GMan 3,569 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=332289 Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age Snow cover over North America and much of Siberia, Mongolia and China is greater than at any time since 1966. The U.S. National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) reported that many American cities and towns suffered record cold temperatures in January and early February. According to the NCDC, the average temperature in January "was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average." China is surviving its most brutal winter in a century. Temperatures in the normally balmy south were so low for so long that some middle-sized cities went days and even weeks without electricity because once power lines had toppled it was too cold or too icy to repair them. There have been so many snow and ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in the past two months that the real estate market has felt the pinch as home buyers have stayed home rather than venturing out looking for new houses. In just the first two weeks of February, Toronto received 70 cm of snow, smashing the record of 66.6 cm for the entire month set back in the pre-SUV, pre-Kyoto, pre-carbon footprint days of 1950. And remember the Arctic Sea ice? The ice we were told so hysterically last fall had melted to its "lowest levels on record? Never mind that those records only date back as far as 1972 and that there is anthropological and geological evidence of much greater melts in the past. The ice is back. Gilles Langis, a senior forecaster with the Canadian Ice Service in Ottawa, says the Arctic winter has been so severe the ice has not only recovered, it is actually 10 to 20 cm thicker in many places than at this time last year. OK, so one winter does not a climate make. It would be premature to claim an Ice Age is looming just because we have had one of our most brutal winters in decades. But if environmentalists and environment reporters can run around shrieking about the manmade destruction of the natural order every time a robin shows up on Georgian Bay two weeks early, then it is at least fair game to use this winter's weather stories to wonder whether the alarmist are being a tad premature. And it's not just anecdotal evidence that is piling up against the climate-change dogma. According to Robert Toggweiler of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University and Joellen Russell, assistant professor of biogeochemical dynamics at the University of Arizona -- two prominent climate modellers -- the computer models that show polar ice-melt cooling the oceans, stopping the circulation of warm equatorial water to northern latitudes and triggering another Ice Age (a la the movie The Day After Tomorrow) are all wrong. "We missed what was right in front of our eyes," says Prof. Russell. It's not ice melt but rather wind circulation that drives ocean currents northward from the tropics. Climate models until now have not properly accounted for the wind's effects on ocean circulation, so researchers have compensated by over-emphasizing the role of manmade warming on polar ice melt. But when Profs. Toggweiler and Russell rejigged their model to include the 40-year cycle of winds away from the equator (then back towards it again), the role of ocean currents bringing warm southern waters to the north was obvious in the current Arctic warming. Last month, Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, shrugged off manmade climate change as "a drop in the bucket." Showing that solar activity has entered an inactive phase, Prof. Sorokhtin advised people to "stock up on fur coats." He is not alone. Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon. The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850. Crops failed through killer frosts and drought. Famine, plague and war were widespread. Harbours froze, so did rivers, and trade ceased. It's way too early to claim the same is about to happen again, but then it's way too early for the hysteria of the global warmers, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokie07 11 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 [ QUOTE ] It's way too early to claim the same is about to happen again, but then it's way too early for the hysteria of the global warmers, too. [/ QUOTE ] Most insightful line in the entire article... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KINGPIN 10 Report Share Posted February 27, 2008 AL Gore is a numbhead! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandman 13 Report Share Posted February 27, 2008 The bottom line for me in the "Global Warming" arguement is that no weatherperson can positively tell me if the weather will or won't be nice enough to play golf on Saturday three weeks from now, is trying to tell me that they know, definitively KNOW, what the weather patterns will be one hundred years from now. I'm not buying it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMan 3,569 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2008 [ QUOTE ] The bottom line for me in the "Global Warming" arguement is that no weatherperson can positively tell me if the weather will or won't be nice enough to play golf on Saturday three weeks from now, is trying to tell me that they know, definitively KNOW, what the weather patterns will be one hundred years from now. I'm not buying it. [/ QUOTE ] Speaking of playing golf...how much longer is The Wood going to be open??? Not sure I want to rejoin if they're shutting down mid-summer. Talked to our buddy Hagar...he mentioned joining the PEGC...price isn't too bad...thoughts??? Or how about the BECC...we can go chill at the pool after not breaking 80... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BEAVERTAIL Report Share Posted February 27, 2008 Have you ever thought about joining Wolf Creek? 18 holes, only a 20-25 minute drive, and not expensive. If you carpool it wouldnt be bad at all. Just the greens will piss you off, always does for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMan 3,569 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2008 [ QUOTE ] Have you ever thought about joining Wolf Creek? 18 holes, only a 20-25 minute drive, and not expensive. If you carpool it wouldnt be bad at all. Just the greens will piss you off, always does for me. [/ QUOTE ] If I was going to drive 25 miles and play a course with greens that would piss me off, I'd just join Tazewell...I could cross the road and play golf after work everyday... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BEAVERTAIL Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 Well i go for all the "extra benefits". BHS72 and Turd91 know what im talking about... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandman 13 Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] The bottom line for me in the "Global Warming" arguement is that no weatherperson can positively tell me if the weather will or won't be nice enough to play golf on Saturday three weeks from now, is trying to tell me that they know, definitively KNOW, what the weather patterns will be one hundred years from now. I'm not buying it. [/ QUOTE ] Speaking of playing golf...how much longer is The Wood going to be open??? Not sure I want to rejoin if they're shutting down mid-summer. Talked to our buddy Hagar...he mentioned joining the PEGC...price isn't too bad...thoughts??? Or how about the BECC...we can go chill at the pool after not breaking 80... [/ QUOTE ] Received a letter that assured me that "Ragweed Poke & Putt" will be operating normially for 2008. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMan 3,569 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] The bottom line for me in the "Global Warming" arguement is that no weatherperson can positively tell me if the weather will or won't be nice enough to play golf on Saturday three weeks from now, is trying to tell me that they know, definitively KNOW, what the weather patterns will be one hundred years from now. I'm not buying it. [/ QUOTE ] Speaking of playing golf...how much longer is The Wood going to be open??? Not sure I want to rejoin if they're shutting down mid-summer. Talked to our buddy Hagar...he mentioned joining the PEGC...price isn't too bad...thoughts??? Or how about the BECC...we can go chill at the pool after not breaking 80... [/ QUOTE ] Received a letter that assured me that "Ragweed Poke & Putt" will be operating normially for 2008. [/ QUOTE ] Yeh, I got the same letter at the first of the year. However, according to the lastest (two weeks ago) from VDOT, they hope to complete "right of way acquisitions" by summer. That would mean that the State of VA would own whatever part of the "Weed" they are going to take for the new road. Don't know if they'll allow the golf course to continue operating after that. Who knows, I may just sell my sticks and give up the game given the other local options available to someone of my income level...LOL... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MavsRock 21 Report Share Posted February 28, 2008 All of the sudden my dismissal of man-made climate change in another post doesn't look that stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBlueAlum 12 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 [ QUOTE ] All of the sudden my dismissal of man-made climate change in another post doesn't look that stupid. [/ QUOTE ] Because of one article?? Im sure there are a dozen more that would say the exact opposite and make yo look stupid again. haha Not saying to looked stupid to begin with...that was your word. haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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