So, 25 to 31 years of generally cooling temperatures muh grits:
Martin Armstrong On The Coming Mini Ice-Age
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-31/martin-armstrong-coming-mini-ice-age
… “HIGH PROBABILITY that [global temperatures] are declining for 31
years from 2015”
Time to stock up on thermals and carbon fuels...
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 09:13:25PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:37:02AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 09:18:19PM +0000, jim bell wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, November 27, 2018, 12:46:40 PM PST, Kurt Buff
> > > <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 11:33 AM jim bell <jdb10...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > >> (Full disclosure: I have a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from MIT,
> > > >> Class of 1980).
> > > >>
> > > >> While I am not sufficently convinced that, quantitatively, "global
> > > >> warming" ("climate change"), or more specifically AGW (Anthropogenic
> > > >> Global Warning) is a genuine problem, I'd say it would be
> > > >> irresponsible to not prepare for the possibility that this
> > > >> sulfur-injection protocol will be necessary, or at least useful. It
> > > >> should be quite cheap. Further, there are likely to be various
> > > >> (positive) feedback-loops associated with global warming, such as the
> > > >> thawing of permafrost, whose magnitude aren't well-understood.
> > > >>
> > > >> I suspect that the main opposition to this idea comes from people who
> > > >> see "climate change" as simply an opportunity to increase government
> > > >> control over the world. They think that they've found themselves one
> > > >> hell of a problem, but a problem which would be threatened, like
> > > >> garlic or a silver bullet, or a gold cross, to a vampire.
> > >
> > >
> > > >So, the solution to warming is smog? Really? Perhaps if injected at a
> > > high enough altitude it won't affect lungs, but it seems like SO2
> > > isn't something we want to pump into the atmosphere...
> > > Kurt
> > >
> > > Ironically, that solution will likely be correct. But to understand why,
> > > it helps to know that circulation between the lower-levels of the
> > > atmosphere (say, under 10,000 AGL (above ground level)) and the upper
> > > levels, say around 60,000 feet AGL is quite slow. SO2 injected at low
> > > levels of the atmosphere will wash out in weeks or months due to rain.
> > > SO2 injected at, say, 60,000 feet AGL will probably last for years.
> > > That SO2 will eventually diffuse downward and be lost due to rain as
> > > well, but far less SO2 will need to be added at 60,000 feet than is
> > > currently being added from ground-level sources.
> > > China's coal-fired power plants currently emit huge amounts of
> > > ground-level SO2, which could be scrubbed just like America's plants.
> > > http://www.pnas.org/content/115/27/7004 And, presumably, should be
> > > scrubbed. But only a far smaller amount of SO2, than could be scrubbed
> > > from China's coal-fired power plants would need to be released at 60,000
> > > feet AGL, each on a per-year basis, to accomplish the cooling effect
> > > required. I looked it up, maybe a year ago, and I think the comparison
> > > was 32 million tons/year v. 1 million tons/year. I hope I'm remembering
> > > it correctly.
> > >
> > > Jim Bell
> >
> > We actually want the earth to be a warm, wet greenhouse. In fact,
> > life demands as much...
>
>
> The Little Ice Age with Solar Minimum, and the only problem this
> Earth really has to worry about, right on cue:
>
>
> Martin Armstrong: Global Cooling, Not Warming, Is What We Should
> Fear Most
> https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-29/martin-armstrong-global-cooling-not-warming-what-we-should-fear-most
> https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/climate/global-cooling-not-global-warming-that-we-should-fear-the-most/
> … This is what I keep pointing out that cold is what kills society
> and creates poverty – not warming.
> The Year Without Summer: 1816
> … Beneath the snow, after weeks of severe cold, the ground was
> frozen solid to a depth of two feet. Packed ice in the road made
> the journey very hazardous.
> … John Adams: “… Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost
> the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will
> make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven,
> that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.”
