:18:20 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: Kitten Festival

Ted Danson will be thrilled,back in the early 90’s that clown doctor had us ice skating all year round.


5 posted on 06/27/2007 5:18:59 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: Kitten Festival

It wouldn’t bother me.
It would be worth the look on Algore’s face as his butt is turned to ice!!!


6 posted on 06/27/2007 5:19:33 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: RightthinkinAmerican

Not only does he disagree with the UN but he also disagrees with Rolling Stone magazine! I saw one yesterday on a magazine stand and it’s cover is awash with how the Administrations is lying about global warming. I guess a responsible, intellectual and informative mag like Rolling Stone knows what’s REALLY going on, huh? It did give me a giggle.


7 posted on 06/27/2007 5:21:02 PM PDT by pepperdog
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To: Kitten Festival

I suspect some interesting ideas on how to hold back the ice would arise.


8 posted on 06/27/2007 5:23:07 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: Kitten Festival

Shhh...don’t tell Heidi, the little weather gnome on The Weather Channel. She is a fervent believer in Gore’s Gospel.


9 posted on 06/27/2007 5:25:17 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Kitten Festival

Would everyone who really needs something else to worry about please raise your hand?


10 posted on 06/27/2007 5:29:27 PM PDT by whipitgood (Let's burn some MEXICAN flags!)
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To: kittymyrib

Heidi needs a dunkey punch.


11 posted on 06/27/2007 5:36:12 PM PDT by xDGx
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To: kittymyrib

I quit watching the Weather channel, but was a frequent viewer. They have lost my confidence now. If they are so far off on one aspect, who can trust their 5-day forecast?


12 posted on 06/27/2007 5:36:25 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: Chode
listen. warming, cooling, it was 50/50... so i took a shot!!!

But I gave Ya'all the Internet, didn't I?

13 posted on 06/27/2007 5:37:47 PM PDT by Inquisitive1 (I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance - Socrates)
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To: Inquisitive1
Image hosted by Photobucket.com but what have you done for me lately???
14 posted on 06/27/2007 5:46:48 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: expatpat

There are more pregnancies on the Weather Channel set than in all the Section 8 projects in Philadelphia.

Do they put fertility drugs in the office water cooler there?


15 posted on 06/27/2007 5:52:41 PM PDT by xDGx
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To: Chode
...but what have you done for me lately???

Well, I NEVER KNEW I had a 'Footprint' till AG 'educated' ne.
Without AG, I never would have known I was the most destructive organism on the planet.


16 posted on 06/27/2007 5:56:39 PM PDT by Inquisitive1 (I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance - Socrates)
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To: expatpat
Yep, I no longer have the Weather Channel on. I used to have it on as background noise while I got ready for work. I loved the weather babes (does anyone else miss Jill Brown?). But, someone in their upper management jumped on the global warming express and they are sensationalist television instead of informative news.

It's sad, but there it is. When you politicize science, the chicken little effect takes over and no one can believe anything you say...even when you're telling the truth.

The internet has radar images and a 10 day forecast from at least three different sites...but I do miss the weather babes...Hey Weather Channel? The internet has that sort of eye candy, too!

17 posted on 06/27/2007 6:00:46 PM PDT by GBA (God Bless America!)
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To: xDGx

It’s that guy Jim ? who does the Storm Story series — he’s very active.....


18 posted on 06/27/2007 6:17:31 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: Chode

What a classic Gore look! The look on his daughter’s face suggests she has heard his same old BS and here he is spouting it again. Love it.


19 posted on 06/27/2007 6:24:54 PM PDT by miele man (Continually voting against iodine deficient libs for 42 years)
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To: Kitten Festival
Says Patterson, the Canadian geologist: "Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on earth. "Solar activity has overpowered any effect that CO2 has had before, and it most likely will again. If we're to have even a medium-sized solar minimum, we could be looking at a lot more bad effects than 'global warming' would have had."

and in a perverse way, global warming zealots are counting on this solar minimum effect so they can say, "see? our efforts are working!"

20 posted on 06/27/2007 6:29:08 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Brian J. Marotta, 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub, (1948-2007) Rest In Peace, our FRiend)
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To: expatpat

Meteorlogy was my former life and the Weather Channel was always my morning briefing before my shift began in the afternoon in preparation for the evening weathercasts. When they got the current producer they got the left leaning outlook that grips the whole operation there now. I am certain there are some of the old timers and thoughtful newbies at the WC that chafe at this leftist pablum that is spewed on us daily. It has been eons since I even stopped on the WC while channel surfing. Pity, it was a great program and a comfortable place to view at any time of the day. Are you listening Weather Channel?


21 posted on 06/27/2007 6:31:53 PM PDT by CARTOUCHE
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To: xDGx

Back when John Hope was there (the WWII Meteorologist who was the hurricane expert) I suspected he was the culprit but the trend has not only continued after his untimely death at age 80-something but has accelerated. So is this and indication that the babes are right or left leaning?


22 posted on 06/27/2007 6:38:26 PM PDT by CARTOUCHE
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To: GBA

Ah, sweet Jill Brown!! I miss her still. She was the best Wx girl I’ve ever seen and she was totally hot to boot.


23 posted on 06/27/2007 6:47:40 PM PDT by miele man (Continually voting against iodine deficient libs for 42 years)
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To: Kitten Festival

What?? Global Warming has to be true. I read about it in Sports Illustrated last year. /s


24 posted on 06/27/2007 7:24:17 PM PDT by libs_kma (www.imwithfred.com)
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To: libs_kma

The sky is falling.....the sky is falling!!!!!

No, wait, the snow is falling......the snow is falling!!!!!

Okay, nevermind.....


25 posted on 06/27/2007 7:28:07 PM PDT by glasseye
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To: Kitten Festival
Back to Global Cooling!

What do you mean BACK ? I never left the cause !

Ironically today I saw an article about dumping iron into the ocean near galapagos to stop global warming. The global cooling crowd was going to dump iron into the water to stop global cooling. I think the iron industry is behind both of these ideas.
26 posted on 06/27/2007 9:59:52 PM PDT by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: Kitten Festival

Of course, this guy will be beheaded for heresy by Al Gore.


27 posted on 06/28/2007 4:05:50 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: cripplecreek
I suspect some interesting ideas on how to hold back the ice would arise.
Such as putting a large mirror in earth orbit?

28 posted on 06/28/2007 7:26:20 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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