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Global Warming:

A Chilling Perspective

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Based on the analysis of entrapped air from ice cores extracted from
permanent glaciers from various regions around the globe, it has been
demonstrated that global warming began 18,000 years ago,
accompanied by a steady rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide. Humans
are quite likely the cause of a large portion of the 80 ppm rise in CO2
since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and from a distance, it looks
possible that increasing CO2 may cause atmospheric temperatures rise.
However, on closer examination it is seen that CO2 lags an average of
about 800 years behind the temperature changes-- conrming that CO2
is not the primary driver of the temperature changes.

The real signature of greenhouse warming is not surface temperature but


temperature in the middle of the troposphere, about 5 kilometers up. If
global warming is occurring from an increasing greenhouse eect due
to CO2 additions by humans the temperature of the middle troposphere
should be warming faster than Earth's surface (1,2). However, the
opposite has been happening-- which suggests either the surface
temperature records are in error or natural factors, such as changes in
solar activity, may be responsible for the slight rise in surface
temperatures (approximately 0.6 C, globally) that appears to have
occurred over the past century.

Interestingly, from 1999 to the present the temperature of the mid


troposphere has actually decreased slightly and surface temperatures
have ceased warming -- even as CO2 concentrations have continued
to increase (3). This should not be happening if CO2 increases to the
atmosphere are the primary driver of global warming.

More Detail:

Carbon Dioxide -vs-


Temperature Graphs:

Last 800,000 years (requires


Java-enabled browser-- may take a few
moments to download)
Last 400,000 years
Last 50,000 years
Last 2,000 years
Last 500 years
Last 200 years
Last 100 years
Last 50 years

NOTE: All charts were plotted directly from data sets using Lotus 1-2-3.

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References:

(1) Climate Change Science; Compiled by Ken Gregory, Calgary, Alberta, Canada,
November 11, 2007.

(2) Climate experts debate in NYC, March 2007-- specically, testimony by Dr.
Richard S. Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

(3) Tropospheric and Stratospheric Temperature Record from Satellite


Measurments, The National Climatic Data Center, NOAA Satellite Information
Service, April 27, 2003 update.

Carbon Dioxide Graphs:


Soviet Station Vostok, Antarctic

1) Ice Core Records of Atmospheric CO2 Around the Last Three Glacial
Terminations
Hubertus Fischer, Martin Wahlen, Jesse Smith, Derek Mastroianni, and
Bruce Deck
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Published: by the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Science, 283, 1712-1714
Get the data at: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo
/vostokco2.html

2) Barnola, et. al.


Nature, 329, 408-414 (1987)

Get the data at: ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore


/antarctica/vostok/co2.txt

Taylor Dome, Antarctica

3) Holocene Carbon-cycle Dynamics


Based on CO2 Trapped in Ice at Taylor Dome, Antarctica
A. Indermhle*, T. F. Stocker*, F. Joos*, H. Fischer, H. J. Smith, M.
Wahlen, B. Deck, D. Mastroianni, J. Tschumi*, T. Blunier*, R. Meyer* & B.
Stauer
Published: 1999, Macmillan Magazines Ltd
Nature, Vol. 398, 11 March 1999

Get the data at: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore


/antarctica/taylor/taylor_data.html

Temperature Graphs:
C. Lorius, J. Jouzel, C. Ritz, L. Merlivat, N. I. Barkov, Y. S. Korotkevitch
and V. M. Kotlyakov, A 150,000-year climatic record from Antarctic ice,
Nature,
316, 1985, 591-596.

J. Jouzel, C. Lorius, J. R. Petit, C. Genthon, N. I. Barkov, V. M. Kotlyakov


and V. M. Petrov, Vostok ice core: a continuous isotope temperature
record over
the last climatic cycle (160,000 years), Nature, 329, 1987, 402-408.

J. R. Petit, L. Mounier, J. Jouzel, Y. Korotkevitch, V. Kotlyakov and C.


Lorius, Paleoclimatological implications of the Vostok core dust record,
Nature, 343, 1990, 56-58.

C. Ritz. Un modele thermo-mecanique d'evolution pour le bassin


glaciaire
Antarctique Vostok-Glacier Byrd: sensibilite aux valeurs des
parametres mal
connus (Univ. de Grenoble, 1992).

T. Sowers, M. Bender, L. D. Labeyrie, J. Jouzel, D. Raynaud, D. Martinson


and
Y. S. Korotkevich, 135 000 year Vostok - SPECMAP common temporal
framework.,
Paleoceanogr., 8, 1993, p. 737-766.

J. Jouzel, N. I. Barkov, J. M. Barnola, M. Bender, J. Chappelaz, C. Genthon,


V.
M. Kotlyakov, V. Lipenkov, C. Lorius, J. R. Petit, D. Raynaud, G. Raisbeck, C.
Ritz, T. Sowers, M. Stievenard, F. Yiou and P. Yiou, Extending the Vostok
ice-core record of paleoclimate to the penultimate glacial period,
Nature, 364,
1993, 407-412.

C. Waelbroeck, J. Jouzel, L. Labeyrie, C. Lorius, M. Labracherie, M.


Stievenard
and N. I. Barkov, Comparing the Vostok ice deuterium record and series
from
Southern Ocean core MD 88-770 over the last two glacial-interglacial
cycles,
Clim. Dyn., 12, 1995, 113 - 123.

J. Jouzel, C. Waelbroeck, B. Malaiz, M. Bender, J. R. Petit, N. I. Barkov, J.


M. Barnola, T. King, V. M. Kotlyakov, V. Lipenkov, C. Lorius, D. Raynaud, C.
Ritz and T. Sowers, Climatic interpretation of the recently extended
Vostok ice
records, Clim.Dyn.

Get the data at: ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore


/antarctica/vostok/vostok_deld.txt

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