Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Global cooling
Australia's first astronaut is worried about global cooling on account of reduced solar output:
The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years.
The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue.
Jeez. Talk about your lonely voice in the wilderness.
Regular readers of Anthony Watts' superb blog are well aware of this problem, as well as other problems with AGW dogma. It has become one of my favorite blogs.
CWCID: Glenn Reynolds.
6 Comments:
By 
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Wed Apr 23, 08:15:00 PM:
Wow. Watts' blog is astonishing. 69% of temperature monitoring stations rated at (at best) +/- 4C accuracy and over half at +/- 5C or worse (and given the maintenance disasters he catalogs, who knows...). Not exactly a clean data set.
By 
randian, at
Thu Apr 24, 03:07:00 AM:
Clean data isn't the half of it. Nearly all the reporting warming isn't from the data, it's from adjustments to the data. In my world we call that adjustment a "fudge factor", a wild-assed guess, or just plain noise. I leave the less savory adjectives to your imagination.
By randian, at
Thu Apr 24, 03:10:00 AM:
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By davod, at
Thu Apr 24, 06:09:00 AM:
I don't know why you sceptics cannot get on board. If Newt and Nancy say it is a problem then it must be so.
By JPMcT, at
Thu Apr 24, 07:41:00 PM:
What the extreme left can't do through elections and law, they do through the courts and the media. I am much more concerned about Global Stupidity than I am about Global Warming. Is it really THAT difficult to look at Al Gore and smell an ENORMOUS RAT!!!
By jj mollo, at
Thu Apr 24, 11:43:00 PM:
Actually, he's not completely alone. Some scientists writing in Scientific American pointed out a few years ago that we should be in an Ice phase now. Human activity over the last 5,000 years, however, has been keeping the climate pleasant. Their concern was that our recently extravagant increases in CO2 output not only will temporarily raise the heat to uncomfortable levels, but they can't be sustained. We are wasting CO2 that we are going to need later to see us through the glaciation cycle.
