Should Big Chill Be A Bigger Worry?

IBD Editorials ^ | 27 June 2007 | Staff

[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.

[Kitten Festival]

Back to Global Cooling!

[RightthinkinAmerican]

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

[Chode]

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

[kinoxi]

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.

[Doogle]

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

[ZULU]

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

[pepperdog]

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.

[cripplecreek]

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

[kittymyrib]

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

[whipitgood]

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

[xDGx]

Heidi needs a dunkey punch.

[expatpat]

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?

[Inquisitive1]

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

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

[Chode]

but what have you done for me lately???

[xDGx]

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?

[Inquisitive1]

...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.

[GBA]

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!

[expatpat]

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

[miele man]

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.

[NonValueAdded]

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!"