http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/iceage/ en-us Fri, 8 Jan 2010 10:52:45 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2423702/posts Snow covers Britain from head to toe As if dusted with icing sugar, this satellite image of Britain shows the full extent of the snow coverage affecting the country. From head to toe there is barely a patch of land not blanketed by the heaviest snowfall in 50 years. It was taken at 11.15am on Thursday by the NASA satellite Terra and transmitted to the University of Dundee Satellite Receiving Station. UK Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2423702/posts#comment Fri, 8 Jan 2010 10:52:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421652/posts Volunteers have reported that ‘a large number’ of elderly customers are snapping up hardbacks as cheap fuel for their fires and stoves. Temperatures this week are forecast to plummet as low as -13ºC in the Scottish Highlands, with the mercury falling to -6ºC in London, -5ºC in Birmingham and -7ºC in Manchester as one of the coldest winters in years continues to bite. Workers at one charity shop in Swansea, in south Wales, described how the most vulnerable shoppers were seeking out thick books such as encyclopaedias for a few pence because they were cheaper than coal. One assistant said:... Metro http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2421652/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jan 2010 20:50:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410876/posts In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada's wheat belt, a particularly chilly and rainy spring has delayed planting and may well bring a disappointingly small harvest. Rainy Britain, on the other hand, has suffered from uncharacteristic dry spells the past few springs. A series of unusually cold winters has gripped the American Far West, while New England and northern Europe have recently experienced the mildest winters within anyone's... Time http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410876/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:31:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1119299/posts Scientists stirred to ridicule ice age claims   19:00 15 April 04   NewScientist.com news service   Climate scientists have been stirred to ridicule claims in an upcoming Hollywood blockbuster that global warming could trigger a new ice age, a scenario also put forward in a controversial report to the US military.The $125-million epic, The Day After Tomorrow, opens worldwide in May. It will show Manhattan frozen solid after the warm ocean current known as the Gulf Stream shuts down.The movie's release will come soon after a report to the US Department of Defense (DoD) in February predicting that such a shutdown... The New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1119299/posts#comment Sat, 17 Apr 2004 05:17:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406074/posts LONDON – E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data — but the messages don't support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an exhaustive review by The Associated Press. The 1,073 e-mails examined by the AP show that scientists harbored private doubts, however slight and fleeting, even as they told the world they were certain about climate change. However, the exchanges don't undercut the vast body of evidence showing the world is warming because of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The scientists were keenly aware of how their work would be... AP via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406074/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:48:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405824/posts While the wizards of smart are convening in Copenhagen, attempting to solve what they perceive to be the biggest global societal ill - anthropogenic climate change, one of the things that likely won't be discussed is the possibility of the opposite occurring, global cooling. But AccuWeather's chief hurricane forecaster, Joe Bastardi warns it is a bigger threat than global warming. He says the phenomenon is coming, based on three priniciple reasons - 1) Natural reversal of ocean cycles, 2) Low sun spot activity and 3) An increase in volcanic and seismic activity. Bastardi made this case on the Fox Business... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405824/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:42:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403336/posts As the world gathered in the Danish capital for the UN Climate Change Conference, more than 50 scientists, businessmen and lobby groups met to discuss the arguments against man made global warming. Although the meeting was considerably smaller than the official gathering of 15,000 people meeting down the road, the organisers claimed it could change the course of negotiations. Professor Henrik Svensmark, a physicist at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen, said the recent warming period was caused by solar activity. He said the last time the world experienced such high temperatures, during the medieval warming period, the Sun... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403336/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 01:22:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400576/posts A massive volcanic eruption that occurred in the distant past killed off much of central India's forests and may have pushed humans to the brink of extinction, according to a new study that adds evidence to a controversial topic. The Toba eruption, which took place on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia about 73,000 years ago, released an estimated 800 cubic kilometers of ash into the atmosphere that blanketed the skies and blocked out sunlight for six years. In the aftermath, global temperatures dropped by as much as 16 degrees centigrade (28 degrees Fahrenheit) and life on Earth plunged deeper... LiveScience.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400576/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 23:08:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399000/posts In the film, "The Day After Tomorrow," the world gets gripped in ice within the span of just a few weeks. Now research now suggests an eerily similar event might indeed have occurred in the past. Looking ahead to the future, there is no reason why such a freeze shouldn't happen again - and in ironic fashion it could be precipitated if ongoing changes in climate force the Greenland ice sheet to suddenly melt, scientists say. Starting roughly 12,800 years ago, the Northern Hemisphere was gripped by a chill that lasted some 1,300 years. Known by scientists as the Younger... LiveScience.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399000/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 03:29:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2398546/posts William Patterson, from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, and his colleagues have shown that switching off the North Atlantic circulation can force the Northern hemisphere into a mini 'ice age' in a matter of months. Previous work has indicated that this process would take tens of years. Around 12,800 years ago the northern hemisphere was hit by a mini ice-age, known by scientists as the Younger Dryas, and nicknamed the 'Big Freeze', which lasted around 1300 years. Geological evidence shows that the Big Freeze was brought about by a sudden influx of freshwater, when the glacial Lake Agassiz in... European Science Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2398546/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 17:26:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2393261/posts Its really is funny when you think about it. Its another fuzzy bunny the left has rolled out to demoralize and destroy capitalism. Remember the "whole in the ozone"? Remember they said the ozone would be gone in ten years? That was 1980, within 10 years the hole was the smallest ever recorded. By the way, look for this again, for a long time there was no significant change. So someone came out with a new scale and all of a sudden it looks bad by the "New Scale" so this may be the next "crisis" now that Global Warming... Town Hall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2393261/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:37:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2386006/posts JUST months - that's how long it took for Europe to be engulfed by an ice age. The scenario, which comes straight out of Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, was revealed by the most precise record of the climate from palaeohistory ever generated. Around 12,800 years ago the northern hemisphere was hit by the Younger Dryas mini ice age, or "Big Freeze". It was triggered by the slowdown of the Gulf Stream, led to the decline of the Clovis culture in North America, and lasted around 1300 years. Until now, it was thought that the mini ice age took... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2386006/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:48:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2367213/posts The north/ne flow of the gulf strean has shut down as of 20 October 2009. This has never happened before in the modern record. NOAA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2367213/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:56:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360847/posts I’ve unearthed from the YouTube dustbin what I believe to be some significant video of man-made global warming alarmist extraordinaire Stephen Schneider’s appearance on a May 1978 episode of the old television series, In Search Of…. For this episode, the show was In Search Of…The Coming Ice Age. I used to watch In Search Of… when I was a kid. I loved it. It was mystery documentary series, and one of the things that made it cool was that it was hosted by Leonard Nimoy, i.e. Spock. In Search Of… did shows on such topics as Bigfoot, The Bermuda Triangle,... Al Gore Lied . com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360847/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:12:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356743/posts Stanford U. doesn’t want you to see this video By Michelle Malkin  •  October 7, 2009 10:33 AM Via Marc Morano at Climate Depot comes word that Stanford University is trying to cover for one of its leading eco-extremists: Stanford University has banned a skeptical documentary film from airing a climate change interview with one of its prominent warming activist professors, Stephen Schneider. After legal threats from Stanford University — apparently on behalf of Prof. Schneider — the documentary filmmakers were forced to use a blank screen and an actor had to read the transcript of Schneider’s already taped but legally banned... michellemalkin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356743/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:13:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332823/posts I've noted in the past the one big flaw in the global-warming theory: No one knows what the climate will be in the future. For various reasons, including a recent absence of sun spots, we could be entering a cooling trend. In that case, a bit of human-induced global warming would be a good thing. So I was amused when Assemblyman Mike Carroll of Morris County sent me a link to this New York Times article reporting that anthropogenic global warming may have the effect of preventing another ice age. "In the very long term, the ability to artificially warm... NJ.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332823/posts#comment Sat, 5 Sep 2009 14:03:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332372/posts The human-driven buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere appears to have ended a slide, many millenniums in the making, toward cooler summer temperatures in the Arctic, the authors of a new study report. Scientists familiar with the work, to be published Friday in the journal Science, said it provided fresh evidence that human activity is not only warming the globe, particularly the Arctic, but could also even fend off what had been presumed to be an inevitable descent into a new ice age over the next few dozen millenniums. The reversal of the slow cooling trend in the... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332372/posts#comment Fri, 4 Sep 2009 20:18:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321049/posts Longer term Solar Minimum could lead to Little Ice Age __________________  15 Aug 09 – “Many scientists are believing that a Dalton-like solar minimum appears a real possibility given the recent solar behavior,” says this article on Icecap.** “Even David Hathaway of NASA has recently conceded that ‘possibilityÂ’ to the New York Times.” “In EOS* of 28 July 2009 there is a very well written feature-length article by astronomer Emeritus Dr. William Livingston and Associate Astronomer Dr Matthew Penn entitled ”Are Sunspots Different During This Sunspot Minimum?” Livingston and Penn answer yes. Their central finding is that regardless of... Ice Age Now http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321049/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:29:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295625/posts CHAMPAIGN – This weekend, you'll want to put away the swimsuit and find a sweatshirt. Local weather records dating back a century or more could be in jeopardy because of an unusual mid-July cold snap. Advertisement During what normally is the warmest week of the year – with average high temperatures of 87 degrees or 86 degrees – weather forecasters are projecting low temperatures of around 50 degrees for the next three nights, and highs of no more than 73 degrees. The record low for July 17 is 49 degrees, set in 1896. The records most seriously threatened are for... Champaign News-Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295625/posts#comment Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:31:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2291062/posts Two Movie Reviews. One is of a 1994 movie that captured my fancy one lazy afternoon. It's called "The Paper" and I dream of journalists that might once again have such pride and integrity. The other is "Ice Age/Dawn of the Dinosaurs" and here's a terrific animated movie, a great story that children will love. It's no "UP" but adults will like it too. Fish Movie Reviews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2291062/posts#comment Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:56:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2289035/posts One fine day about 74,000 years ago, a giant volcano on Sumatra blew its top. The volcano, named Toba, may have ejected 1000 times more rock and other material than Mount St. Helens in Washington state did in 1980. In the process, it cooled the climate by at least 10°C, causing a global famine. But could the aftermath have been even worse? A new study puts to rest questions about whether Toba plunged Earth into a 1000-year deep freeze and whether an equivalent event today could jump-start a new, millennia-long ice age. Giant volcanic eruptions such as Toba briefly cause... ScienceNow http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2289035/posts#comment Thu, 9 Jul 2009 18:19:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2272129/posts Scientists in Leiden, in the Netherlands, have unveiled the specimen -- a fragment from the front of a skull belonging to a young adult male. Analysis of chemical "isotopes" in the 30,000-60,000-year-old fossil suggest a carnivorous diet, matching results from other Neanderthal specimens... The Neanderthal frontal bone is the first known "archaic" human specimen to have been recovered from the sea bed anywhere in the world. It was found among animal remains and stone artefacts dredged up 15km off the coast of the Netherlands in 2001. The fragment was spotted by Luc Anthonis, a private fossil collector from Belgium, in... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2272129/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:19:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251526/posts Global Warming is dead. Global Freezing is in. According Dr. Terri Jackson, a physicist and climatologist, writing in the Belfast (Ireland) Telegraph, on May 13, "There is now irrefutable scientific evidence that far from global warming the earth has now entered a period of global cooling which will last at least for the next two decades. "Evidence for this comes from the NASA Microwave Sounding Unit and the Hadley Climate Research Unit... ." Etcetera ad infinitum. You've heard it before. Just flip the temperature story from high to low. The polar bears are all going to live, but the desert... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251526/posts#comment Fri, 15 May 2009 13:23:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249812/posts Those who ignore the geologic perspective do so at great risk.  In fall of 1985, geologists warned that a Columbian volcano, Nevado del Ruiz, was getting ready to erupt.  But the volcano had been dormant for 150 years.  So government officials and inhabitants of nearby towns did not take the warnings seriously.  On the evening of November 13, Nevado del Ruiz erupted, triggering catastrophic mudslides.  In the town of Armero, 23,000 people were buried alive in a matter of seconds. For ninety percent of the last million years, the normal state of the Earth's climate has been an ice age. ... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249812/posts#comment Wed, 13 May 2009 06:03:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2248278/posts Washington, May 5 (ANI): Some scientists say the prolonged lull in solar activity hints towards the next “Little Ice Age”, which could occur in the near future. The sun is the least active it’s been in decades and the dimmest in a hundred years. The lull is causing some scientists to recall the Little Ice Age, an unusual cold spell in Europe and North America, which lasted from about 1300 to 1850. The coldest period of the Little Ice Age, between 1645 and 1715, has been linked to a deep dip in solar storms known as the Maunder Minimum. During... Thandian News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2248278/posts#comment Mon, 11 May 2009 02:05:20 GMT