Historic Global Cooling Possible
Published by AJStrata at 6:25 pm under All General Discussions, Global Warming
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Fate has a habit of slapping down human arrogance in a such a manner as to establish historic examples of how mankind should not take itself too seriously. This decade’s lesson on hubris will be tied to the man-made Global Warming fanatics led by Al Gore and the UN’s IPCC. For nearly 3 decades these people have been crying the end of the world is nigh because of runaway Global Warming caused by increases in CO2 levels caused by mankind.
What these fanatics never admit is that the record warmth in the late 20th century, which peaked in 1998, is not the hottest period mankind has experienced in the last 5,000 years. Nor was it the second hottest, or even the third hottest. As the following historic chart shows, the top three warm periods in the last 5,000 years coincide with massive advancements in mankind’s civilization.
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The hottest and longest period of warmth was during the Bronze age, when the Minoans were leading humankind into a new era. The second place warm spell, which was about as warm but much shorter was during the Roman Empire, another period where humanity advanced significantly. The 3rd warmest spike in global temperatures was in the Medieval times right before the Dark Ages - when the Little Ice Age brought disease and famine and heartache to the world.
The Little Ice Age was the coolest period of the last 5,000 years, and we have been slowly warming up ever since. The thawing from the Little Ice Age brought humanity the Renaissance, the Industrial Age, the Computer Age and the Internet Age. As usual, when we are not required to fight for survival we have the opportunities to grow and evolve.
Now fate is preparing to slap all humanity down with a heavy reminder of how large and dominating nature is, and how small and helpless mankind is. If people though Katrina was a powerful act of nature, we may on the verge of seeing something even more humbling . And it will not be Global Warming:
As we’ve noted, 2008 has been a year of records for cold and snowfall and may indeed be the coldest year of the 21st century thus far. In the U.S., the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month of October.
Global thermometers stopped rising after 1998, and have plummeted in the last two years by more than 0.5 degrees Celsius. The 2007-2008 temperature drop was not predicted by global climate models. But it was predictable by a decline in sunspot activity since 2000.
When the sun is active, it’s not uncommon to see sunspot numbers of 100 or more in a single month. Every 11 years, activity slows, and numbers briefly drop near zero. Normally sunspots return very quickly, as a new cycle begins. But this year, the start of a new cycle, the sun has been eerily quiet.
The first seven months averaged a sunspot count of only three and in August there were no sunspots at all — zero — something that has not occurred since 1913.
According to the publication Daily Tech, in the past 1,000 years, three previous such events — what are called the Dalton, Maunder and Sporer Minimums — have all led to rapid cooling. One was large enough to be called the Little Ice Age (1500-1750).
We know there has been a decade of cooling since 1998, which has accelerated this year. We have seen the solar activity drop and the world’s ocean currents respond as predicted prior to a large cooling off. There are now many scientists who think we may see at least two decades of cooling - maybe more.
While I like to be right, I don’t like to be right to the point vast numbers of humanity suffer to make the point. But if we are heading into a cooling period with a shrinking economy, things my get a lot worse before they get better. And all the while humanity will marvel at the silly arrogance of those who once claimed to be all-knowing and able to predict the future with perfection.
And to think it all comes down to those strange sunspots. Maybe if people understood the scale of sunspots they would understand why their absence can have such a huge effect on the Earth. I have found something to help humanity gain that perspective - and a good dose of humility as well.
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