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2008-02-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age
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Posted by Fred 2008-02-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 C2CAM > HOPE DIMS FOR EARTH TO SURVIVE SUN'S DEATH. Capture a favoriiite space rock.

SOOOO, Mankind + future OWG-NWO has to either capture PLANET X, etc. and keep it in controlled orbit, or somehow send same into the Sun to recharge/refurbish the Sun's nuke reactions, and prob a goo idea to also dev STAR TREK-STYLE WARP DRIVE??? EITHER WAY NEED OWG MADONNA'S DADDY, albeit Dad may just about hurl X into the Sun anyway to show off to Mom, or to prove to Mom that Mom is a wuss whom can't cook an Eggo Waffle worth a damn.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-02-26 00:29||   2008-02-26 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 I see Niven, Pournelle, & Flynn jumping up & down shouting "Yes! Yes! Yes!".
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-02-26 02:03||   2008-02-26 02:03|| Front Page Top

#3 It's not how cold it is but how rapidly it cooled. Last January (2007) was the warmest on record. January 2008 is the coldest for 20 to 500 years. Northern hemisphere land temps fell a huge 2.4C in 12 months.

In a rational world, this would be big news, but the silence is deafening on this subject.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/jan/global.html#temp
Posted by phil_b 2008-02-26 03:30||   2008-02-26 03:30|| Front Page Top

#4 The '500' years was a typo and should have been 50.

But then again maybe it was a Fruedian slip, because the current cooling looks a lot like the start of the Little Ice Age.
Posted by phil_b 2008-02-26 03:33||   2008-02-26 03:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Or maybe Brian Aldiss was prophetic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helliconia
Posted by phil_b 2008-02-26 03:37||   2008-02-26 03:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Dang. It snowed some more last night. I've used up all my de-icing salt.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-02-26 07:42||   2008-02-26 07:42|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm not familiar with the National Post. Is this:
"In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950."
irony, or could it be genuine surprise on the part of the writers and editors?
Posted by eLarson 2008-02-26 10:06|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2008-02-26 10:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Ironic too that while watching the National socialist Geographic channel, they had a big hoopla of reducing your carbon footprint and all that other garbage. I was yelling at the TV, "C02 is plant food, you fucking morons!"

20 years from now these global warming scam artists are going to look pretty silly.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2008-02-26 13:13||   2008-02-26 13:13|| Front Page Top

#9 A single sunspot has, at last, been seen on the Sun. Alas, it has no flare activity associated with it. (it's going to stay cold)

Damn. I'm read for spring.

In other news, the local Audubon Society's climate change meeting has been canceled tonight.
Posted by Citizen of Hoth 2008-02-26 13:45||   2008-02-26 13:45|| Front Page Top

#10 #8 DarthVader: "20 years from now these global warming scam artists are going to look pretty silly."

They already look silly.
Posted by Bob">Bob  2008-02-26 16:04||   2008-02-26 16:04|| Front Page Top

#11 We have 3-ft of snow at our house N of Anchorage, Alaska in the mountains, and we have had avalanches nearby. Temps have varied from 15 below to 35 above F in a month. We are looking for carbon footprints, but the snow's too deep.
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2008-02-26 16:18||   2008-02-26 16:18|| Front Page Top

#12 Sure hope the Polar Bear made it home....
Posted by TomAnon 2008-02-26 16:18||   2008-02-26 16:18|| Front Page Top

#13 The last time it snowed this much in Chicago, there was STILL snow on the ground at my mom's birthday... at the end of April. That was in '79.
Posted by eLarson 2008-02-26 18:00|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2008-02-26 18:00|| Front Page Top

#14 Shortened the planting season for the farmers around that part of Illinois.
Posted by Procopius2k 2008-02-26 19:01||   2008-02-26 19:01|| Front Page Top

#15 Yup, P2k. Yet the Warmenistas act like a little warming is a bad thing....
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2008-02-26 19:28|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2008-02-26 19:28|| Front Page Top

#16 I agree's with all yoots and more. Heck, we've ALREADY had 2 snow storms (within a week of each other) here in Atlanta for cryin' out loud!

I can't remember the last time it's snowed here, much less twice in 1 week! We've had a few ice storms since 2000 (that's my benchmark, because that was the last really bad ice storm....funny how Bush was elected that year, tee-hee).

And, we've got a shot at some snow showers tonight. Getting down to around 23 degrees (which is bone-chilling cold for here).
Posted by BA 2008-02-26 20:06||   2008-02-26 20:06|| Front Page Top

#17 Al Gore is such a LOSER:
http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm
Posted by Darrell 2008-02-26 21:32||   2008-02-26 21:32|| Front Page Top

#18 No sunspots yet, and the sun has been blank for 17 days. For a week, one sunspot was visible prior to the spotless period, and that followed a 20-day spotless run. K7RA
Posted by KBK 2008-02-26 23:32||   2008-02-26 23:32|| Front Page Top

#19 Over the past week many, many e-mails arrived from readers with a link to an article in a daily business publication claiming that we are on the verge of another Maunder Minimum, a decades-long period of little or no sunspot activity that occurred roughly between the years 1640-1710. The article appeared with no byline, quoting Dr Kenneth Tapping of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Penticton, British Columbia; this is the observatory that supplies our daily solar flux values. But I thought the quotes sounded a little strange and not like Ken. Some readers also felt this way. As one wrote, "The article didn't quite ring true," and "I have a fairly broad scientific reading list."

I sent Ken an e-mail. He responded that this has been a difficult week for him. A few weeks ago he received a phone call from a woman who engaged him in "a long discussion involving possibilities ranging from likely to not likely." He wrote that the article promotes something that is untrue, and "in no way do I support the conclusions she assigned to me."

I think we can relax about any possible upcoming 70-year period of a quiet Sun. We cannot say that it could not happen, but in fact there is nothing unusual about the current Solar Cycle minimum, and really no known method of predicting such a period.
K7RA, 15Feb
Posted by KBK 2008-02-26 23:36||   2008-02-26 23:36|| Front Page Top

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