In the Race

The Canadian work is pure science in progress and a valuable contribution.  We must bear in mind, however, that the sunspot minimum occurs on average every 11 years and this cycle minimum appears to be a bit long. The sun is now relatively 'quiet'.  

It is several cycles too early to be predicting another ice age.   I would though recommend the web site of the Danish National Space Center.  The Danes have actually discovered the rosetta stone of climate change.  Cosmic radiation is modulated by solar cycle length and that flux has a 95% correlation with global cooling and warming through modifying the cloud cover over the planet.  

CO2 is the red herring with a very consistent trailing correlation because of inverse solubility; CO2 bubbles out of warm oceans and dissolves in cold oceans.   It would appear that the UN IPCC has cooked the books because more thorough research of CO2 in the atmosphere over the past 180 years shows CO2 higher than modern levels many times in the recent history.  CO2 was measured at 400 parts per million as recently as 1940. Many measurement in the past were made as a matter of course by Nobel prize winning chemists doing pure science...    Georg Ernst-Beck (2007) Google him.

Fran,

Thanks for commenting.

Are you just a science fan or is that your profession?

The Danish National Space Center is an interesting site.  Who knew?

But, as usual with studies, etc., I'm not surprised Cananda has the global cooling view and Georg Ernst-Beck/Danes has the CO2 view.

This is more confusing than ever.  But I still doubt gobal warming.

I am a science fan.  If you want my PowerPoint on the global warming issue, send an email to artesian1{at}sympatico.ca.  I have graduate degrees in geology and that was very difficult for me because I switched out of the humanities.  Having spent considerable time and effort suppressing my ego and letting the facts speak to me, I am appalled by mass movements based upon econoia.  The planet is doing fine and not out of step with geological history in the slightest.  Cities on the planet are a mess, but they are more livable than in the middle Ages when there was global cooling.

Cheers,

Fran