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