| Just when Al Gore has done another investment | | | | residents, particularly growers. Well, that |
| placement around global warming issues we get | | | | should make for some great white wines, but |
| word of Pacific decadal Oscillation? Say | | | | who likes white? Better buy the reds now! |
| what? The investment vehicle headed by Al | | | | Warns meteorologist Anthony Watts: "Look out |
| Gore has closed a new $683m fund to invest in | | | | California agriculture. The wine industry, |
| early-stage environmental companies and has | | | | fruits and nut growers will be hit with a |
| mounted a robust defence of green investing. | | | | shorter growing season and more threats of |
| The Climate Solutions Fund will be one of the | | | | frost, among other things." |
| biggest in the growing market for investment | | | | |
| funds with an environmental slants. | | | | Watts cites two recent reports of |
| | | | frost-induced crop devastation - an apple |
| The allegedly global warming is in for about | | | | orchard in Paradise and wine grapes in Nevada |
| 30 years of cooling according to NASA, one of | | | | County. He also offers a brief history of |
| the leading global warming theory advocates. | | | | last century's PDO phase shifts, and warns |
| Who's a person to believe? | | | | that California's agriculture, which |
| | | | experienced "unprecedented growth" during the |
| Will we need a recount of those for and | | | | past warm phase, may now be in serious |
| against global warming, without hanging | | | | trouble as things cool down. |
| chads? :-) | | | | |
| | | | But what about helioseismological increases? |
| NASA has confirmed that a developing natural | | | | :-) |
| climate pattern will likely result in much | | | | |
| colder temperatures, according to Marc | | | | In 1905, PDO switched to a warm phase, in |
| Shepherd, writing in the April 30 American | | | | 1946, PDO switched to a cool phase, and in |
| Thinker. He adds that NASA was also quick to | | | | 1977, PDO switched to a warm phase again. Now |
| point out that such natural phenomena should | | | | they tell us! Notes Shepherd "Recently lower |
| not confuse the issue of manmade greenhouse | | | | global temps, likely caused by the late start |
| gas induced global warming which apparently | | | | of Solar Cycle 24, already have some |
| will be going on behind the scenes while our | | | | greenhouse gassers nervous - particularly |
| teeth are chattering from a decade and a half | | | | amid speculation of a possible impending |
| long cold spell. | | | | 'little ice age.' |
| | | | |
| I'm confused here! | | | | But what about the solar peaks of 2012? Ah, |
| | | | we're just into what's happening here on |
| "A cool-water anomaly known as La Niña | | | | earth, not what's going on out there in |
| occupied the tropical Pacific Ocean | | | | space. But, maybe we'll be forced too. Today |
| throughout 2007 and early 2008. In April | | | | has enough trouble for it's own. |
| 2008, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion | | | | |
| Laboratory announced that while the La | | | | Says NASA: "Natural, large-scale climate |
| Niña was weakening, the Pacific decadal | | | | patterns like the PDO and El Niño-La |
| Oscillation - a larger-scale, Slower-cycling | | | | Niña are superimposed on global warming |
| ocean pattern - had shifted to its cool | | | | caused by increasing concentrations of |
| phase." Will Al believe this? | | | | greenhouse gases and landscape changes like |
| | | | deforestation. According to Josh Willis, JPL |
| Notes Shepherd "This shift in the PDO, which | | | | oceanographer and climate scientist, 'These |
| could last for 20 or 30 years, can have | | | | natural climate phenomena can sometimes hide |
| significant implications for global climate, | | | | global warming caused by human activities. Or |
| affecting Pacific and Atlantic hurricane | | | | they can have the opposite effect of |
| activity, droughts and flooding around the | | | | accentuating it.'" |
| Pacific basin, the productivity of marine | | | | |
| ecosystems and global land temperature | | | | In other words, CO2 is secretly warming the |
| patterns." | | | | planet. Or maybe not. Maybe it's due to |
| | | | things in the universe since ALL o the |
| And the greatest impact here in the states, | | | | planets in our solar system are warming up. |
| he adds, will likely be on west Coast | | | | |