THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume X, Issue # 229, September 14, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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A SPOTLESS SUN
By Alan Caruba
GLOBAL COOLING & THE COMING OF THE NEXT ICE AGE: REDUCED SOLAR ACTIVITY & LOWER AVERAGE GLOBAL
TEMPERATURES GIVING THE LIE TO THE VAST INTERNATIONAL HOAX ALLEGING HUMAN-INDUCED GLOBAL WARMING --
SOLAR SCIENCE UNDERMINING GLOBAL WARMING THEORY & ITS JUSTIFICATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTALIST POLICY
AGENDA -- RAPID COOLING PREDICTED TO BRING ON ANOTHER ICE AGE, IF NOT A GREAT ICE AGE, AT THE VERY LEAST A
LITTLE ICE AGE, OR MINI-ICE AGE, COMPARABLE TO THE ONE THAT LASTED FROM 1300 TO AROUND 1850
FULL STORY:
There’s a wonderful irony in the fact that, back in the 1970s, the Greens were issuing warnings and even writing books
about the coming Ice Age. They would abandon this issue, based in well-known and accepted solar science, in favor of
a vast international hoax alleging man-made global warming.
As the global warming hoax begins to lose its power to influence public opinion and policy, the Greens are not likely to
be heeded for a long time to come because they were right about an Ice Age and lying through their teeth about global
warming.
Scientists and laymen who follow the Ice Age cycles have been warning that, if not a full-fledged Ice Age, at the very
least a Little Ice Age comparable to one that lasted from 1300 to around 1850 is on its way
Amidst all the media coverage of Hurricane Gustav and the Republican National Convention, a report in
DailyTech.com was not likely to get much attention, but it forecast a very cold world in the years to come. The
Earth has already started to cool and scientists date the change from 1998.
Headlined, “Drop in Solar Activity Has Potential Effect for Climate on Earth,” the news is that, for the first time in 100
years, “an entire month has passed without a single visible sunspot being noted.” The author, Michael Asher, noted
that “The event is significant, as many climatologists now believe solar magnetic activity — which determines the
number of sunspots — is an influencing factor for climate on Earth.”
My friend, Robert W. Felix, wrote an excellent book on this titled Not by Fire, but by Ice ($15.00, Sugarhouse
Publishing, softcover, second edition), which can be purchased from his website at IceAgeNow.com.
“We’re beginning to realize that Earth is a violent and dangerous place to live,” wrote Felix. “We’re beginning to realize
that mass extinctions have been the rule, rather than the exception, for the 3.5 billion years that life has existed on Earth.”
Soon to be published (October, 2008) is Robert Felix's new book, Magnetic Reversals and Evolutionary Leaps: The
True Origin of the Species, which addresses magnetic reversals, another cyclical factor affecting life on Earth.
“During the last 4.5 million years, at least six out of nine radiolarian extinctions occurred at magnetic reversals.” They
appear to be a factor in the sudden emergence of new species, and, therefore, Charles Darwin’s theory of biological
evolution as the scientific and secular explanation of the origin of the Earth's species is likely to be reexamined.
As the DailyTech report notes, “In the past 1000 years, three previous such events, the Dalton, Maunder, and
Sporer Minimums,” of reduced sunspot activity, “have all led to rapid cooling,” adding that, “For a society dependent
on agriculture, cold is more damaging than heat. The growing season shortens, yields drop, and the occurrence of
crop-destroying frosts increases.”
An article by William Livingston and Matthew Penn of the National Solar Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, “Sunspots
May Vanish by 2015,” predicts that sunspots will disappear completely. “Such an event would not be unprecedented,
since, during a famous episode from 1645 to 1715, known as the Maunder Minimum…” [That solar cycle] “was shown to
correspond with the reduced average global temperatures on the Earth.” In other words, it’s going to get COLD.
The Little Ice Age had an effect on history as you might imagine. The French Revolution is attributed to it, insofar as the
cost of bread rose as wheat crops failed. Riots followed. Similarly, Napoleon’s invasion of Russia met with defeat, thanks
to a winter that killed thousands of his troops. In America, it was reflected in the travails of Valley Forge.
Over at IceAgeNow.com, Felix posts the latest news from around the world that tells of anomalous events ranging
from freak early snow storms to expanding glaciers. Soon enough, those living in the Northern Hemisphere will become
more aware as Winters lengthen and become more severe. After that, the scenarios grow quite serious.
Even the venerable Old Farmers Almanac is making news these days forecasting a far cooler winter and suggesting
that the Earth is already in a cooling cycle.
No doubt, some diehard Greens like Al Gore will continue to spout nonsense that the cold weather is due to global warming,
but it has to do with the Sun that’s gone quiet. It’s not myth. It’s reality.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The Earth's Natural History, Global Climate Changes,
& the Future of Human Life & Civilization on the Planet:
Science, Ideology, & Public Policy
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a
clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary, "Warning Signs," posted
on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s most recent book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press. Books
previously authored by Caruba include A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam, The United Nations Versus the United States: The
UN's Plan to Control Planet Earth, and America: A Nation Without Borders -- A Pocket Guide to Immigration Issues.
© Alan Caruba 2008
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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