Are these the Last Days?
It will be small satisfaction, but if this is true, we'll get to watch all the "global warming" fools tie themselves into knots trying to reconcile this with the Warmist religion.
"...the scientific record now shows several other research papers published during the 1990s on the subject, all finding that light levels were falling significantly. Among them they reported that sunshine in Ireland was on the wane, that both the Arctic and the Antarctic were getting darker and that light in Japan, the supposed land of the rising sun, was actually falling. Most startling of all was the discovery that levels of solar radiation reaching parts of the former Soviet Union had gone down almost 20% between 1960 and 1987.
The problem is that most of the climate scientists who saw the reports simply didn't believe them. "
Of course they didn't believe them. Religion demands belief without question, and these reports called their faith into question. So they just ignored them.
Space measurements show that solar radiation reaching the earth has not diminished, however, suggesting that the dimming effect is a phenomenon of the atmosphere, decreasing the amount of visible and infrared light reaching the surface. The mechanism producing this effect is not understood.
But these things can become self-sustaining, in a positive feedback way. A decrease in light at the surface could cause increased ice-pack, reflecting still more heat back into space, causing more cooling until we have a full blown ice age under way.
I think I'll go buy some Polartec outfits before the prices start to rise.
It's going to get cold outside.
Posted on December 18, 2003 01:17 PM