30 years of global cooling
Loyal B2J readers know that B2 is a confirmed skeptic when it comes to the radical religious cult now known as Man-Made Global Warming (MMGW). You probably haven't heard much from acolytes of this new religion these past months because ... well ... there isn't much warming going on -- none, in fact.
Now mind you, it isn't just me -- the fold of scientific skeptics is growing larger each day, and at an alarming rate. Why? Because each day, more evidence is uncovered that points out the serious flaws in the MMGW theory.
Global temperatures decreasing
Lorne Gunter of the Canadian National Post wrote and DJ of Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler presented a revealing article which nicely sums up the latest data collected regarding sunspot and solar wind activity, global temperature trends, and historical warming cycles. Gunter reports:
...Still, the number of climate change skeptics is growing rapidly. Because a funny thing is happening to global temperatures -- they're going down, not up.
On the same day (September 5) that areas of southern Brazil were recording one of their latest winter snowfalls ever and entering what turned out to be their coldest September in a century, Brazilian meteorologist Eugenio Hackbart explained that extreme cold or snowfall events in his country have always been tied to "a negative PDO" or Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Positive PDOs -- El Ninos -- produce above-average temperatures in South America while negative ones -- La Ninas -- produce below average ones.
Dr. Hackbart also pointed out that periods of solar inactivity known as "solar minimums" magnify cold spells on his continent. So, given that August was the first month since 1913 in which no sunspot activity was recorded -- none -- and during which solar winds were at a 50-year low, he was not surprised that Brazilians were suffering (for them) a brutal cold snap. "This is no coincidence," he said as he scoffed at the notion that manmade carbon emissions had more impact than the sun and oceans on global climate.
These revelations in themselves are extremely interesting but they don't stop there. Reading on in Gunter's report we find:
Also in September, American Craig Loehle, a scientist who conducts computer modeling on global climate change, confirmed his earlier findings that the so-called Medieval Warm Period (MWP) of about 1,000 years ago did in fact exist and was even warmer than 20th-century temperatures.
Prior to the past decade of climate hysteria and Kyoto hype, the MWP was a given in the scientific community. Several hundred studies of tree rings, lake and ocean floor sediment, ice cores, and early written records of weather -- even harvest totals and censuses -- confirmed that the period from 800 AD to 1300 AD was unusually warm, particularly in Northern Europe.
Extended cooling trend
It is important to point out that MMGW cultists have always dismissed the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) because it didn't jibe with the MM part of MMGW. However, the MWP was a verifiable occurrence and therefore cannot be summarily dismissed. Read on:
Dr. Loehle's work helps end this deception.
Don Easterbrook, a geologist at Western Washington University, says, "It's practically a slam dunk that we are in for about 30 years of global cooling," as the sun enters a particularly inactive phase. His examination of warming and cooling trends over the past four centuries shows an "almost exact correlation" between climate fluctuations and solar energy received on Earth, while showing almost "no correlation at all with CO2."
If you recall, cultists warned us that this year's winter would be the warmest on record, with the Arctic Ocean thawing to the point of open surface navigation across the North Pole.
But just the reverse is happening. Northern and Southern Hemispheric zones are experiencing their coldest temperatures, earlier in their cold portions of the year, than at any time in the history of climate record keeping. In fact, many climatologists are now predicting that the next three to five years will see a marked increase in cooling -- cooling that may very well continue.
Read Gunter's article, and don't purchase those silly carbon offsets just yet.