Case For Global Cooling

Can periodic cooling on Earth be explained by planetary alignment?

The Dalton Minimum followed the Maunder Minimum by something like 150 to 200 years. The Maunder Minimum was more severe and lasted longer, about 80 years compared to about 25 years for the length of the Dalton Minimum. It is difficult to choose the exact beginning, zenith, or end of these cool periods on Earth, particularly for the Maunder. We might choose the year 1820 to associate with the nadir of sunspot activity during the Dalton Minimum – slightly more than 180 years ago.

If the Sun’s magnetic cycle is sensitive to tidal forces, or other effects from the orbiting planetary mass, the number 180 may be magic. Scientists suggest, in a recent paper entitled “Does a Spin–Orbit Coupling Between the Sun and the Jovian Planets Govern the Solar Cycle?” (see the abstract here) that the combined effects of Saturn and Jupiter could induce magnetic cycle fluctuations in the Sun with a period of just about exactly 180 years.

As author Ian Wilson explained to Andrew Bolt from post Cooling coming:

It supports the contention that the level of activity on the Sun will significantly diminish sometime in the next decade and remain low for about 20 – 30 years. On each occasion that the Sun has done this in the past the World’s mean temperature has dropped by ~ 1 – 2 C.

Physicist Luboš Motl in this article states

The paper is effectively another peer-reviewed case for global cooling.

It is no small comfort that at least our deepest-thinking (skeptical) scientists are investigating Solar behavior and its impact on Earth’s climate. In the past, Solar magnetic behavior has been closely linked with very pronounced climate changes. Our government funded scientists however are busy figuring out how to pump carbon dioxide down abandoned mine shafts; how embarrassing.

Anthony Watts also blogs on this Global Cooling paper here.

Enough Sea Level Hysteria

Stop with the incessant sea level hysteria, Al Gore. It is apparent now that global warming and rising sea levels are the least of our worries. Carbon dioxide goes up, but sea level has stopped going up; and may well be going down, along with ocean temperatures as measured secretly by the Argo buoys. Jim Hansen and Al Gore, how about some non-fiction computer models? What ever happened to Truth in Climate?

(A millimeter, mm, is .0394 inches).

Read more at UC-Boulder Sea Level Change or Global Cooling Real.

From Andrew Bolt, H/T Tom Nelson

If these data can be validated and they confirm what appears to be cooling oceans as measured by the 3000+ floating and diving sensors of Argo, then warming is the least of our worries.

Should observes CO2 levels start to decline over the next year or so, then that would correspond to overall cooling of oceans, as the solubility of CO2 in the oceans increases as the water gets colder. A “minor” dip in average, near-surface ocean temperature would negate all man-made CO2 release.

The decline in ocean temperature is most likely to be caused by a reduction in heating by the sun; by direct decline in the sun’s intensity; by an increase in low cloud cover, or a combination of both.

A prolonged cooling will only be a problem if we are denied access to affordable and abundant energy. That’s a certainty.

berfel of Perth (Reply)
Thu 26 Jun 08 (12:53am)

New Ice Age On Its Way

Jim Hansen’s comprehensive computer models indisputably revealed that Cycle 24 would start up in March; then May. As of June 25, no Cycle 24.

Jim Hansen does not have a clue about when Cycle 24 will start, because he has been utterly absorbed in extorting carbon ransom from successful (capitalist) economies. Other responsible scientists, by the thousands have deplored the distortion, lies, and pathetically bad science. Still, your tax dollars exclusively feed global warming hysteria, Al Gore and Jim Hansen’s personal gold mine.

Relevant to food, our supply of the same is utterly dependent on the generous growing seasons of the recent warm period. We have no margin in food productivity for icy exigency, as this latest spring growing season demonstrated.

Which Solar cycle is it, that will mark another Solar shut-down as occurred in 1650, and numerous, perhaps uncountable, occasions before? Is it Cycle 24? Sunspot-free days are only one of many poorly understood and criminally under-researched characteristics of our only source of warmth, the Sun.

The Solar shut-down of 1650, called the Maunder Minimum, drastically abbreviated crop growing seasons and resulted in large-scale human suffering and death.

A New Ice Age is absolutely on its way, as Al Gore, Jim Hansen, and affiliated parasites line their pockets and divert scientific effort from its legitimate purpose; the grain riots have already started. Could it be the reluctant Cycle 24?

H/T: Cycle 24; see Trend Charts

Get Your Obama Magic Solar Energy Beans

Doug Ross Story

More drilling will not reduce oil prices; when ever has increased supply undercut the price of a commodity before? When has the promise of increased supply ever dimmed the ardor of speculators, before? What ever would cause the price of a commodity to decrease, when its supply increases, anyway? Obviously, we can’t drill our way out of this.

Since oil is a predominant cause of the Earth’s temperature going up, you need Obama’s Magic Solar Energy Beans instead.

If your crops suffer vast widespread failure due to Global Chilling in the current Al Gore Minimum, you can cook up a mess of the Magic Solar Energy Beans instead of pouring them into your tank. Recipe book available. Just remember how warm the Earth was supposed to be (according to advanced COMPUTER models), and enjoy those Obama Magic Solar Energy Beans.

Deja Vu: We did this before, in those progressive Jimmy Carter years!

If solar energy is the solution, what exactly is, and when was, the problem, “progressives?”

Why hasn’t solar energy done anything for us, since Jimmy Carter?

Democrat Climatology and Economics

1. Increasing the supply of oil will not reduce its price.
2. Photovoltaics work GREAT at night; A watt at night is just as cheap as a watt at noon, with photovoltaics. (When you need energy at night, you should REMEMBER the energy you had at noon).
3. Silicon has been unavailable to make photovoltaics and chips because of Bush and Cheney and Big Oil.
4. Higher transportation costs of food will help Americans lose weight.
5. Wind power is fine, in red states.
6. The oceans temperatures are insignificant if they are going down.
7. Cosmic rays are a Republican invention.
8. ANWR and Florida off-shore are exquisitely fragile ecosystems, because oil exists under them.
9. Antarctic ice is just about gone.
10. Chinese environmental practices are far advanced beyond American Big Oil and thus not threatening the exquisitely fragile ecosystem off-shore Florida localized above the oil.
11. Economic progress, if centrally planned, will revolutionize humanity (as it has before). This can be called “change.”
12. Temperature is insignificant if it is going down.
13. American oil companies have caused the high gasoline prices in the US and China.
14. Commodity markets have a rule that speculators only can purchase oil on margin; and not sell it on margin.
15. Speculators are unconcerned about the supply of oil increasing. They will only continue to drive prices up no matter how much supply is increased.
16. Comprehensive, central planning makes the best economy. Energy is only one example.
17. Democrats are good at planning oil production. See?
18. Prudhoe Bay’s exquisitely fragile ecosystem only looks healthy today.
19. The brilliance of ethanol from corn is a shining example of the benefits of comprehensive central planning.
20. Grain products cause obesity anyway.

Much more to come. Or add yours.

YES, We Can!

We can drill our way out of this. We got into this by not drilling. If we keep not drilling, we will get only further into it.

If we are NOT DRILLING more oil when Iran attacks Israel as it promises to do, we will have less oil than if we are drilling more oil. Is this clear? In point of fact, we will always have more oil if we drill for it than if we don’t, ALWAYS. No matter what the premise. No matter what happens in the Middle-east, or Nigeria, or Venezuela, or Mexico. If you want a helpless, defenseless, moribund America, make us more dependent on foreign oil and foreign powers by not drilling; you are already having a smashing success.

“We can’t drill our way out of this” is practically an oxymoron (upon prolonged reconsideration, it is absolutely an oxymoron). There is every way in which drilling can get us out of this; and there is no way in which drilling more oil cannot get us out of it, because “it” is having less oil.

Speculators will sell oil rapidly when they are convinced we will drill. Same for gasoline.

Stop forcing speculators to buy oil by assuring them we will not drill! If you don’t like speculators bidding up oil, you have only to convince them we will drill for it. They will sell it by the gigaton. They will run away from it like the plague.

Yes we can drill our way out of this. If we can do anything at all, we can drill our way out of this.

Or maybe you prefer Americans do without energy? Without Energy Life Is Brutal and Short. You think America should revert (progress) back to the village? Is that what you mean when you say “Yes, we can revert back to the village?”

Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less

Global Warming Summary

Joe D’Aleo, of ICECAP, succinctly summarizes global warming below.

Ethanol from What Corn?

Ethanol plants are shutting down; a corn crop disaster is imminent.

Al Gore’s Nobel prize plan to burn food is letting us down. The alternative source of energy is once again proven to be a bad alternative. Got any more good ideas, Al?

“This year it has been cold and wet since April. So the plants that are flooded are dead or under stress, and the plants not flooded are under stress as well, because they are so behind in development.”

We need more American oil coming to market.

INTERVIEW-Flooded Iowa crops face heavy yield losses 13 Jun 2008 22:12:31 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Julie Ingwersen

CHICAGO, June 13 (Reuters) – About one-quarter of Iowa’s soybean acres and at least 8 percent of the state’s corn either have not been seeded or will need replanting due to flooding, an Iowa State University agronomist said in an interview on Friday.

Planting at this late date, farmers can expect significant yield losses, ISU extension agronomist Palle Pedersen said. And with many areas still under water, farmers are unlikely to be able to get in their fields for several more days.

“Nobody is going to be able to plant this weekend because it is so wet here. It is going to be next week” at the earliest, he said.

Farmers planting soybeans in mid-June can expect only about 60 percent of optimal yield. By waiting until early July, yield potential drops to 33 to 50 percent.

For corn, Pedersen said, “Right now, planting in middle of June, it’s 70 percent of your yield potential. In early July, it will be 50 percent.”

“So we are not going to beat our record in Iowa this year,” Pedersen said.

Iowa grows more corn than any other U.S. state and is typically the largest or second-largest soybean producer. Last year, Iowa farmers grew 2.368 billion bushels of corn — nearly one-fifth of the U.S. crop — and 439 million bushels of soybeans.

This year, Iowa farmers expected to plant 13.2 million acres of corn and 9.8 million acres of soybeans, according to a March forecast from the U.S. Agriculture Department.

Using Pedersen’s figures, some 2.4 million acres of the state’s intended soybeans and 1 million acres of soybeans could face yield losses of 50 percent.

Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey toured farm fields in the Creston, Iowa, area on Friday. More than 10 inches (25 cm) of rain has fallen in the city of Creston so far this month.

“We have a lot of fields yet in this state that are not planted,” Northey told reporters.

“We have about 2 percent of the corn — which doesn’t sound like a lot, but in Iowa that still mounts up — that have not been planted; about 14 percent of the soybeans that have not been planted,” Northey said.

In addition, he said: “About 7 percent of the corn, 6 percent of the soybeans have been drowned out.”

WORSE THAN 1993?

Grain experts have been drawing comparisons between current conditions and the flood of 1993, when the Mississippi River flooded its banks in the heart of the U.S. Corn Belt, resulting in the smallest U.S. corn crop in almost 20 years.

In that year, the heaviest rains came in June and July, after the corn and soy crops had a chance to get established.

The 2008 crops may be worse off, Pedersen said, because a cool, wet spring slowed or prevented early growth.

“This year it has been cold and wet since April. So the plants that are flooded are dead or under stress, and the plants not flooded are under stress as well, because they are so behind in development.”

“These numbers you see (for late-planted yield reductions) are under perfect conditions, and we are not dealing with that now.” (Reporting by Christine Stebbins, writing by Julie Ingwersen; Editing by Marguerita Choy)

Investigate US Congress

The US Congress throttles oil supply with whimsical prohibitions; and sputters about “global warming.”

Oil demand in China, India, and ROW grows much faster than oil demand in the United States.

US “Big Oil” does not increase demand in China; nor does it throttle supply in the United States.

There is one, exactly one, guilty party: The United States Congress.

Taxpayers should demand information from the US Congress on why it prohibits oil production here.

Why does the US Congress prohibit new nuclear power generation here, when it is commonplace in the ROW?

Is the US Congress enriching itself by selling useless carbon credits; while paralyzing the economy of the United States?

These people, the US Congress, point their fingers at “speculators” or “big oil.”

Drill here, drill now, pay less. Supply, demand, and the US Congress set oil and gasoline prices.

Don’t believe that speculators, or “big oil,” determines supply and demand.

The US Congress has decided there will be no supply. Speculators know it; you should too.

Church of the Environment Unconcerned About Corn

We may have a serious problem. Kansas farmers are now trying to figure out how to grow cool-climate corn; but they are receiving little help. We don’t have to speculate that other states are also experiencing problems like “cold-weather crown stress.” See: Downtown Farmers Market draws 10,000. In Iowa “Menzel said Salt Fork Farms also felt the effect of the cold, wet weather — some of his crops failed and others were growing slowly.” Our “progressive” government’s concern is to prevent the problem we do not have: global warming caused by excess carbon dioxide. They are not concerned with trivialities like corn and vegetables, in spite of the cacophony of warning signals. In spite of the food riots, the grain shortages with explosive price increases, our government at the behest of unconscious charlatans devotes its study to massive wealth redistribution schemes (Krauthammer: Carbon Chastity The First Commandment of the Church of the Environment) aimed at a specter. Corn was already expensive; what is the jeopardy to this years crop? Next years? Our government does not care. It has another agenda entirely. It is off in a make-believe world of Global Warming, as Earth gets cold.

Far from an isolated instance, crop difficulties can be expected broadly across North America and elsewhere in the world, where it is now cold, and perhaps getting colder.

H/T: Tom Nelson

K-State Ag Today: Cold-weather crown stress
In many places, the corn growing season got off to a cool, damp start. Those conditions may have given rise to what’s known as cold-weather crown stress.

K-State Research and Extension row crop disease specialist Doug Jardine says affected plants often show unusual nutrient symptoms, such as being pot ash, phosphorous, or nitrogen deficient. He says they’ll have an off-yellow color and typically be stunted.

At this point, there’s nothing a producer can do to counter cold-weather crown stress. In terms of eventual yields, Jardine says drought stress in August would have a greater impact than a cool summer with timely rains.

The K-State Soil Testing Lab has updated its Web site to guide different customers, such as farmers, agronomists, homeowners and researchers, to their specific needs. Each customer now has a different pathway to submit a soil test or leaf analysis.

The site also has general information related to soil fertility and nutrient management. A publications section has also been added to help answer questions about fertilizer recommendations and applications, nutrient deficiency symptoms, and nutrient management. The easiest way to get to the Web site is through the Agronomy home page.