| by Mitch Battros - Earth Changes Media The new data show that throughout millions of years, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels swung back and forth between about 250 parts per million, close to present-day levels, to more than 2,000 parts per million. At the same time, the southern ice sheets retreated as carbon dioxide rose and expanded again when levels fell. "This is the best documented record we have of what happens to the climate system during global warming following an ice age," said Isabel Montanez, professor of geology at the University of California, Davis, and lead author on the paper. (Content from the Univ. of Calif. - Davis)It can be said Al Gore had good intentions, and lets even say well meaning passion, but he had it all wrong. The unintended consequences thrust upon him, and the global warming army, is to now attempt to separate the myth of so-called global warming, with pollution, and the real culprit 'climate change' directed by the Sun. What began as a well hidden agenda to simply attack pollution (which is indeed a worthy cause) by conjuring up this disguised swindle, called global warming, is blowing up in their face. I am not joyful to disclose and present this information because it may in fact allow, or even escalate, reckless irresponsible polluting of our earthly home. The very same nasty backlash the Iraq invasion has caused the United States in the eyes of the world by trying to "trick" Americans i.e. 9/11 = Iraq = weapons of mass destruction = terrorists.Let this be a lesson to all people of the world ----- Whenever you hear even a whisper of fascist comments such as: "You are either with me or you are with the terrorists" (George Bush) or "You are either with me or you are with the polluters" (Al Gore), fight like hell to squash such evil intended greed, manipulation, powerless invoking rhetoric. As I have aged, a sliver of wisdom has bestowed upon me to carefully 'pick my battles'. No need to fight every one over every thing. But when I find a cause worthy of battle, it is my duty of integrity to fight like hell and yell as loud as I can. The global warming fraud is indeed worthy of this notion. I hope you feel the same --- As documented in my book "Global Warming: A Convenient Disguise", the politicizing of science for self-seeking needs is not altogether new, but never ever ever have we seen it so flagrant without fear of reprisal in our recent history.There is an almost frightening capture in this new empirical data. We see the leaders of this research team remind us of what is really worth preparing for ----- "Coming Mass Migration is Imminent". The following is from the book "Global Warming: A Convenient Disguise": (IPCC) "The current coastal management and planning frameworks do not take account of the vulnerability of key systems to changes in climate and sea level or long lead times for implementation of many adaptation measures. Inappropriate policies encourage development in impact-prone areas. Given increasing population density in coastal zones, long lead times for implementation of many adaptation measures, and institutional, financial, and technological limitations (particularly in many developing countries), coastal systems should be considered vulnerable to changes in climate." Source: 'Global Warming: A Convenient Disguise' The new report shows the record of fossil plants shows the drastic effects of major climate change on living things. In the modern era, tropical forests are already stressed by human use and settlement, and ecological researchers have recorded species moving north or south, likely driven by current climate change.
The Science behind the Myth
The transition from an ice age to an ice-free planet 300 million years ago was highly unstable, marked by dips and rises in carbon dioxide, extreme swings in climate and drastic effects on tropical vegetation, according to a study published in the journal Science Jan. 5.
"This is the best documented record we have of what happens to the climate system during global warming following an ice age," said Isabel Montanez, professor of geology at the University of California, Davis, and lead author on the paper. In the mid-Permian, 300 million years ago, the Earth was in an ice age. Miles-thick ice sheets covered much of the southern continent, and floating pack ice likely covered the northern polar ocean. The tropics were dominated by lush rainforests, now preserved as coal beds. Forty million years later, all the ice was gone. The world was a hot, dry place, vegetation was sparse, soils little more than drifts of wind-blown dust. "You'd have to be a reptile to want to live there," Montanez said.
Montanez and her co-authors derived records of atmospheric carbon dioxide from ancient soils that have been preserved as rocks, from coal and from fossils of plants. They extracted a record of sea surface temperatures from the fossils of brachiopod shellfish and looked at the extensive records of past plant life from fossils of the ancient rainforests. To see how the glaciers advanced and retreated, they looked at the scars and clues left by ice sheets that once covered the great southern continent of Gondwanaland, which included most of the land masses of the modern southern hemisphere. They placed statistical constraints on their data with computer modeling by Deb Niemeier, professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the John Muir Institute of the Environment at UC Davis.
The new data show that throughout millions of years, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels swung back and forth between about 250 parts per million, close to present-day levels, to more than 2,000 parts per million. At the same time, the southern ice sheets retreated as carbon dioxide rose and expanded again when levels fell, a pattern compatible with the idea that greenhouse gases caused the end of the late Paleozoic ice age.
"We can see a pattern of increasing carbon dioxide and increasing temperatures, with a series of rises and dips," Montanez said. Scientists had assumed that as the climate warmed, a tipping point would be reached at which the ice sheets would melt rapidly and for good. Instead, the new data shows that the climate went back and forth between the extremes. But the overall trend was to warming, and by 260 million years ago, the ice sheets were gone. Records of fossil plants show rapid changes in tropical plant communities as the climate changed. On scales of a few thousand years, lush forests of tree ferns in cool, wet periods alternated with conifers and other plants adapted to a harsher, drier and warmer climate.
"The Permian greenhouse is the only record we have of the transition from an ice age to an ice-free climate on a vegetated planet," Montanez said. But instead of a smooth shift, the transition occurred in a series of sharp swings between cold and hot conditions, occurring during perhaps a half-million to few million years. Montanez pointed out the data does show that such a major change in climate will likely not proceed in small, gradual steps, but in a series of unstable, dramatic swings. While these data cover millions of years, similar events might take place during a much shorter time span. Perhaps this is the behavior one should expect when we go through a major climate transition," Montanez said. Further, the record of fossil plants shows the drastic effects of major climate change on living things. In the modern era, tropical forests are already stressed by human use and settlement, and ecological researchers have recorded species moving north or south, likely driven by current climate change. |
In the early evening hours (Australian Eastern time) of August 28, sky watchers across much of the world can look on as the Moon crosses in to the shadow of the Earth, becoming completely immersed for one-hour and 30 minutes, a period of time much longer than most typical lunar eclipses. In fact, this eclipse will be the deepest and longest in 7 years.
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