felixthecat
October 7th, 2008, 10:40 AM
Internet Al Gore says the science of climate change is settled. It's no longer if, but when mankind's activities will cause catastrophic warming that will ... well, you know the spiel. Before we go on: Mr. Gore's Web site offers advice to acolytes about spreading the Gospel of St. Albert. In writing op-eds to newspapers, for example, he recommends avoiding "any legalese, jargon, or excessive use of statistics" (translation: don't let facts get in the way of a good rant). "(C)ome across as the voice of reason, not a boring know-it-all."
Like Al Gore.
But while he and his disciples, including Gov. M. Jodi Rell with her carbon rationing, sputter and fret, Mother Nature quietly is running her own global-warming experiments. And so far, their apocalyptic vision is losing.
The solar wind, which is the stream of charged particles ejected by the sun, is more than 20 percent weaker than it was a decade ago. As explained by renowned physicist Henrik Svensmark of the Danish National Space Center, a weaker solar wind permits more cosmic rays to reach the earth's surface. Those rays promote the formation of clouds, which reflect the sun's rays and thus cool the planet.
At the same time, the sun's magnetic field is 30 percent weaker than a decade ago and that reduces the natural cosmic-ray shield, and global temperatures, further.
Another natural force, the "multi-decadal oscillation," also is having a chilling effect, according to a scientist in Alaska — "the front lines of climate change," as warmists are so fond of saying. Writing in his hometown newspaper, Syun-Ichi Akasofu, former director of the Geophysical Institute and the International Arctic Research Center, both at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said the earth is in the midst of the latest oscillation.
The oscillation was responsible for planetary warming from 1910-40 and 1975-2000 and cooling in between. 2000 marked the beginning of a new cooling phase that has been confirmed by numerous climate scientists in Britain, Japan and the United States. "Further," he wrote, "NASA data shows that warming in the southern hemisphere has stopped, and that ocean temperatures also have stopped rising."
All these phenomenon, by the way, correlate precisely with the recent 1 F decline in the earth's average temperature.
In other words, the Gospel of St. Albert is undergoing rigorous testing by nature itself.
If against these natural forces global temperatures continue to rise, then factors other than solar activity and normal climatological fluctuations are driving climate change.
But if the planet continues to cool, then Mr. Gore's theory would be reduced, officially, to so much gasbaggery.
We urge governments near and far to hold off on their Draconian measures to combat warming until the results of Mother Nature's tests are known.
http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2008/10/07/opinion/370528.txt
Like Al Gore.
But while he and his disciples, including Gov. M. Jodi Rell with her carbon rationing, sputter and fret, Mother Nature quietly is running her own global-warming experiments. And so far, their apocalyptic vision is losing.
The solar wind, which is the stream of charged particles ejected by the sun, is more than 20 percent weaker than it was a decade ago. As explained by renowned physicist Henrik Svensmark of the Danish National Space Center, a weaker solar wind permits more cosmic rays to reach the earth's surface. Those rays promote the formation of clouds, which reflect the sun's rays and thus cool the planet.
At the same time, the sun's magnetic field is 30 percent weaker than a decade ago and that reduces the natural cosmic-ray shield, and global temperatures, further.
Another natural force, the "multi-decadal oscillation," also is having a chilling effect, according to a scientist in Alaska — "the front lines of climate change," as warmists are so fond of saying. Writing in his hometown newspaper, Syun-Ichi Akasofu, former director of the Geophysical Institute and the International Arctic Research Center, both at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said the earth is in the midst of the latest oscillation.
The oscillation was responsible for planetary warming from 1910-40 and 1975-2000 and cooling in between. 2000 marked the beginning of a new cooling phase that has been confirmed by numerous climate scientists in Britain, Japan and the United States. "Further," he wrote, "NASA data shows that warming in the southern hemisphere has stopped, and that ocean temperatures also have stopped rising."
All these phenomenon, by the way, correlate precisely with the recent 1 F decline in the earth's average temperature.
In other words, the Gospel of St. Albert is undergoing rigorous testing by nature itself.
If against these natural forces global temperatures continue to rise, then factors other than solar activity and normal climatological fluctuations are driving climate change.
But if the planet continues to cool, then Mr. Gore's theory would be reduced, officially, to so much gasbaggery.
We urge governments near and far to hold off on their Draconian measures to combat warming until the results of Mother Nature's tests are known.
http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2008/10/07/opinion/370528.txt