Could you provide input on the rotation differences along sun latitudes? When magnetic ropes get all coiled up and burst to the surface is it because the different rotation speeds cause these magnetic ropes to coil up, especially if the magnetic ropes cross latitudes that are rotating as different speeds? Or do they coil up on their own even if the sun rotated at the same relative speed at each latitude? And if the coils are the result of different rotation speeds, what were to happen if the different speeds occasionally and predictably were in synch with each other (like windshield wipers on a school bus)? Is there data on rotation speeds, or more to the point, differentials, over time?

If the earth either warms or cools signicantly (>1 degrees C or so) very rapidly (in geologic time), would earthquakes happen more frequently as the earth’s crust warms up and expands or as the earth cools down and contracts?

REPLY: Ah, the bait question, soon to be answered.

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/about-climate-change

The only thing that racks up real numbers is the impact of ethanol and bad harvests. The other stuff doesn’t add up to a hill of beans, and some of it I just outright dispute (if you want tainted food, just go back before refrigeration and germ theory).

I’d be interested in actual numbers on the grain issue though.

I’d be interested in seeing that, actually, if you have a handy link.

I think you are too pessimistic and that human population will be a standard S-curve, but I am interested in the effects of last winter+ ethanol.

Ever feel like the debate is over, but not the way Al Gore feels it is , BUT THE OPPOSITE WAY.
I respect the work at Scripps and see their points, but to me its ice, not fire, that
will be the big problem within 50 years

There is something I call the triple crown of cooling that I fear more than
than the increasinly obvious trumped up spectre of global warming. I suspect the first part,(1) the natural snapback of the earth has already started ( absent any increase in
non earthly variables, ie things not produced by the earth directly or indirectly, the set temp of the earth
is always strived for by the earth….the warmer it gets, the more likely it is to turn colder and vice versa given all outside influences remain at a steady state)
However combine this with (2) what appears to be steady evidence that we are heading into a long term overall minimum of sunspot activity in these 11 year cycles similar to previous cooling period mins and (3) the wild card of increased volcanism, it would appears that there is as much or more of a threat from the exact
oppsite of what is beting touted in the media.

What is the over and under on time it takes for them to realize this and tell us we are going to perish for the reasons they were screaming in the 70s. You are out west, perhaps you can get Las Vegas to set odds (lol…though its not that funny)

From a forecasting point of view, the canvas may already be changing as to why
bying the “warm card” on any seasonal forecast is no longer the way to go.

ciao
JB

Keep up the outstanding work
JB

REPLY: Hi Joe,

I appreciate the kind words, and yes, I agree with your views.

Agriculture will crash before they have time to develop colder weather crops. California in particular will suffer due to the warm wave that ag here has been riding since the last PDO flip. All those vineyards in palces you couldn’t grow grapes before – gone. France may return as king wine.

- Anthony