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Look to Mars for the truth on global warming
LAWRENCE SOLOMON, Financial Post
Published: Friday, January 26, 2007
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/archives/story.html?id=eabbe10d-3891-41eb-9ee1-a59b71743bec
Climate change is a much, much bigger issue than the public,
politicians, and even the most alarmed environmentalists realize.
Global warming extends to Mars, where the polar ice cap is shrinking,
where deep gullies in the landscape are now laid bare, and where the
climate is the warmest it has been in decades or centuries.
"One explanation could be that Mars is just coming out of an ice age,"
NASA scientist William Feldman speculated after the agency's Mars
Odyssey completed its first Martian year of data collection. "In some
low-latitude areas, the ice has already dissipated." With each passing
year more and more evidence arises of the dramatic changes occurring
on the only planet on the solar system, apart from Earth, to give up
its climate secrets.
NASA's findings in space come as no surprise to Dr. Habibullo
Abdussamatov at Saint Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory.
Pulkovo -- at the pinnacle of Russia's space-oriented scientific
establishment -- is one of the world's best equipped observatories and
has been since its founding in 1839. Heading Pulkovo's space research
laboratory is Dr. Abdussamatov, one of the world's chief critics of
the theory that man-made carbon dioxide emissions create a greenhouse
effect, leading to global warming.
"Mars has global warming, but without a greenhouse and without the
participation of Martians," he told me. "These parallel global
warmings -- observed simultaneously on Mars and on Earth -- can only
be a straightline consequence of the effect of the one same factor: a
long-time change in solar irradiance."
The sun's increased irradiance over the last century, not C02
emissions, is responsible for the global warming we're seeing, says
the celebrated scientist, and this solar irradiance also explains the
great volume of C02 emissions.
"It is no secret that increased solar irradiance warms Earth's oceans,
which then triggers the emission of large amounts of carbon dioxide
into the atmosphere. So the common view that man's industrial activity
is a deciding factor in global warming has emerged from a
misinterpretation of cause and effect relations."
Dr. Abdussamatov goes further, debunking the very notion of a
greenhouse effect. "Ascribing 'greenhouse' effect properties to the
Earth's atmosphere is not scientifically substantiated," he maintains.
"Heated greenhouse gases, which become lighter as a result of
expansion, ascend to the atmosphere only to give the absorbed heat
away."
The real news from Saint Petersburg -- demonstrated by cooling that is
occurring on the upper layers of the world's oceans -- is that Earth
has hit its temperature ceiling. Solar irradiance has begun to fall,
ushering in a protracted cooling period beginning in 2012 to 2015. The
depth of the decline in solar irradiance reaching Earth will occur
around 2040, and "will inevitably lead to a deep freeze around
2055-60" lasting some 50 years, after which temperatures will go up
again.
Because of the scientific significance of this period of global
cooling that we're about to enter, the Russian and Ukrainian space
agencies, under Dr. Abdussamatov's leadership, have launched a joint
project to determine the time and extent of the global cooling at
mid-century. The project, dubbed Astrometry and given priority
space-experiment status on the Russian portion of the International
Space Station, will marshal the resources of spacecraft manufacturer
Energia, several Russian research and production centers, and the main
observatory of Ukraine's Academy of Sciences. By late next year,
scientific equipment will have been installed in a space-station
module and by early 2009, Dr. Abdussamatov's space team will be
conducting a regular survey of the sun.
--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMverizon.net
LAWRENCE SOLOMON, Financial Post
Published: Friday, January 26, 2007
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/archives/story.html?id=eabbe10d-3891-41eb-9ee1-a59b71743bec
Climate change is a much, much bigger issue than the public,
politicians, and even the most alarmed environmentalists realize.
Global warming extends to Mars, where the polar ice cap is shrinking,
where deep gullies in the landscape are now laid bare, and where the
climate is the warmest it has been in decades or centuries.
"One explanation could be that Mars is just coming out of an ice age,"
NASA scientist William Feldman speculated after the agency's Mars
Odyssey completed its first Martian year of data collection. "In some
low-latitude areas, the ice has already dissipated." With each passing
year more and more evidence arises of the dramatic changes occurring
on the only planet on the solar system, apart from Earth, to give up
its climate secrets.
NASA's findings in space come as no surprise to Dr. Habibullo
Abdussamatov at Saint Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory.
Pulkovo -- at the pinnacle of Russia's space-oriented scientific
establishment -- is one of the world's best equipped observatories and
has been since its founding in 1839. Heading Pulkovo's space research
laboratory is Dr. Abdussamatov, one of the world's chief critics of
the theory that man-made carbon dioxide emissions create a greenhouse
effect, leading to global warming.
"Mars has global warming, but without a greenhouse and without the
participation of Martians," he told me. "These parallel global
warmings -- observed simultaneously on Mars and on Earth -- can only
be a straightline consequence of the effect of the one same factor: a
long-time change in solar irradiance."
The sun's increased irradiance over the last century, not C02
emissions, is responsible for the global warming we're seeing, says
the celebrated scientist, and this solar irradiance also explains the
great volume of C02 emissions.
"It is no secret that increased solar irradiance warms Earth's oceans,
which then triggers the emission of large amounts of carbon dioxide
into the atmosphere. So the common view that man's industrial activity
is a deciding factor in global warming has emerged from a
misinterpretation of cause and effect relations."
Dr. Abdussamatov goes further, debunking the very notion of a
greenhouse effect. "Ascribing 'greenhouse' effect properties to the
Earth's atmosphere is not scientifically substantiated," he maintains.
"Heated greenhouse gases, which become lighter as a result of
expansion, ascend to the atmosphere only to give the absorbed heat
away."
The real news from Saint Petersburg -- demonstrated by cooling that is
occurring on the upper layers of the world's oceans -- is that Earth
has hit its temperature ceiling. Solar irradiance has begun to fall,
ushering in a protracted cooling period beginning in 2012 to 2015. The
depth of the decline in solar irradiance reaching Earth will occur
around 2040, and "will inevitably lead to a deep freeze around
2055-60" lasting some 50 years, after which temperatures will go up
again.
Because of the scientific significance of this period of global
cooling that we're about to enter, the Russian and Ukrainian space
agencies, under Dr. Abdussamatov's leadership, have launched a joint
project to determine the time and extent of the global cooling at
mid-century. The project, dubbed Astrometry and given priority
space-experiment status on the Russian portion of the International
Space Station, will marshal the resources of spacecraft manufacturer
Energia, several Russian research and production centers, and the main
observatory of Ukraine's Academy of Sciences. By late next year,
scientific equipment will have been installed in a space-station
module and by early 2009, Dr. Abdussamatov's space team will be
conducting a regular survey of the sun.
--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMverizon.net
