Global Warming

[HisDaughter]

It feels like snow may be coming to the NW.  I haven't checked with local weather reports, I'm just going by my bones.  I haven't found the weathermen here too reliable for the past 15 years anyway.

[Soldier4Christ]

South Carolina Police:
Record low temperatures practically froze criminal activity overnight

 “Near zero temperatures Tuesday night caused the number of 911 emergency calls to slow to just a trickle for Greenville County sheriff’s deputies, who were jumping with 3 robberies the night before, a spokesman said.

“We usually have 200 to 300 calls a night, said Lt. Tim Ridgeway, a sheriff’s spokesman. Right now, we’ve only had a handful of calls.

“Ridgeway attributed the fall off in calls for service to the cold weather. The temperature at 11 p.m. was 33-degrees, according to the National Weather Service.

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Record cold - More on the way

Lows early this morning plummeted into the 20s across much of the eastern third of the United States.

Portions of northwestern Florida were gripped by a hard freeze. Tallahassee dipped below the record cold low of 29 degrees set in 1990. The Severe Weather Center has a list of freeze-related watches and warnings in effect in the South.

Highs will be as much as 20 degrees below normal today throughout most of the East, challenging even more record cold temperatures.

The coldest air mass of the season is yet to come. Expect the next wave of arctic air to move across the Midwest and into the East by this weekend, and sparking the next round of lake-effect snow.

[Soldier4Christ]

The Earth’s Not Flat, and It’s Not Warming

It boggles the mind. Years after global temperature rises peaked around 1998, and the world has been cooling ever since we're still hearing shrill warnings that we are doomed to be deep fried by Mother Nature.

It's almost like insisting the world is flat even after Columbus made it to the New World without plunging over the edge of the earth.

And the warming alarmists have the gall to compare  the growing number of scientists and others who scoff at their specious claims to flat-earth believers.

Look. Whatever warming that took place as the world slowly emerged from the last little ice age has stopped. The cold hard fact of the matter is that the world is getting cooler. Spring and Fall seasons are getting shorter and all the evidence points to the onset of a new little ice age, if not a big one.

We don't have to worry about proving the case for global cooling. Mother Nature is doing the job for us. I'm willing to bet that as this winter gets underway she's going to put on a real winter carnival for us, with blizzards of unprecedented fury, shoulder-high snow falls, and temperatures so cold as to be in some cases life-threatening.

Global warming is a fraud.

Listen to Award-Winning NASA Astronaut and Moonwalker Jack Schmitt: "As a geologist, I love Earth observations. But, it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a "consensus" that humans are causing global warming in when human experience, geologic data and history, and current cooling can argue otherwise. "Consensus", as many have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science. You know as well as I, the "global warming scare" is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making. It has no place in the Society's activities."

And it's getting colder:

According to the November 13 issue of Britain's Daily Mail   scientists claim we are actually heading towards a new Global Ice Age:

"It has plagued scientists and politicians for decades, but scientists now say global warming is not the problem. We are actually heading for the next Ice Age, they claim. British and Canadian experts warned the big freeze could bury the east of Britain in 6,000ft of ice. A taste of the future: Most of Scotland, Northern Ireland and England could be covered in 3,000ft-thick ice fields. The expanses could reach 6,000ft from Aberdeen to Kent – towering above Ben Nevis, Britain’s tallest mountain. And what's more, the experts blame the global change on falling - rather than climbing - levels of greenhouse gases. [...] Lead author Thomas Crowley from the University of Edinburgh and Canadian colleague William Hyde say that currently vilified greenhouse gases – such as carbon dioxide – could actually be the key to averting the chill. The warning, published in the authoritative journal Nature, is based on records of tiny marine fossils and the earth’s shifting orbit."

Says  Geologist Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Emeritus Professor at Western Washington University, who has authored eight books and 150 journal publications. "Rather than drastic global warming at a rate of 0.5C (1F) per decade, historic records of past natural cycles suggest global cooling for the first several decades of the 21st century to about 2030, followed by global warming from about 2030 to about 2060, and renewed global cooling from 2060 to 2090 .  Climatic fluctuations over the past several hundred years suggest ~30 year climatic cycles of global warming and cooling, on a general rising trend from the Little Ice Age. […]The PDO cool mode has replaced the warm mode in the Pacific Ocean, virtually assuring us of about 30 years of global cooling, perhaps much deeper than the global cooling from about 1945 to 1977.  Just how much cooler the global climate will be during this cool cycle is uncertain.  Recent solar changes suggest that it could be fairly severe, perhaps more like the 1880 to 1915 cool cycle than the more moderate 1945-1977 cool cycle.  A more drastic cooling, similar to that during the Dalton and Maunder minimums, could plunge the Earth into another Little Ice Age, but only time will tell if that is likely.

The public in Europe and Australia are demanding an end to the crack-pot economy-destroying schemes of the alarmists to tackle climate change as the global financial crisis threatens jobs and economic growth. Opinion polls show public support for dealing with climate change if the economic cost is too high wavering

Alarmist stories about the melting of Arctic ice have been shown to be false.

"As expected a few days ago: October 2008 has seen the fastest Arctic sea ice extent growth ever recorded. According to the data published by IARC-JAXA, the amount of growth has reached 3,481,575 square kilometers for the month, or 112,319 sq km per day on average. The previous maximum was October 2007, with 3,330,937 sq km for the month and 107,450 sq km per day on average. Record shrinkage remains July 2007, with 2,913,593 sq km lost and 93,987 sq km per day on average. Growth should be starting leveling off now. November values could be as high as 2,179,844 sq km (2002) or as low as 964,688 sq km (2006).”



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After reading this article think about this for a few minutes. Each time that mankind calls God a liar He does something that shows them that He is still the one in charge not them. The Bible is replete with examples of this. Now consider this:

On 12 November 1998, Vice President Al Gore symbolically signed the protocol.

This was about the same time that the earth's warming came to an end and actually started into a cooling trend that not only has continued up to this time but is now expected to continue for at least another decade if not more. Unfortunately as it also has been the case there are way too many people that are still not listening to Him.

[Soldier4Christ]

Athens, Georgia breaks 'low-temperature mark that stood for 117 years'

The waves of cold, Canadian air washing over the eastern United States brought a record low to Athens this morning, breaking a low-temperature mark that stood for 117 years.

The official temperature in Athens sank to 20 degrees, breaking the old record of 23 degrees set in 1891.

Overnight lows this weekend could drop back into the low to mid-20s as another mass of cold, dry air forces its way across the Southeast, the weather service said.

Bitter cold shatters North Carolina record - The frigid readings yesterday morning not only set a record for the date, but  marked the earliest ever that the temperature has fallen below 20 degrees in Charlotte.

The unofficial low at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport was 18 degrees, breaking the mark of 20 degrees for the date set in 1951. The previous earliest sub-20 reading in Charlotte was on Nov. 20, 1951.

Among the unofficial morning lows across the area:

18 degrees: Lincolnton, Statesville.

19 degrees: Albemarle, Salisbury.

20 degrees: Concord, Monroe, Rock Hill.

21 degrees: Hickory.

Forecasters expect the next cold front to push morning lows into the 20s on Saturday.

Early freeze in Florida

Very cold here in Florida. I have lived in West Central Florida (50 miles north of Tampa) for 12 years. As an avid Gardner I pay attention to the weather. During these 12 years we never had a frost in October, but this year we had a freeze October 29th. Usually the first frost is around Thanksgiving or later. The last two nights we had a freeze and tonight it should be a good one. Whenever it is cold in Florida it also dry so we don't get any snow.

[nChrist]

 

All I can say is that so-called global warming sure is cold in Oklahoma right now. I just think about how easy it appears to DECEIVE most people these days when I think about non-existent global warming. Many folks will believe almost anything, and they prove it all of the time. Nobody wins on this except the con men raking in the money from global warming schemes. It's almost the perfect crime.

[Soldier4Christ]

I just think about how easy it appears to DECEIVE most people these days when I think about non-existent global warming. Many folks will believe almost anything, and they prove it all of the time.

And in many things.

It's cold here also. I like your newest little penquin you posted in another thread and thought this one was perfect for him. If I were to step out my front door that would probably be what I would end up doing.

[nChrist]

And in many things.

It's cold here also. I like your newest little penquin you posted in another thread and thought this one was perfect for him. If I were to step out my front door that would probably be what I would end up doing.

    

If you're talking about a graphic to honor Al Gore, I have others that might be more appropriate:

 

[Soldier4Christ]

 
No, I meant appropriate for the weather that we are getting right now. Those that would be appropriate for Al Gore wouldn't be as cute.

[nChrist]

No, I meant appropriate for the weather that we are getting right now. Those that would be appropriate for Al Gore wouldn't be as cute.

    

I'm a little slow with this cold, but I'm with you now. Consider your graphic snagged.

[Soldier4Christ]

NBC Fires Weather Channel Environmental Unit

Some on-camera meteorologists also let go

NBC Universal made the first of potentially several rounds of staffing cuts at The Weather Channel (TWC) on Wednesday, axing the entire staff of the “Forecast Earth” environmental program during the middle of NBC’s “Green Week”, as well as several on-camera meteorologists. The layoffs totaled about 10 percent of the workforce, and are the first major changes made since NBC completed its purchase of the venerable weather network in September.

The layoffs affected about 80 people, but left the long-term leadership of the network unclear, according to a source who requested anonymity due to the continuing uncertainty at the station.

Among the meteorologists who was let go was Dave Schwartz, a Weather Channel veteran and a viewer staple due to his lively on camera presentations (also a global warmist). USA Today reported that meteorologists Cheryl Lemke and Eboni Deon were also let go.

The timing of the Forecast Earth cancellation was ironic, since it came in the middle of NBC’s “Green is Universal” week, during which the network has been touting its environmental coverage across all of its platforms. Forecast Earth normally aired on weekends, but its presumed last episode was shown on a weekday due to the environmentally-oriented week.

Forecast Earth was hosted by former CNN anchor Natalie Allen, with contributions from climate expert Heidi Cullen. It was the sole program on TWC that focused on global climate change, which raises the question of whether the station will still report on the subject. Cullen’s future role at the network is not known.

[Soldier4Christ]

UK brought to standstill as five inches of snow
falls in an hour

Severe weather warnings were issued by the Met Office for much of the south east of England, the east of England, the East Midlands and Yorkshire, with the freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall prompting fears of traffic chaos.

Some 14cm (5.5 inches) of snow fell in Aberdeen between Saturday and Sunday. In Norfolk and Lincolnshire, up to fivecm (2.4 inches) fell in just one hour.

In rural Oxfordshire, the temperature sank to -21F (-6 C) overnight on Saturday.

Gales gusting at 50mph raged in the Irish Sea and fast ferry services between Holyhead and Dublin were cancelled.

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Snow depths in Switzerland
up to five times normal

Almost the entire country is 150% - 500% of normal, with one station registering 1200% of normal.

[Soldier4Christ]

Snow in parts of Switzerland 12 times deeper
than average

Ski resorts across Europe will open this weekend ahead of schedule after the biggest November snowfalls for at least a decade - in some places the biggest November snowfalls in more than 40 years - including 60cm (23in) of snow on Alpine slopes and even more in the Pyrenees.

“This is nature's way of cocking a snook (thumbing your nose) at the experts,” said Christian Rochette, the director of Ski France International, the tourist body for French resorts.

“We've got excellent conditions for this time of year and very cold temperatures, which means we can use the snow cannons to make artificial snow as well,” he said.

                                                    Snow is thigh deep

Michael Broom Smith, of Purple Ski, said: “On the lower pistes, the snow is thigh deep and beautifully light and fluffy and more snow is forecast this weekend.”

Val d'Isère will also open today with snow two metres deep at 3,000 metres. “We've often had to put off the opening,” a tourist office spokeswoman said. “Last year we opened a few slopes at the start of the season but this year we're opening them all.”

The Ski Club of Great Britain said that snow in parts of Switzerland was 12 times deeper than average.

Pyrenean resorts are also enjoying snowfalls unseen for years. “Oh, what happiness!” said Hervé Mairal, director of the Pyrenean Tourist Federation. “We've got 95cm at the foot of the slopes and 1.4m at the top. We've not had that for a decade.”

Andorra, which has had some poor conditions in recent years, is enjoying its best start to a season for four decades and both the main areas of Grandvalira and Vallnord will be open fully from this weekend.

On the Spanish side Roberto Buil, the marketing manager of the Baqueira Beret resort, said that the slopes had opened on November 22 for the first time in 44 years. “All our 69 ski runs are open,” he said. “We are having an amazing start.”

The cold snap comes after an OECD report said that a two-degree rise in temperature could eliminate a third of all Europe's ski slopes over the next 40 years.

[Soldier4Christ]

Rapid Surging of Glacial Ice Lobes
by Larry Vardiman, Ph.D.*

J. Harlen Bretz published an article in the Journal of Geology in 1923 that described a catastrophic flood that swept across eastern Washington state near the end of the Ice Age. He claimed that it eroded massive channels through solid rock and flooded the Columbia River Gorge to nearly 400 feet in depth as far downstream as Portland, Oregon. Bretz's theory that a lobe of ice from the ice sheet in Canada blocked the Clark Fork River in western Montana, created a lake as far upstream as Missoula, and released walls of water across eastern Washington when the dam was breached was rejected by most geologists until he lay on his deathbed in 1981.

The reason his observations were ignored for so many years was because the floods in eastern Washington required ice lobes to block the valleys, the sudden releases of the ice dams, and massive flows of water hundreds of feet deep over thousands of square miles. These events smacked of similar stories found in the Bible. However, the evidence of rapid, catastrophic erosion that was carved in the rocks eventually overwhelmed the ridicule of the conventional geological community and is widely accepted today. The Lake Missoula Flood is only one of many events that have led to the development of a rapid, high-energy explanation for geological process called neo-catastrophism.

Rapid Ice Age processes similar to those associated with the ice lobe that caused the Lake Missoula Flood have also begun to be recognized in the formation, movement, and melting of ice sheets in the upper Midwest. During the Ice Age, large ice lobes surged from the Laurentide ice sheet from central Canada southward into the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Iowa. If the Ice Age was a relatively short event of only a few thousand years, as implied by biblical constraints, then these ice lobes must have moved rapidly. Yet, it has been commonly assumed until recently that ice moves relatively slowly.

Mark Horstemeyer and Philip Gullet reported at the 5th International Conference on Creationism (ICC) on their finite element simulations in one dimension of ice sheets.1 They studied the rate at which steep edges could move and deform under heavy accumulations of snow and found that the rapid movement of ice and multiple surges were plausible during a short Ice Age on the order of 500 years. Jesse Sherburn and associates reported at the 6th ICC in the summer of 2008 even more detailed simulations in three dimensions specifically for the Des Moines ice lobe in Iowa.2 They considered deformable till under the ice lobe, various porosity and crack levels, and various temperatures, slopes, and load angles. They agreed with previous simulations that surging could reach peak velocities of approximately 6.5 km/year and that the movement of ice lobes could in fact fit within a biblical time frame.

Even the conventional glaciology and paleoclimatology communities have come to believe that ice sheets several thousand feet thick in Canada may have melted in just a few hundred years. A major event during the deglaciation of the ice sheets called the Younger Dryas is now thought to have occurred in as little as a few decades. So, fewer and fewer pieces of evidence seem to justify hundreds of thousands of years for the Ice Age. Several of the articles presented at the ICC in the summer of 2008, including the one on the Des Moines ice lobe, may be found on the ICR website at www.icr.org/research.

References

   1. Horstemeyer, M. and P. Gullet. 2003. Will Mechanics Allow a Rapid Ice Age Following the Flood? Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Creationism, August 4-8, in Pittsburgh, PA.
   2. Sherburn, J. A., M. F. Horstemeyer and K. Solanki. 2008. Simulation Analysis of Glacial Surging in the Des Moines Ice Lobe. Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Creation-ism, August 3-7, in Pittsburgh, PA.


* Dr. Vardiman is Chair of the Department of Astro/Geophysics.

[Soldier4Christ]

European metal workers: 'We don't want to lose our job'
11,000 turn out to protest EU's climate policy

About 11,000 workers from the steel industry in European countries gathered on Tuesday in Brussels to protest the European Union's climate change policy which they fear might make them lose their jobs.

    The European Parliament and the French Presidency of the European Union agreed Monday on details of future targets on emissions from cars, setting the target for 2020 at 95 g CO2 per kilometer.

    "We don't want to lose our job," one protester said, adding that the new regulations will possibly kill the steel industry in Europe. Several protesters held a coffin to indicate that the European steel industry will die when EU's climate change plan is implemented.

    Under the new regulations, from 2012 to 2018 manufacturers exceeding the carbon dioxide targets set by the regulation will have to pay fines 5 euros for the first gram of CO2, 15 euros for the second gram of CO2 and 95 euros from the fourth gram of CO2.

    From 2019, car manufacturers will have to pay 95 euro for each gram exceeding the target.

    The protesters, most of who come from the car industry giant Germany, marched around the European Parliament building and other EU institutions.

    The protest was organized by the European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF). The federation criticized the EU's plan to cut CO2 emissions, saying it endangers production and jobs in the steel and non-ferrous metal sectors.

    In a statement, the EMF said that European producers "are confronted with increasing international competition from producers who do not meet European norms."     

[Soldier4Christ]

New EU president is prominent climate skeptic
Czech Republic's Vaclav Klaus has questioned sanity of Al Gore

Czech President: EU's Outspoken Global Warming Doubter
Klaus with US President George W. Bush at a military parade
Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift:  Klaus (right) seems to be more in line with his US counterpart than others in the EU
 
Czech President Vaclav Klaus, one of the most prominent climate change doubters, is about to get a new platform: the EU presidency. Others in the bloc worry that he could stall important climate talks next year.

Klaus has called manmade global warming a myth and questioned sanity of Al Gore, the former US vice-president who received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for turning a spotlight on climate change.

Most recently, Klaus expressed hopes the EU would give up its ambitious plan to spearhead the global struggle against climate change in the face of the global financial crisis.

From his vantage point in Prague's Hradcany castle, Klaus could be involved in negotiating a new set of EU climate laws while the Czech Republic chairs the EU in the first half of 2009.

That could happen if EU leaders fail to agree on a plan at their December summit, where a disputed proposal to cut EU greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2020 is on the table.

In any case, the Czechs will lead the EU in the run-up to a crucial global climate conference in Denmark late next year.

Climate on the backburner?

Having Klaus at the helm of the 27-member bloc "is clearly going to cause some anxiety," said Simon Tilford, chief economist at the London-based Center for European Reform.

While presidential office in the Czech Republic is largely ceremonial and the center-right government of Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek does not share Klaus' views, western Europe worries that "Czechs would not attach as much priority" to the climate efforts, Tilford said.

"It is unfair to say: If we don't agree this year we won't have it," he said. "But there are some concerns because the Czech government is not as enthusiastic."

The Czech government has tried to alleviate such fears.

James Hunt, the Czech environment minister's climate envoy, recently said that if internal EU squabbling spills into next year, "the Czech presidency will make every effort to achieve adoption" of the climate package in early 2009.

Pro business

But Czech officials also made it clear that they would prefer a softer, pro-business plan.

"We can't fight for the climate at the expense of our competitiveness," Topolanek said last week. "That is especially valid at a time of the global financial crisis."

Across the region, coal-fired power plants are a big reason why countries balked at the EU proposal.

Central European energy firms, including the Czech Republic's state-controlled CEZ that pours billions of koruny in dividends into state coffers, would like to see the package scrapped.

They especially oppose a plan that would force them to buy carbon emission permits at auction from 2013. The rule would add an extra cost amid the financial crisis and certainly hike electricity prices, they say.

"A unilateral cut of emission limits combined with a brutal start of credit auctions will not help the climate because nobody will join the EU and our emission cut of 20 percent ... will be easily offset and surmounted by a rise in emissions in China," Topolanek said.