'Forget global warming, prepare for Ice Age' (2 Viewers)

[chicky_pie]

SUNSPOT activity has not resumed up after hitting an 11-year low in March last year, raising fears that - far from warming - the globe is about to return to an Ice Age.

Astronaut and geophysicist Phil Chapman, the first Australian to become an astronaut with NASA, said pictures from the US Solar and Heliospheric Observatory showed no spots on the sun.

He said the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7C.

"This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930," Dr Chapman writes in The Australian today.

"If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over."

The Bureau of Meteorology says temperatures in Australia have been warmer than the 1960-90 average since the late 1970s, barring a couple of cooler years, and are now 0.3C higher than the long-term average.

A sunspot is a region on the sun that is cooler than the rest and appears dark.

Some scientists believe a strong solar magnetic field, when there is plenty of sunspot activity, protects the earth from cosmic rays, cutting cloud formation, but that when the field is weak - during low sunspot activity - the rays can penetrate into the lower atmosphere and cloud cover increases, cooling the surface.

But scientists from the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Bolder, Colorado published a report in 2006 that showed the sun had a negligible effect on climate change.

The researchers wrote in the journal Nature that the sun's brightness varied by only 0.07per cent over 11-year sunspot cycles, and that that was far too little to account for the rise in temperatures since the Industrial Revolution.

Dr Chapman proposes preventive, or delaying, moves to slow the cooling, such as bulldozing Siberian and Canadian snow to make it dirty and less reflective. "

My guess is that the odds are now at least 50:50 that we will see significant cooling rather than warming in coming decades," he writes.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23583382-2,00.html

In your face Al Gore & all you eco-tree huggers.

 

[HalcyonSky]

i'd prefer an ice age

 

[wuddie]

i've read somewhere before, something goes along the lines of 'the average temperature of the world has gone up by 0.6-0.8C over the last 120 years.'

can someone confirm or give us the correct stats? if that is true, we are not in any real hurry, are we?

 

[Gay Captain]

an ice age would be pretty cool

















































i'll get my coat






































a nice big warm one

 

[advanced sam]

i'd prefer an ice age

whats the difference, we will all die both ways.

 

[HalcyonSky]

whats the difference, we will all die both ways.

Penguins chilling on icebergs in sydney harbour is the difference, man.

 

[advanced sam]

Penguins chilling on icebergs in sydney harbour is the difference, man.

oh its all clear now!

 

[jb_nc]

Someone do the heat/mass balance on this, quick.

 

[chicky_pie]

i've read somewhere before, something goes along the lines of 'the average temperature of the world has gone up by 0.6-0.8C over the last 120 years.'

can someone confirm or give us the correct stats? if that is true, we are not in any real hurry, are we?

Never believe someone who says statistics were recorded since 120 years ago, technology wasn't even advanced until the 1980's lol.

 

[chicky_pie]

Penguins chilling on icebergs in sydney harbour is the difference, man.

Japanese cuisine.

 

[HalcyonSky]

Never believe someone who says statistics were recorded since 120 years ago, technology wasn't even advanced until the 1980's lol.

lol?

temperatures have been accurately recorded since the 1880's, and we have (unreliable) models that predict temperatures up to 1000-2000 years ago

 

[Kwayera]

Wooo, ENSO, fool.

He may be an astronaut and he may be a geophysicist, but that probably means he doesn't know ANYTHING about climatology and oceanography.

 

[aniqa.mowla]

Wooo, ENSO, fool.

He may be an astronaut and he may be a geophysicist, but that probably means he doesn't know ANYTHING about climatology and oceanography.

+1. I would wait for more information on this before buying this guys "50/50 chance" crap..

 

[Gay Captain]

+1. I would wait for more information on this before buying this guys "50/50 chance" crap..

actually the only 2 possibilities are either there will be global warming or an ice age

so it must be a 50/50 chance

 

[Silver Persian]

actually the only 2 possibilities are either there will be global warming or an ice age

so it must be a 50/50 chance

Maybe they'll both happen simultanouesly and cancel each other out

 

[DeathB4Life]

actually the only 2 possibilities are either there will be global warming or an ice age

so it must be a 50/50 chance

theres also a 50/50 chance you have AIDS

 

[zstar]

Global warming's a myth.

It's basically one of those Socialist lies to punish countries for success and make them feel guilty because they achieved something.

 

[lyounamu]

how the world works is that there are heating periods then cooling periods. This heating period in which we are currently in has been happening Before we were even putting out large amounts of green house admissions. I think global warming is a myth

That's true about what you said there. However, the last Ice Age which was about 12000 years ago was the last cooling period that ends all the 'period' that you are referring to.

I personally believe in global warming as statistics show. There is no doubt that our world is getting warmer & hotter since the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century that produced enormous amount of carbon dioxide.

 

[Caitlin63]

I swear it just gets colder and colder here where I live. Or I am just more sensititive to cold... but there were very very few days in the past year I have felt hot. most of the time I am freezing cold.... so *shrugs* global warming??? I know there are stats, but I'll believe it when its actually warm

 

[whatusername?]

I swear it just gets colder and colder here where I live. Or I am just more sensititive to cold... but there were very very few days in the past year I have felt hot. most of the time I am freezing cold.... so *shrugs* global warming??? I know there are stats, but I'll believe it when its actually warm

its not going to cause the formation of deserts everywhere. global "warming" refers to a slight warming of the atmosphere which results- and scientists predicted this would happen- in erratic weather patterns. this means that countries that get lots of rain will GENERALLY get too much and vice versa. that said, england wont permanently b flooded and australia wont constantly b parched. so yes, global warming will result in crazy weather, which is kinda wat we're seeing