From December 6 through the 18th, a conference sponsored by the
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will gather in
Copenhagen, Denmark, to explore ways to “prevent global warming” and I would
like to be among the first to tell all those idiots checking their passports and
deciding what to pack that they can all stay home.
This is not an original thought on my part and, in fact, is occasioned by Prof.
Henrik Svensmark. He is director of the Center for Sun-Climate Research at the
Technical University of Denmark and, not surprisingly, knows a lot about the Sun
and climate.
Permit me to share some of his thoughts. In a September 9th opinion titled,
“While the Sun Sleeps”, Prof. Svensmark wrote, “Last week, the scientific team
behind the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) reported that the number of
sunspot-free days suggest that solar activity is heading towards its lowest
level in about 100 years.”
“Everything indicates that the Sun is moving into a hibernation-like state and
the obvious question is whether it has any significance for us on Earth.” Good
question, Professor! Particularly since the Sun is the sole source of heat for
the Earth. When it takes a nap, everybody takes notice.
The professor then had a little professorial fun describing the Little Ice Age
that occurred after a period of medieval warmth that had begun around 1000 AD.
After 1300, however, it got a lot colder. Settlements in Greenland disappeared.
The Thames froze over repeatedly. And here’s where we need to pay attention,
there were “long periods of crop failure.” Between starvation and disease, it
reduced the population of Europe by about a third.
“It is important to note that the Little Ice Age was a global event,” said Prof.
Svensmark. It did not end until the mid-to-late 19th century; around 1850 in
America. Do your math. That’s five centuries. As the Earth began to
warm up and particularly in the last fifty years, “solar activity has been the
highest since the medieval warmth of 1,000 years ago.”
Now, keep in mind that a couple of hundred, perhaps a thousand or more
diplomats, scientists, and environmentalists are going to gather in Copenhagen
for the single purpose of extending or expanding the Kyoto Protocols that are
based on the assertion that the Earth is warming even though it is not.
Moreover, the IPCC will announce that, if the industrialized nations do not
dramatically reduce the production of “greenhouse gases” (carbon dioxide), we
are all doomed. In the United States, the Cap-and-Trade bill which passed the
House by a slim margin will be up for consideration in the Senate. It is based
on the global warming lie. It will drive up the cost of energy for all Americans
and basically wreck the economy!
Like the witches in Macbeth, for years the IPCC has been stirring a cauldron of
lies about global warming and the world’s media, intoxicated by the fumes rising
from the pot, have never ceased from telling us that the Earth is warming when
it is not.
The Sun, however, is not cooperating.
“It now appears that the Sun…is heading towards what is called ‘a grand minimum’
as we saw in the Little Ice Age,” says Prof. Svensmark.
“Indeed, global warming has stopped and cooling is beginning.” At a recent World
Climate Conference in Geneva one of the participants predicted the cooling will
likely continue through the next 10 to 20 years.
All those IPCC computer models that have been predicting global warming were
wrong, are wrong, and will remain wrong for all time until the Earth actually
begins to warm again.
If, however, the Earth slips into a new Ice Age and not just a "little" one, it
will be several hundred thousand years before they are valid.
The Copenhagen conference is, like global warming, a hoax.
I hear it's very cold in Copenhagen in the winter.
