Five Decades Of Cooling Ahead

Investors.com ^ | December 24, 2009 | INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY staff

[ichabod1]

There was no ozone hole either. Getting rid of freon with the CFCs scare was just a dry run for getting rid of capitalism altogether with a CO2 scare.

Zip it, you breather.

(nothing personal, just thought of calling people "breathers" since we produce nasty vile CO2.)

[A.Hun]

Thanks for the additional info on the topic - public policy driven by junk science makes me crazy, and it generally turns out that once the envirowhacko’s get their way (a CFC ban), any further science on the issue hardly ever makes it past the primary literature, and further evaluation by non-specialists gets a lot harder to pursue.

You're welcome...I had the opportunity to follow the CFC saga since the start, and it has always been based on shaky science. Actually, jet streams distort the ozone concentration, something pointed out in about 87-88. It was promptly ignored, even though it appeared in Scientific American. (That was before they went PC.)

In a now familiar pattern, the big winners in Ozone depletion were research scientists and DuPont.

Merry Christmas!

[reformedliberal]

11C or 11F?

Your home page says you are in the UK. I guess this cold isn’t the norm for you over there.

We have lost all our snow to ugly frozen slush (the temps dropped to 16F for the overnight, here in Wisconsin)because it has rained between brief snows for several days. We normally are 27F day/10F night here and snow is ubiquitous, but usually dry and relatively easy to shovel or move w/a snow blower. The snow we had the 22-23 was heavy and very wet. The snow blower couldn’t handle it. Miserable stuff to shovel by hand and we are in the country with a driveway to match. The damp is worse than the cold, IMO. Cold and dry isn’t that bad. Cold and damp just gets into the bones. The winds were moderate, although usually we can expect them at about 25-35mph or higher during a blizzard.

Poor guys! I know what it’s like, so you have my sympathy. Take what pride that you can for surviving it. We usually brag on our miserable winters. What else can anyone do?

Christmas Blessings to you and yours.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Zip it, you breather.

Sounds like a reference to the homosexual term for heterosexuals as "breeders". I get it :-)

[redgolum]

We just dug out of 10-15 inches of snow here in South Dakota. My parents in Nebraska have more snow than my father has ever seen.

But my goofy brother in law is sure we are all going to fry from Gorbal Warming.

[carolinablonde]

Please add me to your ping list.

Thanks.

[Former War Criminal]

No need to worry...with the new definition of “decade,” this new ice age will last only 45 years.