Global warming fading from view.

With regard to the whole Global Warming debate a peculiar trend is beginning to emerge within the press and media and other quasi scientific literature. It is the slow but noticeable discard of the term Global Warming in favour of the more all embracing term Climate Change.

To us this seems like a significant admission of failure on the part of those who erroneously - and despite the evidence to the contrary - have tried to maintain that the world is heating up to a disastrous extent, or any extent at all. Obviously if this were true then you would not have the anomalies of the posts below, with the harshest winter conditions, and snow that falls even in the deserts of Saudi Arabia. Of course there really never was any Global Warming and nor will this ever hasten the demise of the planet, or its people. Somewhere along the line this realisation had to occur to even the most vociferous of Global Warming advocates, and finally this message appears to have penetrated.

So what happens now? Global Warming disappears in favour of Climate Change. Now the argument is focused on anomalies that appear to have developed within the worlds climate. Talk about stating the obvious. The worlds climate has always changed to the extent where it has never been possible to arrive at a clear idea of what constitutes a normal state of global climate.

In fact open minded scientists are always discovering new patterns of climate, operating to cycles of tens, hundreds of even thousands of years, that all prove that the planets climate is in a constant state of flux and has nothing whatever to do with our activities here on Earth. For example one of the most disastrous examples of Climate Change is the one that turned the Sahara Desert from a verdant fertile plain into one of the most arid and inhospitable regions on Earth within a very short time. And this was well before the so called 'carbon imprint' of Humanity could possibly have taken effect, and shows in quite dramatic fashion how this planet has always exhibited the most extreme Climate Change properties dating back many thousands of years before the Industrial Age was ever thought of.

Solar flare connection to recent cold snaps.

As outlined in other posts below certain areas of the world, in particular the USA and northern Europe have recently experienced particularly heavy snow falls that appear to contradict the idea that the world is heating up. Indeed it is the opinion of this site that events here on Earth are a reflection of Solar energy. When for instance Solar flare activity is at a peak temperatures tend to rise and conversely when flare activity declines so do temperatures here on Earth.

With this in mind it is interesting to note that Solar flare activity (see graph below) has recently been of an extremely low, to non existent variety. Hence we have colder conditions. When this graph becomes more animated - as it soon will - then warmer conditions will return. It's as simple as that. In fact no great mystery, and certainly nothing that we as a race have much influence over. Simply put, it's like turning up the fire!!

Heavy snowfalls in the USA

While some were talking of an early Spring and global warming, the weather obviously failed to take heed. Instead some nations were treated to heavy snow falls that proves that we are still a long way from experiencing the nightmare conditions of perpetual heat that some doomsayers believe are already here. If so then how do you explain the heavy snowfalls through many US States, as well as snow chaos that struck parts of Germany, Central Europe and the British Isles where Scotland was especially affected.



Clearly the weather demonstrates that winter in the northern hemisphere is business as usual - cold and snowy just like it always was. Either way no sign of Global Warming.

For more information on the US snow storms please turn to the following link:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7358637

Snow in the deserts of Arabia

For those who despite the evidence still decide to believe in Global Warming, then take a look at the following video which shows recent snow falls in the deserts of Saudi Arabia - places where temperatures of 50 centigrade are nothing, and yet in these clips we see a winter wonderland.

No we're not heading for Global Warming. Based on these scenes you'd think we were heading for the next ice age.



For more videos from the same source please turn to the folowing link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH2rA2D1_mo

Chinese Freeze

Mention global warming to anyone in China and they'll likely treat you as crazy. China is experiencing one of its most bitter winters on record. Widespread heavy snowfalls have brought chaos across the nation with heavy damage to homes and agriculture. For instance it is estimated that at least 300,00 homes have collapsed under the vast weight of snow and transport interrupted on a scale that is causing damage to the economy. There are also fears that crop damage will bring shortages later in the year with raised vegetable prices that will be shared across the world.

Conditions of extreme cold were also to be found in Vietnam, India and Afghanistan where some estimates believe that up to a 1000 people may have perished in the harsh winter conditions.

So where now for Global Warming? Seems like there's just as much evidence for a coming Ice Age. And one more thing. China is sometimes thought as one of the worst polluters on the planet with heavy smog conditions in the Capital Beijing. So with all that pollution swishing its way around you'd think that China would be a prime candidate for hotter conditions and yet as this winter shows the opposite is happening. It also shows that with regard to Global Warming you can't possibly hope to prove something that isn't happening.

See here for more on the Chinese cold
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/30/wchina130.xml
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01/30/weather/AS-WEA-China-Snow.php

The Greek Freeze

The Global Warming brigade were wailing into their cornflakes this week as a particularly harsh spell of winter weather hit parts of Europe. For example Greece was hit by heavy blizzards with deep snow drifts that cut off many villages and brought flights to a standstill in the Greek capital Athens. Indeed some areas of Greece saw temperatures as low as -12 degrees Celcius, and renowned holiday beaches that normally throng with summer vistors were deep under snow.

Elsewhere there were also conditions of heavy cold throughout much of Central Europe, and even southern Italy was hit by particularly low temperatures. Meanwhile there were also frigid conditions for the British Isles with some places registering temperatures as low as -10 degrees Celsius.

But why should any of this be remarkable? After all the northern hemisphere is still in winter and cold and icy conditions are only to be expected. Well right. But if one took the theories of Global Warming at face value then these episodes should be impossible: They should not be happening, but they are. In plain language it means that if areas of even the Mediterranean can still get as cold as this then Global Warming just isn't happening. No way Jose!! I mean what are we to believe? That sometimes the heat trapping clouds of carbon dioxide just fade away and make the planet feel a little colder sometimes? If so then where do these clouds blow to?

The reality is that global temperatures in any given area depend very strongly on the wind direction rather than any more sinister explanation. In the northern hemisphere when the wind blows from the north the weather becomes cold. In the case of the recent Greek freeze this was simply the result of winds that plunged down across Russia from the Artic Circle, bringing a deep freeze to most of northern Europe. Similarly the frigid conditions in the British Isles were the result of swirling wind patterns of a predominantly northerly orientation. Either way it confirms a healthy seasonal trend that if Global Warming were really happening would never occur.

Siberia and China forget global warming.

Last week the temperature in Siberia was reported have dropped to minus 58C (-72F), which by anyone's reckoning is pretty cold. But this was supposed to be a world gripped by Global Warming? So how come that Siberia has yet to latch on to this idea?

Oh but wait!! If this isn't Global warming then ... you guessed it!! It has to be good old Climate Change. Except... and its a pretty big except - this is Siberia we're talking about and although the temperature has been pretty cold it's only just a couple of degrees below normal for this time of the year, in a part of the world that has always been renowned for its winter cold. In other words nothing terribly unusual.

But Siberia was not the only place on Earth to forget to adhere to the universally accepted idea of Global Warming. Areas of China for example experienced their worst winter snowfalls for over a decade and it seemed that whatever else was happening the image of a world enshrouded by heat trapping clouds of carbon dioxide was a long way from the stark reality of the actual situation.

Once again it showed that despite the politically hyped rhetoric nature has its own agenda to maintain, and one that we humans interpret or misinterpret to our own interest or ignore at our peril.