Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/21/2009 12:59:26 PM PDT by neverdem
P-Marlowe wrote: “That is because there is no way to control people’s behavior and obtain power by sounding the alarm about an advancing ice age.”
Sure there is, if you look at the “climate change” advocacy of the 1970’s, the solutions were, higher fuel taxes, discouraging private automobile ownership, windfall profits taxes on oil companies and utilities, heavy regulation of new automobile design and building construction etc. etc
Amazing how the “climate change” true believers made a sign error on the direction of temperature, but the solutions are still the same...
I guess I just don’t think like a liberal.
The earth is constantly being bombarded with cosmic rays, high-energy particles from exploding stars. The Svensmark Cosmic Ray Theory says that when these cosmic rays enter the Earth's atmosphere, they help create clouds. An active sun strengthens a magnetic shield around the earth that lets fewer cosmic rays get through. If the sun is less active, more cosmic rays get through. And the more cosmic rays, the more clouds, and the cooler global temperatures will be.Thanks neverdem.
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Thanks neverdem.The earth is constantly being bombarded with cosmic rays, high-energy particles from exploding stars. The Svensmark Cosmic Ray Theory says that when these cosmic rays enter the Earth's atmosphere, they help create clouds. An active sun strengthens a magnetic shield around the earth that lets fewer cosmic rays get through. If the sun is less active, more cosmic rays get through. And the more cosmic rays, the more clouds, and the cooler global temperatures will be.To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. |
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“sounding the alarm about an advancing ice age.”
Even if we only have a minor ice age like the Maunder Minimum, we will need a lot more fuel to keep our homes warm. Regardless of warming or cooling, we still need to get our energy consumption under better control. If we all make the effort, the government won’t need to do it for us.
Incidentally, what the heck is an opihi?
Thanks gleeaikin.
opihi — it’s pronounced “Opie High” and is an unexplained physiological response of elation to “Andy Griffith Show” reruns.
Not really, Dr. Michaels.
"Also in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro will be losing the last of its snow and ice as temperatures rise, leaving the entire continent ice-free for the first time in at least 11,000 years. The Alps, too, will be melting, releasing deadly giant landslides as thawing permafrost removes the "glue" that holds the peaks together. In the Arctic, temperatures will rise far higher than the one-degree global average, continuing the rapid decline in sea ice that scientists have already observed. This spells bad news for polar bears, walruses and ringed seals - species that are effectively pushed off the top of the planet as warming shrinks cold areas closer and closer to the pole."
"Indeed, it is the ecological effects of warming that may be most apparent at one degree. Critically, this temperature rise may wipe out the majority of the world's tropical coral reefs, devastating marine biodiversity. Most of the Great Barrier Reef will be dead."
"In the highly unlikely event that global warming deniers prove to be right, we will still have to worry about carbon dioxide, because it dissolves in the oceans and makes them more acidic. Even with relatively low emissions, large areas of the southern oceans and parts of the Pacific will within a few decades become toxic to organisms with calcium carbonate shells, for the simple reason that the acidic seawater will dissolve them. Many species of plankton - the basis of the marine food chain and essential for the sustenance of higher creatures, from mackerel to baleen whales - will be wiped out, and the more acidic seawater may be the knockout blow for what remains of the world's coral reefs. The oceans may become the new deserts as the world's temperatures reach 2C above today's."
"Two degrees may not sound like much, but it is enough to make every European summer as hot as 2003, when 30,000 people died from heatstroke. That means extreme summers will be much hotter still. As Middle East-style temperatures sweep across Europe, the death toll may reach into the hundreds of thousands. The Mediterranean area can expect six more weeks of heatwave conditions, with wildfire risk also growing. Water worries will be aggravated as the southern Med loses a fifth of its rainfall, and the tourism industry could collapse as people move north outside the zones of extreme heat."
(Which is an alternate view from Dr. Michaels soft-pedal, of course.)
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