-Caveat Lector- --- Steve Wingate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would you care to provide a source for this > quotation? Steve _____________________________________________________ Nakano replies: Glad to. http://www.pvbr.com/Issue_1/global.htm http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1378/global1.htm http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1378/global2.htm
The Forgotten Case for Global Cooling By Phil Brennan PART ONE Foreword "Is the world heating up? Will the polar ice caps melt, raise the sea levels and inundate the coastal areas of the world? Will Florida disappear beneath the waves? Is humanity facing a fiery cataclysm from global warming? Is mankind in the process of radically altering the earth's climate by thoughtlessly emitting monstrous quantities of so-called "greenhouse gasses." Or is it all a lot of hooey? The answer to these questions is of absolute importance to all Americans who value their liberty, because as Kim Weissman explained in a recent column, behind all the rhetoric about global warming and mankind's culpability for this impending disaster is a shrewdly planned campaign to inflict a lot of socialistic restrictions on our cherished freedoms. Environmentalism, in short, is the last refuge of socialism. It is no accident that one of those in the forefront of the global warming alarmists is one Michael Gorbachev, an unrepentant socialist who appears to believe if you can't lick 'em one way, find another. The panic over global warming has totally ignored historical knowledge about the constant cycle of glaciation and interglaciation -- the record that shows for at least the last 700,000 years the earth has undergone an ice age every 100,000 years without fail. Paleoclimatological studies have revealed that these ice ages lasted about 90,000 years, and were followed by interglacial periods of temperate climate lasting from 10,000 to 12,000 years. The last ice age ended more than 10,800 years ago, indicating that we are approaching the end of the present interglacial period and, if the past is indeed prologue, the onset of a new ice age . Moreover, the historical record also shows that the onset of ice ages have been preceded by an increase in so-called Greenhouse Gasses -- the villain supposed to be causing global warming. It behooves us, therefore, to look very carefully at the greenhouse gas phenomenon. If it is indeed heralding the advent of an ice age, we should be aware of just what that means in terms of our future and that of our children. It also means we should take a very careful look at this global warming baloney, because under the guise of coping with a widely ballyhooed threat, some exceedingly Draconian measures are being proposed, and in some cases have already been imposed on us. In the name of environmental safety we are being dragged into a socialistic system. And these measures are completely useless. They won't do a damned bit of good." > > On 19 Feb 02, at 19:15, Nakano Nakamura wrote: > > > -Caveat Lector- > > > > GLOBALWARMING OR GLOBALONEY? > > THE FORGOTTEN CASE FOR GLOBAL COOLING > > 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. > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games > > http://sports.yahoo.com > > > > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> > > DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER > > ========== > > CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange > list. 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