[Lowfer] Global cooling or warming???

[Zack Widup]

How does the Great Conveyor Belt fit into this?

73, Zack W9SZ

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Chris Trask <christrask at earthlink.net>wrote:

> >
> > Funny, what happened to the so called global warming?
> >
>
>    It's progressing according to the model predictions.  As the northern
> latitude ice melts, it will cool the atmosphere immediately above it.  This
> will cause noticable cooling and violent storms for 10-20 years.  After the
> bulk of the ice has melted, the atmospheric cooling will subside and the
> subsequent warming will be fairly rapid.
>
>    One noticable feature so far has been the southward shift of the jet
> stream, which is primarily due to the colder atmosphere in the northern
> latitudes.  This resulted in virtually no hurricane season this last year
> due to shearing, and it is continuing in the form of unusually cold winter
> conditions.
>
>    Another feature is the significant drying of the southwest and other
> regions.  The pool level of Lake Mead is presently 45 feet above the point
> where they will have to turn off the dynamos due to lack of sufficient
> head.
> And here in Arizona, we're drawing on ground water, some of which is over
> 10,000 years old by way of oxygen isotope analysis.  When the CAP (Central
> Arizona Project) canal is shut off due to insufficient water in the
> Colorado
> River, we'll only be able to support 4.3 million people, and we're already
> over 6 million.  And that's if all other water resources are inumpaired.
> When that happens and the ground water is depleted, you'll see more than
> just simple water use restrictions out here.  They're already admitting
> that
> turning agricultural land into subdivisions was a big mistake.
>
> Chris Trask
> N7ZWY
> WDX3HLB
> Senior Member IEEE
> http://www.home.earthlink.net/~christrask/
>
>
>
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