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September 2, 2008

Global Warming? If Only

If only global warming were real. Unfortunately, it looks like the climate is headed in the opposite direction:

The sun has reached a milestone not seen for nearly 100 years: an entire month has passed without a single visible sunspot being noted.
The event is significant as many climatologists now believe solar magnetic activity — which determines the number of sunspots — is an influencing factor for climate on earth.

An astronomer who predicted back in 2005 that sunspot activity would drop off to zero would be "secretly pleased" if his prediction came true…

But will the rest of us? In the past 1000 years, three previous such events — the Dalton, Maunder, and Spörer Minimums, have all led to rapid cooling. One was large enough to be called a "mini ice age". For a society dependent on agriculture, cold is more damaging than heat. The growing season shortens, yields drop, and the occurrence of crop-destroying frosts increases.

Too bad CO2 has at most a tiny effect on the climate. We could save ourselves some hardship by pumping out as much of it as possible.

sun
This controls the temperature, not light bulbs.

On a tip from Eoin.

Posted by Van Helsing at September 2, 2008 9:54 AM

Comments

I asked a moonbat if changing Global Warming to Climate Change was an important shift. For instance, if we are experiencing Climate Change, does that mean that cooling is a just as big a problem as warming? Since all weather is now caused by C02 and Climate Change, does it mean that whatever the weather does, there will be dire consequences?

Moonbat still unsure how to respond.

Posted by: Air2air at September 2, 2008 10:13 AM

If only there were some... natural mechanism for explaining the warming and cooling phases of the earth.

This hypothetical mechanism would have to be a massive source of energy, however. Approximately on the scale of our own Sun.

Posted by: V the K at September 2, 2008 10:14 AM

Your little "article" fails to draw connections.
Please rewrite and resubmit for a final grade, 20 points have been deducted.

Posted by: teacher at September 2, 2008 10:33 AM

All the hot air from Obama, Biden and Nancy PolPotLucy is causing Global Warming.

Posted by: Oiao at September 2, 2008 10:45 AM

"If only" indeed. Wisconsin could use a little warming. I always hope everyone buys the biggest, most gas-guzzling car they can find, the better to make the weather around here more temperate. Anything produced by Detroit should work.

Posted by: CoderInCrisis at September 2, 2008 11:19 AM

Too bad our annual CO2 emissions only account for about 0.0000066688% of our total atmosphere. China and India need to start burning a lot more fossil fuels or we will all freeze.

Posted by: maradeur at September 2, 2008 12:21 PM

Coder, I just got myself a 2008 Pontiac G8 GT. Big 6.0 liter V8, fast as hell, guzzles lots of gas and produces a lot of CO2. I'm doing what I can to help.

Posted by: Reid at September 2, 2008 3:05 PM

The left is frantic. They know this is their last stand. Either they make a clean sweep this election cycle and have total free reign to implement all their socialist agendas or people will come to their senses and go conservative.

If the latter happens, then my opinion is the left will have screeched and bullied their way into such a marginal corner that they'll never recover any credibility in the foreseeable future.

"Climate Change" indeed!

Posted by: matt at September 2, 2008 3:25 PM

But the "science" was "settled" decades ago! By a comittee which was allowed only evidence of human influence, whose reports are preceded by release of the "political" evaluation which need not reflect even such evidence as is allowed, from computer models developed by practioners of the same computer science as the moderm developer of Chaos Theory who showed models cannot work...

Well, I actually would like to lessen the outflow of CO2 from energy sources, it is not a nice thing for animals to breathe and even plants have trouble if there is too much.

But until the "alternate" sources arrive (expected to be ready to move out of the labs in about ten years and be in real production in ten more, neither of which decades is the same ten years as when I was hearing about them circa 1958) I want to do it within ten years by allowing upgrading/expansion of electrical-power grids, allowing coal plants to use "capture" technology, un-capping already-drilled wells shut down in panic mode (yes, California, I am looking at you), building nuclear plants, allowing nuclear recycling (OK, so it can be used to extract Plutonium, which is why an old SALT treaty forbade it and why Iran is being watched closely - so regulate it, with a mouthful of teeth not just gums)...

And on, and on.

Posted by: teqjack at September 2, 2008 4:37 PM

Reid: I've looked at the G8, and it's really sharp! Best Pontiac in years. Naturally, it's built in Australia...

Posted by: CoderInCrisis at September 2, 2008 5:35 PM

teqjack, unfortunately you are correct, the G8 is built in Australia, not the US. I turned in a Grand Prix GXP off lease when buying the G8. It's sad how much better the Australian-built GM car is than the US-built GM car.

Posted by: Reid at September 2, 2008 8:05 PM

Sorry, meant to address that last post to Coder.

Posted by: Reid at September 2, 2008 8:07 PM

Your little "article" fails to draw connections.
Please rewrite and resubmit for a final grade, 20 points have been deducted.

Your little "correction" contains a run-on sentence.
Please rewrite and resubmit for a final grade; 20 points have been deducted.

Posted by: nobody at September 2, 2008 10:24 PM

It is likely that summer 2008 will pass in Wisconsin without a single 90 degree day. Dang Canadians are stealing our heat!

Posted by: baldeagle390 at September 3, 2008 8:00 AM

I discovered that my sauna's temperature raised an unexplicable three degrees. I fear that Global Warming is happening in my basement. Please! Whatever must I do?

Posted by: The Right is Right at September 3, 2008 3:11 PM

This isn't my last stand. I have been working towards electric cars since 1978, and it looks like I am about to get my first one.

Small moves is all I can hope for. But the movement of dealing with our societies waste isn't ever going to stop.

If the centralized power generators get their way, we are going to be all nuclear. That means nuclear waste will stay an issue for 100 thousand years, or so.

Talk to the Indians who are running from the burst dam in Nepal, one of the threats they face is bacteria in the water killing those that don't die of starvation or drowning.

Human waste and the waste of their existance is piling up all around, with more concentrated effort on reducing the piles as much as possible.

Its ok that you guys have a place to come and bounce your silly ideas off each other, people like to think what they say matters.

And what you say here matters only to the people who read it, and from the comments it would appear many people who read these are of similar mindset as you.

Nothing like standing in an echo chamber to hear how you sound to yourself.

But I am a die hard republican who leans towards being a constitutionalist. I have always hugged trees and would like to see the polar bears rescued.

My first campaign was Goldwater, and my last one was for Ron Paul. Funny how the media blasted Dr Paul and then ommitted him wherever they could, and the idiot Rudy McRomneis of the world just giggled.

So while you all enjoy yourselves talking like informed intelligent people who really care about something, what, we don't know for sure, while the rest of us elect what we are left with, Obama.

McCain isn't going to even show and should probably offer his nomination back so we can get a republican in his place.

Who was the last republican I supported? Clinton. Nothing like economic prosperity and a surplus in the budget!

I hope all the baboons who booed all last night at the convention get their bananas while McCain speaks.

It would be just embarrassing if the world turned in to see that the USA has been overrun with chest thumping primates that escaped from their cages.

Just because we can circumnavigate the north pole for the first time in recent centuries, or millenia, doesn't mean anything.

Will someone cut and paste some tidbit that says it is getting colder in the last decade please.

Sure is cold today. Antarctic ice is getting thicker. All thermometers are near heat islands. It is getting warm on Mars. BLAH BLAH BLAH

I had tomatoes still growing in December last year, and as the plants finally died my bulbs came up in early January thinking it was spring.

Didn't they read this blog. It ain't warming up.

Posted by: Earl E at September 4, 2008 2:39 PM

North West passage open, sea level now 6 inches higher than a hundred years ago, Antarctic ice shelf breaking up, icebergs floating past New Zealand, Australian farmers wiped out by worst drought ever, 800 billion tonnes of CO2 poured into the atmosphere, melting permafrost, ... etc. etc. etc.

Sure.

No problem.

Just suppose 99% of qualified experts are right and you and Bjorn Lomborg are wrong.

Follow the money.

Occam's razor.

I'll see you eat your words within 10 years.


Alan Henderson,

http://mywitsend.co.nz/
http://www.mistywindow.com/

Posted by: Anonymous at September 5, 2008 1:24 AM