Fwd: Leading Russian Scientist predicts another Ice Age

[Jon Woodlands]

Hi there,

Dr Habibullo Abdussamatov, of the St Petersburg Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory is reported in the UK media and the German media with his forecasts for the solar cycle changes - but NOT in the Australian media. Funny that!  His views echo those of many  solar scientists and climate scientists, including those at the US National Solar Observatory.

I've been trying to alert the green movement to this likelihood of long term global cooling for several years now. That it was dangerous to pin all its hopes on "global warming", which has always been politically driven hype- kick started by Margaret Thatcher to distract the population from her nuclear program in Britain. When I met Stephen Schneider, one of the world's top climate scientists for the filming of Insight on SBS, he told me quietly, over a glass of wine- after the filming that the 21st century was likely to be colder, because of solar changes, and that it would be "problematic".

As we head into the predicted solar hibernation, which will be disastrous for many countries, a lot of people who marched in the streets to "Save the Climate" are likely to feel confused, and ultimately betrayed.

Australian atmospheric-physicist Garth Paltridge has written a book "The Climate Caper", where he outlines the political pressures climate scientists are under, to produce specific results. This was an interesting outcome of the East Anglia email scandal, where scientists were caught with their hands in the cookie jar, discussing ways to hide the cooling trend over the preceding 15 years. They also spoke of the political PRESSURE they were under to slant their results a certain way.

Meanwhile Australia is undergoing the biggest expansion of uranium mining in its history. And the Greens have been set up as Chicken Little.

All the best,

Jon

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Leading Scientist Predicts Another Ice Age

by ROBERT on APRIL 3, 2013 

http://www.express.co.uk/news/science-technology/387971/Scientist-predicts-earth-is-heading-for-another-Ice-Age

 

As Britain prepares to shiver for at least another month, a leading scientist today predicted that the world is heading for another Ice Age.  Millions of brassed off Brits pining for warmth will have to endure freezing temperatures and biting winds until May, says this article by Giles Sheldrick.

Coldest in more than 200 years

As if the outlook wasn't bleak enough already, meteorologists believe the shivering start to 2013 has been the coldest in more than 200 years.   More worryingly, the combination of sub-zero temperatures and heavy snow experienced across much of the country recently could be the prelude to a new Ice Age that will begin next year and last for 200 years.

Russian scientist Dr Habibullo Abdussamatov, of the St Petersburg Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, painted the Doomsday scenario saying the recent inclement weather simply proved we were heading towards a frozen planet.    Dr Abdussamatov believes Earth was on an "unavoidable advance towards a deep temperature drop". The last big freeze, known as the Little Ice Age, was between 1650 and 1850.

During that time "all channels in the Netherlands were frozen, glaciers were on the advance in Greenland and people were forced to leave their settlements, inhabited for several centuries," said Abdussamatov.

Humanity has always prospered during warm periods and suffered during cold ones -   "The Thames river in London and Seine in Paris were frozen over every year. Humanity has always been prospering during the warm periods and suffering during the cold ones. The climate has never been and will never be stable."

http://www.express.co.uk/news/science-technology/387971/Scientist-predicts-earth-is-heading-for-another-Ice-Age

 

Harold says:

April 3, 2013 at 10:02 am

Regarding the Little Ice Age, it's interesting to note that academic historians tend to concentrate on military and political events, and not on natural events or cycles unless the event is too large to be ignored, such as the eruption of Vesuvius, and even then such things tend to get pushed aside. I majored in history in college some years ago, and I learned very little from my history profs about the Little Ice Age, and nothing about several major volcanic eruptions in relatively recent times that that had serious world impact, especially the late 18th century eruption in Iceland that seriously affected Europe, and probably helped cause the French Revolution.

Since many politicians study academic history, they are exposed to the world view of historians that most of history is caused by man made made political and military actions, and the effect natural cycles and disasters is downplayed. They don't like to admit that sometimes people, and especially leaders, are not in control, and that Nature cannot be manipulated the way governments, economies and other human institutions can, and that spin doesn't trump cold weather.