Far from being the runaway non-stop human-caused global warming trend being hysterically prognosticated by devotees to Al Gore and “An Inconvenient Truth”, a growing number of scientists soberly studying the effects of the sun on earth climate are predicting that the sun may in fact be on the verge of delivering a climate cooling cycle to the planet.
“Climate stability has never been a feature of planet earth,” says R. Timothy Patterson, a professor and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre, Department of Earth Sciences at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
In an article in the Financial Post, Patterson writes, “The only constant about climate is change; it changes continually and, at times, quite rapidly. Many times in the past, [global] temperatures were far higher than today, and occasionally, temperatures were colder.”
“As recently as 6,000 years ago, it was about 3 degress Celsius WARMER than [it is] now. Ten thousand years ago, while the world was coming out of the thousand-year-long ‘Younger Dryas’ cold episode, temperatures rose as much as 6 degrees Celsius in a decade, or one HUNDRED times FASTER than the past century’s.”
Dr. Patterson is one of the many who insist that even though advocates of anthropogenic global warming theories such as Al Gore are insisting that the “science is settled”, that this is far from being the case.
“The fact that science is many years away from properly understanding global climate doesn’t seem to bother our leaders at all,” Patterson writes. “Inviting testimony only from those who don’t question political orthodoxy on the issue, parliamentarians are charging ahead with the impossible and expensive goal of ’stopping global climate change.’”
Many solar scientists are now predicting that, “by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on earth,” and therefore leading to a countering cooling trend – not more warming.
In light of such evidence, it is quite possible that the next few decades will see a resurgence of the “global cooling” hysteria of the early 1970’s, as political activists adjust their tactics to better fit increasingly unavoidable realities.
Astrophysicist Nir Shariv, a prolific researcher and one of Israel’s top young scientists who was cited by Patterson, no longer accepts the logic of man-made global warming.
“Like many others, I was personally sure that CO2 is the bad culprit in the story of global warming,” Shariv recently wrote. “But after carefully digging into the evidence, I realized that things are far more complicated than the story sold to us by many climate scientists or the stories regurgitated by the media.”
According to Dr. Shariv there “is no concrete evidence – only speculation – that manmade greenhouse gases cause global warming.”
“Even research from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is bereft of anything here inspiring confidence,” Shariv says.
“Solar activity can explain a large part of the 20th-century global warming,” Shariv states, adding that “the sun’s strong role indicates that greenhouse gases can’t have much of an influence on the climate, nor will cutbacks in future C02 emissions will matter much in terms of the climate.”
“Even DOUBLING the amount of atmospheric CO2 by 2100,” Shaviv states, “will not dramatically increase the global temperature.”
An article previously located at climatecentral.org, now found at iceagenow.com, states that should solar activity take a dive tomorrow, global temperatures would quickly drop significantly.
“Solar activity has overpowered any effect that CO2 has had before, and it most likely will again,” the article states. “A solar minimum that will peak in 2030 that could be fairly large. As we saw from a minor solar minimum in the mid 1900s, the earth suddenly started to cool.”
While the site and some current advocates of global cooling theories take the view that the likely effects of a global cooling trend will be far more catastophic than any likely to be experienced by a continued warming trend, the point is clear.
Not only is the case and the science “proving” anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming not settled, uncertain at best, and far from compelling, but strong evidence exists that when it comes to the causes, and to the mitigation of global climate change – nature will trump humanity, every time.
