The Coming of the New Ice Age: End of the Global Warming Era?

Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:44 pm

My latest post at PJMedia is now ready to ruffle some feathers:

The Coming of the New Ice Age: End of the Global Warming Era?

20 Responses to “The Coming of the New Ice Age: End of the Global Warming Era?”

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1Naples Outbreak Staff on Feb 1, 2012 at 5:48 am:

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2Kevin on Feb 2, 2012 at 12:52 am:

Meh. Ice ages take over a thousand years to kick into full swing. I’m 50% confident that I’ll be dead by then.

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3Naples Outbreak Staff on Feb 2, 2012 at 11:31 pm:

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4Gork on Feb 4, 2012 at 2:24 pm:

I have always said that I do not have a problem with people conducting investigation in to what the climate is doing, and publishing opinions based upon their research. The study of what the climate is doing is of significant concern. Nevertheless, I have problems when they say that because the climate is changing that we must build a centralized economy and do exactly as they say. That is utterly disingenuous.

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5Victor C. Capelli on Feb 7, 2012 at 12:54 am:

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6Victor C. Capelli on Feb 7, 2012 at 12:59 am:

Everything you said is all academic when you consider that the “enhanced greenhouse effect” which is what the industrial gases are creating will start a chain reaction resulting in an altered NAO and the shift of the Gulf Stream away from Europe and North America. The result will be another “little Ice Age” like the one which ended about 150 years ago and coincided, not conincidently, with the Industrial revolution. The warming up of the climate will force the warming/cooling cycles of millienia to accelerate and Mankind will be the loser.

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7Victor C. Capelli on Feb 7, 2012 at 1:19 am:

The thermohaline exchange which is part of the Gulf Stream is dependent on a precise amount of cold fresh water coming down from the North Pole. If the amount of cold, fresh water flowing down increases, the equilibrium and direction of the northward flowing warm Gulf Stream will shift. Europe’s and the entire climate of the Northern Hemisphere will no longer be temperate, but will approach that of the Pleistocene period. Crops will fail, transportatlion systems (the rivers will freeze)shut down and entire human populations will have to migrate south in order to survive. We had a “little Ice age” a hundred and fifty years ago” and that one lasted more than 500 years. The Vikings had to quit Greenland and their New world settlements because it was too cold to raise crops. The world’s climate is very twitchy, anything can upset the balance. In 1815, Mt.Tambora erupted and the following year, crops failed in New England and the “Year without a summer caused widespread famine and a lot of suffering around the world. Volcanic dust cools the earth and C02 warms it, we will pay anyway.

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8Fred Mangels on Feb 26, 2012 at 2:53 pm:

Climatology is to meteorology as astrology is to astronomy.

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9daniel noe on Feb 26, 2012 at 3:17 pm:

Climate Change: Just another non-issue to distract us from the economic terrorism of the Republicrats.

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10Victor C. Capelli on Feb 27, 2012 at 3:11 am:

Both replies are incorrect. Climatology is a science, astrology and astronomy are misnamed. “Ology” means the study of- so astrology is the study of the stars while astronomy is the “measurement” of the stars. Climatology is the scientific study of climate and as such utilizes scientific measuring instruments and the talents and skills of scientists. Astrologers were people who thought that the stars influenced human destiny. Climatology is showing that we are changing our own destiny by destroying the planet.

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11Firepower on Mar 12, 2012 at 8:05 am:

No better time to watch NBC’s “Weather Channel” and see them (as I predicted to family) begin bleating euphemistically about “Warming Trends.”

Putting a toe gingerly back in the water, testing for Group Approval is the Liberal Way.

Plus, this introductory post gives me a chance to reveal my longtime lurkerdom and true admiration for such a well-researched, convincing writer.

Many times, I’ve given doubters links to your SF gay pride photos - immediate change of heart back to Good. Kryptonite for Liberalism.

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12Victor C. Capelli on Mar 14, 2012 at 11:57 pm:

hEY, ALL YOU DOUBTERS OF THE gREENHOUSE EFFECT/GLOBAL WARMING, WE ARE NOW HAVING RECORD HEAT IN THE HEARTLAND AND THE NORTHEAST, WITH MID EIGHTIES FORCAST. April promises to be even hotter, this heat will accelerate glacial melting and increase the water vapor content in the atmosphere.(the leading greenhouse gas)and expose more northern terrain to sunlight. This will in turn add to the melting. Remember snow and ice have an albedo of over 85%, meaning that reflection of sunlight is close to 90%, when you eliminate the ice and snow, warming accelerates. Tornadic effects, summer thunderstorms and hurricanes will be more powerful this year because of hotter ocean waters. Hold onto your hats, homo sapiens, you have sowed the wind, now reap the whirlwind!

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13eric on Mar 19, 2012 at 3:42 pm:

Is this like the other laugable book by Paul Ehrlich Zero Population Growth .
That predicted we would all be out of oil and dead by 1976.

BTW Still waiting for Acid rain

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14Victor C. Capelli on Mar 19, 2012 at 9:16 pm:

Acid Rain is real, there are 500 dead lakes in the Adirondacks courtesy of the copper smelters in Canada and tall smokestacks and 200 million cars on the road. Average PH in the lakes of the Adirondacks is about 4.5-5. WE are actually post peak oil now and no matter how much drilling we do (oil drilling startup and marketing takes decades) the oil supply is drying up and the forcast is for higher prices. Oil prices per barrel is over $106 and it”s over 5.00 a gallon on the West Coast already. Get real, the future is not in SUV’s but hybrids and small cars, like in Europe where they know how to live with less! The era of cheap oil is over!

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15test on Mar 21, 2012 at 9:20 am:

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16eric on Mar 25, 2012 at 6:21 pm:

Let me be candid I have never owned a SUV and never will I live in San Francisco, NO parking
I will never own a hybrid I have ridden a motorcycle for over 30 years, btw my motorcycle is as fuel efficient as a hybrid and has less cubic displacement (bottom line my engine is half the size of a hybrid and is equipped with 2 catalectic converters)
My point which you missed is that so called studies are not always accurate , Ehrlic kept revising his dates , and his dire predictions never came true .Acid rain in the 1970 was portrayed as dire, again it never became true, is there acid rain well duh yes but never on the scale it was predicted .
As for Europe I lived there in the 80’s, my engine on my motorcycle was almost destroyed why THEY use leaded fuel long after the US switched. But you are right people don’t drive in Europe like we do that’s due to taxed being roughly 200% of what they are in the US. I don’t really consider that living with less, I consider that government imposed repression.

BTW Are you an oil speculator, you talk like one.
Oh and Gas was 4.40 here at 25th and california last gas station before the golden gate .

PS want a real eco-crisis look into what lead in fuel has done along with MTBE

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17Victor C. Capelli on Mar 26, 2012 at 8:57 pm:

Another wake up call for all you greenhouse effect doubters. Most of the arctic sea ice has melted away, there is now a true Northwest passage over the North Pole. Climate estimates are in broad consensus that by 2050, Norway, Finland and most of Scandinavia will be ice free. The land of Santa Claus will be brown and not white! More than 50% of the world’s continental glaciers have melted away. Fly over the Alps lately? Theyre’ all brown. The oceans are rising about an average of 3-4 centimeters a year, courtesy of glacial melting. The permafrost in Alaska and parts of Arctic is melting, causing huge problems in earth stability, road conditions, potholes and housing supports. Springtime in the Northern hemisphere has shortened by two weeks in the last 20 years, allowing abnormal (witness last week’s 80 and ninety degree temps) warmups and powerful tornadic conditions in the mid-west. Hurricanes, thunderstorms and the amount and strength of tornadoes has doubled and tripled in the last few decades because of increased ocean temperatures and increased and abnormal atmospheric conditions, including weaker or stronger El Ninos or La Ninas. The evidence is getting stronger and stronger every day that Man made climate change is putting us all in deadly peril! Have fun with the New Millenium!

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18Albert Einstein on May 12, 2012 at 4:26 pm:

Nice try , Vicky. If the evidence for man-made global warming was at all convincing, then why was there a very well known HOAX necessary to fake evidence? Anyone who has bee studying this issue knows about the gigantic fake job of the so-called global warming gang, ringled by the University of east anglia. Gentle readers, look it up for yoursel;f: Nuts like Vickie hav faked every bit of the so called evidence, from scientific papers to faked data that rigs measurements, to phony satellite video and photos. And somehow, the answer ro climate change is alwasys ‘More socailism’! You’d have to be retarded to buy into this nonsense…and you’d have to ignore the hunfreds of scientist protesting against the hoax and the stonewalling it entails. Search ‘global warming hoax’ and you’ll find hundreds of scientific facts and data that refute this lie…and protest by many scients, including nobel laureates. Sorry, but climate change is natural and has been happening without human cause for as long as earth has had climate…and the less than 3% of human produces ‘greenhouse’ gases change that not one whit. The truth is ONE volcanic eruption puts more greenhouse gas and dust into the air than the whole of human history.

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19Victor C. Capelli on Jun 17, 2012 at 3:21 pm:

Well, all I have to say is when the tipping point comes with the NAO and ice starts to fall from the sky in July, then we’ll see who’s a “nut”! Victor C. Capelli

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20Victor C. Capelli on Jul 9, 2012 at 5:54 pm:

Just another reminder to all you hoaxers and anti- environmentalists..the first half of this year was the hottest on record! And when the snowstorms start forming during the summer, don’t say I did’nt warn you! Victor C. Capelli- B.S Environmental Sciences- Cornell University,-July 10th, 2012

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