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Carbon dioxide did not end the last Ice Age (WELL, DUH!)
www.physorg.com ^ | 09/28/2007 | Lowell Stott, University of Southern California

Posted on 09/28/2007 5:31:36 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: onedoug

Awesome! A one-to-one scale picture of the Sun!


21 posted on 09/28/2007 7:39:43 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: Red Badger
Basic References:

Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):

Other References:

Antarctic Temperature Trend 1982-2004:


This map (left) shows key areas of Antarctica, including the vast East Antarctic ice sheet. The image on the right shows which areas of the continent's ice are thickening (coloured yellow and red) and thinning (coloured blue). © (Left)British Antarctic Survey, (Right)Science

22 posted on 09/28/2007 8:23:26 AM PDT by sourcery (Referring a "social conservative" to the Ninth Amendment is like showing the Cross to Dracula.)
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To: sourcery

Thanks! Will save for later cognitive digestion............


23 posted on 09/28/2007 8:29:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back!)
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To: JmyBryan
"More directly, I go with undersea volcanism. "

But what causes the vulcanism to increase?? That takes LOTS of energy. If my hunch is right, and (some/all??)of the magnetic field energy is deposited in magma, then you have the "driver" for the increase in vulcanism.

There is no question that vulcanism HAS increased. THAT there is data for. But why??? I find it hard to believe that photons hitting the earth's surface somehow drive undersea volcanoes.

24 posted on 09/28/2007 8:55:49 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: agere_contra
So the Vostok lines should get closer together.

Lifting an eyebrow Spock-wise: "Fascinating."

25 posted on 09/28/2007 9:38:57 AM PDT by cogitator
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To: xcamel

The GEICO caveman reference is a scream :-)

I’ll be tweaking libs later this afternoon, concerning their subversion of the Freedom of Speech on what is supposed to be an open-minded arts forum that’s been hijacked by a group of left-wing extremists, who banned me for having the courage to post info representing the conservative viewpoint.

I’ll be wearing a self-designed t-shirt at the party celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Maryland State Arts Council.

Besides denouncing the particular forum, there’ll be a photo of me on the front with my mouth covered by a black slash. On the slash are the words, “Thou shalt not speak.” Underneath is a quote by Lenin, “Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.”

On the back is a Frederick Douglas Quote, “Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants.”

Below that is a photo of Hitler and Mussolini standing together ...


26 posted on 09/28/2007 10:50:57 AM PDT by George - the Other (Oh, what a tangled web ...)
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To: Wonder Warthog
My own thought is that there is an electromagnetic effect related the the sun’s magnetic field. In current time, we have measurements showing that the sun’s magnetic field has DOUBLED in historic time. How does that doubling effect the earth??

Flip that: The earth’s magnetic poles - possibly/probably beginning a switch of north pole - south pole directions - is rapidly decreasing since the early 1800’s, and is rapidly moving across the Ar tic towards Siberia by several hundreds of miles. Well away from its historic position in south Hudson Bay. Previous movements in recorded decades have only been slow circles across a few dozen miles.

Change magnetic field intensity and you see a tremendous increase in cosmic ray reception (regardless of cosmic ray source intensity.) Also, you see the result - as you pointed out - in increased solar reception. Lower mag fields = less shielding = more solar reception.

Regardless of sunspot activity - which is also increasing!

27 posted on 09/28/2007 12:52:15 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
"Change magnetic field intensity and you see a tremendous increase in cosmic ray reception (regardless of cosmic ray source intensity.) Also, you see the result - as you pointed out - in increased solar reception. Lower mag fields = less shielding = more solar reception."

I thought it was the other way around?? More cosmic ray influx = more atmospheric ionization = more nucleation sites for water drops = increased cloud cover in the stratosphere = increased albedo = cooling??

At any rate, at least this mechanism is actually being "thought about" as being yet another variable in the "global-warming/global cooling" science. The possible electromagnetic effect I'm curious about isn't even at THAT stage. I can find exactly ZERO information that it has even occurred to anyone as a possibility.

28 posted on 09/28/2007 1:21:55 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Regardless of sunspot activity - which is also increasing!

Increasing?? On what time scale? Solar cycle 23 was less than solar cycle 22. And solar cycle 23 doesn't seem to want to end, and cycle 24 doesn't seem to want to start. The longer cycle 23 drags out, many scientists agree that such a delay portends a lower than normal cycle 24.

Do you have other information?
29 posted on 09/28/2007 5:49:24 PM PDT by AaronInCarolina
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To: Red Badger

At first read, I don’t see this as very happy news - if CO2 accelerates and amplifies warming that starts from other causes we may have to cut CO2 even if the current warming was not largely caused by Co2.

I think the overall news is bad even there is a political advantage.


30 posted on 09/28/2007 5:58:14 PM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: AaronInCarolina; xcamel; SteamShovel
No, your report on the end of cycle nbr 23, the slow start of 24, and the relative size of 22 (high) and 23 (somewhat lower - but still above “average”) EXACTLY (well, very closely) matches the trend we see in global mid-atmospheric temperatures: Gradually rising from a low in the early 70’s to a peak in the mid-to-late 90’s, stagnant between 1998 & 2007, and portents of dramatic decline after 2007.

That decline seems ever more ominous the later that nbr 24 is delayed, and the lower that the earth’s magnetic field gets, but I’m (yet) ready to declare the next Ice Age is coming. Hansen has already done that anyway - back in 1970.

31 posted on 09/28/2007 6:01:01 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: gondramB

We “could” cut CO2 to zero - and it would not make any difference.


32 posted on 09/28/2007 6:02:02 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

>>We “could” cut CO2 to zero - and it would not make any difference.<<

While I don’t believe the simple “global warming is all human caused theory”, you are pretty much out alone among scientists if you believe that cutting CO2 to zero would have no effect.


33 posted on 09/28/2007 6:08:33 PM PDT by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: Beowulf

PING !


34 posted on 09/28/2007 7:02:40 PM PDT by steelyourfaith
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To: gondramB
I will grant you that the UN (Kyoto Treaty) only expects a -0.2 degree change in temps if ALL of mankind’s CO2 emissions are capped at their 1990 levels.

But, since the CO2 levels have risen steadily since 1998, and that temps have remained stable since 1998 (actually declining just slightly), you cannot claim that CO2 emissions are responsible for temp changes.

However, removing ALL of mankind’s CO2 emissions would have a negligible effect as the earth warms 2.0 more degrees (as it has in the past every 100,000 years), or cools 5 degrees - as it has in the past every 100,000 years -— all with NO man-caused CO2 release.

35 posted on 09/28/2007 8:52:01 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: MurryMom
Carbon dioxide did not cause the end of the last ice age...

Uh, oh. Algore kinda looks like an idiot at this point - no?

36 posted on 09/28/2007 9:03:12 PM PDT by Libloather (That's just what I need - some two-bit, washed up, loser politician giving me weather forecasts...)
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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization

by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith


37 posted on 09/29/2007 2:00:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Wednesday, September 27, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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38 posted on 09/29/2007 2:00:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Wednesday, September 27, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: 75thOVI; AFPhys; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BenLurkin; Berosus; ...

neglected to ping the list, so here’s an additional link.

The Year the Global Warming Hoax Died
Canada Free Press | 9-03-07 | Alan Caruba
Posted on 09/03/2007 4:30:29 PM EDT by KarinG1
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1890611/posts


39 posted on 09/29/2007 2:06:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Wednesday, September 27, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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40 posted on 09/29/2007 2:08:42 PM PDT by RightWhale (25 degrees today. Phase state change accomplished.)
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