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2010-05-19 Science & Technology

Global Cooling Alert: Beware the Big Chill, Scientist Warns

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-05-19 11:25|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Actually, this is no great leap of intellectual prowess. In the Northern Hemisphere, climate is dominated by the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific experiences a 60 year cycle of warming and cooling called the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. You get (roughly) 30 years of cooling and 30 years of warming. We have flipped from the warm phase of the PDO to the cool phase.

But what will be different this time is what impact the sunspot cycle will play. This cycle is weak. In fact, today there are exactly zero sunspots when we should be ramping up to solar maximum. In the past when we have had weak solar cycles, we have had cooler than normal temperatures. The Maunder Minimum is the most pronounced example but the Dalton Minimum is another where two cycles were weaker than normal (though not completely missed).

It will be interesting to watch.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-05-19 12:29|| 2010-05-19 12:29|| Front Page Top

#2 has unveiled evidence for his prediction that global cooling is coming soon.

But global cooling is really caused by global warming according to algore.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-19 12:59|| 2010-05-19 12:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Someone send this to the POTUS quickly.......

Posted by armyguy 2010-05-19 13:06|| 2010-05-19 13:06|| Front Page Top

#4 We are one (and overdue) major volcanic eruption away from major food production failures.

And, nowhere on Earth is uninhabited because it is too hot, but about a fifth of the world's land area is uninhabited because it is too cold.

Posted by phil_b 2010-05-19 17:53|| 2010-05-19 17:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Lest we fergit, "LONDON FOG" OER GUAM-WESTPAC, HARBOR, + TROPICAL OCEANIA.

D *** NG IT, Guam doesn't have any "LONDON BRIDGE" to fall down, but there's still on-going scuttlebutt of a propos local MONORAIL???

* OTOH RENSE/WND.com > RUSS SCIENTIST CLAIM ON MINI-COOLING TO BEGIN AS EARLY AS 2014 > INDIR, iff true infers that ABNORMAL OR HAPHAZARD LACK OF SUNSPOTS > MAY RESULT IN SOME KIND OF SUDDEN?SOLAR IIRADIANCE/ILLUMINAT 2010-2012/13 WHICH IN TURN WILL LEAD TO SUDDEN? "GLOBAL COOLING" in 2014???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-19 18:51|| 2010-05-19 18:51|| Front Page Top

#6 "There will be twice as many people killed by extreme cold than by extreme heat, ... and global food production will suffer because of the shorter, cooler growing seasons and bad weather during harvest seasons."

The writer may think these are "stunning claims," but to the average normal person these come under the heading of "DUH!"

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-05-19 19:39|| 2010-05-19 19:39|| Front Page Top

#7 ION NEWS KERALA > US AIR FORCE PLANS TO MAKE [Space Booster] ROCKET THAT CAN FLY BACK TO BASE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-19 22:03|| 2010-05-19 22:03|| Front Page Top

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