We’ve heard this again and again. Where is it? Keep your cooling, I want it to stay warm.
Cooling is far more dangerous than warming. Think crop failures, famine, disease.
I know that this is the coolest summer I have seen since I moved to this area almost 10 years ago.
The significant message of the article is not global warming or global cooling. It is the fact the sun contributes to either by the point in the natural cycle of the sun’s solar activity. Please be patient and read through these links. Very technical: http://sharpgary.org/landscheidt.html Newsy, but full of dialog following the article by novices and experts: http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/ Other great climate links: www.climateaudit.org and www.icecap.com. One I like to lurk: www.solarcycle24.com. Read these my friend and be ignorant no more.
why would it cause drought?....I mean global warming caused drought, right?
Hear hear! The only thing worse than a “Little Ice Age” would be a "Big Ice Age". Last time that happened, most of Canada was buried under a couple of miles of ice. It probably got unseasonably cool in parts of the U.S. too.
“We’ve heard this again and again. Where is it? Keep your cooling, I want it to stay warm.”
Where is it? First of all, it’s already been cooling at an accelerating rate since 1998, if you look at data other than NOAA data which is gamed. One interesting data set is from the Argo buoys which measure ocean heat content down to 6,000 ft. The global warming folk just can’t understand why the oceans aren’t heating at all, as their models predict. ;-)
The sun is deep in a minimum, there hasn’t been a sunspot this month so far, old or new cycle. This cycle is already long and weak, and looking longer and weaker by the day. Cycle 24 (the next one) is forecast to be even longer and weaker than the current cycle by what’s considered the leading theory of internal solar mechanics. There has also been significant volcanism, and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation is switched to the cool part of the cycle. SO, I think there’ll be fairly sharp cooling over the next decade at least. I’m not signing up for this guys full agenda at this point.
Regardless, it should be fun watching algore’s head explode. =:-D
(BTW, it won’t be fun watching the famines and so forth. Global warming is mostly a good thing from humanity’s standpoint, this won’t be. Enjoy the warmth while it lasts.)
Tons more information on this topic at: icecap.us