Earth may be entering a new Ice Age

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Sure feels like it. Bad news for global warming gurus, the Goreians and Suzukians.

 Why Earth may be entering a new Ice Age

All data points to the sun as the primary source of short-term and long term
climate change on Earth. While volcanic eruptions such as the current one in
Iceland can affect short-term weather conditions over a region, planetary
climate is governed by solar activity-or lack of it.

The first inkling
that something had changed with the sun was the recognition of an abnormal
sunspot cycle. Then, astronomers noted that all the planets were heating up-even
little Pluto on the outskirts of our solar system.

While climatologists
on Earth massaged the data to make it seem like man-made global warming was
real, major climate changes were occurring on Mars.

During the peak of
the global warming debate, the prestigious National Geographic Magazine
published a ground-breaking article by Habibullo Abdussamatov in 2007, "Mars
Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist
Says."

Habibullo Abdussamatov, an astrophysicist and head of space
research at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, stated
that solar activity caused the climate change on Earth and that observations of
Mars revealed the shrinking of the carbon dioxide ice caps at the Martian South
Polar region.

In that article, Abdussamatov explained: "The long-term
increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars." The scientist,
accurate in past predictions, has recently pronounced his belief that Earth will
enter a "little Ice Age: as early as 2014 and lasting as long as two centuries.
The last one occurred between 1650 and 1850 and accounted for many crop
failures, outbreaks of famines and mass migrations.

Abdussamatov
contends, "Long-term variations in the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth
are the main and principal reasons driving and defining the whole mechanism of
climatic changes from the global warmings to the Little Ice Ages to the big
glacial periods."

If his theory is true—and the International Space
Station will be testing parts of it over the next six years—then use of
hydrocarbon technology should not be diminished, but increased. Only through
technological applications in growing economies would humanity be able to "to
maintain economic growth in order to adapt to the upcoming new Little Ice Age in
the middle of the 21st century," he asserts.

Whereas global warming would
be a good thing (despite the gloomy forecasts) a mini-Ice Age could be
disastrous: growing seasons would be shortened, more energy must be extended to
stay warm, and food shortages may lead to breakouts of regional
warfare.

"Observations of the sun show that as for the increase in
temperature, carbon dioxide is not guilty." The Russian scientist is concerned
about this move towards an extending cooling period. He states, "and as for what
lies ahead in the coming decades, it is not catastrophic warming, but a global,
and very prolonged temperature drop."

If Abdussamatov's calculation is
true—and the observable and historical data seem to support it—then the
countries of the world are moving exactly in the wrong direction to deal with an
impending Ice Age. Al Gore notwithstanding, global cooling is much more
dangerous than global warming.

"The observed global warming of the
climate of the Earth is not caused by the anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse
gasses, but by extraordinarily high solar intensity that extended over virtually
the entire past century," Abdussamatov wrote. "Future decrease in global
temperature will occur even if anthropogenic ejection of carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere rises to record levels.

"Over the past decade," Abdussamatov
warns, "global temperature on the Earth has not increased; global warming has
ceased, and already there are signs of the future deep temperature drop."

http://redicecreations.com/article.php?id=13459

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You're looking at it within an infinitesimal period in earths time. Our solar system is evolving. Our sun will eventually run out of fuel. Of course it all could end for earthlings sooner should in the meantime we are hit by a giant asteroid. Same as what supposedly ended it for the dinosaurs.

The Death of the Sun
All things must end. That’s true for us, that’s true for the Earth, and that’s true for the Sun. It’s not going to happen tomorrow, but one day in the far future, the Sun will run out of fuel and end its life as a main sequence star and die.

In about 6 billion years, the Sun’s core will run out of hydrogen. When this happens, the inert helium ash built up in the core will become unstable and collapse under its own weight. This will cause the core to heat up and get denser. The Sun will grow in size and enter the red giant phase of its evolution. The expanding Sun will consume the orbits of Mercury and Venus, and probably gobble up the Earth as well. Even if the Earth survives, the intense heat from the red sun will scorch our planet and make it completely impossible for life to survive.

When Will the Sun Burn Out?
Once it has become a red giant, the Sun’s death is just around the corner. It’ll still have enough heat and pressure at its core to begin a second stage of fusion, burning helium this time to form carbon. This phase will last for about 100 million years until this source of fuel is exhausted. Finally, the shell of helium becomes unstable causing the Sun to pulse violently. It will blow off a large fraction of its atmosphere into space over the course of several pulses.

When the Sun has blasted off its outer layers, all that will remain will be central core of carbon. In fact, it will be an Earth sized diamond with the mass of a star. This is a white dwarf, and it will still be hot enough to shine with thermal radiation. But it’s no longer generating solar fusion, and so it will slowly cool down until it becomes the same temperature as the rest of the Universe; just a few degrees above absolute zero. This will take about a trillion years to happen.

The Sun’s death will be complete.

http://www.universetoday.com/18847/life-of-the-sun/

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Even though it's been colder here than the past number of years, it's still balmy really, nothing like what I would call a "regular" winter.

Drought, state-of-emergency in California. Hottest summer ever in Australia.

Sounds more like the furnace age.

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How did you go to distant catastrophe of the sun from the reality of humans effect on the planet's climate changes?

I can only say.........

[valve37]

You missed the point. It's not going to happen over night. A dying sun will gradually cool planet earth. The mini ice age will help us adapt to what's to follow. But inevitably it will be lights out! Art knows it why not you. 

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There are two thoughts about the universe.

One is that there is other life out there and the other one is we are the only life.

Both are very scary to contemplate.

Right now I'm just waiting for spring to arrive. I'll worry about the Sun and the apocalypse, maybe next week.

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Well if you dare. One way trips to Mars are planned starting in 2024. Why not be one of the first four going and be a hero.

Keep in mind though it's a one way expedition but what a blast. Bye!

https://www.mars-one.com/

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I checked my calendar and I'm booked that year....but I picked an alternate......

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Until blast off time in 2024 I'm happy to remain your PM!

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This alert was sent to me by a email pal in Southern Cal.

Please remember, now that it’s winter, animals seek out the heat of vehicles to stay warm. Before starting your car, please check around the wheels and engine for these cold animals. You may not even notice they are there.

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[rose-dee]

Leaving the "death of the sun" worry for another day, it's important to understand the phrase "global warming" as a convenient label assigned by climatologists and other scientists to a vast and complex array of phenomenon, the "global" portion of the description being the key. 

The earth's atmosphere and weather systems are not divided up into static parts, or even hemispheres.  Each is affected by the others in complicated ways, but balance is the salient feature.  Local weather, or even hemispherical weather, as we experience it, is the system's dynamic attempt to balance other forces.  I'm not suggesting any sort of intelligence or deliberateness, just the application of a basic law of physics on a large and very complex scale. 

This means that a particular annual vagary in what has become the expected norm for winter in Canada, is more likely connected to what may be going on in Europe, Asia, Africa or even in the southern hemisphere than a hocus-pocus theory about variations in sunspots, solar flares, etc.  Those variations have been observed by astronomers for centuries, yet overall, the earth's mean temperatures have been rising in the past 50 or 60 years.  This is a measurable fact. 

There is also the easily measurable fact of increased carbon content in our atmosphere.  That increase is not a stable, moderate percentage, but has been accelerating over the past 50 years.  In addition, we have the phenomenon of the shrinking polar ice -- easily verifiable by overhead photography.  It exists before our eyes, there is no denying that it is happening, and that it too has been accelerating.  Increasingly, even Antarctic ice has been found to be receding -- areas of land are beginning to be exposed that were never seen before. 

Is it a mere coincidence that the two phenomena of melting ice caps and increasing carbon in the atmosphere are linked?  I think not.  And I believe any serious person will recognize that a problem exists that has occurred specifically in the past 50 years.  For the first time in human history we have the ability to track and record these phenomena carefully and scientifically.  The fact of acceleration is the key.  What else is accelerating, and has been doing so for the past 50 years, that is known scientifically to act as an atmospheric "blanket"?  CO2 of course.

A large polar ice cap will reflect more light out into space, producing more of a cooling effect.  This is easy math: a smaller ice cap = less reflected light = more retained energy (heat) in the global weather system.  Add the CO2 and you have a potent mix. 

There is another factor in this scenario, and that is the addition of all that ice in the form of liquid water.  Not only could it cause ocean levels to rise (they are rising measurably, although controversy goes on over how much how soon), but more importantly, all that water added to an already complex climate system will mean more of everything: more energy in the system, larger and more violent storms, more wind, more unstable weather -- period.  This is because H2O, in its liquid or evaporated gaseous form, is so much more unstable, volatile and convertible to its other forms than is solid ice. 

So instability on one side of the equation in one area will create the necessity (if you have any belief in physics whatsoever) for that energy to be balanced on another.  And so on, all over the planet.  The more and more of this energetic and unstable substance we have circulating in the atmosphere (keeping in mind that water is constantly evaporating up and falling down), the more activity there will be all over the planet.  Add ocean currents and high-level winds like the jet stream to the mix, and "Storms of the Century" and the balancing "Droughts of the Century" are going to become the norm. 

We saw this cycle in action this winter.  Stubbornly frigid temperatures over Canada and the northern US, with a lot more snow than usual, and overly-warm temperatures all winter in Great Britain, with attendant floods.  Next year it may be reversed, but our cold winter this year is most definitely not the harbinger of a coming "mini ice-age".  That would require all the water released from the polar ice caps in the last 50 years to be returned to its place, and those ice caps to increase in size beyond their original coverage, reflecting more light away from Earth and tying up more of the atmospheric H2O which moderates the global temperature ranges. 

The bottom line: man's activities are affecting the entire planetary climate system.  The eventual outcome of this no one can probably predict accurately, except to say that there is a clear correlation between the acceleration of mankind's pumping of CO2 into the atmosphere and the acceleration of certain measurable phenomena, like the shrinking ice caps and the changing proportions of atmospheric gases. 

By the way -- Mars' ice cap has long been observed to shrink and grow in cycles, and those observations have been going on for well over 100 years.  It has nothing to do with the sun, but with Mars' relative position in its orbit and its axis.  The ice cap on Mars moreover is far thinner and more ephemeral than Earth's, and Mars' atmosphere, such as it is, does not have the capacity to hold heat the way the Earth's does.   

I would be extremely skeptical about a Russian scientist claiming influences outside those on Earth in the face of clear scientific data elsewhere -- don't forget that those scientists who support Russia's race to ramp up its industrialization and ignore CO2 issues are probably being well rewarded for their loyalty to the state.

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"Sounds more like the furnace age."

Yes, looks like we need to turn them up. So much for the latest climate change report.   

Arctic snap will ice Northern states, whipped down by 'bomb cyclone'

(CNN) -- The ice man cometh. And does so early this year, after a former Pacific typhoon flew up toward the Arctic and rammed the jet stream.

The stream has whipped south, dragging down frigid air from Canada over the northern Plains and Mountain States and the Upper Midwest, according to the National Weather Service.

It is already plunging temperatures below freezing there and will hammer them into the teens and single digits in many places by midweek, even lower in others.

Great Falls, Montana, will shiver at 9 below zero on Tuesday night.

It's the coldest weather of the season, the weather service said.

States expecting snow this week

What is the polar vortex?

Minneapolis could soon get a foot of snow, the service said, with the Minnesota city experiencing below-freezing temperatures that could last for eight days.

Let it snow

The snap is forecast to lay down the first broad layer of wintry snow, flurries, sleet or ice -- long before winter starts -- from Montana down to Nebraska and over to Wisconsin.

It will accumulate in inches in the northern Rockies, northern Plains and Great Lakes.

People farther south will also shiver. "Much of the nation east of the Rockies is expected to see a major pattern change by the beginning of the work week," the weather service said.

The western Dakotas are also forecast to get significant snow.

Lows will drop to freezing in Kansas City late Monday, then into the 20s a night later. The snap will stop short, leaving much of the Deep South and Southwest in a fall-like warm zone.

Rain is expected to hit Chicago and Milwaukee on Monday and Tuesday, with a few snowflakes mixed in, according to the service on Sunday afternoon.

Courtesy of Nuri

Residents in the northern United States can thank a whopping tropical cyclone in the Pacific Ocean for the wintry blast.

The remnants of super Typhoon Nuri rolled up north over Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Friday, kicking off the ripple of Arctic air in the other direction.

Nuri is now the strongest known Northern Pacific cyclone on record, according to the National Weather Service Ocean Prediction Center.

Its remnants plowed into cold air adding violent energy as it went north, similar to what Superstorm Sandy did in the Atlantic two years ago.

That earned it the weather moniker "bomb cyclone.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/09/us/cold-snap/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

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2014 still on track to be the hottest year globally ever in recorded history. Already 4 months individually confirmed as the hottest ones ever.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/september-2014-was-the-hottest-on-record-1.2806174

There was a lot of talk all over a few days ago about how warm a Halloween it was. So a few days later there's a cold snap and apparently it's just so remarkable to have cold weather in November that climate change deniers are posting on social media about it.

When you have four months (Oct was warm too - don't know if it's been calculated yet)  in a year hitting all-time high temperatures, as well as several years out of the past ten among the all-time highs, you know you have a serious trend.

We still don't really know for sure how global warming will present itself. But it seems like extreme weather events are becoming frequent and more severe. It doesn't take much imagination to think of what kind of more urgent wake up calls could lay in store for us.

We have no way of knowing if or whether any particular event will lead to an accelerating domino effect. Like for example we get a heat spell lasting two or three years and half the permafrost in the Arctic melts, resulting in a sudden jump in co2 levels that sends climate into a irreversible cycle of frenzied weather events. I guess scientists are trying to model these scenarios but it really must be a **bleep** shoot.

Who knows, maybe it could even be biological events that spiral out of control into some kind of catastrophic wake up call.

The cost of attempting to seriously moderate our behaviour would be peanuts compared to the potential costs of weather wreaking havoc if we don't get this thing under control. And, if we were smart, the country (and the world) could get a lot of other benefits out of transitioning to a more sustainable energy supply.

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Pretty nice hoody weather outside here today too for Nov 10.

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2014 still on track to be the hottest year globally ever in recorded history

Recorded history is like  one drop of rain the pacific ocean.

Global warming is very big business.   

Many people are becoming rich over their "reduce global warming"  schemes.

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Many people are becoming rich over their "reduce global warming"  schemes.

They're also getting rich off of 1000s of different kinds of colored sweetened water sold in stores, hundreds of different sorts of "body wash" and purses that cost in the $10,000s. Who really cares? The cash goes from one crook's greedy paws to another. big deal.

If we can bring the co2 levels in the atmosphere under control and at the same time clean up the air we breathe and the water we drink what harm can come from that? I don't see a problem. If it was sure that co2 had no global warming effect it would still be a good idea to clean up our act. However according to science it is close-to-sure that human activities are adding co2 to the atmosphere and contributing to global warming. So where is the logic in doing nothing?

Recorded history is like  one drop of rain the pacific ocean.

Yes we happen to be most concerned (for some reason) about the part of time immemorial that falls within human recorded history!

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Oh no those poor polar bears are going to have to go back on the ice!

Arctic Ice Cap Grows Same Year Al Gore Predicted It Would Disappear, Networks Ignore

The same year that former Vice President Al Gore predicted that the Arctic sea ice could be completely gone, Arctic ice reached its highest level in two years, according to a report by the Danish Meteorological Institute.

According to that report, which was cited by the Daily Mail (UK) on Aug. 30, “[t]he Arctic ice cap has expanded for the second year in a row.” The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) confirmed this trend, but didn’t go into as much detail as the Danish Meteorological Institute.

But an examination of ABC, CBS and NBC news programs since the Daily Mail story was published found that all three networks ignored news that Arctic sea ice was at a two-year high.

Yet, the broadcast networks have spent years promoting Gore’s environmental agenda. On Jan. 29, 2013, on NBC “Today,” host Matt Lauer asked Gore, “After years of calling people’s attention to this issue, and now we’ve seen Superstorm Sandy and tornadoes and drought and extreme temperatures, do you feel vindicated?”

In his Dec. 10, 2007 Nobel Prize speech, Gore said “Last September 21, as the Northern Hemisphere tilted away from the sun, scientists reported with unprecedented distress that the North Polar ice cap is "falling off a cliff." One study estimated that it could be completely gone during summer in less than 22 years. Another new study, to be presented by U.S. Navy researchers later this week, warns it could happen in as little as 7 years.”

Meanwhile, the Antarctic Ice cap has been steadily increasing. However, climate alarmists dismiss this increase as actually being caused by warming temperatures.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mike-ciandella/2014/09/02/arctic-ice-cap-grows-same-year-al-gore-predic...

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It's not a " may be entering a new Ice Age" step outside this morning for a walk, it's already here!

 Early harsh winter weather in West 'roars' into Ontario, Quebec

Environment Canada has issued weather warnings for much of northeastern Ontario

The early taste of harsh winter weather that has gripped Western Canada begins its move into Ontario and Quebec today, bringing snow and frigid temperatures.

While skies will clear over Alberta and Saskatchewan on Wednesday, Edmonton and Calgary will remain frozen with forecast highs of –13 C and –14 C, respectively.

Regina and Saskatoon will get some light snow and highs of –10 C and –11 C, respectively. Normal temperatures for the region could be more like 0 C.

Mae Madison, 9, bundles up before sledding down Peets Hill in Bozeman, Mont., on Tuesday. U.S. forecasters warn that the cold will linger. (Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez/Associated Press)

Across northern Ontario, snow began falling last night in places such as Timmins and Kapuskasing. Chapleau recorded 32 centimetres.

"Winter storm and snowfall warnings do remain in effect … from Chapleau to Moosonee, and freezing rain warnings are still in place this morning in central Quebec from Matagami east to Saguenay," CBC meteorologist Jay Scotland said Wednesday.

Environment Canada has issued weather warnings for much of northeastern Ontario.

The agency has issued a winter storm warning for Timmins, Sault Ste. Marie, Kirkland Lake and Moosonee.

"Lake effect snow will be an issue today as cold air roars across the [Great Lakes], and a snow squall warning is in effect for eastern Superior (Sault Ste. Marie)," Scotland said.

Snow-covered horses graze a pasture near Cremona, Alta., on Sunday during the first heavy snowfall of the season. (Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press)

Parts of southern Ontario will see snow squalls from the Bruce Peninsula through Parry Sound to western sections of Algonquin Park.

In Toronto, temperatures will hover just above freezing, with a chance of flurries on Thursday and Friday.

"In southern Quebec, Montreal will also see some rain this morning (with gusty winds) but it dries out this afternoon with a high of 9 C, Scotland reported.

The Maritime provinces will get showers and some freezing drizzle, making for risky driving conditions.

In Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's will get a mix of sun and cloud with a high of 3 C.

Chilly Appalachians

In the U.S., the arctic chill that has gripped the Upper Midwest and Rockies is spreading.

As much as a metre of snow blanketed parts of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, while up to 46 centimetres fell in northern Wisconsin, and parts of central Minnesota saw more than 41 cm.

The chill was expected to hit the Appalachians and mid-South by Wednesday morning, and the East Coast by Thursday.

In the Texas Panhandle, temperatures plunged from 21 C to below 10 C. Oklahoma City went from a high of 26.7 C Monday to a low of –1 C Tuesday morning.

In the Dakotas, wind chills made it feel like –29 C below in some places.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/early-harsh-winter-weather-in-west-roars-into-ontario-quebec-1.2832133

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It's not a " may be entering a new Ice Age" for seein is believin!

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2014/11/17/early-winter-weather-impact-forecast.cnn&hpt=hp_c2&fr...

And that video is covering the US. Canada is the new Artic!

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Hullet marsh Nov 15th, bagged 4 mallards and a Canada goose, seasons over due to climate change.