[geocentrism] Re: Fw: Welcome to the New Ice Age

  • From: "philip madsen" <pma15027@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:59:15 +1000




               
            
              
              


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      World Temperatures according to the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction. 
Note the steep drop over the last year.
      Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of 
warming

      Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. 
China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all 
recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places 
like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of 
Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, 
Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and 
on. 
      No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has 
been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature 
tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. 
All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped 
precipitously.

      A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here.  The total amount of 
cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out 
nearly all the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's 
time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever 
recorded, either up or down. 

      Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced 
solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than 
man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time 
seems to bear that out. While the data doesn't itself disprove that carbon 
dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more 
powerful factors are now cooling it.

      Let's hope those factors stop fast. Cold is more damaging than heat. The 
mean temperature of the planet is about 54 degrees. Humans -- and most of the 
crops and animals we depend on -- prefer a temperature closer to 70. 


      Historically, the warm periods such as the Medieval Climate Optimum were 
beneficial for civilization. Corresponding cooling events such as the Little 
Ice Age, though, were uniformly bad news.

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