Russian climatologist: Earth on brink of another ice age

[CougarKing]

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The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.

Ice cores, ocean sediment cores, the geologic record, and studies of ancient plant and animal populations all demonstrate a regular cyclic pattern of Ice Age glacial maximums which each last about 100,000 years, separated by intervening warm interglacials, each lasting about 12,000 years.
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The main flaw in the AGW theory is that its proponents focus on evidence from only the past one thousand years at most, while ignoring the evidence from the past million years -- evidence which is essential for a true understanding of climatology. The data from paleoclimatology provides us with an alternative and more credible explanation for the recent global temperature spike, based on the natural cycle of Ice Age maximums and interglacials.
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The graph of the Vostok ice core data shows that the Ice Age maximums and the warm interglacials occur within a regular cyclic pattern, the graph-line of which is similar to the rhythm of a heartbeat on an electrocardiogram tracing. The Vostok data graph also shows that changes in global CO2 levels lag behind global temperature changes by about eight hundred years. What that indicates is that global temperatures precede or cause global CO2 changes, and not the reverse. In other words, increasing atmospheric CO2 is not causing global temperature to rise; instead the natural cyclic increase in global temperature is causing global CO2 to rise.
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About 325,000 years ago, at the peak of a warm interglacial, global temperature and CO2 levels were higher than they are today. Today we are again at the peak, and near to the end, of a warm interglacial, and the earth is now due to enter the next Ice Age. If we are lucky, we may have a few years to prepare for it. The Ice Age will return, as it always has, in its regular and natural cycle, with or without any influence from the effects of AGW.

The AGW theory is based on data that is drawn from a ridiculously narrow span of time and it demonstrates a wanton disregard for the ‘big picture’ of long-term climate change. The data from paleoclimatology, including ice cores, sea sediments, geology, paleobotany and zoology, indicate that we are on the verge of entering another Ice Age, and the data also shows that severe and lasting climate change can occur within only a few years. While concern over the dubious threat of Anthropogenic Global Warming continues to distract the attention of people throughout the world, the very real threat of the approaching and inevitable Ice Age, which will render large parts of the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable, is being foolishly ignored.

http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/106922-0/

 

[aesop081]

About 325,000 years ago, at the peak of a warm interglacial, global temperature and CO2 levels were higher than they are today.

Thats not what Al gore's been telling us........... ???

Maybe if there had been a carbon tax back then..........ya know

 

[KingKikapu]

Could someone please tell Gregory F. Fegel to please cite sources and studies in his articles.

Otherwise it's not even worth my time to pull it apart.

EDIT: For the record I DO know that global warming exists.  I've done the math, but before you jump all over me, note that I didn't say anything about anthropogenic global warming. That one is an entirely different beast, and is a lot trickier to confirm or refute.  Climate science is a messy, messy business.  Data sets are often small, non-normalized, and even misrepresented in their weightings.  This article shouldn't win any arguments though; the evidence presented is neither cited, nor professionally analysed.  Just something for people to keep in mind.

 

[rmc_wannabe]

so...BWW wasn't a bag drive for nothing  ???