Back to the topic
Well, it seems that, as usual, somebody starts a topic about “chewin-gum” and then somebody starts discussing about “pianos”. And, what is much worse, everybody gets caught in the attempt to destroy the other guy’s posts, trying to make the guy look as a fool. Let’s go back to the beginning, please.
What the president of the Woods Hole Institution is saying, can be summarized by: “1) Global warming can trigger an Ice Age.
2) If we want to avoid the ice age, then we must cool the atmosphere.
As a cool atmosphere is characteristic of ice Ages, we can expect an Ice Age onset if the atmosphere starts cooling more than usual. It has happened before, with the so called “Medieval Little Ace Age” (1250 AD-1840 AD, give or take a few decades).
As Earth climate warmed between 850 AD to 1250 AD about 2°C above present temperatures (without the Apocalyptic events predicted for our present warming), it seems quite plausible that a warming can lead us to an Ice Age, at least, a short one as the Medieval Ice Age. But, who knows for sure? As warm periods follow cold periods (being the cold ones much, much longer than the warm ones), there seems that these changes in climate are <b>something natural</b> –hence, <b>unavoidable</b>. As Alfred Neumann (MAD) says: <b>“What, Me worry?”</b>
A step further, the current hype about Global ]Warming, is about the catastrophic consequences the <b>warmth</b> will have on mankind, not the <b>cold</b>. So now comes these people saying, as Chicken Little: <I>“The sky will fall if we keep warming the Earth”</I> Who’s warming the Earth? <b>WE?</b> Are you nuts? Where are the proofs, the evidence? Computer Models are the evidence? Satellite measurements tell otherwise. No warming trend –just a slight cooling trend.
Of course, the guy at the Woods Hole have an axe to grind, and that is <b>more money (government) for research</b>. Politicians are stingy, as we know (not with regard to their own spending, of course) but for giving money away that could be of public benefit. They only way to make them open their pockets (pardon me, <b>OUR pockets</b>), is to scare them enough. The old trick of putting a gun on someone’s skull saying: “gimme your wallet”.
So, at the end of the long, long and boring article, here comes the truth: <I>“One of my colleagues at Woods Hole, Terry Joyce, put it this way: “I’m in the dark as to how close to an edge or transition to a new ocean and climate regime we might be,” he said. “But I know which way we are walking. We are walking toward the cliff.”</I>
If he doesn’t know where he is standing, how can he tell in which direction he is heading? He is in the dark, he said it… Nonsense.
Good. The old trick of the gun pointed at our skulls. But, as this could not be scary enough, the author adds the cherry on top: <I>“To that sentiment, I would add this: We are walking toward the edge of a cliff—<b>blindfolded</b>. Our ability to understand the potential for future abrupt changes in climate is limited by our lack of understanding of the processes that control them. Maybe over the edge of the cliff, there’s just a three-inch drop-off. Or maybe there’s a big, fluffy bed full of pillows. My worry is that we are indeed approaching this cliff blindfolded. Are you comfortable and secure with this scenario?”</I>
<b>Yes, I am.</b> His <I>“lack of understanding of the processes that control them”</I>, does not deter him from scaring people with the Global Warming scare, trying to push an idiotic Kyoto Treaty that will have really catastrophic consequences on mankind. But they don’t care, as long as they get the money for research (and food, clothes, rent, SUVs, holidays in Bermuda, etc); they don’t care if the poorest countries and their starving people go to hell. <I>“We’ll be better off without them”.</I>
And do you know why they don’t care? Because they know global Warming <b>is not happening</b>, on the contrary, the reverse seems to be occurring. And because they know about this, they are anticipating the events: <I>“See, we told you that if we kept warming the atmosphere, an Ice Age would develop”</I>. <b>Bullshit.</b> They recognize their ignorance and build all their scary stories on top of that ignorance. Luckily, there still are people and scientists with brains, that are not fooled by these scaremongers.
