Now there's a climatologist who is predicting that global warming will actually cause an ice age. (Link via Cox and Forkum)
Key paragraph:
In the past, the slowing of the Gulf Stream has been intimately linked with dramatic regional cooling. Just 10,000 years ago, during a climatic cold snap known as the Younger Dryas, the current was severely weakened, causing northern European temperatures to fall by as much as 10 degrees. Ten thousand years before that, at the height of the last ice age, when most of the UK was reduced to a frozen wasteland, the Gulf Stream had just two-thirds of the strength it has now.What's worrying is that for some years now, global climate models have been predicting a future weakening of the Gulf Stream as a consequence of global warming.
Sounds scary, doesn't it? Except that it's all a guess. The author even admits later that there is no direct evidence supporting his theory.
So why publish at all?
Yet again, this highlights the fact that global warming, for which we have only ourselves to thank, is nothing more nor less than a great planetary experiment, many of the outcomes of which we cannot predict.
Oops, your bias is showing. No reputable scientist is attributing all of the recent temperature change to man made sources. In fact, the debate over how much is caused by human activity is on going, and quite contentious.
At least he's honest enough to admit that we have no idea what effect, if any, our activities will have on the climate. In the absence of strong evidence, pieces like this one are just propaganda.
For some real information on the science against global warming, check out this site.
Posted by Rich at November 13, 2003 10:15 AM | TrackBack