Ravenwood - 01/22/04 08:00 AM
About a week after Al Gore gave his anti-capitalist global warming speech on one of the coldest days of the year, some "scientists" are now claiming that global warming will actually make North America and Europe colder. Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany claims that global warming could "trigger a regional cooling, but not an Ice Age."
Of course, we have been hearing this nonsense since the 1970s, when Kenneth E.F. Watt claimed during a 1970 Earth Day celebration, "If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000...This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age."
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UGH. We Minnesotans frankly don't want to hear the phrase "regional cooling" used in serious discussion (especially today). Perfect way to get the Greens up here all hopped up on righteousness, and that's the last thing we need.
Posted by: Steve Gigl at January 22, 2004 9:58 AMI have seen some of the data on both global warming and gobal cooling and even though both ideas are far-fetched I'm one who leans to the global cooling argument more than global warming. Several things could and have actually caused cooling in our planet in the past. Polar shifts, sun being blocked out by atmospheric particles caused by coments and/or volcanos. Atleast the "Ice Agers" have historic presidence on their side. As opposed to the greenie weenies who think we all will burn in a living hell because of half a degree change.
Of course, the big problem with G.C. is that we really can't prevent it. So it's a moot point worrying about it.
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