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Wednesday, February 08, 2006

New Ice Age on the Way?

Al Gore, eat your heart out!

A year ago, British scientists went public with the dire forecast that climatic change will turn Britain into a frozen tundra. Just about a month ago, German scientists published findings that show plant life on earth contributes methane to the human output of “greenhouse gases” in unheard-of quantities.

Now a Russian astronomer predicts another “mini Ice Age” caused by low solar activity. According to his scientific research, temperatures will begin falling around 2012, with the coldest period occurring 15 to 20 years after a major solar output decline between 2035 and 2045.

His audacious observation: “Dramatic changes in the earth’s surface temperatures are an ordinary phenomenon, not an anomaly, and result from variations in the sun’s energy output and ultraviolet radiation,” according to United Press International.

Given that, since the seventies, forecasts of coming ice ages and global warming have alternated far more rapidly than cold and hot periods, this statement might be extended to say: “Dramatic changes in scientific opinion regarding the immediate future of the earth’s surface temperatures are an ordinary phenomenon, not an anomaly, and result from junk science being bandied about by agenda-driven alarmists using a lot of hot air.”

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