Global Warming

[Soldier4Christ]

Here I go again…

Reflections through Pontifications
Stop Anthropogenic Solar Cooling Now!

As most scientists know, the Earth emits as much radio energy as a small star and with the advent of WiFi, Bluetooth and the iPhone, we as a society are continually emitting ever increasing amounts of electromagnetic (EM) transmissions.  These EM emissions are interacting with the solar wind, forcing it back upon itself and therefore interfering with the Sun’s ability to generate sunspots.  This is predicted by peer-reviewed models showing ever lower solar cycles in the future and is proven by the delayed start of cycle 24.

There is a scientific consensus that humanity is emitting ever larger amounts of EM radiation.  It is this radiation that is the cause of Anthropogenic Solar Cooling (ASC) - a major threat to not only the Earth, but life on Mars and Venus as well.  The science is settled as almost every solar specialist with whom I have spoken on this issue agrees with the ASC hypothesis (there is one exception to the consensus, a Leif Somebody, but we ASCer’s write him off as a skeptic, a crank and a neer’do’well).

It is only a matter of time before the Mainstream Media realizes the scope of the approaching catastrophe and headlines ASC to boost failing circulation.  This free publicity will shift priority funding away from other research and get Al Gore and Greenpeace to further publicize the threat of ASC by using it to raise huge piles of cash from the ordinary and pseudo-scientifically intimidated citizens.

We MUST stop ASC now - Turn off your cell phone, wireless router, motors, lights, generators, and all other electric devices to reduce your EM footprint and save not only all life on the Earth, but on Mars and Venus as well.

Can’t get your EM footprint any smaller?  Please visit my website and consider buying EM credits to offset your emissions.   The poor third-world people who live in harmony with nature and lack the ability to generate man-made EM waves will gladly sell their unused EM credits using my corporation as the sole broker.

[nChrist]

           ROFL!

I should have considered life on Mars before I bought my cell phone for emergencies. I'll feel guilty now if I have to use it. By the way, can we trade CARBON CREDITS FOR EM CREDITS?

[Soldier4Christ]

Sorry, carbon credits are now worthless. 

[HisDaughter]

And let me just add............

[nChrist]

       

Things are so INSANE - let's all just have a big laugh. Might was well - it couldn't hurt!

[Soldier4Christ]

Oct 6     

First significant snowfall of the season to North Cascades
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA - A STRONG PACIFIC STORM WILL USHER IN A COLDER AIR MASS ON TUESDAY AND BRING THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL OF THE SEASON TO THE NORTH CASCADES.

SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 5 INCHES ARE EXPECTED ABOVE THE 4000 FOOT LEVEL. WEST FACING SLOPES COULD RECEIVE LOCALIZED ACCUMULATIONS UP TO 8 INCHES. THE SNOW WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WEST WINDS THAT WILL MAKE TEMPERATURES FEEL AS THOUGH THEY ARE IN THE 20S.   

Unseasonably cold weather continues at Fairbanks

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK ...THE HIGH TEMPERATURE YESTERDAY AT THE FAIRBANKS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT WAS 31 DEGREES. THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THIS FALL THAT THE HIGH TEMPERATURE FAILED TO REACH THE FREEZING MARK.
 

ON AVERAGE THE DATE OF THE FIRST DAY WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE BELOW FREEZING IS OCTOBER 11TH. SO FAR THIS MONTH THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE OF 38 DEGREES WAS OBSERVED ON THE 2ND.

THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE SO FAR THIS MONTH OF 27.1 DEGREES IS 8.2

DEGREES BELOW THE 30-YEAR AVERAGE.

IT HAS BEEN THE COLDEST FIRST 5 DAYS OF THE MONTH OF OCTOBER SINCE 1992.

   
Oct 5    

23% Cooler in Nebraska During August - Nebraska had approximately 211 cooling degree days during August 2008.

The state normally has 275 cooling degree days during that month which

indicates that the weather was 23 percent cooler than normal for August.   

Snow to the Lower Cascade passes! - NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
A STRONG PACIFIC STORM COULD BRING THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL OF THE SEASON TO THE OLYMPICS AND CASCADES ON TUESDAY..

A VIGOROUS COLD FRONT WILL USHER IN A COLDER AIR MASS ACROSS THE AREA DURING THE DAY TUESDAY. BY LATE TUESDAY...THE SNOW LEVEL IS EXPECTED TO BE IN THE 3500 TO 4000 FOOT RANGE IN THE OLYMPICS AND CASCADES. PLUMMETING SNOW LEVELS COMBINED WITH STRONG...MOIST WESTERLY FLOW COULD RESULT IN 2 TO 5 INCHES OF SNOW ABOVE 4000 FEET BY LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON.

SNOQUALMIE AND STEVENS PASSES COULD SEE WET SNOW DOWN TO THE 3000 FOOT LEVEL EARLY TUESDAY EVENING. HOWEVER SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO BE LIGHT OR LESS THAN TWO INCHES BELOW THE 3500 FOOT LEVEL.

Up to two feet of snow expected in the Rockies - The Pacific storm that caused heavy rain, winds and mountain snow in the West will drop the first heavy snow of the season in the mountains of Utah and Colorado through tonight. One to three inches in the Utah mountains above 7,000 feet by Monday morning. The storm will drop up to a foot of snow above 9,000 feet in the Colorado Rockies, and up to two feet above 9,500 feet.
   

[Soldier4Christ]

Winter begins in earnest in UK


Britain on flood alert as soggy summer quickly turns to winter. The Environment Agency has issued flood warnings to 19 areas as winter began in earnest - with biting winds adding to cooling temperatures.

And forecasters say more heavy rain is set to follow the lashing the UK received over the weekend.

The depressing prediction came after four inches of rain fell in 24 hours in some parts of the country yesterday -  equivalent to a whole month's rain in a single day.

More heavy rain is expected tomorrow, with grey skies and drizzle predicted for Thursday and Friday

The heaviest rainfall fell in parts of Wales, with Capel Curig in Snowdonia recording 3.6ins yesterday.

The Midlands and South-East also had up to two inches of rain as a thick band of cloud came in from the west on Saturday night.

[nChrist]

Brothers and Sisters,

I just wanted to share some strange weather news for Oklahoma. We've had on and off thunderstorms the last two days with high winds and hail. Our storm sirens even went off last night. It's calmed down today and we had nice weather. Things like this are simply STRANGE. The farmers needed the rain, but it's just strange to have high winds and hail in October.

[Soldier4Christ]

Yes, the weather has been unusual for October. We had snow here yesterday. It was warm enough that it all melted before it hit the ground. I wouldn't call this a record of any sort but it has been a very, very long time since it has happened.

[Soldier4Christ]

Historic Snowstorm Possible
URGENT WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
   

9 Oct 08 ... MAJOR WINTER STORM TO AFFECT THE REGION TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY...

SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE NORTHEAST SLOPES OF THE MOUNTAINS…

ONE TO TWO FEET OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE ALONG THE EASTERN FOOTHILLS OF THE BIG HORN MOUNTAINS AND NEAR THE PRYOR MOUNTAINS…

THIS IS A POTENTIALLY VERY DANGEROUS STORM THAT MAY PRODUCE HISTORICAL SNOW AMOUNTS ACROSS THE AREA … THE SNOW WILL BE WET AND HEAVY... DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES ARE POSSIBLE. TRAVEL CONDITIONS COULD BECOME VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE.

At a time like this, they want to raise taxes on heating oil and gasoline?

[Soldier4Christ]

Kids Against Anthropongenic Global Warming

There’s been some discussion about the “indoctrination” of AGW theory in school systems worldwide, mostly by teachers showing Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, in schools.

As a former school trustee in my town of Chico, CA, I can vouch for the fact that AIT has been shown in some local schools, with student discussions centered around it. It is of course not on the approved curriculum, but some teachers take it upon themselves to introduce it into the classroom on their own. Since most teachers have leeway in choosing films to show to classes, unlike with textbooks, which are chosen by the school board, films generally “fly under the radar” requiring only a form approved by the school principal.

So it was with interest that I was advised of a new website, Kids Against Anthropongenic Global Warming, put together by 14 year old girl from Far North Queensland, Australia. I see it as an antithesis to the horrible website that was put together by Australia’s ABC TV network:

TV Network Tells Kids How Long Their Carbon Footprint Should Allow Them to Live

I’ve never seen a more disgusting kid-theme for “science” education than the above link. (Link purposefully left out. Can you imagine telling kids that they shouldn't live very long because they are hurting the planet, that the planet is more important than they are. These people are ones that definitely need to be kept away from kids.)

This Kids againts AGW site is done in the spirit of Krysten Byrnes, who wrote an essay that caught worldwide attention and then launched a website with more essays and ideas, this website is in it’s infancy. As we saw with Krysten, it takes courage to go against what is generally accepted by your peers at school. Unfortunately, she’s using a pseudonym, which is something I discourage with adults, since I think you should stand behind your words. But maybe this is the only way mum and dad would allow her to do it. Here’s a bit about her from her website:

    Hi, my name’s Eloise (pseudonym) and I am a 14 year old girl from Far North Queensland, Australia. My dad first informed me that the concept of Anthropogenic Global Warming was nothing but a theory presented as fact. It really started to annoy me that people would just believe what anyone *Al Gore* says, without asking for any evidence to support what was said. My dad showed me some online links and pushed me to find a conclusion myself. My conclusion: Al Gore is a hypocrite and scaremongers people into paying him to lecture without even letting himself be challenged by skeptics, people usually want to think that man is evil and imposing on the earth and most importantly that Anthropogenic Global Warming is nothing but an unproven theory. And that is the most “Inconvenient Truth”.

[nChrist]

Brothers and Sisters,

We can take a look around us and should be able to use a little common sense to see the BIG PICTURE!

Al Gore's Global Warming is a massive step toward SOCIALISM! Many of the younger people won't even understand the significance of this subject. Marx was the father of Socialism and Communism. The two are actually like two peas in a pod, but people are more apt to use the term "SOCIALISM" because it isn't feared and understood as much as the term "COMMUNISM". MANY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN THE 1900s BECAUSE THEY WERE SIMPLY INCONVENIENT FOR SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST REGIMES! In case you're wondering, Christians are inconvenient and always have been. The STATE must decide what's right and wrong - NOT GOD! The STATE must be unquestioned and obeyed WITHOUT OPPOSITION! THOSE WHO STAND UP FOR RIGHT AND AGAINST WRONG MUST BE ELIMINATED! It's really just as simple as that. To put this in the proper perspective, THE STATE IS GOD - end of story!

Brothers and Sisters, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, we are currently watching SOCIALISTS AND COMMUNISTS taking over America right under our noses. THEY EVEN BELONG TO VARIOUS SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST PARTIES THAT HAVE BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR A LONG TIME AND ARE WELL-FUNDED! Socialists are already in place in every level of government, and the TAKEOVER IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW AS YOU READ THIS! BELIEVE IT OR NOT - THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW! Sadly, it doesn't appear that it can be stopped. This would be yet another SIGN that the END DAYS are about to be ushered in. FREEDOM AND CHRIST - ESPECIALLY CHRIST - WOULD BE INCONVENIENT FOR THE GLOBAL STATE! SO, THE GLOBAL STATE WILL TRY TO ELIMINATE THESE THINGS AND OTHERS!

[Shammu]

    Hi, my name’s Eloise (pseudonym) and I am a 14 year old girl from Far North Queensland, Australia. My dad first informed me that the concept of Anthropogenic Global Warming was nothing but a theory presented as fact. It really started to annoy me that people would just believe what anyone *Al Gore* says, without asking for any evidence to support what was said. My dad showed me some online links and pushed me to find a conclusion myself. My conclusion: Al Gore is a hypocrite and scaremongers people into paying him to lecture without even letting himself be challenged by skeptics, people usually want to think that man is evil and imposing on the earth and most importantly that Anthropogenic Global Warming is nothing but an unproven theory. And that is the most “Inconvenient Truth”.

Least some of these kids are seeing the truth of Al Gore. I guess when all the facts are out......... Al Gore will find it, "An Inconvenient Truth" for himself.

[Soldier4Christ]

Boise gets earliest snow on record


11 Oct 08 – Treasure Valley shivers as winter weather makes a premature appearance. Tree branches heavy with wet, snow-covered leaves fell on power lines, causing scattered power outages. This is the earliest measurable snowfall in Boise since recordkeeping began in 1898, according to the National Weather Service. At 10 p.m., the Weather Service said 1.7 inches of snow had fallen. The previous earliest recorded snowfall was Oct. 12, 1969, when a little more than an inch fell.

Big snow flakes fell early Friday evening, turning Downtown Boise into a giant snow globe for people on their way home from work.

The snow caught many people off guard, including this bicyclist heading down Idaho Street between 8th and 9th around 5:45 p.m. Across the Treasure Valley, tree branches heavy with wet, snow-covered leaves fell on power lines, causing scattered power outages.

This is the earliest measurable snowfall in Boise since recordkeeping began in 1898, according to the National Weather Service. At 10 p.m., the Weather Service said 1.7 inches of snow had fallen. The previous earliest recorded snowfall was Oct. 12, 1969, when a little more than an inch fell. And if the snow wasn’t enough, meteorologists say winds across southwestern Idaho will average 25 to 40 mph through Saturday afternoon, with gusts up to 55 mph. Sustained winds of 30 to 40 mph are expected, which can make driving difficult.

here is also some early and record snows in Billings Montana

    A snowfall record for Oct. 11 was set in Billings yesterday.
    According the National Weather Service, Billings saw 3.1 inches of snow Friday. The old record of 2.8 inches was set in 1969.

Russ Steele reports on his Nevada County Watch blog that his first freeze came last night, about a month early. Also a hat tip to him for alerting me to this story.

Pamela Gray in comments points out this record report from the NWS:

    000
    SXUS76 KPDT 111801
    RERPDT

    RECORD EVENT REPORT
    NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
    1100 AM PDT SAT OCT 11 2008

    …NEW DAILY RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES FOR OCTOBER 11TH…

    NOTE: STATIONS MARKED WITH * INDICATE THAT THE STATION REPORTS ONCE
    PER DAY. FOR CONSISTENCY…THESE VALUES ARE CONSIDERED TO HAVE
    OCCURRED ON THE DAY THE OBSERVATION WAS TAKEN BUT MAY HAVE ACTUALLY
    OCCURRED (ESPECIALLY FOR MAX TEMPERATURE) ON THE PREVIOUS DAY.

    STATION PREVIOUS NEW RECORDS
    RECORD/YEAR RECORD BEGAN

    *JOHN DAY(CITY), OR 23 / 1990 21 1953
    MEACHAM, OR 20 / 2002 15 1948 :SINCE MID
    *MITCHELL, OR 26 / 2002 21 1949
    PENDLETON(ARPT), OR 33 / 1990 25 1934 :SINCE MID
    *PENDLETON(CITY), OR 24 / 1890 22 1890
    *PENDLETON(ES), OR 23 / 1990 18 1956
    WALLA WALLA, WA 35 / 1987 33 1949 :SINCE MID

Harbinger of a colder than normal winter perhaps.

[Soldier4Christ]

Alaska glaciers on the rebound

Two hundred years of glacial shrinkage in Alaska, and then came the winter and summer of 2007-2008.Unusually large amounts of winter snow were followed by unusually chill temperatures in June, July and August.

“In mid-June, I was surprised to see snow still at sea level in Prince William Sound,” said U.S. Geological Survey glaciologist Bruce Molnia. “On the Juneau Icefield, there was still 20 feet of new snow on the surface of the Taku Glacier in late July. At Bering Glacier, a landslide I am studying, located at about 1,500 feet elevation, did not become snow free until early August.

“In general, the weather this summer was the worst I have seen in at least 20 years.”

Never before in the history of a research project dating back to 1946 had the Juneau Icefield witnessed the kind of snow buildup that came this year. It was similar on a lot of other glaciers too.

“It’s been a long time on most glaciers where they’ve actually had positive mass balance,” Molnia said.

That’s the way a scientist says the glaciers got thicker in the middle.

Mass balance is the difference between how much snow falls every winter and how much snow fades away each summer. For most Alaska glaciers, the summer snow loss has for decades exceeded the winter snowfall.

The result has put the state’s glaciers on a long-term diet. Every year they lose the snow of the previous winter plus some of the snow from years before. And so they steadily shrink.

Since Alaska’s glacial maximum back in the 1700s, Molnia said, “I figure that we’ve lost about 15 percent of the total area.”

What might be the most notable long-term shrinkage has occurred at Glacier Bay, now the site of a national park in Southeast Alaska. When the first Russian explorers arrived in Alaska in the 1740s, there was no Glacier Bay. There was simply a wall of ice across the north side of Icy Strait.

That ice retreated to form a bay and what is now known as the Muir Glacier. And from the 1800s until now, the Muir Glacier just kept retreating and retreating and retreating. It is now back 57 miles from the entrance to the bay, said Tom Vandenberg, chief interpretative ranger at Glacier Bay.

That’s farther than the distance from glacier-free Anchorage to Girdwood, where seven glaciers overhang the valley surrounding the state’s largest ski area. The glaciers there, like the Muir and hundreds of other Alaska glaciers, have been part of the long retreat.

Overall, Molnia figures Alaska has lost 10,000 to 12,000 square kilometers of ice in the past two centuries, enough to cover an area nearly the size of Connecticut.

Molnia has just completed a major study of Alaska glaciers using satellite images and aerial photographs to catalog shrinkage. The 550-page “Glaciers of Alaska” will provide a benchmark for tracking what happens to the state’s glaciers in the future.

Climate change has led to speculation they might all disappear. Molnia isn’t sure what to expect. As far as glaciers go, he said, Alaska’s glaciers are volatile. They live life on the edge.

“What we’re talking about to (change) most of Alaska’s glaciers is a small temperature change; just a small fraction-of-a-degree change makes a big difference. It’s the mean annual temperature that’s the big thing.

“All it takes is a warm summer to have a really dramatic effect on the melting.”

Or a cool summer to shift that mass balance the other way.

One cool summer that leaves 20 feet of new snow still sitting atop glaciers come the start of the next winter is no big deal, Molnia said.

Ten summers like that?

Well, that might mark the start of something like the Little Ice Age.

During the Little Ice Age — roughly the 16th century to the 19th — Muir Glacier filled Glacier Bay and the people of Europe struggled to survive because of difficult conditions for agriculture. Some of them fled for America in the first wave of white immigration.

The Pilgrims established the Plymouth Colony in December 1620. By spring, a bitterly cold winter had played a key role in helping kill half of them. Hindered by a chilly climate, the white colonization of North America through the 1600s and 1700s was slow.

As the climate warmed from 1800 to 1900, the United States tripled in size. The windy and cold city of Chicago grew from an outpost of fewer than 4,000 in 1800 to a thriving city of more than 1.5 million at the end of that century.

The difference in temperature between the Little Ice Age and these heady days of American expansion?

About three or four degrees, Molnia said.

The difference in temperature between this summer in Anchorage — the third coldest on record — and the norm?

About three degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

Does it mean anything?

Nobody knows. Climate is constantly shifting. And even if the past year was a signal of a changing future, Molnia said, it would still take decades to make itself noticeable in Alaska’s glaciers.

Rivers of ice flow slowly. Hundreds of feet of snow would have to accumulate at higher elevations to create enough pressure to stall the current glacial retreat and start a new advance. Even if the glaciers started growing today, Molnia said, it might take up to 100 years for them to start steadily rolling back down into the valleys they’ve abandoned.

“It’s different time scales,” he said. “We’re just starting to understand.”

As strange it might seem, Alaska’s glaciers could appear to be shrinking for some time while secretly growing. Molnia said there are a few glaciers in the state now where constant snow accumulations at higher elevations are causing them to thicken even as their lower reaches follow the pattern of retreat fueled by the global warming of recent decades.