posted February 09, 2008 04:42 AM         

So you believe Global Warming is a serious issue for Mother Earth? You haven't heard of Global Cooling still, have you?

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Back in 1991, before Al Gore first shouted that the Earth was in the balance, the Danish Meteorological Institute released a study using data that went back centuries that showed that global temperatures closely tracked solar cycles.
To many, those data were convincing. Now, Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better "eyes" with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth's climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined.
And they're worried about global cooling, not warming.
Kenneth Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada's National Research Council, is among those looking at the sun for evidence of an increase in sunspot activity.
Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century.
Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle.
This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe.

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posted February 09, 2008 04:51 AM         

I have long believed that our Earth was more likely to see an Ice Age sort of phenomenon
before a heat related disaster.

I'll see if I can dig up some of the research in which I myself have read over the
last several years supporting this theory further.

I'm glad someone put this out there because it is a actual supported concern.
I Didn't think anyone else would even be a willing participant in discussion on this, LOL!

*chants: Go Moonie...Go Moonie....

Editing to add Links here:
Newsweek, April 28, 1975 - The Cooling World
Global warming can cause global cooling<-For those on the fence, LOL!

Robert W. Felix, author of Not by Fire but by Ice, maintains that we are now headed into an ice age,
and that this would be the worst possible time to restrict energy use. Felix is also the editor of www.iceagenow.com
which claims:

The next ice age could begin any day.

Next week, next month, next year, it's not a question of if, only when.
One day you'll wake up -- or you won't wake up, rather --
buried beneath nine stories of snow. It's all part of a dependable,
predictable cycle, a natural cycle that returns like clockwork every 11,500 years.

. . . And since the last ice age ended almost exactly 11,500 years ago . . .
Read The Books Reviews Here

Then Discover (Science,Technology,and The Future) Magazine
had a Story displayed on thier Front Cover in 2002 entitled: The Next Ice Age Read it Here

Oh, Another Fabulous Book
Depicting this Cold Brutality to come...

posted February 09, 2008 05:20 AM         

And...
Letter from Frederick Seitz
Research Review of Global Warming Evidence

Enclosed is a twelve-page review of information on the subject of "global warming," a petition in the form of a reply card, and a return envelope. Please consider these materials carefully.

The United States is very close to adopting an international agreement that would ration the use of energy and of technologies that depend upon coal, oil, and natural gas and some other organic compounds.

This treaty is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful.

Click here to see the rest of this letter from the past president of the National Academy of Sciences.

And...
More Than 17,000 Scientists
Protest Kyoto Accord
(As of Dec 2007, the number had climbed to 19,000 scientists)

Has everyone forgotten this? In April 1998, more than 17,000 scientists,
two-thirds of whom hold advanced academic degrees, signed a Petition against the Kyoto climate accord. The Petition urged the US government to reject the Accord, which would force drastic cuts in energy use on the United States.

In signing the Petition, the 17,000 basic and applied scientists -- an unprecedented number for this kind of document -- expressed their profound skepticism about the science underlying the Kyoto Accord. The atmospheric data simply do not support the elaborate computer-driven climate models that are being cited by the United Nations and other promoters of the Accord as "proof" of a major future warming. The covering letter enclosed with the Petition, signed by Dr. Frederick Seitz, president emeritus of Rockefeller University and a past president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, states it well:

"The treaty is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on
climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To
the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful."

"The 'silent majority' of the scientific community has at last spoken out against the hype emanating from politicians and much of the media about a 'warming catastrophe.' The Petition reflects the frustration and disgust felt by working scientists, few of whom have been previously involved in the ongoing climate debate, about the misuse of science to promote a political agenda," said Dr. Seitz.

The Petition drive was organized by Dr. Arthur Robinson, director of the Oregon Institute for Science and Medicine (Cave Junction, OR) and a vocal critic of the shaky science used to support the Kyoto Accord. It was staffed by volunteers and supported entirely by private donations, with no contributions from industry.

"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.

See the full letter and text of the Petition: http://www.oism.org/pproject/

posted February 09, 2008 09:21 AM         

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I have long believed that our Earth was more likely to see an Ice Age sort of phenomenon before a heat related disaster.

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