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[nimblebear]

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+ Arctic sea ice back to its previous level, bears safe; film at 11

In the late summer and early fall of 2007, there were a number of alarming media reports about the arctic sea ice melting. Additionally, there were predictions that it would not recover to its previous levels.

But, we have this graph charting the rise and fall of arctic sea ice for the last 365 days, notice that the arctic sea ice is right back where it started at in February 2007.And then check out satellite images from 1980 then 2008. Do you see a global warming probola ? I sure don't. Even the penguins are celebrating !

From the University of Illinois Cryosphere Today:

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Edited by nimblebear, 10 January 2009 - 11:28 AM.

[Russ]

From the late 1940s through the early 1970s, a climate research organization called the Weather Science Foundation of Crystal Lake, Illinois, determined that the planet’s warm, cold, wet and dry periods were the result of alternating short-term and long-term climatic cycles. These researchers and scientists also concluded that the Earth’s ever-changing climate likewise has influenced global and regional economies, human and animal migrations, science, religion and the arts as well as shifting forms of government and strength of leadership.

Much of this data was based upon thousands of hours of research done by Dr. Raymond H. Wheeler and his associates during the 1930s and 1940s at the University of Kansas. Dr. Wheeler was well-known for his discovery of various climate cycles, including his highly-regarded ‘510-Year Drought Clock’ that he detailed at the end of the ‘Dust Bowl’ era in the late 1930s.

Dr Wheeler predicted the warming in the later part of the twentieth century, the cooling we are having now it because of the low sunspot activity but when it turns up again these analysts expect by 2030 the 1998 highs could be exceeded, this would eventually be followed by a new ice age in the later part of this century as we are overdue for one.

http://www.longrange...emperatures.htm

Btw...you left out an important caption for your photo links, Nasa still says that the overall ice levels are lower and the images are misleading because the ice was not entirely shown in the older photo because of imaging technology issues.

Edited by Russ, 10 January 2009 - 11:51 AM.

[JAP]

Al Gore is a moron. I cannot believe this idiot won the Nobel prize for this nonsense. Just goes to show how stupid most sheeple are.

[AChartist]

No offense but that is just stupid. No talent people think everyone else is same as them, dumb people think there is nothing to know and no one else knows anything either. What would any of this have to do with melting ice caps. How would you be qualified to explain climate. Would this be a homogenous effect such that the whole planet does the same thing at the same time. Now one understanding that I am qualified to say, but will throw it out there, there would be more climate volatility, as more moisture in the atmosphere leads to other changes and ultimately leads to cooling.

[pdx5]

There is conclusive geological evidence that warming and cooling cycles have been going on for millions of years on earth. Just 10,000 years ago we had a substantial ice age. The mid-west was covered with glaciers (rivers of ice). Then global warming melted those glaciers forming the largest body of fresh water on earth...The Great Lakes. Those glaciers are estimated to be several miles thick to hold all that water. So the global warming cycle was quite potent. But now AL Gore and his minions claim it is all man made? So preposterous!

[wxyzzy]

Ever hear of La Nina?

The Pacific temperatures switched to cold again earlier this year.

Result: the jet stream is dipping down further into the US, and we get a cold winter.

http://www.elnino.no...na_new_faq.html

[Rogerdodger]

Cold in US only?

Pravda: Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age...

The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.
Ice cores, ocean sediment cores, the geologic record, and studies of ancient plant and animal populations all demonstrate a regular cyclic pattern of Ice Age glacial maximums which each last about 100,000 years, separated by intervening warm interglacials, each lasting about 12,000 years.

Most of the long-term climate data collected from various sources also shows a strong correlation with the three astronomical cycles which are together known as the Milankovich cycles. The three Milankovich cycles include the tilt of the earth, which varies over a 41,000 year period; the shape of the earth’s orbit, which changes over a period of 100,000 years; and the Precession of the Equinoxes, also known as the earth’s ‘wobble’, which gradually rotates the direction of the earth’s axis over a period of 26,000 years. According to the Milankovich theory of Ice Age causation, these three astronomical cycles, each of which effects the amount of solar radiation which reaches the earth, act together to produce the cycle of cold Ice Age maximums and warm interglacials.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 11 January 2009 - 11:51 AM.