Posted on 09/11/2015 12:55:29 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
Scientists fear Day After Tomorrow climate change, shouts the headline on MSNBC. According to two new studies, global warming could (supposedly) shut down ocean circulation. This could drop vast stretches of Asia into drought and expose the entire Northern Hemisphere to severe ice and snow. This change would be sudden and sharp enough to roil civilizationhappening in as little as three years and resulting in as much as an 18-degree Fahrenheit drop in average temperatures, says this article by Tony Dokoupil.
Dokoupil tells the story of Jud Partin, a geophysicist at the University of Texas, who gathered new geological data and re-examined the deep past. Partin and his colleagues looked at an earlier, all-natural melt-off that happened about 12,000 years ago, says Dokoupil. Known as the Younger Dryas, the period was defined by a deep chill across the northern latitudes.
Ice core studies cited by Partin show an 18-degree Fahrenheit drop in average temperatures across Greenland. New York and London would be slightly warmer, he believes, but still frigid with average temperature drops of at least a dozen degrees. It would definitely change everyday life in Europe and North America, Partin told MSNBC. Daily life would be drastically affected in these areas, in ways I cant imagine or begin to address.
Dokoupil goes on to cite the 2004 disaster-flick Day After Tomorrow, then quickly cites a different study by scientists from Germanys Alfred Wegener Institute. Those scientists concluded that existing models may have underestimated the sensitivity of the oceans system. Even a relatively small change in the oceans salinity, the researchers wrote, corresponds to a significant temperature decrease of up to 40% across North America and Europe.
Trouble is that Dokoupil throws in enough quotes and references from the movie that you lose track of which part is reality and which is fiction. But the unmistakable takeaway is that global warming, caused by greenhouse gases, could trigger an ice age.
Talk about having it both ways.As far as Im concerned, this is just another contribution to the AGW hoax fraud.
Me, too. Especially shift on the fly. :grin: but I suspect we’re not talking about the same thing. I’ve heard about it, but I’ve never done it. (& my my hot dawgette days are pretty much over ..I think. lol Troublemaker))
See? You mess with the Glo-BULL and you get the horny dwarf in the fridge.
Or something.
Settled science.
“(C. Edmund Wright says I’m a moron”)
It’s a pretty big club ;)
LMAO, thanks
If you're a power hungry government dictator, you can enslave the people with Socialism by way of the Climate Change Scam.
The House says:
“In our Global Warming Roulette game these are the rules:
If the ball lands on black-the House wins.
If the ball lands on red-the House wins.
If the ball lands on green-the House wins-BIG.
If the ball flies off the table-the House wins.
If the bouncer picks up the ball, makes up some phony data and creates a rigged computer model and then puts the ball into his pocket-the House wins.”
Warming Monte
Cooling Monte
Hiatus Monte
They’re trying to have it all ways: Global warming causes rain/snow/hot/cold/hurricanes/calm winds/night/morning/daytime/night time/etc etc/etc etc. And your dog’s bad breath.
Great analogy!
Leftists don’t want you to ask questions like that!
The Sun could get so hot it’d turn the Earth into a ice ball!
The science is settled...because we say so
China Syndrome effectively shut down nuclear energy, guess someone uses them.
Two-wheel drive will work on iced roads at high elevations with good tires. Some of the newer ice tires front and back are good, studs front and back are the best. Just be careful when braking while going downhill. Use downshifting gently to avoid braking.
I love this thread. Half nascar half globull warming and a lot of funny s**t
This concept would make even Orwell blush....
My father took me to Vinita Oklahoma to See Harry make a speech on his famous Whistle Stop Tour. You are a couple months older than me.
Look for a study to come out soon saying globull warming will cause koala and pandas to become extinct. Were seeing an historic marketing effort.
Yeah and kittens, all the cute fuzzy animals will DIE! :)
Though we’ve had no sunspot activity or coronal mass ejections from the sun, there have been some dazzling auroral displays.
That’s because the earth’s magnetic field has weak spots in it from the more rapid shift since about 1995. See if you can find out where the magnetic north pole has been spotted recently.
Also expect more seismic activity and volcanism (increased magnetic field activity tied to increased outer core and lower mantle movements). ...already seen some of that.
Weak spots in the magnetic field allow more ozone depletions from solar wind, methane leakage (seismic) causing more ozone depletions, etc.
Then, there’s the low solar activity.
Prognosis: fluctuations. More extremes in both heat and cold, droughts caused by junk in the air, slower evaporation, less condensation, etc.
It’s all natural and cyclic—not caused by mankind. We just happen to being seeing a concurrence of two natural events that only happen once in a great while.
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