Oh, NO! Global Cooling?

Red - the rhetoric is overwhelming sometimes. I am clear about one set of things: 1. We had the Ice Age - not for so long ago. 2. We have been burning our fossil fuels at an alarming rate. 3. Growth - what we have experienced since World War II is unsubstainable if we want the benefits to be equitable. i.e. the farmer in Burkina Faso enjoying the same standard of living as a farmer in Switzerland. 4. There are things happening in the Solar system and beyond that we have not a glimmer of understanding about. Given that, my personal manifesto is: 1. I shall not use hydrocarbon based energy one iota more than absolutely essential. I will be agressively prudent in the use of energy resources. 2. Consume food that is locally produced as much as possible. The regime of cheap energy (yes it would still be cheap at $200 a barrel) is creating unsubstainable production and distribution models. e.g. I will not purchase bottled beverages that travel over 10 k.m. or a bag of potato chips that travelled from Idaho to Vietnam. So to summarise the scientific arguments in an unscientific manner would be: There is a great chance that we warm up the globe through our energy gluttony, while the world cools or freezes due to changes in the celestial objects and there is the probability, of an asteroid going off trajectory and hitting planet earth. I will continue to do my bit! lol.

Global cooling now red!! You are just trying to get a response from me are??? Well you did!! lol How are you mate? Ihave heard it mentioned and their arguement relys on a north / south pole theory. Where if one thing is happening the other is immenant and corresponding!! Anyway just popped into say "gooday" and have a good night!

I really don't know and I am not a scientist. I have read a couple of articles on global cooling since you mentioned it. It is hard to form an opinion. I do believe though albeit through personal observations that the climate is changing. It also seems a majority of climatologists favour the theory of global warming. There was a big conference recently in Europe. I believe it was in Norway unless my memory fails me.

Interesting for sure. I've heard of the global warming overload scenario. Where global warming carries on as it does, but with that, you get a lot of extra clouds, more cloud cover reflects a pile of the energy from the Sun back into space and then you get the snap freeze effect. I guess there would be oscillations but how severe, I don't know, and would they be any worse than the weather has inflicted to various other places on Earth in the past, we have to wait.

I just read the link you posted along with going back to its main page to read some of the others. The first thing that comes to mind (right or wrong) is that it was published from China. Free thinking isnt particularly a great asset to the government there (or anywhere lately) when they are about to hit the industrial revolution in their country and its still communist country. I did find it ironic that the blog for that article was dissabled, or maybe it was for all on the website not sure. What I often wonder is every time this subject comes up or some other subject that the media jumps all over is what is it that we arent being shown, I know I am a bit paranoid but its served me well so far. News media today seems to be more about slight of hand than actually putting the important facts out. I agree that reguardless of global warming or not our resources are not infinite and we should be more worried about taking care of what we have than trashing it and looking for the next replacement.