Time Magazine and Global Warming

Thanks for the first chuckle of the Year:-)
the beauty of Hard print is?
such solid evidence of their idiocy.
after all we can’t trust the internet ..can we?
amazing how many quote that, when the same people IE media andso called? scientists also publish to the net, when journos have no idea at all about what they are covering, but they have a job with a named company, immediate absolution of the need to question it seems.

Cooling climate change occurred in the 1970’s. Curious how cooling climate change correlates with solar magnetic cycle changes. As cycle 24 appears to be an interruption rather than a slow down of the solar magnetic cycle we will likely have a chance to observe cooling climate change. (There are cycles of these abrupt climate changes periods that correlate with the cosmogenic isotope changes. The cosmogenic isotopes are modulated by changes in GCR (galactic cosmic rays, mostly high speed protons.) GCR is in turn modulated by the strength and extent of the solar heliosphere (The solar heliosphere contains pieces of magnetic flux from the sun that are carried off by the solar wind. The pieces of magnetic flux deflect the GCR particles.) and the strength and orientation of the geomagnetic field. (The geomagnetic field orientation abruptly changes cyclically by roughly 10 to 15% and changes in strength by a factor of 3 to 5 cyclically. The orientation and the strength the geomagnetic field affects the GCR intensity at different latitudes on the planet.)
http://www.utdallas.edu/physics/pdf/Atmos_060302.pdf
“An effect of increased cyclogenesis is to increase the meridional transport of heat and momentum and weaken the prevailing westerly zonal winds, as we see in Figure
7(d) for central western Europe. Thus increased cyclogenesis in the North Atlantic due to greater GCR flux during the Maunder Minimum may have contributed to the
reduced zonal winds and colder winters in Europe at that time [Luterbacher et al., 2001]. The main effect has been attributed by Shindell et al. [2001] to reduced solar UV during the Maunder Minimum. The quantitative study of the dynamical consequences of externally forced cloud and diabatic heating changes has received little attention so far, but the physical theory needed for numerically modeling such effects seems to be reasonably well established. Such models would provide a good test of the general scenario describe …”
Blizzard of 1977

Blizzard of 1978

Interesting that the Newsweek 1974 Cooling World article noted a scientists at the time had observed an increase in planetary cloud cover. High GCR causes both an increase in the area of cloud cover and an increase in the albedo and lifetime of clouds.
http://denisdutton.com/newsweek_coolingworld.pdf
“1974 Newsweek Article Cooling World:
The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree – a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars’ worth of damage in 13 U.S. states.
To scientists, these seemingly disparate incidents represent the advance signs of fundamental changes in the world’s weather. The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the earth’s climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic. “A major climatic change would force economic and social adjustments on a worldwide scale,” warns a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, “because the global patterns of food production and population that have evolved are implicitly dependent on the climate of the present century.”