I won't be around to see if this holds true.
The Dust Bowl occurred during a time of drought in the mid-1930's. Admittedly, part of the effects were manmade - the deep plowing of the Great Plains, not planting ground-cover plants like clover, and cutting down the few trees that grew in the Plains. But a good deal of the problem was caused by hot, dry conditions.
In the 1970's, we had a cold spell and people were in a panic about a new ice age.
Then the temperatures warmed up again, and now we are back to drought.
I wonder, then, which way the temperatures will go in another 40 years. I'm betting on another cold spell - assuming we are here to see it and no one has sparked a nuclear winter. In that case, I would win the bet, but not for the right reasons.
Opinion time:
No matter what the climate change people think, and often in spite of them, I see cycles in the climate - natural, normal cycles that have more to do with solar influences than with anything we can throw at something as unstoppable as the weather. After all, who caused global warming after the last Ice Age? (I'm giving a freebie to the long earth history people.)
Check out information on The Medieval Climate Optimum. The temperatures were warm, agriculture grew like crazy, everyone was well-fed with a chicken in every hen house. Then temperatures dropped during the Maunder Minimum and people suffered with the cold between 1550 and 1850. Not just the climate, but the cultures changed. Grapes stopped growing in northern Europe, so they switched to barley and hops to make beer. The potato famine sent thousands of Irish to America looking for food and work. Washington really did dodge ice when he and his troops rowed across the river to Trenton, and the winter at Valley Forge was a perfect misery for people living in tents. And Stradivarius found wood grown dense in the cold climate which gave a perfect tone to his violins.
In every time and in every place, if you want to see why people expound on certain subjects and in certain ways, just follow the money. If the global warming people stopped finding evidence of what they expound, they wouldn't be able to get government grants to do their research.
Thanks for your time.
Kathi
The Dust Bowl occurred during a time of drought in the mid-1930's. Admittedly, part of the effects were manmade - the deep plowing of the Great Plains, not planting ground-cover plants like clover, and cutting down the few trees that grew in the Plains. But a good deal of the problem was caused by hot, dry conditions.
In the 1970's, we had a cold spell and people were in a panic about a new ice age.
Then the temperatures warmed up again, and now we are back to drought.
I wonder, then, which way the temperatures will go in another 40 years. I'm betting on another cold spell - assuming we are here to see it and no one has sparked a nuclear winter. In that case, I would win the bet, but not for the right reasons.
Opinion time:
No matter what the climate change people think, and often in spite of them, I see cycles in the climate - natural, normal cycles that have more to do with solar influences than with anything we can throw at something as unstoppable as the weather. After all, who caused global warming after the last Ice Age? (I'm giving a freebie to the long earth history people.)
Check out information on The Medieval Climate Optimum. The temperatures were warm, agriculture grew like crazy, everyone was well-fed with a chicken in every hen house. Then temperatures dropped during the Maunder Minimum and people suffered with the cold between 1550 and 1850. Not just the climate, but the cultures changed. Grapes stopped growing in northern Europe, so they switched to barley and hops to make beer. The potato famine sent thousands of Irish to America looking for food and work. Washington really did dodge ice when he and his troops rowed across the river to Trenton, and the winter at Valley Forge was a perfect misery for people living in tents. And Stradivarius found wood grown dense in the cold climate which gave a perfect tone to his violins.
In every time and in every place, if you want to see why people expound on certain subjects and in certain ways, just follow the money. If the global warming people stopped finding evidence of what they expound, they wouldn't be able to get government grants to do their research.
Thanks for your time.
Kathi
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