Could the global warming cycle finally be winding down?

Question

I just read an interesting piece on the Harris-Mann Climatology website they call "Long Range Weather." The site is run by Cliff Harris and Randy Mann (not Michael Mann).

They discuss a number of facts that indicate climate may have shifted to a cooling phase. They also mention Robert Felix, author of "Not by Fire, but by Ice" about a coming Ice Age!

If it is not one thing, it is another! I would much rather have global warming than another Ice Age.

http://www.longrangeweather.com/ArticleArchives/GlobalWarming.htm

Read the link and tell me what you think?

Answer 1

what global warming,did i miss something,hello,echo,oh well I'm outta here.

Answer 2

I find the article to very interesting. It seems to be a very unbiased article on climate change, which is very hard to find these days. I really liked the part where he comments on the temperature reading stations being on asphalt and how that does effect your overall reading of weather observations. I've been trying to get that across to people but some just won't listen. I wouldn't want an ice age either but if it does happen I would love to see the faces of all the pro AGW people, especially Al Gore. They'd be begging for all that CO2 back in the atmosphere to warm the planet back up again. So if we do start cooling then it ultimately means that it is a natural cycle that the earth experiences every so often for the past billions of years. I have found some really interesting articles on the sun's role in our climate. They have graphs showing the sun's output vs sea surface temps and they correlate very well. So in my opinion the sun is the driving factor and we are just mere blimps in the eyes of climate change!!

Answer 3

From Newsweek magazine: The Cooling international by utilising Peter Gwynne 28 April 1975 There are ominous warning signs that the Earth’s climate types have began to alter dramatically and that those alterations could portend a drastic decline in foodstuff production — with severe political implications for only approximately each united states of america on earth. The drop in foodstuff output ought to start rather quickly, perhaps in basic terms 10 years from now. The areas destined to experience its result are the great wheat-generating lands of Canada and the united statesS.R. in the North, alongside with countless marginally self-sufficient tropical factors — factors of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia — the place the becoming season relies upon upon the rains introduced by utilising the monsoon. The evidence in help of those predictions has now began to acquire so vastly that meteorologists are annoying-pressed to maintain up with it. In England, farmers have seen their becoming season decline by utilising approximately 2 weeks considering the fact that 1950, with a resultant average loss in grain production predicted at as much as a hundred,000 lots each year. throughout a similar time, the common temperature around the equator has risen by utilising a fragment of a level — a fragment that throughout the time of a few factors can mean drought and desolation. final April, in the main devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed greater effective than 3 hundred human beings and brought about 0.5 one billion funds’ nicely worth of injury in 13 U.S. states.

Answer 4

Here is truth about global warming:

Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.
The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.
This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.
Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is
becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).
As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).
When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.

It's been happening for millions of years.

The worrisome and brutal predictions of drastic climate effects are based on computer models, NOT CLIMATE HISTORY.
As you probably know, computer models are not the most reliable of sources, especially when used to 'predict' chaotic systems such as weather.

Global warming/cooling, AKA 'climate change':
Humans did not cause it.
Humans cannot stop it.

Answer 5

Just more anecdotal stuff from weathermen. This is typical of their "proof".

"One of our Harris-Mann Climatology clients went fishing between July 10-13 in northwestern Saskatchewan and reported "piles of ice" still on the ground in the region and temperatures close to the freezing mark."

They even haul out volcanoes, for Pete's sake.

"Global temperatures cooled rather dramatically following the massive Mt. Pinatubo eruption in June of 1991 in the Philippines. Nearly 200 years before, there was an even more dramatic global cooling associated with the eruption of Mt. Tambora in 1815, which put an incredible EIGHT TIMES more volcanic material into the upper atmosphere than the recent strong eruption of Mt. Pinatubo."

The data clearly shows we've gone far betyond the place where volcanoes are going to make more than a small dent. And only for a few years.

It baffles me why an intelligent guy such as yourself continually chooses this lightweight stuff (and I'm being charitable) over solid data and serious science from real climatologists. Have you ever actually read any of the IPCC report (not the summary)? I suggest Chapter 2. Its' quality, data, thought, and depth of analysis is overwhelming. Not to mention that it's extraordinarily well written.

Good websites for more serious scientific info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/
http://www.realclimate.org
"climate science from climate scientists"

Answer 6

I really wish some of you were around 30 years ago... back in the 70s, temps were cooler than normal, so everyone out there started shouting "The Iceage is Comming!" Now temps have swung the other way and so everyone out there is shouting "Global Warming is Comming!" Next thing you know, a frozen turd from the space station will fall to earth and everyone out there will be shouting "The Sky is Falling!"
Word of advice... Dont follow the crowd. Theyre usually lost.

Answer 7

Global warming usually lead to ice ages and global warming is just a term used to describe abrupt changes in the earth's climate usually. Global warming may not be caused by humans at all. Recent studies show the sun may be the culprit since ice caps on mars have also been melting away at large rates.

Answer 8

i shouldn't take too much notice of this. Wait until your hearing an awful lot of scientists screaming about the same thing. The problem is our climate and weather is so complex, no one really knows what is going on. So they are only really guessing by what they see at the moment. Who knows in 50 years time, we may only be able to live at the poles, we may have similar temperatures as today, or we could all be wearing snow shoes!

Answer 9

No such thing as global warming. It's a natural fluctuation in climate that has been happening for millions of years. It's just catching all of this attention because the change in climate just isn't convenient for humans anymore as we take up all the land and natural resources. It's another one of the government's schemes for trying to control how we live our lives. I'm not falling for it.

Answer 10

The current global warming is not a cycle--it is caused by human actions. And it is not whinding down, it is accelerating. And will continue to do so as long as we don't start reducing Co2 emissions.

The fact that a couble of crackpots post drivel on the web is not something anyone takes seriously.

Answer 11

That is a great article. I'm sure the global warming people will dismiss the info since it doesn't fit their point of view.