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Analysis: Al Gore Ducks Northeast Blizzard
Phil Brennan Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007
As a blizzard of snow and ice pummels the Northeast after trouncing the
Midwest, and waves of Arctic cold fronts drop much of America below sub
freezing weather, the $64,000 question is, Where is Al Gore?
Gore claims that global warming is an immediate problem facing the United
States and the world, and places like New York and Chicago could feel like
Caribbean haunts.
If there is any doubt that God has a sense of humor, it has to be dispelled
by a headline in Wednesday's Drudge Report: "House hearing on 'warming of
the planet' canceled after ice storm."
He followed up with this: "Save it for a sunny day: Maryville Univ. in St.
Louis area canceling screening of Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth' because of
a snowstorm."
What must have evoked the loudest laugh in heaven is the notion that if
global warming is really occurring, puny mankind is going to overcome it by
legislation and business regulation that would strangle the U.S. economy and
be overseen by the super efficient United Nations. [Editor's Note: Read more
about how Al Gore and his friends spin and fib about global warming -- Go
Here Now.]
In a NewsMax.com column, I made a prediction that was greeted with scorn by
the promoters of the global warming theory. One even called me "evil."
Here's what I wrote: "Within the next 24 months, some areas of the U.S. will
have 20 feet of snow falling in just one storm." This was around the time
parts of Japan got hit by a 13-foot snowfall.
Last month Colorado had about 20 feet of snow fall in little more than a
week's time. Now areas of northern New York State are reeling under more
than 12 feet of snow.
Picture a person 6 feet tall with 6 feet of snow above the top of his head,
and you'll get an idea of what a dozen feet of snow amounts to.
My prediction was based on a very simple fact. Over the past two years,
areas of the United States, including New England, had twice experienced
rainfall of 20 inches in a single storm.
If 20 inches of precipitation fell as snow, it would total 20 feet.
And there are solid reasons why an area that got hit with 20 inches of rain
in the summer and fall would be a prime candidate to experience 20 feet of
snow in the winter, especially if levels of precipitation are rising.
And precipitation levels are rising - for a very good reason.
The world's oceans are being heated by underwater tectonic activity -
underwater volcanic eruptions and blisteringly hot magma seeping up from
cracks in the sea floor.
The heated ocean water creates high levels of CO2 that it sends aloft along
with huge amounts of moisture. That moisture becomes precipitation - rain in
the spring, summer, and fall, and snow in the winter. Increased amounts of
moisture in the upper atmosphere equals increased amounts of precipitation.
The hotter the oceans, the more water vapor sent heavenward and the heavier
the precipitation. This explains the large number of record-breaking
rainfalls we've been seeing in the past couple of years - with as noted
above, areas of the United States getting 20 inches of rain in a day or so.
As for that dreaded greenhouse gas, CO2, atmospheric levels of which now
exceed 400 parts per million (ppm), it is important to note that
paleological records show that every time CO2 levels have exceeded 300 ppm
there has been an ice age. Every time - without exception.
The same records show that there have been a series of ice ages over the
past 5 million years, naturally occurring every 100,000 years, with about
90,000 years of glaciation followed by about 12,000 years of interglacial
climate.
The last ice age ended about 12,000 years ago. Clearly we are in line for
the next period of glaciation. But more about that later.
Suffice it to say that unless Al Gore has managed to repeal a demonstrated
law of nature, the iceman cometh.
The befuddled Gore keeps blathering about how the oceans are being heated by
global warming, instead of the warming being created by the oceans, as the
facts clearly show.
On his Web site iceagenow.com, Robert W. Felix provides the following
information about ocean warming as a result of hydrothermic activity under
the seas.
"A new type of volcano may be heating up the floor of the western Pacific
Ocean," says an article posted on National Geographic News and on Yahoo.
"Scientists suspect the new volcanoes occur at cracks in tectonic plates
caused by stress as the plates slide past each other. A group of small
volcanoes called petit spot volcanoes has been discovered far from the
tectonic-plate boundaries (like mid-oceanic ridges) that often spawn
volcanoes, earthquakes, and other geologic activity.
"Geoscientist Naoto Hirano's team believes that the source of these
volcanoes is melted rock from the upper mantle, which has been squeezed
through cracks in the tectonic plate above. This type of [activity produces]
tiny volcanoes, possibly now active, on the old, cold subducting Pacific
plate,' said Hirano from his office at the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography in La Jolla, California. 'This petit spot volcano theory
suggests that this type of eruption can occur wherever the oceanic plate is
flexed. These small volcanoes may be widespread on ocean floors where the
mantle just under the crust is squeezed out by tectonic forces when one
plate moves under another, the researchers explained.
"'Dubbed "petit spots," these new types of volcanoes are difficult to spot
using satellite technology. Specific geophysical and sampling expeditions
would have to be carried out in order to locate them,' Hirano explained."
Scientists working in the southern Atlantic Ocean have found a 407 degree
centigrade hydrothermal vent, the hottest yet known on an ocean floor.
Expedition leader Andrea Koschinsky of International University in Bremen,
Germany, and her team found the hydrothermal vent just south of the equator
on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 2,990 meters. The vent is located on
the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the African and South American continental
plates are moving apart at the relatively sedate rate of 3.2 centimeter a
year. In the Pacific, by comparison, the Pacific and Nazca plates are
speeding apart at some 15 centimeter per year.
German-American researchers discovered more hydrothermal activity at the
Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic Ocean than anyone ever imagined. The Gakkel ridge
is a gigantic volcanic mountain chain stretching beneath the Arctic Ocean.
With its deep valleys 5,500 meters beneath the sea surface and its 5,000
meter- high summits, Gakkel ridge is far mightier than the Alps. Two
research icebreakers, the USCGC Healy from the United States and the German
PFS Polarstern, joined forces in the international expedition AMORE (Arctic
Mid-Ocean Ridge Expedition). In attendance were scientists from the Max
Planck Institute for Chemistry and other international institutions.
The scientists had expected that the Gakkel ridge would exhibit "anemic"
magmatism. Instead, they found "surprisingly strong magmatic activity in the
west and the east of the ridge and one of the strongest hydrothermal
activities ever seen at mid-ocean ridges." The Gakkel ridge extends about
1,800 kilometers beneath the Arctic Ocean from north of Greenland to
Siberia, and is the northernmost portion of the mid-ocean ridge system. To
their surprise, the researchers found high levels of volcanic activity.
Indeed, magmatism was "dramatically" higher than expected.
Hydrothermal hot springs on the seafloor were also far more abundant than
predicted. "We expected this to be a hydrothermally dead ridge, and almost
every time our water measurement instrument came up, they showed evidence of
hydrothermal activity, and once we even 'saw' an active hot spring on the
sea floor," said Dr. Jonathan Snow, the leader of the research group from
the Max Planck Institute.
Remember, that "magmatism" is red hot magma seeping up from the ocean floor.
It's like putting a burner under a pot of water.
In short, heated oceans are warming the globe and setting up a scenario that
includes among its consequences more and increasingly violent hurricanes,
tornadoes, and blizzards.
In 1979, Genevieve Woillard, a pollen specialist in France, concluded from
detailed studies that the shift from a warm, interglacial climate to ice age
conditions at the beginning of the last ice age, some 100,000 years ago,
took "less than 20 years." Her observations of the decline of European
forests led her to conclude we may be in a similar period of rapid climatic
change.
Research has shown that this 20-year period is one in which Mother Nature
wreaks havoc on humanity.
If the unchallenged results of the work of Woillard and others who studied
past ice ages are any indication of the pace of glaciation, once it starts,
the transition period is a mere 20 years or so. And we may be well into that
20-year period now. Woillard estimated that the period before that final 20
years - when the earth began gearing up for an end to the interglacial
period - could be as long as 150 years and as short as 75 years."
According to Woillard's studies and those of other paleological climate
researchers, the transition between interglacial and glacial periods is one
of increasing violence - more volcanic eruptions, storms, earthquakes, and
other natural disasters.
We are being bombarded with horror stories about how the arctic regions are
warming and the polar bears are disappearing (actually their number numbers
have increased by some 20,000) but we are not informed by Mr. Gore and his
acolytes as to how a warming arctic region can continue to send more and
more record breaking cold waves southward, creating the incredibly frigid
weather much of the northern U.S. is shivering under.
If your refrigerator is running low on freon it will not keep its contents
cold. If the arctic is our refrigerator, and the refrigerator is rapidly
running out of coolant, how can it create colder and colder weather fronts?
The mechanics here are simple. The earth is getting warmer in some areas
thanks to the heat being given off by the seas - picture standing next to a
pot of boiling water - you'll feel the heat. Stand next to a heated ocean
and you'll feel the warmth. That melting ice in part of the arctic regions
is probably the result of hydrothermal activity in the Gakkel Ridge under
the Arctic Ocean.
When that warm air coming north from the tropics meets the frigid air coming
south from the pole, it creates violence. And the hotter the air from the
south and the colder the air from the north, the more violent the collision
will be. Tornadoes, violent storms, and blizzards are some of the results.
This process feeds on itself. As the amount of atmospheric moisture
increases more precipitation is sent poleward, resulting in more snowfall to
build heavier and heavier polar ice packs which fail to decrease in
summertime because the cloud cover created by the moisture-laden air
transported from the tropics prevents any thawing.
As the ice packs grow deeper and heavier, more magma is squeezed out and
sent toward the equators, creating more volcanic activity, which spews more
and more volcanic ash into the upper atmosphere, along with enormous
quantities of greenhouse gasses. This results in greater and greater amounts
of moisture-laden clouds being sent poleward. And so on.
As the glaciation process continues, winters will get longer and longer;
that's colder air reaches farther and farther toward the equator. Summers
will get shorter and shorter, and growing seasons will slowly vanish.
Areas previously blessed with temperate climates are transformed into
subarctic regions, and the subtropics turn colder and colder.
And all this can happen in a matter of a very few years. So few, that the
world may very well learn that the interglacial period has been replaced by
the glaciation process before the end of the next decade - or even earlier.
On his Web site, Bob Felix cites facts ignored or lied about by the global
warming alarmists. He shows that despite their claims that the worlds
glaciers are melting, fully 75 percent are actually growing.
In response to claims that oceans levels are rising and threatening to drown
New York City, he shows they are actually falling.
Finally, what mankind faces now is not glaciation burying cities under miles
of ice - that's tens of thousands of years away. In our immediate future is
the beginning of the process which starts with a bang - that 20-year interim
period I think the record shows we are now experiencing. The effects will be
more or less immediate, and there is nothing we can do to stop it. If I'm
correct in all of this, we'll know it over the next couple of years.
As for the current media fed hysteria, let me finish with this: Vaclav
Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, told the publication "Hospod
Analysis: Al Gore Ducks Northeast Blizzard
Phil Brennan Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007
As a blizzard of snow and ice pummels the Northeast after trouncing the
Midwest, and waves of Arctic cold fronts drop much of America below sub
freezing weather, the $64,000 question is, Where is Al Gore?
Gore claims that global warming is an immediate problem facing the United
States and the world, and places like New York and Chicago could feel like
Caribbean haunts.
If there is any doubt that God has a sense of humor, it has to be dispelled
by a headline in Wednesday's Drudge Report: "House hearing on 'warming of
the planet' canceled after ice storm."
He followed up with this: "Save it for a sunny day: Maryville Univ. in St.
Louis area canceling screening of Al Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth' because of
a snowstorm."
What must have evoked the loudest laugh in heaven is the notion that if
global warming is really occurring, puny mankind is going to overcome it by
legislation and business regulation that would strangle the U.S. economy and
be overseen by the super efficient United Nations. [Editor's Note: Read more
about how Al Gore and his friends spin and fib about global warming -- Go
Here Now.]
In a NewsMax.com column, I made a prediction that was greeted with scorn by
the promoters of the global warming theory. One even called me "evil."
Here's what I wrote: "Within the next 24 months, some areas of the U.S. will
have 20 feet of snow falling in just one storm." This was around the time
parts of Japan got hit by a 13-foot snowfall.
Last month Colorado had about 20 feet of snow fall in little more than a
week's time. Now areas of northern New York State are reeling under more
than 12 feet of snow.
Picture a person 6 feet tall with 6 feet of snow above the top of his head,
and you'll get an idea of what a dozen feet of snow amounts to.
My prediction was based on a very simple fact. Over the past two years,
areas of the United States, including New England, had twice experienced
rainfall of 20 inches in a single storm.
If 20 inches of precipitation fell as snow, it would total 20 feet.
And there are solid reasons why an area that got hit with 20 inches of rain
in the summer and fall would be a prime candidate to experience 20 feet of
snow in the winter, especially if levels of precipitation are rising.
And precipitation levels are rising - for a very good reason.
The world's oceans are being heated by underwater tectonic activity -
underwater volcanic eruptions and blisteringly hot magma seeping up from
cracks in the sea floor.
The heated ocean water creates high levels of CO2 that it sends aloft along
with huge amounts of moisture. That moisture becomes precipitation - rain in
the spring, summer, and fall, and snow in the winter. Increased amounts of
moisture in the upper atmosphere equals increased amounts of precipitation.
The hotter the oceans, the more water vapor sent heavenward and the heavier
the precipitation. This explains the large number of record-breaking
rainfalls we've been seeing in the past couple of years - with as noted
above, areas of the United States getting 20 inches of rain in a day or so.
As for that dreaded greenhouse gas, CO2, atmospheric levels of which now
exceed 400 parts per million (ppm), it is important to note that
paleological records show that every time CO2 levels have exceeded 300 ppm
there has been an ice age. Every time - without exception.
The same records show that there have been a series of ice ages over the
past 5 million years, naturally occurring every 100,000 years, with about
90,000 years of glaciation followed by about 12,000 years of interglacial
climate.
The last ice age ended about 12,000 years ago. Clearly we are in line for
the next period of glaciation. But more about that later.
Suffice it to say that unless Al Gore has managed to repeal a demonstrated
law of nature, the iceman cometh.
The befuddled Gore keeps blathering about how the oceans are being heated by
global warming, instead of the warming being created by the oceans, as the
facts clearly show.
On his Web site iceagenow.com, Robert W. Felix provides the following
information about ocean warming as a result of hydrothermic activity under
the seas.
"A new type of volcano may be heating up the floor of the western Pacific
Ocean," says an article posted on National Geographic News and on Yahoo.
"Scientists suspect the new volcanoes occur at cracks in tectonic plates
caused by stress as the plates slide past each other. A group of small
volcanoes called petit spot volcanoes has been discovered far from the
tectonic-plate boundaries (like mid-oceanic ridges) that often spawn
volcanoes, earthquakes, and other geologic activity.
"Geoscientist Naoto Hirano's team believes that the source of these
volcanoes is melted rock from the upper mantle, which has been squeezed
through cracks in the tectonic plate above. This type of [activity produces]
tiny volcanoes, possibly now active, on the old, cold subducting Pacific
plate,' said Hirano from his office at the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography in La Jolla, California. 'This petit spot volcano theory
suggests that this type of eruption can occur wherever the oceanic plate is
flexed. These small volcanoes may be widespread on ocean floors where the
mantle just under the crust is squeezed out by tectonic forces when one
plate moves under another, the researchers explained.
"'Dubbed "petit spots," these new types of volcanoes are difficult to spot
using satellite technology. Specific geophysical and sampling expeditions
would have to be carried out in order to locate them,' Hirano explained."
Scientists working in the southern Atlantic Ocean have found a 407 degree
centigrade hydrothermal vent, the hottest yet known on an ocean floor.
Expedition leader Andrea Koschinsky of International University in Bremen,
Germany, and her team found the hydrothermal vent just south of the equator
on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 2,990 meters. The vent is located on
the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the African and South American continental
plates are moving apart at the relatively sedate rate of 3.2 centimeter a
year. In the Pacific, by comparison, the Pacific and Nazca plates are
speeding apart at some 15 centimeter per year.
German-American researchers discovered more hydrothermal activity at the
Gakkel Ridge in the Arctic Ocean than anyone ever imagined. The Gakkel ridge
is a gigantic volcanic mountain chain stretching beneath the Arctic Ocean.
With its deep valleys 5,500 meters beneath the sea surface and its 5,000
meter- high summits, Gakkel ridge is far mightier than the Alps. Two
research icebreakers, the USCGC Healy from the United States and the German
PFS Polarstern, joined forces in the international expedition AMORE (Arctic
Mid-Ocean Ridge Expedition). In attendance were scientists from the Max
Planck Institute for Chemistry and other international institutions.
The scientists had expected that the Gakkel ridge would exhibit "anemic"
magmatism. Instead, they found "surprisingly strong magmatic activity in the
west and the east of the ridge and one of the strongest hydrothermal
activities ever seen at mid-ocean ridges." The Gakkel ridge extends about
1,800 kilometers beneath the Arctic Ocean from north of Greenland to
Siberia, and is the northernmost portion of the mid-ocean ridge system. To
their surprise, the researchers found high levels of volcanic activity.
Indeed, magmatism was "dramatically" higher than expected.
Hydrothermal hot springs on the seafloor were also far more abundant than
predicted. "We expected this to be a hydrothermally dead ridge, and almost
every time our water measurement instrument came up, they showed evidence of
hydrothermal activity, and once we even 'saw' an active hot spring on the
sea floor," said Dr. Jonathan Snow, the leader of the research group from
the Max Planck Institute.
Remember, that "magmatism" is red hot magma seeping up from the ocean floor.
It's like putting a burner under a pot of water.
In short, heated oceans are warming the globe and setting up a scenario that
includes among its consequences more and increasingly violent hurricanes,
tornadoes, and blizzards.
In 1979, Genevieve Woillard, a pollen specialist in France, concluded from
detailed studies that the shift from a warm, interglacial climate to ice age
conditions at the beginning of the last ice age, some 100,000 years ago,
took "less than 20 years." Her observations of the decline of European
forests led her to conclude we may be in a similar period of rapid climatic
change.
Research has shown that this 20-year period is one in which Mother Nature
wreaks havoc on humanity.
If the unchallenged results of the work of Woillard and others who studied
past ice ages are any indication of the pace of glaciation, once it starts,
the transition period is a mere 20 years or so. And we may be well into that
20-year period now. Woillard estimated that the period before that final 20
years - when the earth began gearing up for an end to the interglacial
period - could be as long as 150 years and as short as 75 years."
According to Woillard's studies and those of other paleological climate
researchers, the transition between interglacial and glacial periods is one
of increasing violence - more volcanic eruptions, storms, earthquakes, and
other natural disasters.
We are being bombarded with horror stories about how the arctic regions are
warming and the polar bears are disappearing (actually their number numbers
have increased by some 20,000) but we are not informed by Mr. Gore and his
acolytes as to how a warming arctic region can continue to send more and
more record breaking cold waves southward, creating the incredibly frigid
weather much of the northern U.S. is shivering under.
If your refrigerator is running low on freon it will not keep its contents
cold. If the arctic is our refrigerator, and the refrigerator is rapidly
running out of coolant, how can it create colder and colder weather fronts?
The mechanics here are simple. The earth is getting warmer in some areas
thanks to the heat being given off by the seas - picture standing next to a
pot of boiling water - you'll feel the heat. Stand next to a heated ocean
and you'll feel the warmth. That melting ice in part of the arctic regions
is probably the result of hydrothermal activity in the Gakkel Ridge under
the Arctic Ocean.
When that warm air coming north from the tropics meets the frigid air coming
south from the pole, it creates violence. And the hotter the air from the
south and the colder the air from the north, the more violent the collision
will be. Tornadoes, violent storms, and blizzards are some of the results.
This process feeds on itself. As the amount of atmospheric moisture
increases more precipitation is sent poleward, resulting in more snowfall to
build heavier and heavier polar ice packs which fail to decrease in
summertime because the cloud cover created by the moisture-laden air
transported from the tropics prevents any thawing.
As the ice packs grow deeper and heavier, more magma is squeezed out and
sent toward the equators, creating more volcanic activity, which spews more
and more volcanic ash into the upper atmosphere, along with enormous
quantities of greenhouse gasses. This results in greater and greater amounts
of moisture-laden clouds being sent poleward. And so on.
As the glaciation process continues, winters will get longer and longer;
that's colder air reaches farther and farther toward the equator. Summers
will get shorter and shorter, and growing seasons will slowly vanish.
Areas previously blessed with temperate climates are transformed into
subarctic regions, and the subtropics turn colder and colder.
And all this can happen in a matter of a very few years. So few, that the
world may very well learn that the interglacial period has been replaced by
the glaciation process before the end of the next decade - or even earlier.
On his Web site, Bob Felix cites facts ignored or lied about by the global
warming alarmists. He shows that despite their claims that the worlds
glaciers are melting, fully 75 percent are actually growing.
In response to claims that oceans levels are rising and threatening to drown
New York City, he shows they are actually falling.
Finally, what mankind faces now is not glaciation burying cities under miles
of ice - that's tens of thousands of years away. In our immediate future is
the beginning of the process which starts with a bang - that 20-year interim
period I think the record shows we are now experiencing. The effects will be
more or less immediate, and there is nothing we can do to stop it. If I'm
correct in all of this, we'll know it over the next couple of years.
As for the current media fed hysteria, let me finish with this: Vaclav
Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, told the publication "Hospod
