Reprinted from NewsMax.com
It's
Global Cooling, and It's Deadly
Philip V. Brennan
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Unless you've been living in an igloo
in some desolate arctic region bereft of any form of communication
with the outside world, it should become obvious that the world has
been undergoing some pretty violent episodes of extreme weather.
There have been vast forest areas
wiped out by fire and incredible amounts of rainfall resulting in
floods of an unprecedented magnitude from Texas to England and just
about every place in between.
If you've been following my series on
global cooling starting in 1997, none of this will come as a surprise.
These are all symptoms of an approaching ice age — symptoms, the
record shows, present prior to the onset of all previous ice ages.
Before I get further into this, let
me make it clear that I am not predicting the sudden appearance of
great sheets of ice descending on the northern U.S. and Europe and
burying New York under a few miles of ice in the near future —
that's 30,000 years away and doesn't concern us — at least those of
us who don't plan to be around then.
What concerns me, and should concern
you, is the period that precedes the onset of glaciation. As I wrote
back in 1997 (see http://www.pvbr.com/Issue_1/global12.htm) and have
harped on ever since, historical records show that the period between
the switch from interglacial interludes and the return of glaciation
is about 20 short years.
Moreover, as the earth proceeds
through that 20 year period, all hell breaks loose, with each year
getting worse and more violent than the previous one. Mother Nature
appears to go more and more berserk each year and by the time that
glaciation begins to set in Mother Earth and its inhabitants are
devastated.
Do I have your attention now?
Before you accuse me of being a
demented alarmist take a look at some facts. In my 1997 series,
"The IceMan Cometh," I wrote of studies by Dr. George Kukla,
a member of the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences and a pioneer in
the field of astronomical forcing.
I explained that in the early 1960s,
Dr. Kukla and Julius Fink examined glacial loess deposits and found
evidence of 10 ice ages in the samples. Later, in 1977, the journal
Quaternary Research published their findings in an article
"Pleistocene Climates in Central Europe: At least 17
Interglacials after the Olduvai Event."
Now comes the Financial Post's
Lawrence Solomon with a piece "Forget Warming — beware the next
new ice age," in which he discusses Kukla's warnings harking back
to the 1970s and his present contentions. Solomon himself is executive
director of Urban Renaissance Institute and Consumer Policy Institute,
divisions of Energy Probe Research Foundation.
He has recently written about and
identified many scientists who deny the claims of Al Gore and his
chums who claim fasely that all reputable scientists say the science
is settled and that's it!
Before I cite Solomon's article I
want to dispel any questions skeptics might have about Kukla and his
solid credentials. According Solomon, Kukla is a micropalentologist
and special research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
of Columbia University, and is a pioneer in the study of solar forcing
of climate changes.
He was the lead author of the
scientific paper that first supported Milutin Milankovic's theory of
glacial cycles by investigating the stratigraphy in deep-sea sediment
cores from the southern Indian Ocean. In the cores were clear imprints
of Milankovic's proposed cycles. In his paper he wrote, "We are
certain now that changes in the Earth's orbital geometry caused the
ice ages. The evidence is so strong that other explanations must now
be discarded or modified."
Prior to joining Columbia in 1971, he
had published landmark studies in Czechoslovakia, where he was a
member of the Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences.
OK. Here's what Dr. Kukla says now.
He maintains that the record clearly shows that global warming always
precedes an ice age. That makes the current period of global warming a
mere blip that constitutes additional indication of the ice age to
come.
He insists that the fundamental issue
here could not be more clear: For millions of years, the geologic
record shows, earth has experienced an ongoing cycle of ice ages, each
typically lasting about 100,000 years, and each punctuated by briefer,
warmer periods called interglacials, such as the one we are now in.
This ongoing cycle closely matches cyclic variations in earth's orbit
around the sun.
"I feel we're on pretty solid
ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving
force behind ice-age glaciation. The relationship is just too clear
and consistent to allow reasonable doubt," Dr. Kukla said.
"It's either that, or climate drives orbit, and that just doesn't
make sense."
In 1997, I wrote about the 20 year
period between interglacial periods and glaciation. I quoted
paleologist-pollen specialist Genevieve Woillard as writing in a 1979
Nature article about that period. She wrote that the only real
question remaining is how long it will take for the glaciation process
to set in. Woillard reported on her studies of pollen samples in a
lake bottom in South Vosges, France. She wrote that at the start of a
number of past glacial periods, the vegetation changed from temperate
zone trees to subarctic needle-bearing trees in a period of 150 years
plus or minus 75 years. The change was one of gradual deterioration
until the last 20 years. During that final score of years, the type of
vegetation completely changed. What her studies, and those of other
paleoclimatologists who have examined past ice ages, show, is that the
transition between interglacial and glacial periods is one of
increasing violence — more volcanic eruptions, storms, earthquakes,
and other natural disasters.
To sum up, here are a few facts —
that's facts, not the computer models (guesses) that pass for evidence
in the global warming community:
- For at least the past five million
years, the earth has experienced ice ages lasting 90,000 years or
so, followed by interglacial periods like the present one that
last about 12,000 years. The last ice age ended 12,000 years ago.
- Every time the atmospheric levels
of CO2 have exceeded 300 ppms an ice age has occurred. Those
levels now exceed 400 ppms.
- The transition period between ice
ages and temperate climates is about 20 years and that period is
one of increasing violence.
- Galciation is an acceleration of
the normal process of using evaporated water to carry heat energy
from the warm zones to cold zones. The effect of an increase in
atmospheric greenhouse gases such as water vapor — the real
greenhouse gas — is to increase cloud cover over polar
latitudes. The clouds have a cooling effect as well as providing
the snow for glaciation. The energy is dissipated in arctic space.
Spring and fall seasons get shorter and shorter until all that's
left is winter.
To get to the point of all of
this, let me quote what I write back in 1997 about the opinions of
former government scientist Dr. George Kaplan, the real historian
of the global warming/global cooling dispute.
"Has the warming theory
'campaign' been the last stand of an errant scientific
ideology?" he asked. "Such a hypothesis can be
acceptable to some, but the obvious failing of the theory in the
face of global catastrophe argues for a more substantial
motivation. "It would pay to investigate this motivation
further to consider whether politics has been responsive to poor
science or whether economics and politics have made false tools
out of science for narrow interest. "If the latter is true,
the manipulation and subversion of the truth-seeking apparatus by
political and private interests is, in the present situation, of
such extreme malevolence that it ranks as the greatest malfeasance
in history."
Exactly.
In short, what Al Gore and his
supporters are doing is nothing short of criminal. At a time in
the world's history when mankind faces a catastrophe unlike
anything in the entire history of humanity (all human history from
Adam and Eve to the present has taken place in the last 12,000
years) the Goreites lull us into a false belief that global
warming is not only happening, but can be prevented.
This, at a time when what we
should be doing is getting spiritually prepared for what may well
be the end of an age, if not of the world. If the past is really
prologue, the next five years is going to be something close to a
gradually occurring Armageddon.
Orate Fratis
Phil Brennan is a veteran
journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor and publisher
of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington
columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s.
He also served as a staff aide
for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the
Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood
Committee which won statehood for Alaska.
He is also a trustee of the
Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association For
Intelligence Officers.
He can be reached at pvb@pvbr.com.
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