http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/iceage/ en-us Wed, 9 Jul 2008 04:50:22 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2042770/posts Diamonds and precious metals found in the eastern United States might have rained down during the last Ice Age after a comet shattered over Canada and set North America ablaze, all leading to a mass die-off of animals and humans. New chemical analyses of diamond, gold and silver found in Ohio and Indiana reveal the minerals were transported there from Canada several thousand years ago. The question is, how? "There are no gold mines or silver mines in Ohio that anyone knows of, but there are plenty of them in Canada," said retired geophysicist Allen West, who was involved in... LiveScience.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2042770/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 04:50:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038269/posts Lyme Disease Bacterium Came From Europe Before Ice AgeThe blacklegged tick Ixodes pacificus, a known vector for Borrelia burgdorferi, the pathogen responsible for Lyme disease. (Credit: CDC/ James Gathany; William Nicholson) ScienceDaily (June 30, 2008) — Researchers at the University of Bath have discovered that a bacterium that causes Lyme disease originated in Europe, rather than in North America as previously thought. The bacterium responsible for Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, originated in America, or so researchers thought. Now, however, a team from the University of Bath has shown that this bug in fact came from Europe, originating from before the... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038269/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:20:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038206/posts A new paper published by the Astronomical Society of Australia has a warning to global warming believers not immediately obvious from the summary: Based on our claim that changes in the Sun’s equatorial rotation rate are synchronized with changes in the Sun’s orbital motion about the barycentre, we propose that the mean period for the Sun’s meridional flow is set by a Synodic resonance between the flow period (~22.3 yr), the overall 178.7-yr repetition period for the solar orbital motion, and the 19.86-yr synodic period of Jupiter and Saturn. Or as one of the authors, Ian Wilson, kindly explained to... http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038206/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:57:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038172/posts http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/?id=6950 Will Earth's Future Be a FROZEN One? 27-Jun-2008 ...rather than a hot one? - The future? The disappearance of sun spots was the hot topic at a recent international solar conference held at Montana State University. For the past two years, the sun has undergone a phase of relative inactivity, meaning usual solar phenomena such as sun flares, sun spots, and solar eruptions have all but disappeared. "It's a dead face," researcher Saku Tsuneta says of the solar surface. Tsuneta is with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and was one of the participants at the MSU conference The... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038172/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:48:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035614/posts Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the close of the last ice age some 11,500 years ago were tied to fundamental shifts in atmospheric circulation. The ice core showed the Northern Hemisphere briefly emerged from the last ice age some 14,700 years ago with a 22-degree-Fahrenheit spike in just 50 years, then plunged back into icy conditions before abruptly warming again about 11,700 years ago. The Greenland ice core evidence showed that a massive reorganization of atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere coincided with each... www.greencarcongress.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035614/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:52:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033572/posts Greenland ice core analysis shows drastic climate change near end of last ice age Caption: The North Greenland Ice Core Project camp. Credit: NGRIP Temperatures spiked 22 degrees F in just 50 years, researchers say Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the close of the last ice age some 11,500 years ago were tied to fundamental shifts in atmospheric circulation. The ice core showed the Northern Hemisphere briefly emerged from the last ice age some 14,700 years ago with a 22-degree-Fahrenheit spike in just... Physorg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033572/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:33:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028441/posts Seabed scratches show icebergs reached the tropics 09 June 2008 NewScientist.com news service ICEBERGS often etch out messages on the shallow ocean floor. Now a newly discovered set of scratches suggests bergs from the icy north drifted further south than we thought after the last ice age. The meltdown of North American ice sheets about 15,000 years ago released a flotilla of icebergs into the Atlantic. Gouges left by bergs on the ocean bed have previously been found off New Jersey, close to the southernmost edge of the ice sheet, but it had been thought that looping currents would have... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028441/posts#comment Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:24:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027470/posts Confirming what many of us have already noted from the anecdotal evidence coming in of a much cooler than normal May, such as late spring snows as far south as Arizona, extended skiing in Colorado, and delays in snow cover melting, (here and here), the University of Alabama, Huntsville (UAH) published their satellite derived Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit data set of the Lower Troposphere for May 2008. It is significantly colder globally, colder even than the significant drop to -0.046°C seen in January 2008. The global ∆T from April to May 2008 was -.195°C University of Alabama-Huntsville http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027470/posts#comment Sat, 7 Jun 2008 04:39:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016826/posts 25,000 B.C. In Europe, arctic glaciers reach as far south as London. Massive predators are on the prowl. Across the continent, two species of primitive man struggle to survive. The Neanderthals are natural hunters, built for brute strength and well-adapted to the cold. However, they lack the understanding of technology and ability to speak in abstract terms that our species has. The Cro-Magnon, Homo sapiens are smarter but more fragile. With exciting new research in anthropology, archaeology and genetics, follow these early humans through a season of survival. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016826/posts#comment Fri, 16 May 2008 13:14:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005850/posts Sunspot activity has not resumed up after hitting an 11-year low in March last year, raising fears that — far from warming — the globe is about to return to an Ice Age, says an Australian-American scientist. Physicist Phil Chapman, the first native-born Australian to become an astronaut with NASA [he became an American citizen to join up, though he never went into space], said pictures from the U.S. Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) showed no spots on the sun. He said the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7 degrees Centigrade. "This... FOX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005850/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:26:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010827/posts Rapid City mayor Alan Hanks is telling residents to stay home and be safe today, and authorities in the Northern Hills and Rapid City closed off traffic completely except for emergencies. “Please, stay off the roads until the weather clears. The wind is still gusting to 50 mph with heavy snow,” he said. “There are very few businesses that are going to open, so take a day off and enjoy it.” Meanwhile, police said they would cite any motorists who got stuck in the numerous drifts citywide and were traveling on any non-essential business. Wind gusts in Rapid City were... Rapid City Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010827/posts#comment Sat, 3 May 2008 21:48:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005746/posts There is some serious evidence accumulating that we may be on the brink of not just global cooling, but an ice age. Sunspots are historically correlated with temperature on earth. During the Dalton Minimum, beginning in 1790, the number of sunspots was low, as the earth's climate turned cold for a few decades. At http://www.spaceweather.com/ you can see live images of the sun taken from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory in space. Right now there is but one tiny sunspot. Phil Chapman, geophysicist and astronautical engineer who lives in San Francisco, writes in The Australian about the frightening prospect that... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005746/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:44:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005409/posts THE scariest photo I have seen on the internet is www.spaceweather.com, where you will find a real-time image of the sun from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory... What is scary about the picture is that there is only one tiny sunspot. Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously. ...cooled by about 0.7C in 2007. This is the fastest temperature change in the... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005409/posts#comment Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:26:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990882/posts Bison bones bolster idea Ice Age seafarers first to Americas Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service Published: Monday, March 24, 2008 Head of a bison, part of a series of ancient bison bones found on Vancouver Island and nearby Orcas Island in Washington state. A series of discoveries of ancient bison bones on Vancouver Island and nearby Orcas Island in Washington state is fuelling excitement among researchers that the Pacific coast offered a food-rich ecosystem for Ice Age hunters some 14,000 years ago -- much earlier than the prevailing scientific theory pegs the arrival of humans to the New World. Fourteen... The NationalPost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990882/posts#comment Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:14:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990029/posts It's just as you suspected - this has been the snowiest winter ever in the Ann Arbor area, or at least since 1880 when record-keeping started. And it's not over yet. That's because we're not even into April, a month that normally averages almost 2.5 inches of that pesky white stuff. If this winter continues the way it's been going, we could be in store for more than that. Consider this month. Normally in March, we get about 8.3 inches of snow, said Dennis Kahlbaum, a University of Michigan weather observer. So far in March, with more than a week... MLive http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990029/posts#comment Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:18:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984061/posts Earthquake activity is frozen by ice sheets 11 March 2008 NewScientist.com news service Can you put a freeze on earthquakes? It seems so, according to a computer model showing that earthquakes happen less often in areas covered by ice caps. Trouble is, quakes come back with a vengeance when the ice melts. Andrea Hampel at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, and colleagues wondered why Scandinavia experienced a surge in tectonic activity around 9000 years ago, whereas few earthquakes occur there today. They realised that the earthquake flurry coincided with the melting of the Fennoscandian ice sheet, which blanketed the area... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984061/posts#comment Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:19:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1978656/posts By now you should be conversant with the fact that ice ages happen on an eerily regular basis (Part I), that they are associated with earth’s rickety orbit and have nothing to do with carbon dioxide (Parts II and III). Additionally, in Part III we did the math and realized that you just can’t get to global warming with CO2. It is on the wrong side of the decimal point in terms of concentration (0.04%) to be much of a player unless you imbue it with superpowers that would also make it the darling of the insulation and energy conservation... Icecap.us http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1978656/posts#comment Sat, 1 Mar 2008 05:13:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1978653/posts We have seen how all those eerily regular and severe climate changes are the result of earth’s rickety orbit and how the other planets cause this bullying. Not too much we can do about that. We have also seen how carbon dioxide was a spectator at these events and not the agent provocateur some would have us believe. We will now take a last turn through the ice ages to better understand what these events actually meant to us. Call it climate change in your face. There will be a great many of you (88.9%, to be precise) that will... Icecap.us http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1978653/posts#comment Sat, 1 Mar 2008 05:02:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1978650/posts In Part I many were possibly quite stunned to see just how regular, frequent and dramatic natural climate change is on Spaceship Earth. Four hundred foot sea level changes, abrupt climate change, at the end of 100,000 year long deep freezes (global warming events), the most regularly occurring thing we know of in all geology. Sixteen of these in the last 1.6 million years (The Pleistocene Epoch), and dozens more in the Pliocene which preceded it ...In Part II, we confronted the fact (oops! I am loosing 88.9% of you here) that in order to do this with Greenhouse Gases... Icecap.us http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1978650/posts#comment Sat, 1 Mar 2008 04:50:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1978647/posts In Part 1, we examined the remarkably regular Pleistocene climate clock. We learned that sixteen times in the last 1.6 million years we would drop into 100k year long deep freezes and nearly instantaneously come out of them, working up 400 foot sea level rises, only to start another long slow slide into the next one, with the interim being just a few tens of thousands of years, if that. With the detailed Vostok ice core data, we saw that the entry into an ice age is a long slippery slope, but quite a bumpy ride, with warm spells that... Icecap.us http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1978647/posts#comment Sat, 1 Mar 2008 04:40:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1978643/posts When I first heard it, I believed it. It made sense. I could see it easily and clearly. And that was a long, long time ago. It seemed counterintuitive that anyone could or would not believe it. It was that seminal. HomoSapiens would cause the earth to warm, we now call it the Greenhouse Gas theory, and it is now a law (at least in California). But it was just a few years ago as the real hype got going that I had my first cause to question the legality of what would soon be a law. And it happened... Icecap.us http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1978643/posts#comment Sat, 1 Mar 2008 04:28:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977172/posts Arctic Meltdown The Economic and Security Implications of Global Warming Scott G. Borgerson The Arctic Ocean is melting, and it is melting fast. This past summer, the area covered by sea ice shrank by more than one million square miles, reducing the Arctic icecap to only half the size it was 50 years ago. For the first time, the Northwest Passage -- a fabled sea route to Asia that European explorers sought in vain for centuries -- opened for shipping. Even if the international community manages to slow the pace of climate change immediately and dramatically, a certain amount of... Foreign Affairs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977172/posts#comment Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:55:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976685/posts Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on. No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has... Daily Tech http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976685/posts#comment Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:17:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976612/posts A twelve-month long drop in world temperatures erases global warming Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on. No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted... The Daily Tech, Drudgereport http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976612/posts#comment Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:28:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976447/posts Calm Sun, Cold Earth By Alan Caruba CNSNews.com Commentary from the National Anxiety Center February 18, 2008 I can understand why people believe that global warming is real and that all the things Greens say are true. One cannot read a newspaper or magazine, turn on the television or radio, without getting the Green message. Since switching their message in the 1970s that an Ice Age was coming to the complete fiction of a massive, dramatic global warming due to greenhouse gases, the Greens have been able to influence policy at the international and national level. They have been utterly... CNS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976447/posts#comment Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:40:53 GMT