Now, It's Global Cooling!!!!

From: Telegraph

There has been a 60 per cent increase in the amount of ocean covered with ice compared to this time last year, they equivalent of almost a million square miles.

In a rebound from 2012's record low an unbroken ice sheet more than half the size of Europe already stretches from the Canadian islands to Russia's northern shores, days before the annual re-freeze is even set to begin.

 The Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific has remained blocked by pack-ice all year, forcing some ships to change their routes. A leaked report to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) seen by the Mail on Sunday, has led some scientists to claim that the world is heading for a period of cooling that will not end until the middle of this century.

 If correct, it would contradict computer forecasts of imminent catastrophic warming. The news comes several years after the BBC predicted that the arctic would be ice-free by 2013. Related Articles Arctic ice cap on course to shrink to its lowest level 22 Aug 2012.

The plodding music of global warming 30 Aug 2013 Our fizzy seas of soda water 01 Jul 2013 The weather prophets should be chucked in the deep end 23 Jun 2013 Despite the original forecasts, major climate research centres now accept that there has been a “pause” in global warming since 1997.

The original predictions led to billions being invested in green measures to combat the effects of climate change. The changing predictions have led to the UN's climate change's body holding a crisis meeting, and the the IPCC is due to report on the situation in October.

A pre-summit meeting will be held later this month. But the leaked documents are said to show that the governments who fund the IPCC are demanding 1,500 changes to the Fifth Assessment Report - a three-volume study issued every six or seven years – as they claim its current draft does not properly explain the pause.

 The extent to which temperatures will rise with carbon dioxide levels and how much of the warming over the past 150 years, a total of 0.8C, is down to human greenhouse gas emissions are key issues in the debate. The IPCC says it is “95 per cent confident” that global warming has been caused by humans - up from 90 per cent in 2007 – according to the draft report.

However, US climate expert Professor Judith Curry has questioned how this can be true as that rather than increasing in confidence, “uncertainty is getting bigger” within the academic community. Long-term cycles in ocean temperature, she said, suggest the world may be approaching a period similar to that from 1965 to 1975, when there was a clear cooling trend.

At the time some scientists forecast an imminent ice age. Professor Anastasios Tsonis, of the University of Wisconsin, said: "We are already in a cooling trend, which I think will continue for the next 15 years at least. There is no doubt the warming of the 1980s and 1990s has stopped.” The IPCC is said to maintain that their climate change models suggest a pause of 15 years can be expected. Other experts agree that natural cycles cannot explain all of the recorded warming.

In Search Of...With Leonard Nimoy (1978) On Global Cooling

I linked a post to the Blog Prof earlier today regarding a post about "Global Cooling", In it were three YOU TUBE links to "In Search Of", with Leonard Nimoy from 1975, I remember and loved watching the show as a kid. It's hokey to look at today, and many episodes were dubious. This episode was obviously dubious because it was wrong, but it demonstrates how we have come full circle from forecasts of a "NEW ICE AGE", to "MELTING POLAR CAPS".

NEWSWEEK 1975: Global Cooling Caused Tornado. NEWSWEEK 2011: Global Warming Caused Tornados

A great entry from The Blog Prof. I'll post the YOu tube separately.

From: The Blog Prof

As it is, the some of the same people that in the 1970s were predicting our doom because of global cooling caused by our activity, are now saying the exact opposite. And I do mean the exact opposite. Via Jazz Shaw: Tornadoes Absolutely Caused by Global Warming. Or Cooling. Or Something

Inevitably the devastating tornadoes that killed more than 300 people in the US prompted Newsweek to ask: “Is global warming responsible for wild weather?” The answer, it found, is “yes”.

Another Newsweek article cited “the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded”, killing “more than 300 people”, as among “the ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically”. But that article was published on April 28, 1975, when Newsweek listed the US tornado disaster of 1974 as one of the harbingers of disastrous global cooling, heralding the approach of a new ice age.

And a flashback from TIME magazine:

In a story about the coming ice age on June 24, 1974 the magazine reported:

Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds — the so-called circumpolar vortex—that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world.

Related: Flashback Video (1970s): In Search Of... THE COMING ICE AGE!