It's A Cycle! It's A Cycle!

Monthly Weather Review:

" The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers who sail the seas about Sitzbergen and the eastern Arctic, all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto unheard-of high temperatures in that part of the earth’s surface.

The oceanographic observations have, however, been even more interesting. Ice conditions were exceptional. In fact, so little ice has never before been noted. The expedition all but established a record, sailing as far north as 81 degrees 29′ in ice-free water. This is the farthest north ever reached with modern oceanographic apparatus.

[I]t is of interest to note the unusually warm summer in Arctic Norway and the observations of Capt. Martin Ingebrigsten, who has sailed the eastern Arctic for 54 years past. He says that he first noted warmer conditions […] that since that time it has steadily gotten warmer, and that today the Arctic of that region is not recognizable as the same region […] Many old landmarks are so changed as to be unrecognizable. Where formerly great masses of ice were found there are now often moraines, accumulations of earth and stones. At many points where glaciers formerly extended far into the sea they have entirely disappeared.

The change in temperature, says Captain Ingebrigsten, has also brought about great change in the flora and fauna of the Arctic. This summer he sought for white fish in Spitzbergen waters. Formerly great shoals of them were found there. This year he saw none, although he visited all the old fishing grounds.”


It is these kinds of articles that make the idea of man-made global warming. Stories and tales like these point out warm weather pattern changes in the global climate.

But there is one problem with this particular one. It is from 1922. Let's see, no hummers, no pick-ups, no SUVs, and very little factories, and the like.

Yet the temperatures went up any way. Hmm could this possibly be a cycle? Well it can't be because it would have had to have been cool some point.

Ah, which bring us to our next piece in climate history. Believe it or not there was a point in time, when the idea of another ice age was not completely crazy.

Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex—that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa's drought. By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America to the Middle East and India, the polar winds have in effect caused the Sahara and other deserts to reach farther to the south. Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks in the U.S. and other temperate zones. As the winds swirl around the globe, their southerly portions undulate like the bottom of a skirt. Cold air is pulled down across the Western U.S. and warm air is swept up to the Northeast. The collision of air masses of widely differing temperatures and humidity can create violent storms—the Midwest's recent rash of disastrous tornadoes, for example.

--Time Magazine

That little blurb was form 1974. Now one quick thing to point out is where it says, "recent rash of disastrous tornadoes, for example." That is an indication of global cooling? But i thought that it was an indication of global WARMING. At least, that's what i heard in the 2007 IPPC report.

Yet today we are stuck with global warming, although most scientists will tell you that we are on a cooling trend as of at least the past 3 years.

So wait, let me get all of this straight, first in the early 1900s, it was warming. Then 70s, it was cooling. Then in the late 90s it was warming, now it late 10s (2000) it is cooling again (unless you buy into the global warming propaganda)?

It's A CYCLE!!! IT'S A CYCLE!!!