Forget Global Warming
Mother Earth holds onto the balance, her equilibria, so that the weather remains neither too hot or too cold, too dry or too moist: our lives continue and the oceans have never boiled dry or frozen over. Over this last year, Earth’s mean surface temperature has dropped by more than half a degree [from Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction], which may not sound much but it means – forget about Global Warming! The Antarctic is now stacked up with record levels of sea ice, while North America this winter (2007/8) is enjoying the most snow cover in fifty years. So, don’t worry about the penguins. Last year’s precipitous drop in temperature has clean wiped out that ‘global warming’ trend, and is making weather scientists realise instead just how dependent we are on the grand cycles of the Sun. Reduced solar activity seems to have led to this drop. That is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases.
Before global warming, everyone was fretting about global cooling and the coming ice age, remember? Rather, we need to experience Gaia as a living being whose pulsating rhythms are deeply attuned to the Sun and Moon. Instead of all this anxiety, the world needs futurology institutes that will study the majestic and glorious rhythms of Sol, which are the heart-beat of our solar system, and the rather complicated ways in which these affect human activity, climate and agricultural yields on Earth: as well as (this is the difficult bit) separating out the quite large effects that result from the 18.6 year moon-node rhythm.
www.dailytech.com ‘Temperature monitors report widespread global cooling’ 26.2.08
