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[ClearCase_guy]

“Hey! Global Warming wackos! Give it up! That game is over, man!”

[SpaceBar]

Last night on coast to coast there was a nutcase who claimed that all the mountains we see were created in about five minutes.

[familyop]

So “global warming” happened before, yet we’re here. Even southern real estate interests will survive, if they are willing to do a little real work on the side. ;-)

[BallyBill]

If they find a Zebco 202 in there, it proves I had relatives up there.

[Eye of Unk]

Image of Alien spaceship found in the lake.

[steelyourfaith]

 

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[theBuckwheat]

Note the sentence:

“That record is unique in that it seems to preserve a time of warmer temperatures called the Medieval Warm Period that happened before the Little Ice Age. “

The Little Ice Age corresponds to a period of unusually low sunspot activity called the Maunder Minimum [1], during which famines were caused by late frosts that killed food crops in New England and Europe. The point that caught my eye was that, according to this new climate record, it was overly warm just prior to that period. In the past few years, it has been warmer than normal, and just last week, it was announced that the normal cycle of sunspots has not started up, and another story in the Daily Tech[2] has a headline of “Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling” and the lede of: “Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming”.

My question: does this hint that we are headed for a similar perturbation in climate? If the sunspots don’t start up, the earth will be cooler, much cooler. If the sunspots follow the same pattern as they did in the Maunder Minimum, then we can expect the weather to also follow the same pattern: frosts, snow in July, crop failure and famine.

And this disaster cannot possibly be Bush’s fault! If the sun gives hints this is true, than it won’t be long before news sources that track sunspots will be more popular and easier to find on the net. For now, you can look at the web site of NASA’s SOHO [3]. The last solar image posted showed ZERO spots. [4]

see:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_minimum

[2] http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

[3] http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/data.html

[4] http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/sunspots/

[combat_boots]

I am certain the Midwest would be happy to ship snow to them. Especially Wisconsin, aka Alaska South.

Seriously, there’s been a whole lot of cold and snow later in the season than last year.

[aruanan]

When Loso and his colleagues used the thickness of layers (called "varves") to interpret warmth in the area of Iceberg Lake, they found that summer temperatures in that part of the state were warmer in the late 20th century than they were during the Medieval Warm Period.

Not only that, they saw that Iceberg Lake had never drained during the Medieval Warm Period. Since the catastrophic leakage in 1999, the lake has drained of meltwater every year except for 2001. With such erratic behavior after centuries of stability, Iceberg Lake might be saying that Alaska has been warmer recently than it has been in a long, long time.

Or that preceding the Medieval Warm Period was about 1000 years of much colder climate laying down so much snow and ice that a couple hundred years of warming were not sufficient to melt the glaciers enough to drain the lake. However, after a relatively brief Little Ice Age, warming continued to the point that, finally, enough ice was lost to permit the lake to drain.

[SunkenCiv]

The lake, known as Iceberg Lake to people in McCarthy, about 50 airmails to the north, had been part of the landscape for as long as people could remember... After holding water for centuries, Iceberg Lake in the Wrangell-St. Elias Mountains drained in 1999 and has lost its water every year since except 2001... each two layers of sediment-a thinner layer of fine-grained deposits that settled in winter and coarser sand forced in with summer runoff-represented a year in the life of the lake... records usually don't go back farther than the Little Ice Age, a cold period from about 1600 to 1850 when many glaciers advanced. Those glaciers plowed over most of the landscape, but Iceberg Lake seemed to have escaped the gradual assault... So instead of having a record of just the last few hundred years, the floor of Iceberg Lake held a continuous record from 1998 back to A.D. 442, a span of more than 1,500 years... When Loso and his colleagues used the thickness of layers (called "varves") to interpret warmth in the area of Iceberg Lake, they found that summer temperatures in that part of the state were warmer in the late 20th century than they were during the Medieval Warm Period.

I guess that explains why the sealevel was a few meters higher during the MWP than it is now -- wait, no it doesn't! But it explains why abandoned medieval farmsteads are found at higher altitudes and latitudes than they are today -- wait, no it doesn't! :') Thanks blam. Too bad the results will be rubber-stamped "approved" and no one else will study these varves unless they accept the interpretation of this supposed study.

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[Publius6961]

Anthropological Global Warming!!!

Wait.

There's also lake Missoula. Did the same thing, only was 10000 times bigger, and did the exact same thing (ice dams) many times over the last few million years.

... never mind...