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The controversial climate-change contrarian, S. Frederick Singer, a former space scientist and government scientific administrator, who holds PhD in Physics from Princeton University and is co-author of Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, presents the theory that global temperatures have been rising mostly or entirely because of a natural cycle. Using historic data from two millennia of recorded history combined with natural physical records, they argue that the 1,500 year natural sunspot magnetic waves cycle that has always controlled the earth's climate remains the driving force in the current warming trend. Man created carbon dioxide has very little effect on the earth's climate.
The most recent cycles have been recorded in human history with forced migrations, starvation, and disease during the cold portion of the cycle and greater population, expanded farm land, greater crop variety, and extra building during the warm portion. The causes of the 1,500 year cycle are not well understood although 600 of them have been identified in the last million years. This permits the authors to be relatively confident that we have been moving into the warm phase of the cycle for the last 150 years. It also suggests that we may have one or two degrees more warming if we are to get to the typical high of the warm phase.
Although the warm phase of the cycle has been typically more regular than the cold phase, it does not move steadily to a peak and then fall off, but rather moves abruptly higher at the start of the warm phase followed by highly irregular (but modestly higher) temperatures for hundreds of years.
Originally posted by OmegaLogos
Explanation: S&F!
All very good ... until he says we can't do anything to change it ... when scientifically we can ALTER the orbit of the earth by simply throwing stuff up and off the planet.
Sure thats not the best choice to follow... but it is a choice ... it is doable ... and it may work!
Personal Disclosure: If by unstoppable he means unavoidable then he is wrong.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
S & F
I appreciate your approach...
I honestly don't care what people on either side want to call it and honestly I'm not bent over the causes. [Mankind contributed or a Natural Earth/Sun Cyclical event or both ] Having said that, I see nothing wrong with leaving our children and grandchildren fresh air and clean drinking water. We should clean up our mess and prepare for whatever nature has in store for us.
Its clear that enough data has been gathered to give some credence to this theory. And I feel more inclined to accept this than theories given to us by Al Gore.
Originally posted by Muckster
reply to post by TheSparrowSings
Its clear that enough data has been gathered to give some credence to this theory. And I feel more inclined to accept this than theories given to us by Al Gore.
You do realize that Al Gore did not invent anthropogenic climate change... please tell me you don’t think it is just this one man who is leading the way in this field!!
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I absolutely do understand that Al Gore is not the FOUNDER of Anthropogenic climate change. *lol* My personal opinion on the matter, as stated in my OP, is that the scientists and followers of the "strictly man-made" crowd might be either confused or mislead in some of the data they are seeing.
All the names of organizations you have listed are good organizations to have. REGARDLESS of what is causing the change, the more research we do the better, on either side of the argument. My problem lies with people who refuse/ or get angry, when someone else comes up with a naturogenic reason and it gets brushed aside.
And no underhand tactics from me, I am too UN-confrontational for that, just me stating my opinion on something I find interesting and plausible as well. Thanks for your reply.
Originally posted by TheSparrowSings
The controversial climate-change contrarian, S. Frederick Singer, a former space scientist and government scientific administrator, who holds PhD in Physics from Princeton University and is co-author of Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, presents the theory that global temperatures have been rising mostly or entirely because of a natural cycle. Using historic data from two millennia of recorded history combined with natural physical records, they argue that the 1,500 year natural sunspot magnetic waves cycle that has always controlled the earth's climate remains the driving force in the current warming trend. Man created carbon dioxide has very little effect on the earth's climate.
First and foremost, I am not the kind of person who will sit here and say that man's environmental destruction is something that should be ignored. Regardless of a person's opinion on the severity of Climate Change, it is indeed occurring, but I believe the Sun has for more to do with it than mainstream science is ready to admit. The article goes on to say.
The most recent cycles have been recorded in human history with forced migrations, starvation, and disease during the cold portion of the cycle and greater population, expanded farm land, greater crop variety, and extra building during the warm portion. The causes of the 1,500 year cycle are not well understood although 600 of them have been identified in the last million years. This permits the authors to be relatively confident that we have been moving into the warm phase of the cycle for the last 150 years. It also suggests that we may have one or two degrees more warming if we are to get to the typical high of the warm phase.
Although the warm phase of the cycle has been typically more regular than the cold phase, it does not move steadily to a peak and then fall off, but rather moves abruptly higher at the start of the warm phase followed by highly irregular (but modestly higher) temperatures for hundreds of years.
Its clear that enough data has been gathered to give some credence to this theory. And I feel more inclined to accept this than theories given to us by Al Gore. I don't know if his tactic is a deliberate exploitation of an unstoppable event or just misinterpretation of data. Regardless,the debate between anthropogenic vs naturogenic, is far from being solidified.
Source Article
And another link to a larger source material in from the 2009 report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), Climate Change Reconsidered. I haven't had a chance to look through the pdf files yet but will do some when I have more spare time.
The 2009 NIPCC Report
Originally posted by SLAYER69
S & F
I appreciate your approach...
I honestly don't care what people on either side want to call it and honestly I'm not bent over the causes. [Mankind contributed or a Natural Earth/Sun Cyclical event or both ] Having said that, I see nothing wrong with leaving our children and grandchildren fresh air and clean drinking water. We should clean up our mess and prepare for whatever nature has in store for us.
Originally posted by TheSparrowSings
reply to post by Muckster
dominant species and protectors of this Earth
Originally posted by sidLives
And if we put more money in the saving of the globalists?