Thread: Its snowing, and i mean snowing

Put this under your Greenhouse gases and smoke it...

'Forget global warming, prepare for Ice Age' | NEWS.com.au

SUNSPOT activity has not resumed up after hitting an 11-year low in March last year, raising fears that - far from warming - the globe is about to return to an Ice Age.

Astronaut and geophysicist Phil Chapman, the first Australian to become an astronaut with NASA, said pictures from the US Solar and Heliospheric Observatory showed no spots on the sun.

He said the world cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7C.

"This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930," Dr Chapman writes in The Australian today.

"If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over."

The Bureau of Meteorology says temperatures in Australia have been warmer than the 1960-90 average since the late 1970s, barring a couple of cooler years, and are now 0.3C higher than the long-term average.

A sunspot is a region on the sun that is cooler than the rest and appears dark.

Some scientists believe a strong solar magnetic field, when there is plenty of sunspot activity, protects the earth from cosmic rays, cutting cloud formation, but that when the field is weak - during low sunspot activity - the rays can penetrate into the lower atmosphere and cloud cover increases, cooling the surface.

But scientists from the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Bolder, Colorado published a report in 2006 that showed the sun had a negligible effect on climate change.

The researchers wrote in the journal Nature that the sun's brightness varied by only 0.07per cent over 11-year sunspot cycles, and that that was far too little to account for the rise in temperatures since the Industrial Revolution.

Dr Chapman proposes preventive, or delaying, moves to slow the cooling, such as bulldozing Siberian and Canadian snow to make it dirty and less reflective. "

My guess is that the odds are now at least 50:50 that we will see significant cooling rather than warming in coming decades," he writes.

global warming is what will/would/could cause an ice-age. i forget the details now, but a few years ago i studied up on it for an assignment. it's something to do with the melting ice caps release cool water into certain ocean currents and it has an effect on evaporation or something, which effects clouds-rainfall-sun penetration,etc. one of those visious(sp?) cycle setups. i'm sure someone here can elaborate and correct my erors.

i still wish it would snow here in adelaide though.

Well, the earth will probably go through another ice age

Scientists have found million year old human fossils with very good dental work

We just send ourselves into self destruct mode and start again...

Do do do .. bring on the X Files

You know the drill Ace.
Without pics it didnt happen!!!
Andrew

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

Oh Dear. Poor cockroaches. I am sitting here in shorts and short sleeved shirt. Bright sunshine and 28 degrees today in Brisbane. You can always move house.

It is supposed to be the coldest night in nine years in Brisbane tonight

I'm with LandyAndy.. where's the pics

as for wanting snow in southern Adelaide HELL YEAH! (You should see our street and how steep the drive is!)

Originally Posted by simonr23

global warming is what will/would/could cause an ice-age.

Harhar. So global warming will cause an ice age now

And its all because I keep driving that dirty big V8 and diesel, and I insist on using a wood fire to keep warm - in fact I insist on staying warm and not shivering in the dark but guilt free

Sheese I remember the dire warnings in the 70's about how we were all going to freeze to death, or starve to death, or run out of water,...

I don't so much mind the guilt mongers. You can ignore them like the Joho's who knock on the door, but I get damned annoyed when politicians take that as an excuse to slap another flamin' tax on

Interestin this global warming etc.
The southwest of WA has had record rainfall so far this year.
Everything down here is so green,the sod busters are going to have a bumper year if it keeps raining,much of the crops are almost all in around here and its alot earlier than their normal start up!!!
Andrew