Global Warming

[Soldier4Christ]

I hope that everybody has laid in a good supply of woolies.

[nChrist]

I hope that everybody has laid in a good supply of woolies.

    

I'm working on it, but I'm worried about the ever increasing number of polar bears. Contrary to Al Gore, they've been doing extremely well for years. Should we send Al Gore a sweater to wear in his jet?

[Soldier4Christ]

Those polar bears may coming to our neighborhood soon.

Should we send Al Gore a sweater to wear in his jet?

Naw. He has enough heat generation every time he speaks that he won't need one. 

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Birds migrating that aren’t supposed to be migrating

Penguins are being found in Brazil far from their normal habitat.

Bird migration to the south seems to be happening earlier this year. Canadian Geese have already moved south through central Illinois. Eagles and other birds of prey left earlier last month. Numerous varieties of birds that normally do not go as far south as Arizona are showing up in the desert of the Phoenix area.

Finland is also reporting early migration of birds.

There are some that are blaming this on the weakening of the earth's magnetic field in a condition that they think is going to cause a reversal of the magnetic field. I don't much about this theory but I would say that going by birds normal habits this along with other indicators looks like a very early harsh winter.

 

[Soldier4Christ]

More glaciers growing and it isn't even winter yet.

Glaciers growing on Glacier Peak, WA
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Glaciers growing on Glacier Peak

From a reader of "Ice Age Now"

I'm writing to let you know about observations I've made here in the Central Cascades of Washington State. I recently moved from Breckenridge, CO to WA after being gone since 2005. I have a cabin at Lake Wenatchee, and the Glacier Peak volcano is visible to the Northwest. As its name implies the mountain is glaciated. Before I moved to CO in 2005 it was obvious that the glaciers and snow had receded and rock was visible in areas all the way to the peak. The glaciers and snow are back now. I was surprised to see the entire mountain from my vantage completely covered in white from top to bottom, and this is after the "warm" summer months here in the PNW. It appears to me that Glacier Peak's glaciers are growing and advancing. I'm planning a hike soon that will take me relatively close to the mountain so I can get up-close photos. Evidence for global cooling is literally accumulating in the form of snow!

[HisDaughter]

This writer said "warm" with tongue in cheek because we had a very mild summer this year.  I could've sworn the first day of Fall was August 1st!  We do have snow early this year in the mountains which ought to make all of our skiers happy!  My dad was pretty happy because it brought all the deer down low and he was able to get his this year.  That's were he was while mom and I made our trip to Oregon last week.  Yep, this "global warming" looks pretty beautiful up there on Mt. Rainer this year!!   

[Soldier4Christ]

It's been quite cool for some time here even though there has been a few days that got back up between 75 to 80. There was even one day where we got snow here about 2 weeks ago but it was too warm and melted before it hit the ground. We have our first frost warning for the season tonight. Last year people were still wearing shorts in November.

[Soldier4Christ]

Oregon sets multiple record  lows
Pendleton breaks 118-year-old record
   
Cold temperatures set several new record lows this weekend, including a low of 22 Saturday in downtown Pendleton that broke a 118 year-old record of 24.

Thursday saw a new low of 20 for Meacham, four degrees cooler than the previous record from 2006. On Friday, Heppner hit 29, the coldest that date has seen since 1960 when it was 30; and Long Creek was 21, besting the 1987 record by four degrees.

On Saturday John Day dropped to 21, breaking the 1990 record of 23, and Mitchell set a record with 21, five degrees cooler than the 2002 record.

On Sunday, for the third time in four days, Meacham set a record with a low of 15, one degree cooler than the 2002 record, Long Creek's low of 21 broke with 1969 record of 25, and Mitchell's 21 broke the 1949 record of 24. And downtown Pendleton's 21 chilled past the previous record of 25 from 1931.

Also Sunday, two-miles north of Hermiston cooled to 18, breaking the 1953 record of 20.

                   Not much global warming in Oregon, it would appear.

[Soldier4Christ]

Ice Reality Check: Arctic Ice Now 31.3% Over Last Year, plus Scientists Counter Latest Arctic ‘Record’ Warmth Claims as ‘Pseudoscience’

You’ve probably heard by now how this new story circulating this week claims “record warmth” and that we are in the peak time of melting. Meanwhile, “back at the ranch”, sea ice extent continues a steady upward climb as shown above.

Scientists Counter Latest Arctic ‘Record’ Warmth Claims as ‘Pseudoscience’ - Comprehensive Arctic Data Round Up - October 17, 2008

Claim: Newspaper article claims Arctic Temps Peak in November - Claims Arctic offers ‘early warning signs’ - McClatchy Newspapers - October 16, 2008

Excerpt: Temperatures in the Arctic last fall hit an all-time high - more than 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Centigrade) above normal - and remain almost as high this year, an international team of scientists reported Thursday. “The year 2007 was the warmest year on record in the Arctic,” said Jackie Richter-Menge, a climate expert at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover, N.H, and editor of the latest annual Arctic Report Card. “These are dynamic and dramatic times in the Arctic,” she said. “The outlook isn’t good.” Arctic temperatures naturally peak in October and November, after sea ice shrinks during the summer. [...]  Scientists say these changes in the Arctic are early warning signs of what may be coming for the rest of the world’s climate.

Arctic Reality Check: Why isn’t the cooling Antarctic considered ‘an indicator of what might happen to the rest of the world?’

By Climate Scientist Dr. Ben Herman, past director of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics and former Head of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona is a member of both the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth’s Executive Committee and the Committee on Global Change.

Herman Excerpt: First of all, the Arctic sea ice is at its minimum in September, not October or November as the scientists in the McClatchy article states. As Arctic ice experts, they certainly should have known this. Another point is that the Arctic temperatures do not “naturally peak in October or November”. They peak in mid August generally. Also the article states that since the world’s climates are interconnected, what happens in the Arctic may be an indicator of what will happen in the rest of the world. How about what happens in the Antarctic then? Since its ice area has been increasing, is this also an indicator of what might happen in the rest of the world?

Reality Check # 2: ‘This is pseudoscience’ - By German scientist Ernst-Georg Beck, a biologist Rebuts Arctic Reports - October 17, 2008

Excerpt: The annual report issued by researchers at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other experts is the latest to paint a dire picture of the impact of climate change in the Arctic. [...] The real averaged temperatures of the whole Arctic circle (70-90 N) can be found in the same data base used by NOAA (CRU, Phil Jones): The graph shows a strong Arctic warming during 1918 and 1960, stronger than today with a rise of about + 4°C up to 1938. Referencing only a rise since 1960 we got the illusion of a dramatic rise in modern times. Conclusion: The news item:” Arctic air temperatures climb to record levels” is selective science and wrong because the Arctic Ocean ( covering an area of more than 50% of the Arctic circle) has been left unconsidered. The NOAA study summarizes: „5°C record levels in temperature in autumn”, presents the averaged temperatures only on land stations and discusses melting sea ice as a cause! This is pseudoscience. In contrast the current Arctic warming mimics the 1920s-1940s event, as a recent study from the Ohio State University reveals. The scientists recognized from using weather station records, maps and photos from the past century that temperatures in Greenland had warmed in the 1920s at rates equivalent to the recent past.

[Soldier4Christ]

I'm posting this here as this goes in conjunction with other posts that have been made in reference to the sun and the non-existent global warming. As the global warming alarm is being taken apart piece by piece the alarmists are now turning to another calamity that they have to attempt to save us from but this time it is of galactic measures instead of just the earth. Somehow I imagine that they will also attempt to blame mankind for this also and turn it into a need for political intervention.

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Sun's protective 'bubble' is shrinking
The protective bubble around the sun that helps to shield the Earth from harmful interstellar radiation is shrinking and getting weaker, Nasa scientists have warned.

 Data has shown that the sun's heliosphere is shrinking  Photo: AP

New data has revealed that the heliosphere, the protective shield of energy that surrounds our solar system, has weakened by 25 per cent over the past decade and is now at it lowest level since the space race began 50 years ago.

Scientists are baffled at what could be causing the barrier to shrink in this way and are to launch mission to study the heliosphere.

The Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, will be launched from an aircraft on Sunday on a Pegasus rocket into an orbit 150,000 miles above the Earth where it will "listen" for the shock wave that forms as our solar system meets the interstellar radiation.

Dr Nathan Schwadron, co-investigator on the IBEX mission at Boston University, said: "The interstellar medium, which is part of the galaxy as a whole, is actually quite a harsh environment. There is a very high energy galactic radiation that is dangerous to living things.

"Around 90 per cent of the galactic cosmic radiation is deflected by our heliosphere, so the boundary protects us from this harsh galactic environment."

The heliosphere is created by the solar wind, a combination of electrically charged particles and magnetic fields that emanate a more than a million miles an hour from the sun, meet the intergalactic gas that fills the gaps in space between solar systems.

At the boundary where they meet a shock wave is formed that deflects interstellar radiation around the solar system as it travels through the galaxy.

The scientists hope the IBEX mission will allow them to gain a better understanding of what happens at this boundary and help them predict what protection it will offer in the future.

Without the heliosphere the harmful intergalactic cosmic radiation would make life on Earth almost impossible by destroying DNA and making the climate uninhabitable.

Measurements made by the Ulysses deep space probe, which was launched in 1990 to orbit the sun, have shown that the pressure created inside the heliosphere by the solar wind has been decreasing.

Dr David McComas, principal investigator on the IBEX mission, said: "It is a fascinating interaction that our sun has with the galaxy surrounding us. This million mile an hour wind inflates this protective bubble that keeps us safe from intergalactic cosmic rays.

"With less pressure on the inside, the interaction at the boundaries becomes weaker and the heliosphere as a whole gets smaller."

If the heliosphere continues to weaken, scientists fear that the amount of cosmic radiation reaching the inner parts of our solar system, including Earth, will increase.

This could result in growing levels of disruption to electrical equipment, damage satellites and potentially even harm life on Earth.

But Dr McComas added that it was still unclear exactly what would happen if the heliosphere continued to weaken or what even what the timescale for changes in the heliosphere are.

He said: “There is no imminent danger, but it is hard to know what the future holds. Certainly if the solar wind pressure was to continue to go down and the heliosphere were to almost evaporate then we would be in this sea of galactic cosmic rays. That could have some large effects.

“It is likely that there are natural variations in solar wind pressure and over time it will either stabilise or start going back up.”

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I mentioned above the article that this goes in conjunction with other articles posted on the sun. We have seen that sun's activities have slowed in recent years causing an actual global cooling effect instead of a warming. There have been fewer solar flairs, the magnetic effect has lessened, and solar winds have diminished. It only goes to reason that the "bubble" will also diminish as it does not need to be as large in order to do the same job. God's way of doing things still cause great mystery among men! As the sun's activity increases then so will the size of the "bubble". When this will happen no one is sure but it has been seen to be somewhat cyclic in nature.

One thing is for sure here. Mankind will not be able to do anything about it. This will be completely in God's hands. We can also be sure that there will be a connection between the sun and a plague on earth during the tribulation period.

Rev 16:8  And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
Rev 16:9  And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

We also know as Christians that we have a much better promise, a promise that He will protect us.

Isa 49:10  They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.

Isa 54:9  For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
Isa 54:10  For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.

[HisDaughter]

Scientists are baffled at what could be causing the barrier to shrink in this way and are to launch mission to study the heliosphere.

The old saying still goes......."It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out"....

[Soldier4Christ]

The old saying still goes......."It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out"....

ROFL ... they think it does.

Just another reason to substantiate the need for their paycheck. 

[HisDaughter]

I just went out to my mail box and I got my ballot!!  But that isn't wasn't I was going to say here.  What I was going to say is that the global warming in my area just chilled me to the bone! 

[Soldier4Christ]

Arctic Ocean may have been ice free
6000 Years Ago
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20 Oct 08 — Recent mapping of a number of raised beach ridges on the north coast of Greenland suggests that the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean was greatly reduced some 6000-7000 years ago. The Arctic Ocean may have been periodically ice free.

”We still don’t know whether the Arctic Ocean was completely ice free, but there was more open water in the area north of Greenland than there is today,” says Astrid Lyså, a geologist and researcher at the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU).

”The architecture of a sandy shore depends partly on whether wave activity or pack ice has influenced its formation. Beach ridges, which are generally distinct, very long, broad features running parallel to the shoreline, form when there is wave activity and occasional storms. This requires periodically open water,” Astrid Lyså explains.

”This stands in sharp contrast to the present-day situation where only ridges piled up by pack ice are being formed,” she says.

              Hmmm. Do you suppose that natural forces might somehow be
              melting the ice in Arctic today?

              Do you suppose that natural forces might have somehow melted
              that Arctic ice some 6,000 years ago?

              Or did that ice disappear because our ancestors were driving SUVs? 

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This is something that Christians can say with a certainity as this time frame was prior to Noah's ark when the weather was the same the world over. It was not until the flood that we started having season's.

[Soldier4Christ]

I found an article in French that tells of a very large amount of wild boars in Tunisia that are migrating south. Something that is uncommon for them to do. This along with all the birds that I mentioned earlier in this thread that are doing the same thing indicates that we some very, very cold weather coming our way.

[Soldier4Christ]

Here's another one that is sure to bring some laughter to your day. Harvard University in Cambridge, MA is resorting to comedy events instead of educational ones. They were holding what they called a "Sustainability Celebration" and the keynote speaker was to be Al Gore. Immediately the "Gore Effect" hit the area. (Gore Effect = The phenomenon that leads to unseasonably cold temperatures, driving rain, hail, or snow whenever Al Gore visits an area to discuss global warming.)

Even though they didn't get any there was snow in the forecast for the day of the event. The temps however were really low very close to the record lows for that day. The day after the event it was supposed to drop to 28 degrees which would have meant breaking a record of 125 yrs.

The organizers were ready for the effect, as shown by the e-mail from the Office of the President, president@harvard.edu:

Dear Members of the Harvard Community,

Although today's weather will hardly remind us of the serious problem that is global warming, today's event - the Harvard Sustainability Celebration, with a keynote address by former Vice President Al Gore - will go on, as scheduled, in Tercentenary Theatre with a program beginning at 4 p.m. We very much hope that you will attend and enjoy the festivities.

Starting at 3 p.m., we will be serving hot cider and soup to keep everyone warm; please dress for our changeable New England weather. Henry Longfellow, onetime Harvard professor and longtime Cantabrigian, once remarked, "The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain." We sincerely hope that, this afternoon, it won't rain. But even if it does, Harvard celebrates Sustainability with spirits undampened.

Sincerely,

The Sustainability Celebration Committee

Office of the President
http://www.green.harvard.edu/