Sunday, May 16, 2010

Beyond "Climategeddon" - from science education to solutions


re: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/abrupt/data3.html

"Even though Heinrich and D-O events seem to have been initiated in the North Atlantic, they had a global footprint. Some of the best evidence outside of the North Atlantic for these events comes from sediment cores in the Caribbean (Peterson et al. 2000) and Arabian Seas (Schulz et al. 1998), and in speleothems from Hulu Cave in China (Wang et al. 2001). These sites, along with others, are shown in Figure 5. The climate anomalies are consistent with a slowdown of the thermohaline circulation and reduced ocean heat transport into the northern high latitudes. During cold phases in the North Atlantic, large regions of North America and Eurasia became colder and drier. A southward shift of the tropical rain belt moistened many parts of the Southern Hemisphere. Antarctic ice cores show warming, consistent with a reduction of northward heat transport from the Southern Hemisphere."

I don't see "ice age" nor "global cooling" PREDICTED anywhere, just a reference to a previous ice age on a related NCDC page. This one describes a change in **transport** of thermal energy around the Earth, not a **net decrease** in thermal energy, ie not a "global cooling trend."
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