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To: KyrosL who wrote (86796)	2/3/2012 8:40:39 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 218007

Thanks Kyros. They have done good graphs and detail. It was surprising to me that so few [if any] people were able to see what seemed to be staring me in the face when I looked at the historical records. In the 1950s and 1960s, Auckland's climate was hot and wonderful. In recent times it has been distinctly cool to cold with little need to try to cool off by swimming. I had no idea in the 1950s and 1960s that it actually was hot. It was all I had known. I did notice the coolness of recent times. Now there are graphs detailing the cause. Because of the very rapid reduction in absorption of light when snow covers ground and water, temperature drops can be very rapid. Clouds form at the dew point which moves south from the Arctic which increases the area of cloud formation since surface areas are larger further from the poles [for a given number of degrees of latitude]. 10 degrees of latitude at Athens is a LOT more area than 10 degrees at Stockholm. So with combined cloud and snow rapidly increasing solar reflection, temperature drops and snowfall accumulation can be very rapid. In just 3 years, Earth could cool right into a Little Ice Age, or worse. Mqurice

To: KyrosL who wrote (86796)	2/3/2012 10:21:07 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 218007

US economy continues down the muddle through non apocalyptic path... so is it hanging on by its fingernails or pulling itself up by its bootstraps... or is it election year smoke and mirrors.. I would be interested to know how many of the US jobs generated were based directly or indirectly to fracking... I am still rooting for the non apocalyptic scenario.. but prepared for the worst :O)

To: KyrosL who wrote (86796)	2/3/2012 12:08:29 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218007

The paper relayed on only one solar cycle we will know for sure if true only in another 11 to 14 years. The energy absorbed by earth is lower by less then 1/17 watt per m2 from around 1366 wat/m2. This is not a trend it is a speculation on the trend.