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THE FORGOTTEN CASE FOR GLOBAL COOLING
By Phil Brennan
Cooling? Global refrigeration instead of Global
barbecuing? You bet. And there's a heck of a lot more
solid scientific evidence that what the world is
facing is the onset of a new ice age than there is
behind the very fragile global warming theory.
Up until the mid-Seventies there was general agreement
among researchers, who studied such arcane signs of
the far distant past as sedimentary deposits on the
ocean floor, that sooner or later a new ice age was in
the cards for this planet. Even the CIA signed on to
the idea that the iceman cometh.
The idea that an ice age was approaching was based on
history, not hysteria -- the motivating force behind
global warming studies. And what history taught
paleoclimatological scientists engaged in what is
known as quaternary research, is the incontrovertible
fact that the earth has experienced a long series of
ice ages occurring as regular as clockwork -- 100,000
years of glaciation followed by 10-to-12,000 years of
interglaciation.
There is, they maintained, no reason to believe that
what appears to be an immutable law of nature has
somehow been miraculously repealed and the cycle of
glaciation and interglaciation ended.
No reason, except for political expediency.
Here's a sample of the kind of thing that was being
discussed back in the mid-seventies by that part of
the scientific community that dealt with the
geological history of climate changes:
"The present interglacial interval -- which has now
lasted for about 10,000 years -- represents a climatic
regime that is relatively rare during the past million
years, most of which has been occupied by colder,
glacial regimes. Only during about 8 percent of the
past 700,000 years has the earth experienced climates
as warm or warmer than the present.
"The penultimate interglacial age began about 125,000
years ago, and lasted for approximately 10,000 years.
Similar interglacial ages -- each lasting 10,000 plus
or minus 2000 years and each followed by a glacial
maximum -- have occurred on the average every 100,000
years during at least the past half-million years.
"During this period, fluctuations of the northern
hemisphere ice sheets caused sea level variations of
the order of 100 meters." (Understanding Climate
Change, published by the National Academy of Sciences
in 1975 -- page 181).
On page 189 the question was asked: "When will the
present interglacial [period] end?
"Few paleoclimatoligists would dispute that the
prominent warm periods (or interglacials) that have
followed each of the terminations of the major
glaciations have had durations of 10,000 plus or minus
2000 years. In each case, a period of considerably
colder climate has followed immediately after the
interglacial interval.
Since about 10,000 years have passed since the onset
of the present period of prominent warmth, the
question naturally arises as to whether we are indeed
on the brink of a period of colder climate."
"The question remains unsolved."
A study prepared for the 95th Congress in 1978 agreed
with the National Academy of Sciences position as
explained in the above-quoted study. The document
Weather Modification: Programs, Problems, Policy and
Potential warned:
"In geological prospective, the case for cooling is
strong ... If this interglacial age lasts no longer
than a dozen earlier ones in the past million years,
as recorded in deep sea sediments, we may reasonably
suppose the world is about due to slide into the next
ice age."
The only question remaining is exactly when and how
glaciation will begin.
Remember, what we are dealing with here is historic
evidence -- not a widely disputed theory as is the
case with global warming.
For complete article go to:
http://www.pvbr.com/Issue_1/global.htm
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