Ice Core Samples and Global Weather

Dantheman62 · 01-13-2009, 08:11 AM

Here's some interesting and informative articles on the study of ice core samples and the information they provide towards the cycles of global weather.

Here's a great article called Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective

British scientist Jane Francis, who maintains:

" What we are seeing really is just another interglacial phase within our big icehouse climate." Dismissing political calls for a global effort to reverse climate change, she said, " It's really farcical because the climate has been changing constantly... What we should do is be more aware of the fact that it is changing and that we should be ready to adapt to the change."
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html

Here's another one...

HIMALAYAN ICE REVEALS CLIMATE WARMING, CATASTROPHIC DROUGHT

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ice cores drilled through a glacier more than four miles up in the Himalayan Mountains have yielded a highly detailed record of the last 1,000 years of earth's climate in the high Tibetan Plateau. Based on an analysis of the ice, both the last decade and the last 50 years were the warmest in 1,000 years.
The core also showed a clear record of at least eight major droughts caused by a failure of the South Asian Monsoon, the worst of these a catastrophic seven-year-long dry spell that cost the lives of more than 600,000 people.
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/monsoon.htm

And another one...

The Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two drilled to a depth of 10,000 feet (3,050 m) representing over 110,000 years of environmental record. Scientists working at the Russian Antarctic base at Vostok have recently completed drilling and obtained the longest record of climate and atmospheric history: 420,000 years!
http://www.mos.org/soti/icecore/warming.html

Total human contributions to greenhouse gases account for only about 0.28% of the "greenhouse effect" (Figure 2). Anthropogenic (man-made) carbon dioxide (CO2) comprises about 0.117% of this total, and man-made sources of other gases ( methane, nitrous oxide (NOX), other misc. gases) contributes another 0.163% .
Approximately 99.72% of the "greenhouse effect" is due to natural causes -- mostly water vapor and traces of other gases, which we can do nothing at all about. Eliminating human activity altogether would have little impact on climate change.

01-13-2009, 08:11 AM	#1
Dantheman62 Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: So. Cal. U.S. Posts: 4,205	Ice Core Samples and Global Weather Here's some interesting and informative articles on the study of ice core samples and the information they provide towards the cycles of global weather. Here's a great article called Global Warming: A Chilling Perspective British scientist Jane Francis, who maintains: " What we are seeing really is just another interglacial phase within our big icehouse climate." Dismissing political calls for a global effort to reverse climate change, she said, " It's really farcical because the climate has been changing constantly... What we should do is be more aware of the fact that it is changing and that we should be ready to adapt to the change." http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html Here's another one... HIMALAYAN ICE REVEALS CLIMATE WARMING, CATASTROPHIC DROUGHT COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ice cores drilled through a glacier more than four miles up in the Himalayan Mountains have yielded a highly detailed record of the last 1,000 years of earth's climate in the high Tibetan Plateau. Based on an analysis of the ice, both the last decade and the last 50 years were the warmest in 1,000 years. The core also showed a clear record of at least eight major droughts caused by a failure of the South Asian Monsoon, the worst of these a catastrophic seven-year-long dry spell that cost the lives of more than 600,000 people. http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/monsoon.htm And another one... The Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two drilled to a depth of 10,000 feet (3,050 m) representing over 110,000 years of environmental record. Scientists working at the Russian Antarctic base at Vostok have recently completed drilling and obtained the longest record of climate and atmospheric history: 420,000 years! http://www.mos.org/soti/icecore/warming.html Total human contributions to greenhouse gases account for only about 0.28% of the "greenhouse effect" (Figure 2). Anthropogenic (man-made) carbon dioxide (CO2) comprises about 0.117% of this total, and man-made sources of other gases ( methane, nitrous oxide (NOX), other misc. gases) contributes another 0.163% . Approximately 99.72% of the "greenhouse effect" is due to natural causes -- mostly water vapor and traces of other gases, which we can do nothing at all about. Eliminating human activity altogether would have little impact on climate change. Last edited by Dantheman62; 01-13-2009 at 09:03 AM.