by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
NASA scientists and climatologists have suggsted that the sun is at its quietest for more than a hundred years and that this might mean that the world is headed for a new mini ice age which will be at least as severe as that during the middle of the 19th century.
Climatologists and those studying the activity of the sun – or the present lack of such activity – suggest that it could even get as bad with this little ice age that we might be headed for as during the little ice again of the 15th/16th century when ice fairs were held on the Thames in London.
It would appear that in all our Global Warming/Climate Change -supposedly caused by the activities of human beings and cows passing wind – the sun, sunspots and solar flares and all that were totally omitted and conveniently not considered and only the other day the claims were made that the sun has nothing to do with the fact that our climate is changing.
The scientists that have been looking at the issue of the sun activity have drawn their conclusions from the events in past history and are not screaming “the sky is falling in from man's activities”.
While, and I shall reiterate this again, I am not saying that the climate is not changing – so much is, to some degree, obvious – and I am also not saying that we must not do all the “green” things that we have begun doing, rather the opposite, I am saying that we must look at history as to climate change for the world's climate, large and small, has always been changing and will always been changing. At times this will not be for the benefit of man, I am afraid to say, and man will have to learn to adapt to it and man has done so many times before. Nature will do so too.
The Old Farmers' Almanac is also predicting the onset of a new little ice again to begin in the next five to ten years, give or take a little, and the Almanac has got a rather brilliant record as to long-range weather and climate predictions. Maybe we should heed such things a little at least.
The problem, if I may say it like that, is that we have now two sets of scientists that have rather conflicting views, aside from that set that do not even see any global warming or climate change.
From where I am standing it sure appears as if Mother Earth is throwing a climate wobbly and we may be headed for some or the other event and, as I have stated before, I am doubtful that anything we mere mortals can do will make any difference, as to stopping or reversing climate change. While human activity sure has not helped as far as all the pollution and emissions are concerned it is highly unlikely that man's activities have, in fact triggered this.
If the Almanac and those scientists at NASA are to be believed, and I see no reason why one should not, then things could be rather bleak indeed, and not just because of snow and ice.
However, mankind, that is we, will just have to learn to live with it, and adapt. Trying to stop acts of Nature is rather a futile attempt on this level.
Too much effort is being spent on trying to stem the tide with biofuels and such like rather than to really and drastically, if it has to do with our emissions and such, to curtail those.
Our landfills are worse than any animal husbandry and all other problems combines for they leak all methane gas, and in many gases this gas, which is reckoned to be many times worse a greenhouse gas than CO2, is, in fact, just vented from the rubbish tips and not even flared off, let alone harvested for use.
What we, as ordinary people, will have to understand is that all the stories as to climate change caused by this or that are but theories dressed up by those whose jobs are involved there as fact. Most scientific stuff are not facts but theories and we see this again and again when it comes to archeology.
Remember the fact that Cro-Magnon Man and Neanderthals could not have possibly been on Earth at the same time. It was always claimed that Neanderthals were gone when the Cro-Magnon Man arrived. Finding of some years ago, however, have now shown that in fact the novel “Clan of the Cave Bear” could have been correct and both those early humans existed together for some time and that there is the possibility even that those two intermarried. Oops! So much for the infallibility of science. No more infallible than the Pope.
The same appear to be the case as to Global Warming, now called Climate Change.
OK, but now serious: either way we need to adapt to the changes while changing our lifestyle altogether to one once again in tune with Nature and our Planet. Mother Earth is in control and She may have a cold and a fever.
We need to seriously change our ways or we are doomed and not simply because the Earth is either going to overheat or get too cold; we will simply poison everything and kill ourselves or we will kill the fertility of the Earth in such a way that future generation will simply die because of what we have done in the time of the industrial era to the Planet.
Most of the food carries so many pesticide and other residues, such as heavy metals and others, that are simply lodged in soil and water; even, it would appear, organic foods can be thus affected, and we cannot continue the way we are and have been going. We need to do a serious about turn and we must do that now, not tomorrow or the day after.
© 2009
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Climate Change – Possible New Ice Age
