30 Years: Cooling Coming

post by unknown author on Fox News , Jan. 11, 2010

From Miami to Maine, Savannah to Seattle, America is caught in an icy grip that one of the U.N.’s top global warming proponents says could mark the beginning of a mini ice age. Millions of tropical fish are dying in Florida, and it could be just the beginning of a decades-long deep freeze, says Professor Mojib Latif, one of the world’s leading climate modelers.

Latif thinks the cold snap Americans have been suffering through is only the beginning. He says we’re in for 30 years of cooler temperatures—a mini ice age, he calls it, basing his theory on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the world’s oceans. Latif, a professor at the Leibniz Institute at Germany’s Kiel University and an author of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, believes the lengthy cold weather is merely a pause—a 30-years-long blip—in the larger cycle of global warming, which postulates that temperatures will rise rapidly over the coming years.

At a U.N. conference in September, Latif said that changes in ocean currents known as the North Atlantic Oscillation could dominate over manmade global warming for the next few decades. Latif said the fluctuations in these currents could also be responsible for much of the rise in global temperatures seen over the past 30 years. Latif is a key member of the U.N.’s climate research arm, which has long promoted the concept of global warming. He told the Daily Mail that “a significant share of the warming we saw from 1980 to 2000 and at earlier periods in the 20th Century was due to these cycles—perhaps as much as 50 percent.”

[I’m a little confused. Many say the 1900’s have been cooler than the 1800’s. It is just confusing to them when we have a hot summer? I do understand this confusion. In the 1970’s and 1980’s we had icicles in the winter, our school closed for a week each winter because of frozen pipes. In the 1990’s and early 2000’s, we hadn’t had a winter like that. In 2004, 2008, and 2009 winters, here in South Louisiana we had snow. It didn’t stay for long–the 2004 was the worst, but it snowed. From my experience living here in South Louisiana, conditions have to be perfect and Earth has to be really cool for it to snow. In the 1970’s and 1980’s, it didn’t snow but once that I can remember. The year was 1989 and it was so cold we had black ice and huge chucks of ice going down the bayou. So, this baffles me with the global warming stuff. They still don’t get Earth’s natural cycle, do they? Earth warms and cools naturally. It doesn’t matter how much smoke man makes. You don’t think they burned stuff in the 1300’s, or even before Christ? Manmade global warming—every time I read those words, I laugh. If you took science in school before 1990, you wouldn’t see those words because it didn’t exist! It was someone’s theory and to promote it would make them rich, and it did, and the world bought into it. Just like Darwin. All based on speculation and to get popular. Child’s play. You have to be smarted than that. This is what happens when greed and lust get in the way.]

The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSICD) agrees that the cold temperatures are unusual, and that the world’s oceans may play a part in temperatures on land. “Has ocean variability contributed to variations in surface temperature? Absolutely, no one’s denying that,” said Mark Serreze, senior research scientist with NSIDC. But the Center disagrees with Latif’s conclusions, instead arguing that the cold snap is still another sign of global warming. “We are indeed starting to see the effects of the rise in greenhouse gases,” he said.

[Amazing. The icebergs melt and grow. Again, a natural cycle. Earth has gone through many ice ages. Just because man hasn’t seen it, they have to speculate that it won’t happen again. Do you think pass civilizations just disappeared into thin air? The fact is, man hasn’t been around to record an ice age, so they don’t know what to expect, so they make up assumptions to explain to the world what they think is going on. They basically do this to control mass hysteria. It’s logical in a way, but condemning in another. In hurricane world, it’s better to be prepared than not. The hurricane may die, and some have, but we still are prepared. The truth is they don’t know! They have no idea what triggers or what begins an ice age cycle. To be honest, the Indians who pay attention and respect Earth are probably the only ones who really know what’s going on. Maybe these scientist should visit them! I would believe a true Earth-respecting Indian before a scientist any day.]

Many parts of the world have been suffering through record-setting snowfalls and arctic temperatures. The Midwest saw wind chills as low as 49° below zero last week, while Europe saw snows so heavy that Eurostar train service and air travel were canceled across much of the continent. In Asia, Beijing was hit by its heaviest snowfall in 60 years. And as for the cold weather? “This is just the roll of the dice, the natural variability inherent to the system,” explained Serreze.

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article erroneously reported that the NSIDC reports concluded that the warming of the Earth since 1900 is due to natural oceanic cycles.