I have a longtime friend, Ron Marr who has a Jack Russell Terrier and in a recent commentary for Missouri Life magazine, he wrote that, "Jack doesn't believe in global warming in the least; he does not believe the recent atmospheric hellfire results from ozone holes or aerosol cans or giant leprechauns with a big magnifying glass. We share the same views on the topic and have discussed them often. Our considered opinion is that this streak of blazing nonsense stems from the fact that - to put it in scientific terms - it's summer and the sun is hot."
On July 3rd Seth Borenstein, a reporter for the Associated Press, a newswire service that has been reporting global warming lies for decades, wrote that "If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks."
It's summertime, Seth! It gets hot in the summer!
It did not take long for the high priests of global warming to proclaim the current WEATHER to be CLIMATE. There's a very big difference. Weather is what is occurring now while climate is measured in terms of centuries. It's about trends and cycles.
It surely has been a hot summer thus far. Reuters reported that "more than 2,000 temperature records have been matched or broken in the past week as a brutal heat wave baked much of the United States." The announcement was made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on July 2nd.
Meteorologist Joe Bastardi took another reporter to task for coupling the heat wave with global warming, pointing out that "The US is less than 10% of the globe" while ignoring that "Scandinavia had coldest June on record and that Australia is having a bad winter."
What we should all know by now is that the Warmists all use trickery to advance their hoax.
The simple fact is that heat waves are nothing new. In 1936 a North American heat wave was the most severe in the modern history of the continent. It occurred in the middle of the Great Depression, killing more than 5,000 Americans and desiccating vast amounts of crops. To put it in perspective, there were no home air conditioning appliances at the time. People depended on fans to circulate the air.
The sun surely is hot, but its heat - solar radiation - has not been sufficient to avoid cyclical ice ages and short term periods of intense cold because the sun itself goes through cycles of increasing and diminishing solar radiation.
There was a "Little Ice Age" that lasted between 1550 and 1850. Temperatures dropped to the point that the Thames River in England froze over and "frost fairs" were held on its surface. It was felt through Europe and parts of North America.
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, Matt Ridley noted that "Over the past million years, it has been as warm as this or warmer for less than 10% of the time, during 11 brief episodes known as interglacial periods," adding that "this warm spell is already 11,600 years old, and it must surely, in the normal course of things, come to an end."
The average length of interglacial periods is 11,500 years.
In the 1970s, prior to the global warming hoax, many scientists were convinced that a new ice age had begun. In January 2012, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Habibullo Abdusamatov, predicted that the next ice age will begin in 2014 and will last at least two centuries. Regarding the timing, he could be right. He could be wrong. One thing is sure. The Earth is overdue another ice age.
My friend, Robert W. Felix, the author of Not by Fire, But by Ice, is an expert on ice ages and magnetic reversals. It is the latter that accompanied mass extinctions such as the dinosaur's fate and many other species at the end of the Cretaceous period. In ice ages, the Earth's water doesn't disappear, it turns to ice. The current growth of the planet's glaciers is an indicator of what is actually occurring.Another indicator, of course, is the sun. On January 29, 2012, writing in the Daily Mail, a British newspaper, David Rose noted that "The supposed 'consensus' on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years."
"After emitting unusually high levels of energy throughout the 20th century, the sun is now heading towards a 'grand minimum' in its output, threatening cold summers, bitter winters, and a shortening of the season available for growing food. Solar output goes through 11-year cycles, with high numbers of sunspots seen at their peak."
"We are now at what should be the peak of what scientists call 'Cycle 24'...but sunspot numbers are running at less than half those seen during cycle peaks in the 20th century." Oddly, despite the obvious and documented effect of the sun on the planet's average temperature, there remain scientists who are unconvinced of its essential role. Only a relative few even understand the role of magnetic reversals on the planet's history.
Actually, the diminishing number of sunspots has been known for a while. In June 2010, Stuart Clark, writing in The New Scientist, observed that "For the past two years, the sunspots have mostly been missing. Their absence, the most prolonged for nearly a hundred years, has taken even seasoned sun watchers by surprise."
The obvious often catches people by surprise. The last Ice Age came on very swiftly and the next is likely to do so as well. In the meantime, the current heat wave will capture everyone's attention.
Reader Comments
Seems Seattle isn't alone, as the lows are being experienced down the Pacific coastline to Mexico, only the difference from normal isn't as wide as the rest of the country with the heat wave that doesn't stop until next week (back done to normal). Maybe it's the oceans or the mtns, but as the song says: 'Something happen here, what it is ain't exactly clear...'
We really need to move away from the juvenile, football-going mentality of "my team versus your team," okay kids. I think, perhaps, we can all agree that the weather is quite unstable, extremely changeable and unpredictable. Now, we can move on to pondering with each other why? That would be a much more useful conversation than the food fights currently going on the the cafeteria.
And, perhaps, could we not entertain the idea that there may be contributions at both the terrestrial AND extra-terrestrial levels? Gee, what a new idea. And then, perhaps, we could start to grow up and realize that OUR contribution to the problem might be something we could become empowered to do something about. After all, going inside and turning your central heating on when there is a forest fire outside isn't too smart, is it? And that's the metaphor. Which could lead us into far more interesting territory for relationship around this than the one we've got. Try something new, SOTT.
Great comment.
I am very disturbed when websites try to limit, modify or outright censor vitriolic comments, no matter how much vitriol and counter-vitriol is served up.
If I discovered Sott was doing this, I would never read it again.
I've already done this to many sites.
Let the people speak and counter-speak.
All indications are that the next ice age is right around the corner. The sun and its magnetic field, ocean circulation and jet stream activity are the controlling factors. Most likely it is the magnetic field component that has the most influence on our long term climate and ice ages.
As the field strength decreases, an increase in galactic cosmic rays will cause high altitude clouds which in turn will cool the Earth. If the sun's magnetic field gets stronger, it blocks more cosmic rays and the high altitude cloud formation decreases and we warm.
Long term world temperature records are so consistent with solar magnetic activity that to deny that there is a relationship is foolhardy. Today, we see decreases in the sun's magnetic component over the long term, so there is a strong likelihood of global cooling based on the above.
I doubt very seriously that anything we are doing will have any effect on when the next ice age will begin. But, if we could make it warmer by our activities, maybe we should start doing more of whatever it is to stave off the next ice age? No?
@ kili
Little has been said lately about the BP oil spill's effect on the Gulf Stream. One corporation effectively negated the entire regulatory agent that has controlled climate for millenia. Mainstream news of course never touched on it, but shortly after the disaster, a few climatologists were pointing out that the stream was effectively 'oiled' over and thus broken completely.... Maps were drawn and provided, and a few brave souls tried to get some attention - but alas it was too much truth to handle, and BP along with the other profit-driven corporations that tend to destroy everything in their wake couldn't allow it. We're not supposed to know.
That the break down of the Gulf Stream is keeping much of the heat right around most of the US. It make sense on a certain level, look at how warm most of the winter was here versus how cold it was in Europe. The Gulf Stream is a warm water conveyer and it its broke, we bake they freeze.