[Terrapreta] Ice-age anyone?

[David Yarrow]

see details below about current climate modeling...

while the pacific cycle enters a la nina cooling phase from an influx of ancient brine from the deep sea, at the opposite end of the earth's thermohaline gradient, the arctic and anarctic ice packs and caps are shrinking faster than expected, flooded with warmer surface waters skimming outward from the tropics.  high mountain glaciers are shrinking worldwide, too.

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David Yarrow
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Short-Term Pause in Warming Predicted for Europe and North America. 
By Andrew C. Revkin, NYTimes, May 1, 2008. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/science/earth/01climate.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin

"After decades of research that sought, and found, evidence of a human influence on the earth's climate, climatologists are beginning to shift [their focus]: creating decade-long forecasts for climate... One of the first attempts to look ahead a decade... predicts a slight cooling of Europe and North America, probably related to shifting currents and patterns in the oceans... 

In a short paper published in the May 1 issue of the journal Nature, [the team that generated the forecast]... stressed that the pause in warming represented only a temporary blunting of the centuries of rising temperatures that scientists have projected if... heat-trapping gases continue accumulating in the atmosphere... It should... help the public and policy makers understand that a cool phase does not mean the overall theory of human-driven warming is flawed.

Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, said. 'Too many think global warming means monotonic relentless warming everywhere year after year,' Dr. Trenberth said. 'It does not happen that way.'"

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