Whole lotta science-speak going on here that sounds plausible in this Russian perspective on the issue. Just like it does coming from those who use it to prove global warming. One of them is full of crap. Guess to be safe I should buy lots of long underwear for tooling around in my air conditioned Prius.
A cold spell soon to replace global warming
Stock up on fur coats and felt boots! This is my paradoxical advice to the warm world.
Earth is now at the peak of one of its passing warm spells. It started in the 17th century when there was no industrial influence on the climate to speak of and no such thing as the hothouse effect. The current warming is evidently a natural process and utterly independent of hothouse gases.
The real reasons for climate changes are uneven solar radiation, terrestrial precession (that is, axis gyration), instability of oceanic currents, regular salinity fluctuations of the Arctic Ocean surface waters, etc. There is another, principal reason—solar activity and luminosity. The greater they are the warmer is our climate.
#60 The guy who had the original idea to invad eIran by gaining the new ally called Saddam Hussein was none other than good ol’ Jimmy.
So, it was a goof thing to do for him. No wonder he was grying foul and stating that the Iraq invasion was a blunder
He was bought by Kuzco to rig an election, another excellent achievement.
He has reunited several times with castro, vouching for him, another astonishing evidence of his great north in world politics.
#61, pedro,
It appears you have attended the Republican School of Political Manipulations. Sheet, maybe you even had Herr Rove as your instructor.
It was Reagan’s boys, notably Rumsfeld and Cheney, that curried Iraq’s favor against Iran. They even supplied Saddam with the chemical weapons and encouraged him to declare war on Iran. Cripes, they even gave Saddam intelligence on Iranian troop movements.
Of course, you history revisionists would like to shift that dirty little bit of fact to someone who believed in peace and worked for it.
Secondly, what Carter did in 2000 in furtherance of democratic ideals has nothing to do with what he did during his Presidency. And he never helped rig any effen election for you beloved “kuzco”.
Moran.
A late response but who knows someone might read it…
#26 MS Due to the higher albedo of Venus, despite its shorter distance to the sun, less sunlight actually gets through to the surface of Venus than gets through to the surface of Earth. Venus absorbs just 25% of the sunlight that hits it; Earth absorbs 70% of its sunlight.
Venus has factors which create the high temperatures such as atmospheric pressure of 900 times of the Earth.
One can argue that CO2 will increase or decrease global temperatures equally – if one selectively leaves out other factors. MIT has released a study arguing that the CO2 global warming studies left out certain factors such as cloud cover and concluded that CO2 does not play a significant factor in global warming.
It is being argued that the rise of CO2 is a result of another process causing the warming and not the cause. ICE core CO2 samples can only give an extremely broad time line so it is not possible to determine whether the CO2 rise was caused by the warming trend or vice versa.
There will be some finger pointing in a few years when the warming trend reverses.
The more we are focused on one subject the more we will fit the facts to satisfy our preconceived conclusion.
Many years ago in Australia there was a devastating Earthquake in Newcastle north of Sydney. Earthquakes causing any damage is exceedingly rare and unheard of. In the aftermath every global Earthquake and tremor made the news to the point where people were in fear that the Earth was breaking up! This then became headline news of the world breaking up.
In actual fact that year globally the Earth was rather quiet in this regard however because of the Newcastle Earthquake any minor Earthquakes and tremors that would never even get a mention cot front page.
All we hear now is global warming this and ice melting that. Glaciers retreat and grow, temperatures rise and fall. One only needs to study geology to see that where only recently was once temperate forests is now frozen tundra (Siberia) – mammoths frozen…right?
Well who can argue with all the good headlines and a religious fever pitch that global warming gives us.
Cheers