Scientists Increasingly Moving to Global Cooling ConcensusCritics of those who claim that man-made global warming is a serious threat to the planet and settled science frequently point to the fickleness of scientists on the issue, noting that in the 60s and 70s scientists were warning of just the opposite. It now appears the critic’s claims may have merit as a new consensus is beginning to once again return to the global cooling model.
Adherents of man-made global warming have supported the issue in a way akin to that of religious zealots, even to the point of attempting to cover up evidence that runs contrary to their beliefs or portrays it in a negative light.
Global warming has been blamed for every recent catastrophe including wildfires in America even when they have been started by human activity, Hurricane Sandy, and even for the recent rash of cold spells that have descended upon much of the world.
However, even in the midst of their support for the theory, they appear to have acknowledged there are serious issues with claiming that record cold winters are the result of global warming. In the 1990s, they frequently made calls for governments to take steps to issue regulations to curtail “global warming.” However, they now generally do not use the phrase any longer, instead calling on combating “climate change.”
It is unclear exactly how that is supposed to happen since the very definition itself means that if the weather changes from one day to the next that is climate change. However, scientists are now beginning to rethink their climate change models and are seriously discussing the possibility the earth is entering into a period of global cooling.
Environmentalist Lawrence Solomon writing in the Financial Post cites the fact that solar activity is currently decreasing at one of the fastest rates as anytime the last 10,000 years. Because of this, he says many scientists are actually reverting from the mantra of global warming and are now subscribing to the possibility of global cooling as occurring.
“Now an increasing number of scientists are swinging back to the thinking of the 1960s and 1970s,” Solomon writes. “The global cooling hypothesis may have been right after all, they say. Earth may be entering a new Little Ice Age.”
He further goes on to note that Columbia University’s George Kukla- who warned the US government about the dangers of global cooling back in 1972 claimed that global warming “always precedes an ice age… The warming we saw in the 1980s and 1990s, in other words, was expected all along, much as the calm before the storm.”
One of the public-relations problems facing man-made global warming adherents is that individuals are able to look around and see the effects of increasingly cold weather that they are able to experience personally. Europe and many parts of America have experienced record snowfalls at even later periods in the year in recent years. This causes people to ask if the alarmists are warning about the planet getting warmer, then how can they explain it getting colder.
Rather than blame man-made activity for weather change on the planet, scientists have recently begun looking at solar activity as a predictor of world climate. Data available has revealed that low solar activity has been connected with cold eras in human history, while the opposite has occurred during higher solar activity such as what happened during the recent period form the 1950s to the 1990s.
Evidence of solar activity affecting climate appeared on Mars, when a probe revealed that the planet’s icepack was also experiencing global warming and receding. This prompted skeptics of man-made global warming to mockingly say that it is amazing how our probes are now causing global warming on Mars.
Now, let's get one rhing perfectly clear: I don't have a strongly-felt opinion about either global warming or global cooling.
I am just a guy who likes to read about such things. I am aware that sea-levels are not accelerating. I am aware that the global warming crowd is vehement and that the debate is highly contentious and alos politically-charged.
I am amused that I am seeing articles such as the one above. It took me 5 seconds to google "global cooling" and find this one. There are plenty of others.
I do not pretend to know the future. I only read things.
If I stumble upon a fact such as "The Eemian Integlacial was appreciably warmer than our equivalent period in the Holocene", it makes me wonder why it was warmer and what effect did all that warming have on the prior Earth climate and ecosystems.
And since I am not afraid to google something like "global cooling" and read some of the opinion or hypothesis or factual evidence, I do so. It does not mean that I "believe" in global cooling. Nor do I have any good reason to believe in the global warming hysteria since I cannot see the evidence of accelerating sea levels.
If I read something that says that Arctic ice has declined while Antarctic ice has increased, it makes me wondeer about the reasons. And I will continue to read about the subject with interest and amusement.
But that's it. I don't really have a position staked-out on either issue - warming vs cooling - and I don't really feel like I need to have one. I simply learn a thing or two here and there and watch what happens as time marches on.
I think the Earth has been in a warming cycle over the last 30-40 years. I don't think that scientists are so inept that they cannot verify he absence of sunspots or cannot observe the Sun's polarity swap. I'm very interested to see if this has some effect on Earth's climate. I am very interested to see whether THAT all turns out to be bullshit.
But, I am just a guy who reads this stuff. That's it!
I have read a whole boatload of dire warnings about global warming - all based upon predictions and too reliant on very immature and faulty computer models. I lost a lot of respect for the IPCC a few years ago. But I promise to read their report when it comes out. And since the whole thing is interesting, I will read counter-vailing views as well.
