Goodbye Global Warming

[KySongDog]

Interesting article.  Looks like we are going to freeze before we fry.


http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/11/years-global-cooling-coming-say-leading-scientists/

Updated January 11, 2010

30 Years of Global Cooling Are Coming, Leading Scientist Says

FOXNews.com

From Miami to Maine, Savannah to Seattle, America is caught in an icy grip that one of the U.N.'s top global warming proponents says could mark the beginning of a mini ice age.

December temperatures compared to average December temps recorded between 2000 and 2008. Blue points to colder than average land surface temperatures, while red indicates warmer temperatures.

From Miami to Maine, Savannah to Seattle, America is caught in an icy grip that one of the U.N.'s top global warming proponents says could mark the beginning of a mini ice age.

Oranges are freezing and millions of tropical fish are dying in Florida, and it could be just the beginning of a decades-long deep freeze, says Professor Mojib Latif, one of the world's leading climate modelers.

Latif thinks the cold snap Americans have been suffering through is only the beginning. He says we're in for 30 years of cooler temperatures -- a mini ice age, he calls it, basing his theory on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the world's oceans.

Latif, a professor at the Leibniz Institute at Germany's Kiel University and an author of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, believes the lengthy cold weather is merely a pause -- a 30-years-long blip -- in the larger cycle of global warming, which postulates that temperatures will rise rapidly over the coming years.

At a U.N. conference in September, Latif said that changes in ocean currents known as the North Atlantic Oscillation could dominate over manmade global warming for the next few decades. Latif said the fluctuations in these currents could also be responsible for much of the rise in global temperatures seen over the past 30 years.

Latif is a key member of the UN's climate research arm, which has long promoted the concept of global warming. He told the Daily Mail that "a significant share of the warming we saw from 1980 to 2000 and at earlier periods in the 20th Century was due to these cycles -- perhaps as much as 50 percent."

According to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado, the warming of the Earth since 1900 is due to natural oceanic cycles, and not man-made greenhouse gases. The agency also reports that Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007.

Many parts of the world have been suffering through record-setting snowfalls and arctic temperatures. The Midwest saw wind chills as low as 49 degrees below zero last week, while Europe saw snows so heavy that Eurostar train service and air travel were canceled across much of the continent. In Asia, Beijing was hit by its heaviest snowfall in 60 years.

[coyotehunter_1]

  Now that I've invested all my life savings in air conditioner stocks they come out with this. Anyone want to trade an a/c unit for a heater?

Global warming or the coming of a new ice age, it sounds like they can't quite make up their minds. I wonder if those "climate modelers" have ever heard of summer and winter.

Maybe we should send those fellows a few copies of Mr. Bill's Farmers’ Almanac? 

[Frogman]

Yeah,

I remember the doomsday crowd saying we were headed for the next ice age, then it was the population explosion, now we have global warming?????  Bunch of hoooey if you ask me!

Jim

[Jimmie in Ky]

I too remember the ice age bull hockey back in hte late 70's when we were having blizzards and what not every where. Then we were going to fry in our own shorts. Then we had the new millenium shake up that never happened. Now the world is going to end December 21 2012. And some jackass has decided we are going into a mini ice age for 30 years and then fry in our shorts. What about the world coming to an end before that ? 

I say we catch some of these egg heads and give 'em a grade A wedgy for old times sake. Or even better stick their PHD's up their crack sideways.  Jimmie

[FinsnFur]

I'm gonna wait till I hear something from Al Gore before I buy into this.