Posted on 08/19/2008 10:10:46 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk
An expert from the National Autonomous University of Mexico predicted that the Earth will enter a "Little Ice Age" which will last from 60 to 80 years and may be caused by the decrease in solar activity.
Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics at UNAM, showcased his theories during an international conference he led at the Centre for Applied Sciences and Technological Development. Velasco, a specialist in remote sensing systems, said that the recent rupture of the Perito Moreno glacier on the border of Chile and Argentina, unusual for having produced a full austral winter, was not due to global warming. He theorizes that the event was caused during a drought by falling water levels in the river, coupled with colder temperatures.
Dr. Velasco described as "erroneous" predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), of a gradual increase in temperature, the so-called global warming. The models and forecasts of the IPCC "are incorrect because they are based solely on mathematical models and do not include, for example, solar activity," said Velasco, who is also a specialist in predictive image processing. "The phenomenon of climate change," he added, "should include both internal and external factors. Internal would include volcanic activity,while external causes include solar activity."
"Curiously, the Sun never has been seen as a cooling agent, but as a cause of warming. It clearly has roles in both cooling and warming," he said.
At present, Velasco holds that the world is going through a transition phase of considerably diminished solar activity, "so that in two years or so, there will be the beginnings of a small ice age that lasts from 60 to 80 years,and the immediate consequence of this" he added, "will be drought."
Analyses by the IPCC concluded that the "Little Ice Age",a cold period that lasted since the beginning of the fourteenth century until the mid-nineteenth century. was a regional phenomena or accentuation of local effects. But Velasco disagrees. He says that, "Current evidence does not support globally synchronous periods of abnormal heat or cold in this timeframe," and that it must have been caused by other factors.
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According to Velasco, effects will be clearly observable within in approximately two years. However, in early July, Velasco Herrera said that satellite data indicate it is possible that this period of global cooling may have even already begun as early as 2005.
He has predicted that cooling would fully arrive within 30 or 40 years.
The point I was trying to make is everyone is worried about man made global warming, which is BS, and it’s probably going to get colder, which would be much worse. We can’t control the weather.
I’m having chills already!
The Goracle, upon hearing this, will start convulsing..
He didn't consider solar variation, though- just the angle (and hence amount) of sunlight north of lat 60. Or 65, but north.
My MIL looked like I had just told her that I’d killed her dog when I told her that the earth was cooling instead of warming.
I said, “don’t worry, I’m sure the lefties solution will be exactly the same - less freedom, more socialism”.
As any child knows, the correct response to any climate change challenge is mass religious hysteria, followed by torture of the heretics, and higher taxes.
One day we should be much better at predicting space weather and therefore more convincing to the idiots that inhabit the left and some on the right.
I don’t care what you say... That’s funny!
I just drove back to Texas from the Ozarks this morning. And it is unseasonaly cool there and here, more like late October than the end of August. Even the plants and critters are reacting to the weather. ‘Snow on the mountain’ is blooming early and the walking sticks are out and about early. It’s just my observation but others were talking about it too.
I think sunspots are probably caused by global warming.
/Sarcasm
(I’ll bet someone a box of donuts that a global warmist makes this claim for real)
So we are going to make it worse with Algore’s help.
why would it cause drought?....I mean global warming caused drought, right?
So by, “Ice Age,” they mean “warming age,” right? Global warming sure is confusing.
Bad link. No link to article.
I do.
and I'm an expert!
Sept 4th.
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