[SBE] Global Warming

[A9xw at cs.com]

In a message dated 5/3/2008 11:56:30 PM Central Daylight Time, br at telcen.com 
writes:



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> Global warming will tend to make weather more extreme, 


Sorry, not true. HIgher winds cause white caps which lower ocean temperature 
because they reflect sunlight/heat, causing cooling. Storms are the release of 
heat into the atmosphere which dissipates into space because it does not 
reach the surface and blocks sun light from reacing the surface. Colder surface 
temepratures reduce thermal risers that cause storms. It is a self leveling 
system. Thepast two years of very low major storms are the result of La Nina 
cooling the Pacific ocean that in turn reduces the global termperatures.  Both 
north and south temperate zones were significantly cooler and record low temps and 
snow levels all over the northern hemisphere have been the result of La Nina. 
This is a normal long cycle. Sun spot level is also an indicator of warm or 
cold global temperatures. The long period of low sun spot activity coincided 
with the "mini ice age" that lasted 400 years and began to end in the late 
1700's. A mellinium ago Greenland was Green, there were settlements with crops and 
cattle (sheep, goats) that were destroyed by global cooling that froze the 
open lands under snow and ice. You can visit the relilcs/ruins of houses and 
other stone buildings there. Habitat would have also had to have trees and otgher 
burnable vegitation on Greenland, nearly all of which is gone today.  So, what 
is the normal condition of Greenland?  Green and warm, or covered in ice?  
Both, its a long term climatic cycle unaffected by man.    We can't even predict 
a tornado with any accuracy, never managed to destroy one, can make no dent 
in any hurricane, so what could we possible do to influence the entire globe 
other than reduce cow and sheep flatulance to repair the hole in the ozone over 
antarctica that directly coincided with the increase in methane levels in New 
Zeland, Australia and Argintina.  Not a lot of CFC's from aerosol cans of 
which 95% were in the northern hemisphere. The amount of civilization and land 
below 50 degrees south  is miniscule vs above 50 degres north. Except for teh 
relativly narrow gap between the Antarctic penninsula and Tierra Del Fuego, there 
is nothing to moderate the ocean currents and storms of the oceans that 
surround the south pole. In the northern hemisphere, the atlantic and Pacific 
oceans are blocked by large land masses, mountains and only small passages into the 
arctic ocean, The moderates and reduces the oceanic effects.  Snow and ice 
accumulate on land much faster than on moving sea water, not to mention the 
lower freezing temperature of sea water vs fresh (non salty) water. Lastly, the 
northern hemisphere is slowly riswing having shed a two mile think ice sheet of 
the last ice age that lowered the entire continent by several hundred feet 
from the weight. That allows more run off of ground water and raises ocean levels 
a tiny bit, enough to cause erosion of shorelines and ice shelves. Now where 
inthe GW datsa is that taken into account?  

Henry 

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