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		<title>Global Warming?  Ice Age?</title>
		<link>http://www.aboutitall.com/2009/01/12/global-warming-ice-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Salzman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age
The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/106922-earth_ice_age-0">Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age</a></p>
<blockquote><p>The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then the earth will return to Ice Age conditions for the next 100,000 years.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/106922-2/">Further on from the same article</a></p>
<blockquote><p>The graph of the Vostok ice core data shows that the Ice Age maximums and the warm interglacials occur within a regular cyclic pattern, the graph-line of which is similar to the rhythm of a heartbeat on an electrocardiogram tracing. The Vostok data graph also shows that changes in global CO2 levels lag behind global temperature changes by about eight hundred years. What that indicates is that global temperatures precede or cause global CO2 changes, and not the reverse. In other words, increasing atmospheric CO2 is not causing global temperature to rise; instead the natural cyclic increase in global temperature is causing global CO2 to rise.</p>
<p>The reason that global CO2 levels rise and fall in response to the global temperature is because cold water is capable of retaining more CO2 than warm water. That is why carbonated beverages loose their carbonation, or CO2, when stored in a warm environment. We store our carbonated soft drinks, wine, and beer in a cool place to prevent them from loosing their ‘fizz’, which is a feature of their carbonation, or CO2 content. The earth is currently warming as a result of the natural Ice Age cycle, and as the oceans get warmer, they release increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere.</p>
<p>Because the release of CO2 by the warming oceans lags behind the changes in the earth’s temperature, we should expect to see global CO2 levels continue to rise for another eight hundred years after the end of the earth’s current Interglacial warm period. We should already be eight hundred years into the coming Ice Age before global CO2 levels begin to drop in response to the increased chilling of the world’s oceans.</p></blockquote>
<p>Disclaimer:  I have no idea how reliable Pravda is.  But this ***IS*** a different take on the &#8216;global warming&#8217; crisis.</p>
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		<title>Unsual Swarm of Earthquakes in (Super Volcano beneath) Yellowstone Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Salzman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yellowstone Super-Volcano
Yellowstone is the crown jewel of the United States national park system. Its mountain vistas, wildlife and geographic features are visited and admired by people from around the world. More than any of those, however, it&#8217;s the park&#8217;s thermo-geological features that make it unlike any other part of the globe. No place on earth [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.unmuseum.org/supervol.htm">Yellowstone Super-Volcano</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Yellowstone is the crown jewel of the United States national park system. Its mountain vistas, wildlife and geographic features are visited and admired by people from around the world. More than any of those, however, it&#8217;s the park&#8217;s thermo-geological features that make it unlike any other part of the globe. No place on earth has as many steam vents, hot springs and active geysers as Yellowstone.</p>
<p>To create these features requires two elements in abundance: lots of water and lots of heat. The water is provided by the generous rain and snow the region gets. The heat comes from deep inside the earth: volcanic heat. Though you might not be able to tell from just looking at it, Yellowstone National Park is built on an ancient volcano. Not just a regular volcano, either. It lays on top of what some people have started to call a &#8220;super volcano.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh Oh.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hklq5saMBlMynv31EbfNSka-SpOwD95COBD00">Scientists eye unusual swarm of Yellowstone quakes</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Yellowstone National Park was jostled by a host of small earthquakes for a third straight day Monday, and scientists watched closely to see whether the more than 250 tremors were a sign of something bigger to come. Swarms of small earthquakes happen frequently in Yellowstone, but it&#8217;s very unusual for so many earthquakes to happen over several days, said Robert Smith, a professor of geophysics at the University of Utah.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re certainly not normal,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;We haven&#8217;t had earthquakes in this energy or extent in many years.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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