“Climate Change is Now More Certain Than Ever,” New Report Says

Melting sea ice is an iconic example of climate change. Image Credit: NASA

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• InLikeFlint

  Yes, change is in the works. Unfortunately, the long term changes are in the opposite direction to what we’re being told.

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  Mar 1, 2014, 2:57 am 0 Reply
• taptap

  umm i am a strong advocate for climate change. it doesnt take much logic to notice subtle cause and effect. but what we now witness is not subtle, and how anyone can deny these changes needs their head examimed. heres the next controversy to develop, as was reported this week warming should be negated due to heavy volcanic eruptions from indonesia. if this is the case and sulphur dioxides are being poured into the atmosphere at the same time all this methane and CO2 is on an unstable rise. my logic would dictate a massive and sudden cooling event. you know what they say ‘what goes up must come down’
  there is obviously a natural thermostat for the earth that works with combined tectonic plate movement and glacial melting. the displacement of water on earth carries enormous weight. this sudden change in mass from the poles to the equater, where the melted waters would eventually be forced, would cause tectonic instabilties allowing for more volcanic eruptions, in turn causing more cooling. earth indeed is a masterpiece. the question we graple with is have humans, can humans break the thermostat and cause an out of contol cooling/warming event that last for centuries? for the deniers, alot of which seem to live in the south. i have a question for you to ponder, many of you are aware of the fire ant invasion. fire ants are quite small arnt they? how could something so small cause so much change? ask that to yourself next time you survey your land and see the kind of damage that a small ant can do, then ask yourself whats different from humans and ants in that respect

  Mar 1, 2014, 9:15 am 0 Reply
  • InLikeFlint

    Climate changes all the time. In the big picture over geologic time, the Earth’s climate is dominated by a cycle of 100,000 yrs long ice ages with short, warm, 12,500 yrs long interglacial periods coming at regular intervals. This is fact and cannot be denied:

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    Now, without question we’ve seen warming since the Little Ice age ended in 1850. But, for most of the present interglacial, it was warmer than it is today. The previous link to the graph in my first post proves that.

    The Little Ice Age started in 1600. It coincided with the Maunder Minimum, which was a period of decreased sunspots on the Sun. Low sunspots equals a low solar magnetic field strength. A low solar magnetic field decreases the size and strength of the Sun’s heliosphere, which surround the entire solar system. The heliosphere shields the Earth and solar system from intergalactic cosmic rays. The weaker the field, the more cosmic rays hit the atmosphere and vice versa.

    It has been found in experiments in cloud chambers here on Earth that cosmic rays induce nucleation of water vapor into small droplets. In the atmosphere, cosmic rays do the same thing and cause high-altitude clouds. So, if the Sun’s magnetic field decreases, more clouds form due to the influence of cosmic rays. That increases the albedo of the Earth and more energy from the Sun is reflected away from the Earth and that causes a cooling effect.

    So, what we’re seeing today is a weakening of the Sun’s magnetic field. The last maximum in the solar cycle was much weaker than predicted and measurements of the Sun’s magnetic field strength of sunspots show a steady decline in strength. Soon, the solar cycle will reach the minimum again and a sunspots could get very scarce. There are predictions that we could be headed for another Maunder Minimum-type decrease in sunspots. Couple that with natural cyclic variations in our orbit and cyclic ocean current changes and we could see a strong cooling over the next 30 to 50 years.

    Is it enough to push us into a new ice age? We don’t know. But, what we do know is the present interglacial has lasted about as long as they usually last – 12,500 years. Sooner or later, the present interglacial will end. The end will come suddenly, too, by all indications.

    There is even the possibility that the end of interglacials might be influenced by periodic bombardments of comets into the inner solar system. In other words, if a comet hit the Earth, then the resulting debris injected into the upper atmosphere would cause a strong cooling effect. Couple that with a weak solar magnetic field and more clouds from cosmic rays and the Earth will NOT warm back up after the comet debris clears up. Periodic bombardments coming at the right time could be, “the straw that broke the camel’s back,” in other words.

    It looks like a series of events working synergistically together might be why we have ice ages and it is only when the Sun becomes more active with a strong magnetic field that the Earth warms up to temperatures like in the present interglacial. The warm interglacials could be caused by clearer skies due to a lack of cosmic rays and therefore more solar energy hits the surface of the Earth.

    Some of you may believe the global warming alarmists and their predictions, but the only way to break the cycle of ice ages that has any chance of succeeding is more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, either through natural or artificial means. This is a fact.

    Ignore the above information if you like, but it has more of a chance of being true than anything the global elite/New World Order crowd are promoting. Look up who started promoting “global warming” first and you’ll see it was a Rothschild. lol

    Mar 3, 2014, 7:55 am 0 Reply