Mikira

As some of you know I'm an aspiring writer. And that I've been studying Climate Change for a duel purpose. That of furthering my knowledge on the subject and to be able to write a semi-plausible scenario of what's happening on Earth. (I won't go into details about my plot, so don't bother asking about it.)

Now for my questions. (Now please try and wrap your head around the ideas of the questions before answering.)

One more preface, I've read about the Milankovitch cycle and I really don't feel it holds water. I won't get into my thinking as to why in this question.

As for what I want to get opinions and answers to is this:

Could you envision the sun going into a dormant state? (I'm not talking about a dead sun, I'm talking about it going into a long period of solar hibernation, where one it goes into a major period of solar minimum {longer then the Maunder Minimum.} and two gives off even less solar energy then it's giving off now.)

Then due to this solar hibernation could you imagine the oceans cooling off so much that the Indeo-Pacific freezes?

Please remember this is for a Speculative Fiction Novel, so even though the science should be somewhat plausible it doesn't have to be a 100% proven fact. It just has to be reasonable enough to get people to wrap their head around the idea while reading the novel.

On about October 5th I wrote this statement:

"I've been predicting this to be a significant cooling year and even with the slight blip upwards in September I'm going to be proven right. I'll even hazard a guess that the first snowfall for the Northern United States will happen in October. And I'm referring to the plains states and not Montana, which has already gotten new snow in it's mountains."

So I'm wondering two things this morning:

1) Who else woke up to snow this morning? Where do you live (Just give your state and whether you live in the Northern part of your state or the Southern part of your state.)

2) I would also like to know if you also believe this to be a significant cooling year and why you feel this way. And if you can please provide any websites that you read on a daily basis to help you come to this conclusion.

Or maybe even tried for murder?

http://news.aol.com/article/man-93-freezes-to-deat...

Okay the Arctic didn't make it to the 1979 level by the end of October, but it was close:

http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?...

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_im...

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_im...

So from where it was on October 31 do you think it can freeze to what it was in 1979?

http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?...

http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?...

Look at the above image carefully, one picture is October 31, 1979 and the other is October 16, 2008. The Ice in the Arctic has been reforming almost as quickly as it started to significantly melt in August. So with what's left to refreeze from now to the end of October to match the 1979 level at that time, do you think it will make it to what the 1979 picture shows?

Here are some articles that I ran across about some possibilities of what could be happening in the Arctic.

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/essay_bond.html

http://www.guaranteedweather.com/content_page.aspx...

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/alison/downloads/Hartmann...

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bro/pdo.htm

From what I gather from these articles the PDO and NAO have a big impact on what happens in the Arctic. What do you all get from these papers?

A few articles about mercury:

http://www.radiochemistry.org/periodictable/elemen...

http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/ele080.html

What I find interesting is that the ancient Eygptians used it to. And I recall my mom cautioning me about being careful when using an old glass thermometer which had a small amount of mercury in it. So was it Ancient man that was careless with this liquid metal or modern man?

I understand that if something isn't naturally in an environment in the first place it could be detrimental to things already living in that enviroment if something new is introduced, but isn't everything we create and use a part of nature?

No, I've not changed my mind. I'm just curious on what you think the government could do that the private sector isn't already doing.

In a question yesterday it was mentioned that the chunk of ice that broke off of an ice shelf near Alberta Canada was 3,000 years old.

I feel there's some significance here when you think about when we came out of the last Glaciation period about 10,000 years ago.

I just want everyone to think about this a bit and about the Ice Melting and Reforming pattern this would represent during the interglacial period that we're in now.

I've been checking this site 'Daily Arctic Sea Ice Maps' every morning and here's the image for July 17, 2007 beside the image of July 17, 2008.

http://igloo.atmos.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/test/print.sh?...

From this website:

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/

Can you really keep claiming that the Arctic is melting as fast as it did last year?

My honey told me about these stories yesterday afternoon and I thought I'd share them with all of you to get your opinions.

http://www.startribune.com/sports/outdoors/1290420...

http://www.startribune.com/sports/outdoors/1306439...

http://www.startribune.com/sports/outdoors/1328795...

Do you think this would be a wise decision for my state?

Why or why not?

I know the answer to this question, so the 10 points will go to the person who answers with the correct answer first.

Do they test the CO2 anyplace else? Or is Hawaii the only place they test the air for the CO2 level?

We have different Climates even throughout the US.

http://weathereye.kgan.com/cadet/climate/climate.h...

This site shows we have seven distinct climates throughout the United States, and if you add in Hawaii and Alaska it would increase to nine.

So what is the overall Global Climate of the earth known to be during an Interglacial period?

Also what is the overall Global Climate of the earth known to be during a Glaciation period?

And have the Earth's Climate Varied during each of the different Glaciation and Interglacial periods?

(This isn't about CO2 levels, but CO2 levels and other Green House Gases would make a difference to each of the Interglacial periods and how long each Glaciation Period lasted.)

I was pondering this last night when I went to bed and than when I saw how the Jet Stream went From the Arctic to the Tip of Florida, I wanted to find out if Scientists were looking into this.

This Paper is Sponsered by NOAA:

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~david/paleo_circ....

This one is about Abrupt Climate Change:

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ctl/abrupt.html

A bit about what the Jet Stream is:

http://www.enviropedia.org.uk/Atmosphere/Jet_Strea...

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/global/jet.htm

I see by this that the IPCC hasn't studied the effect of the Jet Stream on th Global Climate.

"No systematic studies are available to assess the impacts of these procedures and schemes on climate sensitivity and variability."

http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/281.htm

Here's and Interesting Article:

http://weather.about.com/od/weatherfaqs/f/dustbowl...

I keep seeing answers from Anthropogenic Global warming believers that sound like they blame President Bush for not signing it. If my memories still serves me correctly wasn't Bill Clinton the President and Al Gore the Vice President in 1997?

True President Bush was reluctant to go along with the idea that Global Warming was being caused or effected by human activities, but in the end he agreed with them and talks became more productive.

I know most everyone hates George W Bush, but who among you would want the job?

And is so hard to understand that it would be hard to accept any policies where countries like China and India, who are starting to over take the US in Green House Gas emissions, are exempt. (These emissions also include other major air pollutants too.)

Note: I looked for another catagory to ask this question in, but since energy usage concerns are also concerns geared toward Climate Change, I feel this would be as good a place to ask this question as any other place.

The thing is I know the appliances I have are going one ten years old (I have to do some research on the makes and models to get a better estimate than that, but I'm sure they are over five years old since they were here when I moved in nearly five years ago and they looked pretty well used at that time.)

And for even lower electric bills I'd love to get new appliances, but the darn appliances I have are working just fine, so I doubt the building manager would even consider buying new ones until they do. So do you think if I were to bring up lowering my Energy Consumption with newer appliances inorder to reduce my personal inpact on Carbon Emissions help my cause to get new appliances?

Stromatolites cyanobacteria are the oldest bacterium on earth and they are what scientists believed created the oxygen we breath.

"Even more dramatically, the photosynthesis carried out by the stromatolites was on such a large scale that they consumed most of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and released enough oxygen to make permanent changes."

http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/NatSci102/text/extf...

http://www.sharkbay.org/terrestial_enviroment/page...

http://goaustralia.about.com/od/wa/f/stromatolites...

(Yes I read the whole first website, so I know it claims we are second only to this creature inregards to changing the climate. I don't agree with that statement, but for those of you who do, maybe my greenhouse idea would work if we could find away to utilize these little creatures. Since they can handle more CO2 than a plant can.)