“In 2009, cosmic ray intensities have increased 19% beyond anything we’ve seen in the past 50 years,” says Richard Mewaldt of Caltech. “The increase is significant, and it could mean we need to re-think how much radiation shielding astronauts take with them on deep-space missions.”

“We’re experiencing the deepest solar minimum in nearly a century,” says Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center, “so it is no surprise that cosmic rays are at record levels for the Space Age.”

Cosmic rays help in cloud formation.. More cloud cover equals cooling. Cooling equals lower temps. Expect cooler summers and colder winters.

If it keeps up long enough say 50 years which is concievable, then we may very well see CO2 emissions plateau or grow well below predicted rates despite human activity as C02 is sequestered in ice, the ground and water bodies.

Mother Nature may very well show the warmists and their political allies for the frauds that they are.

While it is a good thing to show the Warmists as the liars they are, a cooling trend will be bad! It will impact farming resulting in fewer crops and higher prices, famines may happen world wide. Heating costs will increase. Coupled with stupid energy policies and it may very well be the case of people freezing to death in the most industrialized and prosperous nation on the Earth, and not just the homeless. Middle class folk.

The Last Time this happened at such a time in human history, the Roman Empire fell.

Is it ok to openly laugh at the climate control folks?

daesleeper on September 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM

not sure they’re worth a full laugh anymore. maybe a snort of dismissal. They deserved a laugh when the situation looked like they were just misinterpreting data. Now it turns out that a significant portion of AGW is manipulation (Hockey stick, antarctic temps, ground station errors, etc.)

“Cooler temperatures are an indication of global warming.”

I want a pony.

Age of planet: approximately 4.5 billion years
Mankind has existed: 1 million years
Industrialized world: 100 years

We’ve been here for a little over 2/100ths of one percent of the time.

We’ve been industrialized for 2/1,000,000ths of one percent of the time.

In the words of a famous AccuWeather forecaster that laughed about “global warming”…. after stating that he wasn’t a politician but only a meterologist and climatologist, during the present climate period (measured by the smallest amount we measure the climate variance), the state of Wisconsin has been everything from a rain forest to glacier covered.

Who thinks mankind will exist on the planet for another million years? I used to believe that mankind couldn’t have an impact on the climate. After watching the governmet involvement in social security, welfare, medicare/medicaid, (add the government programs of your choice to the list), I am convinced that if the government gets involved in “saving the planet”, we are doomed even quicker.

Swine flu? What ever happened to Bird flu? The coming Ice Age from “global cooling”? I am growing tired of the government manufacturing crisis after crisis as a mean of creating more and more government control.

CC

“Cold hearted orb that rules the night,
Removes the colours from our sight,
Red is gray and yellow white,
But we decide which is right.
And which is an illusion?
Pinprick holes in a colourless sky,
Let insipid figures of light pass by,
The mighty light of ten thousand suns,
Challenges infinity and is soon gone.
Night time, to some a brief interlude,
To others the fear of solitude.
Brave Helios wake up your steeds,
Bring the warmth the countryside needs.”

Next thing ya know, the climate change brigade will try to get a multi-trillion dollar program going to snuff out the sun…all those gamma ray bursts and stuff cause cancer, and too much exposure to the sun certainly can’t be healthy.

Idiots.

Our bad.

When mankind learns how to control solar flares and sunspots, volcanic eruptions, and weather patterns, and the jet stream, then you dems can start talking about controlling the weather. Good luck with that.

tbear44 on September 29, 2009 at 11:58 PM

Does this mean we need a Solar Flare Czar?

At the end of the last ice age about 12,000 years ago, scientists figure the earth warmed up over 10 degrees in 2 or 3 years. I’ll bet it wasn’t man made CO2 that did that.

starboardhelm on September 29, 2009 at 7:28 PM

Orbital Eccentricity explains it. No known solar phenomenon creats a 100,000 year Ice Age and ends it abruptly.

However, that is just what people are predicting. I guess we will see what happens.

ajacksonian on September 29, 2009 at 9:30 PM

Stop making sense.

It scares the liberals.

They might think your racist against nature or something.

Have to love the analysis that points out that those pushing the stickiness had the coldest year of the previous millenia smack dab in the middle of the Medieval Warm Period! Something was out of whack with that.

The Argos Buoy system sees a slow but steady decline of temps at the -20m range. Surface temps vary, widely, but 20m down? That should be all global-warmingness and yet its cooler.

Our magnetic field is at its weakest point in recorded history, thus letting more radiation… hard radiation… get lower into the atmosphere. That usually goes with a slightly chilly period when the magnetic poles take their time to flip-flop.

Sun spots heading into a Maunder Minimum cycle, which is bad news as it was associated with The Little Ice Age. Not good, that.

The best part has been watching ‘Deadliest Catch’ and each year during the winter crab season the ice packs have gone further and futher south. This last winter the captains were saying that they have never seen the ice as far south and their fathers hadn’t ever told about it that far south… while the AGW folks were fretting about lack of ice, there it was: ice in abundance further south than in recorded times coming from the North Pole.

Plus we have this huge continental mass at the south pole which acts as a huge heat sink for the planet. The continent under the ice keeps the ice at a relatively constant temperature, and precipitation has been increasing at the South Pole.

Put another log on the fire.

The climate is ALWAYS CHANGING.

We are between glacial periods, that is what the climate does in such eras: change quickly up and down and all around until it suddenly goes down for a few tens of thousands of years. We really do have to stop the continents from running around so quickly and riding so high at their current speeds so we can get those lovely shallow oceans over continental interiors once more. For nice, kilometer deep warm seas to move those temps up to where they normally are for the planet. Give it a few million years or more and then we will miss these temperate times and the Earth will continue doing what it does best: ignore us.