Solar Scientist:

"The next ice age is overdue"

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7 Jul 07 - Solar scientist David Archibald's paper to Lavoisier Group seminar showing evidence that the world will cool between now and 2030.

Excerpts: "The next ice age is overdue.

 

"Ken Schatten is the solar physicist with the best track record in predicting solar cycles. His work suggests a return to the advancing glaciers and delayed spring snow melt of the Little Ice Age, for an indeterminate period.

 

"In the near term, the Earth will experience a significant cooling due to a quieter Sun.

 

"In a few short years, we will have a reversal of the warming of the 20th century.

 

"Our generation has bathed in the warm glow of a benign, giving Sun, but the next will suffer a Sun that is less giving, and the Earth will be less fruitful.

 

"If it doesn’t feel hotter than it was in 1980, it is because it isn’t hotter than it was in 1980.

 

"Most rural temperature records in the United States were set in the 1930s and 1940s. Greenland had its highest recorded temperatures in the 1930s and has been cooler since.

 

"The hottest year to date in the United States was 1936.

 

"What I have shown in this presentation is that carbon dioxide is largely irrelevant to the Earth’s climate. The carbon dioxide that Mankind will put into the atmosphere over the next few hundred years will offset a couple of millennia of post-Holocene Optimum cooling before we plunge into the next ice age.

 

"There is no correlation in the geologic record between atmospheric carbon dioxide and global temperature. The Earth went into an ice age 450 million years ago despite a level of atmospheric carbon dioxide that is ten times what it is today.

 

"There are no deleterious consequences of higher atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

 

"Higher atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are wholly beneficial. Anthropogenic Global Warming is so minuscule that the effect cannot be measured from year to year, and even from generation to generation.

 

"Coral reefs first formed back in the Devonian period when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were ten times what they are today."

 

See entire paper (all 24 pages) at:

http://www.nzclimatescience.org/images/PDF...chibald2007.pdf

 

A load of rubbish imo, i highly doubt another ice age is due, though with a summer like this years i wouldnt be surprised :mellow:

 

 

Absolute c**p, the polar ice caps are MELTING over recent years because of rising temperatures, the chances of there being another ice age while the polar ice caps and glaciers are melting is as high as me becoming pope

strange ... its a known fact that something like 8 out of the ten hottest years globaly recorded have been since 1990.

 

however he is correct in saying historically theres no correlation between co2 and the earths temperature. the earth is warming up due to higher solar activity, and yes, it IS warmer then 1980!

a lot of these be green, be carbon neutral messages are just another way for governments to make 'green taxes' to drain us of more money, and no better way to get the public's backing for these than scaremongering us all with scientists gathering together to come up with irrelevant facts. Yes we may have the hottest 8 years on record recently but those records don't go back centuries and millennia to the past ice ages.

The melting of Ice caps could easily trigger an Ice Age due to the massive amounts of water being added back into the oceans - the film The Day After Tomorrow was a tiny bit accurate.

 

Anyhow, the term Ice Age is very misleading - it should be called then Dramatic Change Age as temperatures fluctuate widely between tropical and freezing.

The melting of Ice caps could easily trigger an Ice Age due to the massive amounts of water being added back into the oceans

 

Exactly what I was going to point out.