Ice Age, Baby!!

“Global Warming” has so imbued the thought processes of so many scientists that they look at all phenomena through CO2-colored lenses yet past temperature extremes had nothing to do with CO2–the abundance of that gas in the atmosphere is a trailing indicator, and not a causitive, leading indicator. (The biggest immediate source of CO2 is volcanic eruptions, yet the dust factor has cause a significant DROP in global temperature, not a warming.)

There have been hundreds of temperature swings in the past million years and while there are a number of factors driving these swings, a primary cause is volcanic activity. And no, anthropogenic factors were not the cause. Man’s puny impact is way overblown; many scientists can’t even see it in the measurements.

Sorry, but I’m not going to provide references for my position–you all are capable individuals and can dig out sufficient resources to suit your own purposes. My opinions are based on decades of studying the science and evaluating what hundreds of researchers have had to say on the subject. Some are laughable in their conclusions (I think they’re chasing grants which is despicable behavior because it distorts the outcome) while others are impervious to the current political winds and are objective in their conclusions, which is what real science is all about.

There’s way too much post-normal “science” out there, which is horribly sad since that isn’t science at all. Post-normal science is akin to ascribing CO2 as the cause of volcanic eruptions–it may be politically correct to do so and models may be built to show a correlation (what can’t be modeled, right?), but it isn’t based on observation. Oops!

There’s so much wrong with this article, I need a Scotch just to get organized.

This is why I limit my “Discover” exposure to online and have cancelled my subscription.

Shame on you Discover – you used to be better than this. It just breaks my heart.

From a policy point of view this suggests that instead of trying to prevent the inevitable, we should be learning and planning on how to respond and adapt. In the last period this occurred, people survived through it, so they were smart enough to respond… mostly by moving from one place to another. In a settled world like today, we should be planning on how we would handle extremely hot weather or extremely cold. In an extremely cold weather situation, it is not inconceivable that Canadians and Americans would want to move to the south quickly. That would make US citizens the ‘wet backs’ trying to seek asylum in Mexico…

Here’s something to lull the kids to sleep, the Yellowstone caldera blows every 600,000 – 800,000 years…the last eruption was 640,000 years ago. The earth above the caldera has been rising as of late and would dwarf the Toba eruption. If that eruption reduced our numbers to 5,000 – 10,000, just imagine what Yellowstone can do.

Sweet dreams…lol