-Caveat Lector- GLOBALWARMING OR GLOBALONEY? THE FORGOTTEN CASE FOR GLOBAL COOLING Cooling? Global refrigeration instead of Global barbecuing? You bet. And there's a heck of a lot more solid scientific evidence that what the world is facing is the onset of a new ice age than there is behind the very fragile global warming theory. Up until the mid-Seventies there was general agreement among researchers, who studied such arcane signs of the far distant past as sedimentary deposits on the ocean floor, that sooner or later a new ice age was in the cards for this planet. Even the CIA signed on to the idea that the iceman cometh. The idea that an ice age was approaching was based on history, not hysteria -- the motivating force behind global warming studies. And what history taught paleoclimatological scientists engaged in what is known as quaternary research, is the incontrovertible fact that the earth has experienced a long series of ice ages occurring as regular as clockwork -- 100,000 years of glaciation followed by 10-to-12,000 years of interglaciation. There is, they maintained, no reason to believe that what appears to be an immutable law of nature has somehow been miraculously repealed and the cycle of glaciation and interglaciation ended. No reason, except for political expediency.
Here's a sample of the kind of thing that was being discussed back in the mid-seventies by that part of the scientific community that dealt with the geological history of climate changes: "The present interglacial interval -- which has now lasted for about 10,000 years -- represents a climatic regime that is relatively rare during the past million years, most of which has been occupied by colder, glacial regimes. Only during about 8 percent of the past 700,000 years has the earth experienced climates as warm or warmer than the present. "The penultimate interglacial age began about 125,000 years ago, and lasted for approximately 10,000 years. Similar interglacial ages -- each lasting 10,000 plus or minus 2000 years and each followed by a glacial maximum -- have occurred on the average every 100,000 years during at least the past half-million years. "During this period, fluctuations of the northern hemisphere ice sheets caused sea level variations of the order of 100 meters." (Understanding Climate Change, published by the National Academy of Sciences in 1975 -- page 181). On page 189 the question was asked: "When will the present interglacial [period] end? "Few paleoclimatoligists would dispute that the prominent warm periods (or interglacials) that have followed each of the terminations of the major glaciations have had durations of 10,000 plus or minus 2000 years. In each case, a period of considerably colder climate has followed immediately after the interglacial interval. Since about 10,000 years have passed since the onset of the present period of prominent warmth, the question naturally arises as to whether we are indeed on the brink of a period of colder climate." "The question remains unsolved." A study prepared for the 95th Congress in 1978 agreed with the National Academy of Sciences position as explained in the above-quoted study. The document Weather Modification: Programs, Problems, Policy and Potential warned: "In geological prospective, the case for cooling is strong ... If this interglacial age lasts no longer than a dozen earlier ones in the past million years, as recorded in deep sea sediments, we may reasonably suppose the world is about due to slide into the next ice age." The only question remaining is exactly when and how glaciation will begin. Remember, what we are dealing with here is historic evidence -- not a widely disputed theory as is the case with global warming. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
