Fwd: Take the Power Back

[Jon Woodlands]

Definitely the Age of Stupid. How many of these characters realise we're likely heading into a mini ice age? Antarctica is experiencing a record ice pack, the BOM has been completely altered the climate record- dropping temperatures from 100 years ago by between one and 3.5 degrees in some cases, turning a cooling trend into a 'warming' trend. Hundreds of millions of farm animals have died over the last few years because of extreme cold across the planet. Why are they covering this up? The Sun drives the weather. For some strange reason they don't want the community at large to know this. It's all rather bizarre.

Nevertheless, you might be interested in this march.

All the best,

Jon

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We only have one climate and we need everyone to stand together to protect it.  Please join us in Queens Park at the People's Climate March - it's time to take the power back. YES I'll MARCH Dear Jon, Next week, world leaders are meeting in New York for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s emergency climate summit.   Abbott will likely be a no-show, so instead we need to show the world that Australians are committed to backing the clean energy transformation to protect our planet and children’s future.   Join us in Queens Park in Brisbane at 11am this Sunday the 21st of September for the People’s Climate March.   The People’s Climate March is part of a global day of action and solidarity where millions around the world will come together in support of ambitious action on climate change. It’s never been more important to put the pressure on those who represent us. We only have one climate and we need everyone to stand together to protect it.   RSVP to make this weekend the biggest climate mobilisation the world has ever seen.   We know that our communities are already leading the way on climate action. Over a million Australian homes have gone solar, farmers and activists are fighting new coal projects, and thousands are divesting from fossil fuel backing banks and super funds. Governments will back the transformation when we take the power back from the big end of town and the old parties who will say or do anything for their big mining, big polluting mates.  Take the power back and stand with communities around the world for a safe climate future.   I can’t wait to see you there.  Yours, for a clean, bright future powered by 100% renewable energy, Larissa

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[Garry Claridge]

Here is a reply from a person I showed Jon's discourse to.

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Hello everyone,

Yes, as a retired climatologist of nearly 40 years experience, I find it exasperating to watch the deniosaurs in action talking about their ice ages. They will cherry pick any bit of evidence that suits their argument. The record size of the Antarctic ice pack is not caused by global cooling, but by a number of factors related to global warming. Firstly, increasing temperatures around Antarctica mean that the atmosphere can hold more water vapour, and when it aggregates into precipitation, if the temperature is still below 0°C, it will fall as snow, but more and heavier snow than without global warming. Secondly, the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet is actually cooling the waters around Antarctica, which helps ice to form and last longer. Thirdly, global warming is producing an increase in the wind speeds of the westerly wind belt that encircles Antarctica. Owing to a phenomenon called Ekman drift, westerly winds cause the ocean and the ice sitting in it to move to the left of the wind direction (in the southern hemisphere), i.e. away from Antarctica. Thus ice being produced is being pushed northward thus increasing the area of the icepack.

Of course, these arguments are too complex for an Australian community which is unfortunately largely scientifically illiterate. The easiest explanation is that a greater area of ice must mean that the planet is cooling.

Note that things are very different for the Arctic, because it is in fact completely ocean (well, frozen… for now) and is immediately surrounded by warming continents.

I am very much looking forward to this weekend's climate summit at QUT, which among other things will be talking about how to deal with climate change deniers!

Yours in cli-mateship,

 

Phil

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All the best.

Garry

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[Jon Woodlands]

Thanks Garry,
Your mate has made a mistake here. the Antarctic icepack is not only growing dramatically it is getting COLDER.
Solar scientists are predicting we are heading into a grand solar minimum, likely to be similar to the Maunder Minimum of the 17th and 18th centuries. It will drastically shift the Earth's climate and many believe we are in the early stages of it. Anyone on the Sustainable Maleny email loop who has been to Europe or other places further away from the equator in the past 6 years would have witnessed this, much longer and more severe winters. I have a couple of friends Robin and Gary who went to France in late April and May last year and found it to be around ten degrees colder than normal. For the first time  the ski fields remained open in June last year, so much snow was there. So this is all caused by the 1/30,000- as a proportion of the total atmosphere that is the human emissions of to carbon dioxide? So "global warming" is actually causing the planet to get colder and icier?

It is hard to fathom Garry that this guy is a credible scientist if he a) does not understand the significance of a grand solar minimum and b) uses terms such as "climate change deniers". It's pathetic.

I challenge you Garry to research the significance of a grand solar minimum. I challenge all recipients of this email to investigate this. Find out what happened to the Earth and its people between the years 1645 and 1715, the years of the Maunder Minimum.

I'm simply trying to encourage more people to be empowered by knowledge, not empty, daft, meaningless unscientific rhetoric, used by the media and politicians, and tragically, a few so-called "scientists". "Global warming" was started by politicians, it's not based in science. (Maggie Thatcher started it really, placing pressure on scientists to produce certain results, it was all about covering her nuclear program). It's not an environmental issue. And the future is most likely to be colder.

Also look up the "Holocene Optimum". 5,000 years ago the world was much warmer than now. Huge areas of Siberian tundra were covered in immense forests back then (too cold now), not all that long ago, hey.  North Africa and Mesopotamia were subtropical and warmer & wetter. Again you can research this stuff. We are nearing the next major ice age and this century we are indeed likely to experience a mini ice age due to a grand solar minimum.

Hope that is helpful regarding the climate,

All the best,

Jon