Posted on 04/25/2008 5:07:18 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
World might be heading towards Ice Age
23 Apr, 2008, 1327 hrs IST, ANI
CANBERRA: Scientists have warned that the world might once again be heading towards an Ice Age, with global warming approaching a possible end.
Evidence in support of this theory has come from pictures obtained from the US Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, which showed no spots on the sun, thus determining that sunspot activity has not resumed after hitting an 11-year low in March last year.
A sunspot is a region on the sun that is cooler than the rest and appears dark.
Some scientists believe a strong solar magnetic field, when there is plenty of sunspot activity, protects the earth from cosmic rays, cutting cloud formation, but that when the field is weak - during low sunspot activity - the rays can penetrate into the lower atmosphere and cloud cover increases, cooling the surface.
According to Australian astronaut and geophysicist Phil Chapman, this might have caused the world to cool quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7C.
"This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930," said Dr Chapman.
"If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over," he added.
Dr Chapman has proposed preventive, or delaying, moves to slow the cooling, such as bulldozing Siberian and Canadian snow to make it dirty and less reflective.
"My guess is that the odds are now at least 50:50 that we will see significant cooling rather than warming in coming decades," he said
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Yeah, it’s gonna happen any second now. AND WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!!
Oh, no! Can’t be true! Paging Al Gore! (Only five miles down the road.)
It would appear that Al Gore’s breath could be employed in the fight against global cooling.
Go toilet paper his house already!!!
That is correct. The mortality rate is still one per person. Yet another inconvenient fact that seems to elude the doom and gloomers. Given Gore’s new role as savior, one might conclude that if we just bought florescent lightbulbs and destroyed our entire industrial base, we might well live forever.
Climate Change: It’s EVERYWHERE!
And all the time!
Please, TPing his Mansion might ruin the environment!/s
I do wonder how come Wooly Mammoths were found in Siberia that had been frozen with grass still in their mouths and that appear to have been otherwise healthy.
And to think, I woke up to it snowing 5 days before May. Ive now got about 2 inches of global warming in my yard. I think its because I washed the truck yesterday...Tell Algore to come take a gander here. It hasnt gotten above 35 degrees all day to boot. Glad I got my woodstove
AGAIN????..............So Soon?.......
Global Warming is causing the cooling!!
Global Warming is causing the warming!!!
Global Warming is causing the droughts!!!
Global Warming is causing the rain!!!
Global Warming is causing famine!!!
Global Warming is causing the growth of food!!!
/SARC
Now that's the kind of estimate a liberal can really cling to.
Wouldn’t dare waste the paper. But those solar panels are a temptation.
This house is BIG.
Thus...my tagline!
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