Congratulations to Ken Allred and the Gazette for being one of the first times I’ve seen a challenge to the politically correct anthropogenic (mankind-caused) global warming (AGW) myth in a mainstream media publication. Western industrialized nations have been blamed for creating the carbon dioxide, which purportedly caused the increase in global temperature resulting in melting ice caps, starving polar bears and just about any other problem associated with weather. In his book, Dark Winter, author John L. Casey points out the relationship between the variation of the sun’s radiation on Earth and the resulting climate effects.
There are a number of cyclic variations in the Earth’s motion such collectively called Milankovitch cycles, which explain large climate changes like ice ages.
But Casey and a number of other scientists gives credit to have discovered a correlation between intensity variations of sun’s radiation on Earth as measured by sun spots and what are called “little ice age epochs” on a cycle of 2200 to 2400 years and climate oscillations with a cycle of about 200 years.
The 200-year cycle or Bicentennial Cycle, measured to be more like 206 years, has near perfect accuracy of correlation with every cold period for the past 1200 years. The last solar hibernation called the Dalton Minimum is generally accepted to have occurred between 1795 and 1825. Eastern United States in 1816 refer to that year as “the year without a summer.” Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion of Russia in 1812-1813 resulted in a defeat primarily due to the intense Russian winter that year. Crop failures, high food prices and volcanoes around the globe occurred in this period. This period was characterized with a very low count of sunspots.
Average global temperature is measured by taking ocean temperature at a certain regular depth, land temperature at various points on the globe and from satellite. Institutions such as NASA, Goddard Institute for Space Studies and many others in Russia and China (who are less concerned with political correctness) have reported the global temperature annual increase rate has slowed and at about 2000 has leveled out. In fact, since 2011 and 2012 cooling has occurred.
Certain scientists report Antarctic ice growth and Greenland glacial growth rather than the melting we read in mainstream media and AGW supporting scientists. A European group headquartered in Norway, the Arctic Regional Ocean Observing System reported that Arctic sea ice in 2009-2010 was at or near its 1979-2006 average for a number of months. The U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado reported Arctic summer ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26% since 2007. In other words, no more melting and the expectation of significant ice growth over the next two decades. So why didn’t we read about this in mainstream newspapers instead of the direct opposite?
What is to come? Based on the 206-year bicentennial theory that solar intensity as measured by sunspots is responsible for temperature “oscillations” on Earth, author John Casey (Dark Winter) and a number of Russian scientists and others have concluded we are heading into a solar hibernation. They predict by calculation (of sunspot cyclic activity) that the low point of this solar minimum will occur around 2031 followed by another heating period. A prolonged cold era of about 20 years centred on 2031 will affect crop productivity and our ability to feed ourselves on a global scale and probably freeze up our North West Passage to shipping again.
The question is why are so many scientists, the UN’s IPCC, university researchers, governments and mainstream media still singing the same song especially since about 2006 when it was clear global temperatures were not increasing anymore in spite of increasing production of carbon dioxide?
The answer is, follow the money. Carbon tax (all governments never pass up an opportunity to justify a new tax), carbon credits (this supports the UN’s social re-engineering agenda to transfer money from western industrialized countries to the third world), research grants (money is made available with the expectation of the giver that the global warming myth will be supported) and mainstream media (newspapers publish stories like starving polar bear cubs, which sell more newspapers; who wants to read about cold weather). Cecil Chabot, P.Eng, St. Albert
