World's Lakes Getting Hotter, More Than the Air

One of your alleged "non- scientist" proponents of "Global Cooling" was Nobel Prize winning Professor Stephan Schneider (recently deceased), Professor of Environmental Biology and Global Climate Change at Stanford University. There were dozens of others who, like Schneider, initially proposed the theory of a coming Ice Age.

I note another Stanford Professor, Paul Ehrlich, predicted that civilization would come to an end in 1980 because of, "The Population Bomb". I observe that most of his subsequent predictions have also been wrong. The good Professor is a proponent of the Global Warming theory these days.

Boy, does this article in Newsweek, from 1975, sound familiar - except for cooling rather than warming angle.

"The evidence in support of global cooling predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually… Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars’ worth of damage in 13 U.S. states. To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world’s weather. The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth’s climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists… are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic."

Ken, it appears to me that you suffer from the disease of scientific myopia as well. Tragically, the only cure is a fundamental change from facile, short range, agenda driven thinking to looking at "The Big Picture" - which of course is impossible while looking through the Coke bottle glasses worn by most ideologs, such as yourself.

Ken, I want you to feel better about global warming - The people in Greenland are really looking forward to planting crops, like their Viking forefathers did, in what is now a frozen wasteland. And, you know there's more biomass in the tropics than in musk ox land. If you don't believe me you can try planting some seeds in your freezer and some in a greenhouse and seed which grow. Ah.... ain't science grand?

Now, advancing glaciers down to the 38th parallel (again) - that's a big worry! Say, that gives me an idea! Be the first on your block to switch back to fretting over"Global Cooling" The climate has always been changing - so you're bound to be right.... sometime.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 1:33PM November 26, 2010