By Alan
Caruba
Winter doesn’t officially begin until
December 21, but winter has a mind of its own as does all of nature. While the
United Nations charlatans gathered in Doha, Qatar to try to save its global
warming hoax by first calling it “climate change” and then by fashioning a
funding mechanism to transfer the wealth of developed countries to those who are
not, winter has arrived “early” around the world.
That might just have something to do
with the cooling cycle that has been active for the past sixteen years,
“inconveniently” blowing a big hole in the global warming lies we’ve been
hearing and reading since the late 1980s.
From IceAgeNow.info, a site by Robert W. Felix, the
author of a book about ice ages (the Earth has been through quite a few in its
4.5 billion years), here are some recent news
stories:
On December 1, “Heavy snowfall severs
Russia” told of “Hundreds of drivers (who) were caught by surprise in a 40km
traffic jam after an unexpected snowfall and heavy
winds.”
On November 30, “Finland snowstorm
causes blackouts” reported that “Tens of thousands of households were without
electricity on Friday as the result of a storm that dumped heavy snow across
southern Finland and sent winds gusting up to 27 meters per second, felling
trees and downing power lines.” That same day, across the former land bridge
between Russia and North America, “Fairbanks – Coldest back-to-back November on
record” was a news item what reported “The mercury hit 30 below for the first
time this winter at Fairbanks International
Airport…”
On November 29, the news was about a
“Severe snow storm hits northern Japan” during which it was “blasted by an
intense snow storm causing widespread havoc to residents of Hokkaido and
Northern Honshu.”
On November 28, “Snowfall paralyzes
life in China” was the headline of a report that “China has experienced the
biggest snowfall in 52 years. Snow caused power outages in 57 villages, brought
down thousands of trees and killed numerous domestic animals. Temperatures fell
by as much as 14 degrees below zero in some areas.”
You don’t have to be a meteorologist
to connect the dots. It is getting colder in the northern hemisphere of the
world. To those who would dismiss this, saying that Russia has always been
famous for its winters, that is the equivalent of whistling past the
graveyard.
In England, a November 29 report in
The Telegraph, reported that “Councils are gearing up for what could be
Britain’s coldest winter in 100 years, as sub-zero temperatures and snow follow
days of downpours that have devastated large parts of the country.” The Met
Office, England’s equivalent of the U.S. Weather Bureau, warned that “The
forthcoming cold snap, caused by clear skies and northerly winds, could herald
the start of a freezing winter.”
This was not unforeseen, however. In
late January 2012, the British daily, The Mail, reported that “The supposed
‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after
the release of new temperature data showing the planning has not warmed for the
past 15 years. The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice
age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the
Thames in the 17th century.”
England and much of the northern Europe and North America was gripped by a mini
ice age that lasted from 1300 to 1850.
It is no secret to climate scientists
that the sun is in what they call a “grand minimum” by way of describing
relatively few magnetic storms, also known as sun spots. Few storms means
less solar radiation and, since the sun is the primary source of heat
for the Earth that means things get colder here. This is worth keeping in mind
when the Secretary General of the United Nations or any other lying politician
or alleged scientist tells you otherwise.
In a new book worth reading, “The
Whole Story of Climate” by E. Kirsten Peters, the author brings a wealth of
knowledge to the subject from the standpoint of a geologist. As to the claim
that carbon dioxide emissions are the “cause” of a warming that is not
happening, she points out that “The fact is, if human beings had remained
hunter-gatherers throughout our entire history, never producing a single
molecule of greenhouse gases through agriculture or industry, climate today
would still be changing. It would be lurching toward higher temperatures,
crashing toward vastly colder temperatures, or at least swinging toward
something different from what has been. That’s just the nature of Earth’s
climate.”
Preceding the introduction and rise
of humans was an age known as the Pleistocene Epoch about 1.8 million years ago.
It “was not a time of only monotonous cold. In fact, it alternated between long
periods of cold—lasting roughly 100,000 years—and short periods of considerably
warming times—lasting about 10,000 years.”
We humans are the result of the
Holocene Epoch, a much more temperate, warmer period that followed the
Pleistocene and, writes Peters, “From the Earth’s point of view, the Holocene is
no different at all from other brief, warm intervals in the Pleistocene…” We are
now about 11,500 years into this warmer cycle and, if the current cooling cycle
continues and gets colder, we are knocking on the door of the next ice
age.
Nor is this a problem only for the
northern hemisphere. Southern hemisphere polar sea ice expanded in September
2012 to its greatest extent since satellites began measuring the Antarctic ice
cap in 1979.
That’s what Robert W. Felix has been
warning about in his book, “Not by Fire, But by Ice”, published initially in
2005. He’s not alone. Habibullo Abdusamatov of the Pulkovo Observatory of the
Russian Academy of Sciences predicts that there will be a sharp drop in the
temperature of the Earth starting in 2014. He’s predicting it will last about
200 years.
We are well past when the next ice
age—mini or not—should have begun and, if all the global warming charlatans are
right, we can actually THANK heightened levels of carbon dioxide for delaying
it! However, the truth is that higher or lower levels of carbon dioxide show up
centuries after any shift in the Earth’s temperature.
Just as the recent weather reports
indicate, lower temperatures, greater snowfall, and other miseries of a colder
Earth are in the future of the billions who live in the northern hemisphere.
Bundle up.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
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