Russian scientist suggests colder times ahead, cites UHI as a worry

Here are some details: 2 quotes from the article:
Seit etwa 1998 kühle das Klima ab. „Es wird natürlich keine Eiszeit geben, doch die Temperaturen werden auf den Stand des kalten Jahrzehnts von 1950 bis 1960 fallen“, sagte Pokrowski
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„Jetzt treten alle Komponenten des Klimasystems in eine negative Phase ein.“ Die Abkühlung werde in 15 Jahren ihren Höhepunkt erreichen, sagte der Forscher. Politiker, die auf eine globale Klimaerwärmung bauen, hätten auf das falsche Pferd gesetzt.
So the journalist reports what Pokrowski said, at times directly quoting him:
Since about 1998 the climate is cooling. “Of course there won’t be an ice age, but the temperatures will fall to the level of the cold decennium of 1950 until 1960”, said Pokrowski.
and:
“Now all the components of the climate system enter a negative fase.” The cooling will reach its peak in 15 yrs, said the researcher. Politicians, who expect global warming, have put their money on the wrong horse.
Nowhere does it say:
‘An Arctic cold snap that began in 1998 could last for years, freezing the northern marine passage and making it impassable.’
And the expression is ‘putting your money on the wrong horse’, not ‘losing the pot’.

“Jim Barker (14:16:20) :
OT, but I do not seem to be able to open the Tips and Notes part of the website. Internet Explorer crashes each time I click on it. Any ideas?
REPLY: More memory, Firefox”
I have no trouble opening it with IE 6.0 running on this 500 MHZ AMD K6 processor with only 384 mb of memory that is almost as old as 8 track tapes.

I note that the late April the AMSR-E Arctic Region sea-ice extent now seems to be at an all time high (since April 2003) for this time of year. It appears to be about 200 x10^3 sq km higher than last year’s record high value for this period.

bikermailman (17:14:12) : I saw that story yesterday. Am I wrong in thinking that fungi do better in cooler wetter conditions, not warmer?
E.M.Smith (04:29:33) :Depends entirely on the individual fungus. Some like it warm and wet (think about shoes, socks, toes…) while other like it cooler or dryer. Many like warm tropical, though.
Mildews like cool and wet. Most of the agronomically significant fungi (Phytoferans, Fusariums, late-early blights, smuts, etc.) need nighttime temps above 70 F. to develop. Many can develop initial growth external to the plant with dew only (rusts especially). Once inoculated, if sufficient moisture is available for the plant to survive, the fungi will thrive.

If the Icelandic volcanic situation continues to spew ash for a couple of years, as it has in the past, get ready for some additional cooling. Of course we know from previous articles that this too is due to AGW and reduced pressure on the surface above the vent due to ice melt. These warmistas always have their bases covered. I am sure that famine is better than a warmer climate in their book at any rate as it will reduce the pesky human population which is causing all these problems.

Douglas, we too are making like ground squirrels (which we intended to shoot today) and staying in our den. It is colder than a witch’s tit and snowing on the Wallowa slopes. This weather is what we usually get during Spring break. It looks like I won’t be opening up pastures for cows for another few weeks. I usually have pasture renters by the first week of May. This puts a mighty strain on their hay. I would imagine my ranchers are running out and are looking for grass. My lower valley pastures aren’t ready yet, and certainly the pastures and range in the hills are still waiting for that warm night to even start growing. Gonna be a late season for insects too. Which will bring down the bat population once again.
The spring it finally warms up early we will be inundated with insects and no bats to eat em all up.

Should be there in lieu of their. Forgive me. Spastic moment.

OT
Firefox is much better than IE, unless the coding was quite specific in using IE specs…
You may want to ‘Opera’ for a small fast and adaptable browser.
Also, if you have an old K6 you may want to try UBUNTU for your browser box.

Steve in SC (12:15:19) :
CRS, Dr.P.H. (11:01:43) :
My cousin died of that about 15 years ago in Seattle (she lived in Seward, Ak and had to go their for treatment) after they had treated the Leukemia. She fit the description to a T. The doctor there said that everybody has this fungus but she just had no defenses against it. Ran out of bullets.
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REPLY: Steve, I am so sorry to hear that! The modern immunosuppressive therapies allow for some real medical miracles, but unfortunately, we who partake of these become “Guinea pigs”. Opportunistic infections are a huge problem in these patients, and fungi are especially bad because there are so few effective drugs to fight them off.
I get quite furious with the mainstream medical/public health establishment and the media when they jump the gun on stories like these without getting the fact straight!
Of course, with all this global warming going on, it’s just a matter of time….

John Galt (13:42:22) :
With better economic times, will concern for climate change rebound? Will people see Cap And Trade as more affordable and therefore less objectionable when jobs recover? Or has skepticism really taken hold?
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I just did a street festival yesterday here in the USA. I tested that question by talking to customers on a more neutral topic, the FED. Because of the bad economic times people are really paying attention to the Federal Reserve, fractional banking and realizing the “banking Crisis” was one big scam to screw the taxpayer. No matter what their political leaning, John and Jane Doe do not like to find out their hard earned cash just got taken by the banks to replace bad management of the banking industries “fairy dust” money.
Once the blinkers are off Congress is losing the peoples blind faith that the laws passed are in the peoples best interest and not in the interest of the wealthy. Once lost you can not put that genie back in the bottle. The health care law and the Congressmen’s handling of “town hall meetings” helped reinforce peoples distrust in the US Congress. Unfortunately both political parties are funded by the wealthy who want Cap and Trade.

Lon Hocker (14:52:28) :
While you’re waiting, send Anthony a few bucks to help him with this effort, and please also send money to the candidates that you support.
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If you are like me trying to make ends meet and keep the bank from foreclosing, volunteer your time to the candidates that you support. Money is not the only thing that is needed. As I stated in an earlier post, I talk to people about banking and the Federal Reserve to get them to start thinking and questioning the Status Quo.
For instance “The Grace Commission report notes that 100% of personal income tax goes to pay interest on the national debt, the lion’s share of which goes to the banking cartel that we know as the Federal Reserve.” http://www.bloggernews.net/17032
The US government originally had the right to coin money and they gave that right to the banks in 1913. The banks slowly twisted the word “coin” (out of silver and gold) until they now can print fiat (worthless) money at will and exchange it for your wealth (labor, land, services and products). Originally the banks were not allowed to print more than a specific percentage of fiat money in relation to money from their depositors. Now the reserve (percentage) is effectively ZERO. That is why the USA no linger has silver certificates, or gold and silver coins only Federal Reserve Bank notes, notes based on nothing.
For a good readable history see:
A PRIMER ON MONEY: by US House Committee on Banking and Currency
http://famguardian.org/Subjects/MoneyBanking/Money/patman-primer-on-money.pdf

Arno Arrak (16:07:40)
Ocean currents must indeed surely be more important than air temps in determining Arctic ice amount and possible Arctic climate.
For me there seems to be one very important piece of evidence suggesting an ocean current scenario for control of Arctic ice amout. (While I did oceanography at University a couple of decades back I’m not currently in the field and thus probably naive to it. However – here is my penny’s-worth.) A post last August here showed a direct correlation between Barents sea temps (100-150m) and the AMO. This showed a similar rise in sea temperature from 1900 till about mid-century, then a fall till about 1970 and a following rise up to 2000. The water temperature oscillation was by up to 4C and closely correllated with the AMO.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/08/new-paper-barents-sea-temperature-correlated-to-the-amo-as-much-as-4%C2%B0c/#more-11592
You mention a change in ocean currents involving the North Atlantic Drift (NAD) resulting in increased warm water transport to the Arctic. The Barents and Arctic can be considered to be at the “tail end” of the NAD. This was confirmed when Western Environmentalists, showing their usual anti-Russian bias, studied radioactive nuclear cycle derived isotopes in the Barents in the 90s hoping to implicate leaking Russian nuclear reactors. Instead the isotope mix they found was dominated by discharge from Sellafield in Cumbria, UK. An own goal politically, but a nice oceanographic tracer experiment showing water movement from the Irish sea to the Barents, i.e. the NAD.
The 4C fluctuation of 100-150m Barents seawater is far too large to be caused by air temps, it would appear much more likely that the dominant (only?) supply of warmer water to the Barents, the NAD, oscillates in strength in correlation with the AMO. In fact the closeness of this correlation suggests that this NAD oscillation could be in fact a major part of what the AMO is.
The time periods you describe for warm water supply to the Arctic (1900 to mid-century, pause till 1970 then resumption) also match the AMO and the Barents sea sub-surface temperature oscillation. We seem to be talking about the same thing.
I agree with above posters that the views of Russian scientists with permanent research stations at the North pole (Tim Channon (18:13:43) and obvious reasons for deep understanding of cold weather (E.M Smith) cannot lightly be dismissed.