Sounds scary. But why are sea ice levels still reported to be so low in the arctic if it's getting colder? Why is NOAA saying this July was the 9th warmest globally on record? http://www.noaa.gov/stories2008/20080815_ncdc.html What do sunspots have to do with global climate? Noctilucent clouds not forming? Do they matter? I know there's some coincidence between low sunspot cycles and colder climate, but how good is that circumstantial data? Better than the data associating warming with human greenhouse gas output?
One thing is very certain: we do not have any possibility of predicting a global 'trend' either way in the absence of any real handle on the actual causes of such trends. That otherwise rational people have concluded that human activity is a significant climate change driver based on untenable models and theories is very sad, especially when false 'solutions' are proposed, even demanded and *legislated*, right at the time when real solutions such as you mention below are actually called for. I wouldn't want to repeat that mistake with sunspots or anything else until we really know what we're talking about. What might look like blood in the water could really just be an algae bloom due to global warming.<g> But you're right when you imply that dealing with climate change means preparing for it, not making foolish attempts to mitigate it. I posted here before why it's absolutely certain that the models and notions about anthropogenic global warming are totally nonsense (not false per se, simply nonsense as in completely detached from reality). At the same time everyone can see that the climate is always changing. You either have the courage to accept science despite social and political pressures, or flee to your comforting illusions and stick your head right up where NOAA must be putting their thermometers. Since the faith based AGW movement has apparently become a government favored and sanctioned religion in violation of our Constitution, I'm inclined to engage in civil disobedience with regard to any laws or regulations based on that religion, and to oppose the activities of its zealots with appropriate actions of my own. C'mon you alternative thinkers here, join the revolution. Cells of resistance are popping up all over. Free beer while it lasts. - Comrade Rick-0 -----Original Message----- From: Michael Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 6:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Vo]:Sunspotless Could a significant global cooling effect be taking place.? I notice there is a deafening silence from Pope Algore and his Church of Global Warming on this subject. It would be very inconvenient for the selling of carbon indulgences, oops... that's offsets. Nothing is made of the fact that 2007 saw the largest one year drop in average global temperature in recorded history. Didn't hear about that did you? Almost everyone who lives on the real earth, rather that the computer climate model earth, has noticed that it's been a lot cooler lately. Where I live in southern California, winter before last winter was the coldest since 1948, but of course nothing was made of that in the news. I lost 500 feet of ficus hedge because it froze to death. There was a massive die-out of native plant species in the canyons near my home as well, all frozen. The fast dancing and circumlocutory nonsense spewing forth from the Global Warming Priesthood grasping for some explanation are becoming both shrill and comical. The real reason for climate changes, solar activity, is showing us something quite the opposite of Algore's dreamworld. You know, that's the one where all of us ride bicycles and starve to death, while Algore flies about in his Gulfstream and has a special lane on the road for his fleet of SUVs while he grows ever fatter. Anyone else notice he's begun to resemble a fat Bela Lugosi? There has been a total lack of sunspots for a month. This is not good news, either for real people or Algore. This normally indicates a significant colder period on the earth, or even an ice age. We need to get really serious about energy supplies, both conventional and new, especially the new ones. We also need to quit whining about genetically modified crops. If there is a long term colder climate, agricultural output will plummet. More energy and higher crop yields in a shorter growing season will be essential to prevent the starvation of millions or even billions. Here is a link to the observations about the lack of sunspots: http://www.dailytech.com/Sun+Makes+History+First+Spotless+Month+in+a+Century /article12823.htm http://tinyurl.com/562srq M.
