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| Two New Books Confirm Global Warming Is Natural |
| 2007-01-30 |
| A nice counterpoint to the hysteria that will surely accompany the upcoming release of the newest IPCC report, which will probably say "We're doomed! Doomed, I say! (Unless, of course, you let us seize your economies and cripple them.)" Two powerful new books say today’s global warming is due not to human activity but primarily to a long, moderate solar-linked cycle. Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years, by physicist Fred Singer and economist Dennis Avery, was released just before Christmas. The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change, by Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark and former BBC science writer Nigel Calder (Icon Books), is due out in March. Singer and Avery note that most of the earth’s recent warming occurred before 1940, and thus before much human-emitted CO2. Moreover, physical evidence shows 600 moderate warmings in the earth’s last million years. The evidence ranges from ancient Nile flood records, Chinese court documents and Roman wine grapes to modern spectral analysis of polar ice cores, deep seabed sediments, and layered cave stalagmites. Unstoppable Global Warming shows the earth’s temperatures following variations in solar intensity through centuries of sunspot records, and finds cycles of sun-linked isotopes in ice and tree rings. This has been my Dad's theory for years (he's a retired telecom engineer). Sunspot activity has cycles within cycles -- more cycles than just the 11-year cycle that everybody is aware of. It's not like the sun stopped having regular cycles when humans started emitting CO2. The book cites the work of Svensmark, who says cosmic rays vary the earth’s temperatures by creating more or fewer of the low, wet clouds that cool the earth. It notes that global climate models can’t accurately register cloud effects. There's a lot that the current models can't account for. Garbage in, garbage out. The Chilling Stars relates how Svensmark’s team mimicked the chemistry of earth’s atmosphere, by putting realistic mixtures of atmospheric gases into a large reaction chamber, with ultraviolet light as a stand-in for the sun. When they turned on the UV, microscopic droplets—cloud seeds—started floating through the chamber. “We were amazed by the speed and efficiency with which the electrons [generated by cosmic rays] do their work of creating the building blocks for the cloud condensation nuclei,” says Svensmark. The Chilling Stars documents how cosmic rays amplify small changes in the sun’s irradiance fourfold, creating 1-2 degree C cycles in earth’s temperatures: Cosmic rays continually slam into the earth’s atmosphere from outer space, creating ion clusters that become seeds for small droplets of water and sulfuric acid. The droplets then form the low, wet clouds that reflect solar energy back into space. When the sun is more active, it shields the earth from some of the rays, clouds wane, and the planet warms. Lies! All lies! And they're in the pay of ExxonMobil! And the Bavarian Illluminati! /Gorebots. Unstoppable Global Warming documents the reality of a moderate, natural, 1500-year climate cycle on the earth. The Chilling Stars explains the why and how. It's only a matter of time before these guys find that their funding has dried up. |
| Posted by:Jonathan |
| #9 But, THE POLAR CAPS ARE MELTING!!! On Mars - damn that George Bush. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2007-01-30 21:37 |
| #8 The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change, by Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark and former BBC science writer Nigel Calder Poor Mr. Calder's social life has no doubt shrunk greatly now that his old colleagues are snubbing him. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-01-30 21:17 |
| #7 So is it gonna snow next week at TLH or not? Ima have yoofs that want to know. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-01-30 15:57 |
| #6 So you are saying you would rather listen to a bunch of people with the sole interest in crippling America's economy without any evidence that humans are responsible? And who the hell are you listening to about Iran's nukes? The IAEA? Sounds like you are getting bum information from two questionable sources. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-01-30 15:18 |
| #5 "The models were made for long (long in weather terms, 20daysish) term forecasting. The fact that "researchers" are using them for century long studies is ridiculous and laughable and dangerous. The data coming out is only as good and the data that went into the programming. We really don't have much of an idea on how upper atmospheric weather works. Combine that with solar cycles, unpredictable El Nino effects, butterfly farts, etc. and we have a very limited and flawed view of the planet's weather. Thus, the very limited and flawed data coming out of the computer models. " We dont have perfect info, so lets chance a catastrophe. I sure hope youre not making policy on Iranian nukes. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2007-01-30 14:45 |
| #4 Of course the Stupid Party, at the Congressional testimony, won't put any of these guys or Bjorn Stromberg on the list to testify. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2007-01-30 13:57 |
| #3 Nice try, but you can't prove that either. |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-01-30 13:51 |
| #2 It notes that global climate models canÂ’t accurately register cloud effects. The models were made for long (long in weather terms, 20daysish) term forecasting. The fact that "researchers" are using them for century long studies is ridiculous and laughable and dangerous. The data coming out is only as good and the data that went into the programming. We really don't have much of an idea on how upper atmospheric weather works. Combine that with solar cycles, unpredictable El Nino effects, butterfly farts, etc. and we have a very limited and flawed view of the planet's weather. Thus, the very limited and flawed data coming out of the computer models. Sad that this has been hijacked by the anti-capitalist forces to try another way to make their view of the world forced on everybody else. Kinda like, "Its for the Children" mantra of others. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-01-30 13:31 |
| #1 Two New Books Confirm Global Warming Is Natural Has Olympia Snowe (R-Ino) threatened the publishers yet? |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2007-01-30 13:22 |