Global Warming - If it's really happening, as opposed to weather shifts caused by factors we haven't figured out yet, we aren't causing it. The Sun's output has been increasing measurably for about 100 years +/-. This increase should peak in about 2011 or 2012 when the Sun's long cycle (1500 years) peaks, coincidentally at about the same time that the Sun's 11 year cycle peaks.
After that, I'm thinking that we'll see a gradual cooling as the Sun's output decreases and you may return your normally scheduled deep freeze, and once again we can say that you live in The Frozen Wastelands of the North (Unless the magnetic north pole shifts far enough that you become west or east or something.)
I remember WAAAAAY back BEFORE Al Gore, (I know - that's a really long time... or seems like it anyway). I was taught something in a class they called "Geography" (now a quaint legendary myth of classes taught and education being actually done). They taught us that the past 200 years of weather were NOT typical. That the weather in North America was uncharacteristically moist and warm, allowing farming where it hadn't been possible before, and crop yields that were not possible either, allowing people to eat well and suffer fewer diseases and live longer.
Of course, NOW we know that this was all caused by Anthropogenic Global Warming and is a BAD thing. We just didn't KNOW! Silly us.
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Date: Sunday, 17 February 2008 23:48 (UTC)Global Warming - If it's really happening, as opposed to weather shifts caused by factors we haven't figured out yet, we aren't causing it. The Sun's output has been increasing measurably for about 100 years +/-. This increase should peak in about 2011 or 2012 when the Sun's long cycle (1500 years) peaks, coincidentally at about the same time that the Sun's 11 year cycle peaks.
After that, I'm thinking that we'll see a gradual cooling as the Sun's output decreases and you may return your normally scheduled deep freeze, and once again we can say that you live in The Frozen Wastelands of the North (Unless the magnetic north pole shifts far enough that you become west or east or something.)
I remember WAAAAAY back BEFORE Al Gore, (I know - that's a really long time... or seems like it anyway). I was taught something in a class they called "Geography" (now a quaint legendary myth of classes taught and education being actually done). They taught us that the past 200 years of weather were NOT typical. That the weather in North America was uncharacteristically moist and warm, allowing farming where it hadn't been possible before, and crop yields that were not possible either, allowing people to eat well and suffer fewer diseases and live longer.
Of course, NOW we know that this was all caused by Anthropogenic Global Warming and is a BAD thing. We just didn't KNOW! Silly us.