My 2008 Blog on Entry Into a Mini Ice Age

Nicer looking: http://genesnotes.blogspot.com/2008/01/oceans-glaciers-and-new-ice-age.html When tabloids announce a cooling period, suddenly everyone is interested. JANUARY 08, 2008 Oceans, glaciers, and a new ice age I visited Robert Felix' web site recently after hearing him on radio again. He is the author of Not by fire but by ice a warning that we have it all wrong, we are entering an ice age, not dangerous warming. Below is a small sample of items from his site. He is sort of a Drudge Report of climate. Felix mentioned in passing in this interview that NOAH now estimates there are 3,000,000 underwater volcanoes; he feels they are are key to ocean warming, which he accepts, in addition to solar activity. The change in the ocean leads to a change in wind patterns that could create the ice age. He also mentioned Mt. http://genesnotes.blogspot.com/2008/01/oceans-glaciers-and-new-ice-age.html glacier is increasing 18 feet per year. Shasta's are growing rapidly. Mont Blanc has doubled in four years and New Zealand's glaciers are all growing. Franz Joseph by 3 feet per DAY. Below is a link to a confusing Alaskan glaciers growth. For anyone interested in hearing "the rest of the story" his site is a good resource. He mentioned that five states just had all-time low temperatures and the TV news had a meteorologist saying it was no big deal, there is no trend here. Felix chuckled and said we should imagine what the media would report if five states reported all-time high temperatures. At some point, our mental filters start to steer us off a cliff as we look up to avoid bird poop. A sampling: 1. This year will probably set all time records for snow fall and record low temperatures: Here 2. The Ice Age is Coming! So says Zbigniew Jaworowski, world-renowned atmospheric scientist and mountaineer, who has excavated ice out of 17 glaciers on six continents in his 50-year career. The shift from warm to cool climate might have already started, says Jaworowski. See the Winter 2003-2004 issue of 21st Century Science and Technology, p. 52-65. HERE 3. Kyoto is pointless, say 60 leading scientists 4 Apr 2006 - More than 60 leading international climate-change experts ask Canada's prime minister to review Canada's global warming policies. See Kyoto Pointless 4. 19,000 American scientists have signed the following: We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind. There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth. To see who these folks are: Here 5. Sea level is not rising: Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner was interviewed by Gregory Murphy on June 6 for EIR. Dr. Mörner is the head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden. He is past president of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, and leader of the Maldives Sea Level Project. Dr. Mörner has been studying the sea level and its effects on coastal areas for some 35 years. EIR: What is the real state of the sea-level rising? Mörner: You have to look at that in a lot of different ways. ... we can see that the sea level was indeed rising, from, let us say, 1850 to 1930-40. And that rise had a rate in the order of 1 millimeter per year. Not more. 1.1 is the exact figure. That ended in 1940, and there had been no rise until 1970 ... There's no trend, absolutely no trend.... and then we go to satellite altimetry, and I will return to that. Another way of looking at what is going on is the tide gauge. Tide gauging is very complicated, because it gives different answers for wherever you are in the world. But we have to rely on geology when we interpret it. So, for example, those people in the IPCC choose Hong Kong, which has six tide gauges, and they choose the record of one, which gives 2.3 mm per year rise of sea level. Every geologist knows that that is a subsiding area. It's the compaction of sediment; it is the only record which you shouldn't use. ... Not even ignorance could be responsible for a thing like that. ...So tide gauges, you have to treat very, very carefully. Now, back to satellite altimetry. From 1992 to 2002, [the graph of the sea level] was a straight line, variability along a straight line, but absolutely no trend whatsoever. We could see those spikes: a very rapid rise, but then in half a year, they fall back again. But absolutely no trend, and to have a sea-level rise, you need a trend.... Interview: Here 6. Alaskan glaciers advance one-third mile in less than a year 17 Jul 07 - "At least three glaciers in the same bay have advanced in one year," says scientist at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks See Alaskan Glaciers Advance One-Third Mile 7. Antarctic Ice Sheet Growing Sea Levels Falling 8 Nov 06 –– Research scientists D.J. Wingham et al. analyzed satellite altimeter echoes to determine changes in volume of the Antarctic ice sheet from 1992 to 2003. This survey, in their words, "covers 85% of the East Antarctic ice sheet and 51% of the West Antarctic ice sheet," which together comprise "72% of the grounded ice sheet." They found that the ice sheet is growing at 5 ± 1 mm year-." Not only is the ice sheet growing thicker, its volume is increasing. The researchers estimate that "72% of the Antarctic ice sheet is gaining 27 ± 29 Gt year, sufficient to "lower [my' italics] global sea levels by 0.08 mm year." This net extraction of water from the global ocean, according to Wingham et al., occurs because "mass gains from accumulating snow, particularly on the Antarctic Peninsula and within East Antarctica, exceed the ice dynamic mass loss from West Antarctica." Contrary to all the horror stories one hears about rising sea levels that gobble up coastal lowlands worldwide, the real-world data suggests just the opposite effect. Reference Wingham, D.J., Shepherd, A., Muir, A. and Marshall, G.J. 2006. "Mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 364: 1627-1635. See CO2 Science site HERE 8. Dutch team uses hi tech to determine Arctic Sea Levels are falling 2mm/yr. They say they have a high degree of confidence and it is up to geophysicists to explain it. HERE ---- Of course, all these people are probably on the payroll of sourthern real estate brokers. Labels: Global cooling, ice age, not warming, sea level posted by Gene | 9:58 AM 0 Comments: Post a Comment Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom] << Home