Done and done! :) 
Posted on 01/03/2008 7:40:48 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
And how do we know it's a peak until after it's over?
~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ ping~~
A cold spell soon? It’s already here in Kentucky! We got a cold front at midnight on New Year’s Eve, and another less than twelve hours later. It has been below 20F ever since.
Been a kind of average winter so far. -20 to zero most of the time. +5 would be vastly more comfortable.
The old timers here in the Pacific North West know something very weird is going on off the coast. Under water volcanic activity has all but wiped out the salmon. People at the top know all about it but they remain silent. Magma activity is driven by the sun’s magnetic properties.
Done and done! :)
He is basing that on the duration of the sun cycles which are known.
Looks Nice,...YUMmmy
I knew it!!!
THANK YOU!
This is the same point I have been trying to make over this whole Globull Warming nonsense!
NOBODY has factored in the effect increased temps will have on cloud cover, and the resulting cooling effect of increased cloud cover....
Ugh...I can’t handle the cold weather anymore....
I hope he listened to the adage to "make hay while the sun shines" and stored up enough of that hay in some Tennessee cave.
A fairly cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012. Elsewhere, the paper says we will have a cold spell in 100,000 years.
The second point is ridiculous. Roughly every 100,000 years for the past million years, the earth has gone through an Ice Age/warming cycle. The Ice Age generally lasts about 80,000 years, the warm spell about 20,000. We are close (a thousand years or two) to the end of our latest warm cycle. These changes seem to come rather quickly. Are they caused by major disasters? I have been looking as have others. After Toba volcano 74,000 years ago, there was a significant downturn in the most recent ice age. After Sakara-jima volcano 22,000 years ago there was a further downturn. Toba left a crater 18 by 65 miles. Sakara-jima left a crater 15 miles in diameter. There is a recent FR thread about a possible meteor strike about 13,000 years ago which may have caused an abrupt regression in our most recent warming phase called the Younger Dryas.
There must be many other events out there. The Yellowstone Caldera event around 600,000 years ago may have triggered the Ice Age of that period. Yellowstone has been heating up a bit recently, is it due for another major blow? Meanwhile, we need to give serious thought to reducing the world population, before nature does it for us and much more cruelly.
Someone at work told me that her relative in Florida (!) reported a first thing in the morning temp of 18 F (?!?).
Neither can I. I really don’t like snow shovelling when it’s below about +5. I know of one man who was a Laborer in the Laborers Union who enjoyed shovelling snow at -40 and he was assigned shovelling walkways and doorways at Prudhoe when everybody else would be in the warmup shack all day. It’s not for everybody.
Northern Florida can get quite cold and experiences freezing temperatures every winter. Even so, 18 seems slightly extreme.
My house in Miami, which was built in the 50's, has a fireplace. There are evenings when it comes in handy. My memory is that back in the 70's, there were times every winter that saw temps in the 30's. We haven't seen that for a while, but 40's happen every winter a few nights. In any case, I keep wood handy.
Ernest, does Sorokhtin’s thinking find support elsewhere in the scientific community?
Thanks.
A relative in the Tampa area had a space heater for those extra-cold times. Of course, cold is relative... :’)
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