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GLOBAL WARMING FACTS AND TRUTHS

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To begin our fact finding, I will take a look at this country (USA), and see how things stack up to what we all are being told and warned about. To do this I took a south-central area, TEXAS.....this would show us its weather patterns back since man has recorded it. This will balance our test to see if there is a pattern in COLD years VS. HOT ONES, below is the report I have, it is fact and true..so lets take a long look shall we ....?

Winter Weather Information
For South Central Texas

Winter 2006/2007 began at 622 PM CST Thursday, December 21st, 2006, and will end at 707 PM CDT Tuesday, March 20, 2007, when Spring 2007 officially begins.

Winter over South Central Texas continues the oscillations from warm to cold that begins in the fall and continues through early spring. Historically the greatest extremes in warm to cold have been observed in February, although for any one year extremes can show up from anytime between September and April.

WINTERS HISTORY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS SINCE THE 19TH
CENTURY HAS BEEN EXTREME COLD TO VERY WARM...PLUS VERY DRY
TO FLOODS.

IN JANUARY OF 1856 VERY COLD TEMPERATURES CAME TO THE AREA...
WHEN AUSTIN HAD IT COLDEST JANUARY OF RECORD...WITH THE
AVERAGE JANUARY TEMPERATURE OF 36.6. IN FEBRUARY OF 1899 A
STRONG ARCTIC COLD FRONT CAME TO TEXAS...CAUSING LOWS OF -1
AT AUSTIN AND 4 AT SAN ANTONIO ON FEBRUARY 12...1899.

JANUARY 1ST...1928 IS THE COLDEST NEW YEARS DAY AT AUSTIN AND
SAN ANTONIO. THE HIGH AT AUSTIN MUELLER AIRPORT JANUARY 1...1928
WAS 25 AND LOW WAS 17...AND AT SAN ANTONIO THE HIGHS WAS
28 AND LOW 19. DEL RIO ALSO HAD ONE OF ITS COLDEST NEW YEARS DAY
ON JANUARY 1...1928...WHEN THE HIGH WAS 31 AND LOW 20. ANOTHER
COLD NEW YEARS DAY AT DEL RIO CAME 19 YEARS LATER ON JANUARY
1ST...1947...WHEN THE HIGH WAS 28 AND LOW WAS 24.

IN JANUARY 1930 COLD WEATHER CAME TO THE AREA...BRINGING
THE COLDEST JANUARY OF RECORD AT DEL RIO AND SAN ANTONIO.
THE AVERAGE JANUARY TEMPERATURES AT DEL RIO WAS 43.7 AND
AND AT SAN ANTONIO 43.3. THE COLDEST MINIMUM TEMPERATURES
DURING THE WINTER SEASON CAME IN LATE JANUARY 1949...WHEN
A STRONG ARCTIC FRONT CAME TO THE AREA...LEAVING LOWS OF -5 AT
AUSTIN BERGSTROM...-2 AT AUSTIN MUELLER AIRPORT...0 AT
SAN ANTONIO...AND 17 AT DEL RIO JANUARY 31...1949. SNOW ALSO
CAME WITH THIS ARCTIC BLAST. ADDITIONAL STRONG ARCTIC FRONTS
RETURNED 2 YEARS LATER IN LATE JANUARY AND EARLY FEBRUARY OF
1951...AND IN JANUARY 1962.

IN DECEMBER 1955 THE WARMEST CHRISTMAS DAY CAME WHEN THE
HIGH WAS 90 AT AUSTIN MUELLER AIRPORT...91 AT AUSTIN
BERGSTROM...90 AT SAN ANTONIO...AND 87 AT DEL RIO.
DEL RIO REACHED A HIGH OF 89 ON DECEMBER 24...1955.

(NOTE:) The above is the first of many years that pasted that were very very cold in Texas, now we find the first time a abnormal temps that are in the 90's....people did not think of Global Warming back then, they mostly used the Bible to give a answer to what was going on...." The season's will be close to the same, Winter will be as Summer, Fall Spring like." But now a days its not the Bible, only the Radicals running wild on the News and in schools saying that mankind is the destoryer of worlds...now lets see how many more days that were in the high summer temps for winters to come.

Our code will be RED WORDS if the temp is HIGH for winter time....BLUE for Normal or Below Normal temps.

IN JANUARY 1968...HEAVY RAINS AND FLOODS CAME TO SOUTH CENTRAL
TEXAS. THIS WAS THE WETTEST JANUARY OF RECORD AT SAN ANTONIO
WITH 8.52 INCHES OF RAIN.

THE 1970S BROUGHT A FEW COLD WINTERS. THE 1970S BEGAN WITH A
COLD JANUARY IN 1970. A YEAR LATER THIS CHANGED WHEN MILD
CONDITIONS PREVAILED IN JANUARY 1971...ESPECIALLY AT THE END
OF THE MONTH. A RECORD HIGH FOR JANUARY OF 90 WAS OBSERVED AT
AUSTIN AND 89 AT SAN ANTONIO ON JANUARY 30...1971. JANUARY
1972 BROUGHT MORE COOLER DAYS...FOLLOWED BY A COLD JANUARY IN
1973. JANUARY 8 TO 12...1973 WAS A COLD PERIOD. AUSTIN
HAD 116 HOURS OF BELOW FREEZING TEMPERATURES FROM JANUARY 8
TO 12...1973. SAN ANTONIO PICKED UP 0.8 INCHES OF SNOW JANUARY
11TH. A 2ND SNOW EVENT RETURNED FEBRUARY 7 AND 8...1973 WHEN
AUSTIN...DEL RIO AND SAN ANTONIO HAD SNOW. THE MID TO LATE PART OF
THE 1970S HAD SOME COLD WINTERS...DURING THE WINTERS OF
1976/1977...1977/1978 AND 1978/1979.

AFTER A MILDER WINTER FROM DECEMBER 1979 TO FEBRUARY OF 1980...
THE 1980S BROUGHT SEVERAL EXTREME ARCTIC WEATHER EVENTS IN DECEMBER
1983...JANUARY AND EARLY FEBRUARY 1985...AND AGAIN IN DECEMBER 1989.
THE COLDEST DECEMBER LOWS OF RECORD CAME WITH THESE ARCTIC BLASTS.
ANOTHER OF SHORTER DURATION CAME IN DECEMBER OF 1990...WHEN VERY
WARM CONDITIONS ON DECEMBER 21...1990 WHERE REPLACED BY MUCH COLDER
WEATHER DECEMBER 22 TO 26...1990. DECEMBER 1983 WAS THE COLDEST
MONTH OF RECORD AT SAN ANTONIO...WITH THE AVERAGE DECEMBER
TEMPERATURE OF 43.0 DEGREES. IN THE COLD OF DECEMBER 1989...THE
COLDEST LOW OF RECORD FOR DEL RIO CAME DECEMBER 23...WITH A LOW OF
10. DECEMBER RECORD LOWS OF 4 AT AUSTIN MUELLER AIRPORT...6 AT
AUSTIN BERGSTROM...AND 6 AT SAN ANTONIO WAS OBSERVED DECEMBER
23...1989.

DURING THE 1982/1983 EL NINO SEVERAL SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS CAME
TO THE AREA IN THE WINTER FROM DECEMBER 1982 TO MID MARCH...1983.
A FEW WINDY DAYS CAME ALSO. A YEAR LATER IN FEBRUARY 1984...A POWERFUL
LOW...WITH A COLD FRONT...MOVED NORTH OF THE AREA BRINGING VERY
WINDY CONDITIONS ON FEBRUARY 26 AND 27...1984.

FROM JANUARY 11 TO 13...1985 A HEAVY SNOW EVENT CAME TO SOUTH
CENTRAL TEXAS...WHERE SAN ANTONIO PICKED UP 13.5 INCHES OF
SNOW...DEL RIO 8.6 INCHES AND AUSTIN 3.9 INCHES. A SNOW EVENT
RETURNED TO THE DEL RIO AREA IN EARLY JANUARY 1986...WHEN FROM
JANUARY 7 TO 8...1986 DEL RIO PICKED UP 8.2 INCHES OF SNOW.

AFTER DRY WINTERS IN 1987/1988 AND 1988/1989...FLOODS RETURNED
IN JANUARY 1991 TO SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS. AUSTIN HAD ITS WETTEST
JANUARY OF RECORD...WITH 10.53 INCHES AT AUSTIN BERGSTROM AND 9.21
INCHES AT AUSTIN MUELLER. A FLOOD RETURNED IN LATE DECEMBER 1991 JUST
BEFORE CHRISTMAS. THE RAINY PATTERN LASTED FROM JANUARY TO JUNE OF
1992.

FEBRUARY 1996 WAS AN EXTREME MONTH FROM HARD FREEZE TO SUMMER LIKE
WARMTH AND THEN BACK TO VERY COLD ON THE 29TH. A BRIEF WINTER
PRECIPITATION EVENT CAME IN EARLY FEBRUARY 1996...WHERE AUSTIN
RECEIVED SNOW ON FEBRUARY 3...1996. CONDITIONS WARMED UP
CONSIDERABLY BY THE MID TO LATE PART OF THE MONTH...WITH HIGHS
REACHING 100 FEBRUARY 21 AT SAN ANTONIO...101 AT AUSTIN BERGSTROM...
99 AT AUSTIN MUELLER AIRPORT AND 99 AT DEL RIO. FEBRUARY 1996
CLOSED OUT THE MONTH ON THE 29TH WITH MUCH COLDER CONDITIONS
AND A MIX OF WINTER LIKE PRECIPITATION OVER THE HILL COUNTRY.
WELCOME RAINS CAME TO THE REST OF THE AREA...IN WHAT WAS A
DRY YEAR IN 1996. HISTORICALLY FEBRUARY IS THE MONTH FOR THE
MOST EXTREMES IN TEMPERATURE FOR SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS...AS THE
AREA BEGINS TO WARM UP...FOLLOWED BY PERIODS OF VERY COLD WEATHER
AFTER STRONG ARCTIC FRONTS.

HEAVY RAINS AND SEVERE WEATHER AFFECTED THE AREA FROM LATE DECEMBER
1997 THROUGH FEBRUARY OF 1998. THIS WAS A STRONG EL NINO YEAR.
THE OPPOSITE CAME A YEAR LATER FROM DECEMBER 1998 THROUGH FEBRUARY
OF 1999 WHEN VERY DRY CONDITIONS CAME TO THE AREA...AFTER THE
FLOODS OF OCTOBER 1998.

IN THE 21ST CENTURY...COLD CONDITIONS CAME TO THE AREA IN DECEMBER
OF 2000 AND JANUARY 2001. AN ICE STORM CAME TO THE AREA ON
DECEMBER 12 AND 13...2000...FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER ICE STROM FROM
FEBRUARY 22 TO 24...2003. ANOTHER WINTER PRECIPITATION EVENT
CAME THE NIGHT OF FEBRUARY 13TH AND EARLY MORNING OF
FEBRUARY 14...2004...WITH SNOW AND SLEET. IN DECEMBER 2005...
A FREEZING RAIN EVENT CAME IN THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING OF
DECEMBER 7TH TO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF DECEMBER 8TH. OVERALL
THE WINTER OF 2005/2006 WAS VERY DRY AND WARM.

(NOTE:) As we can see there were many MORE COLD or BELOW NORMAL winter months than ABOVE NORMAL or HIGH TEMPS for these months....so if we take that into our common sense what do we see....? Is it GLOBAL WARMING..? Or is it considerered Below normal or just plain COLD...? Did you see any evidence that these years Man had increased his burning of fossil fuels or was it the same..? Could it be the El- Nino..effect...? If so why blame MAN...?

From here I will take you to another wave of more intense reports and heavy scientfic terms, it may become boring BUT PLEASE read as much as you can stand...for it shows the TRUTH behind what maybe going on !!!

IS THE YOUNGER DRYAS GLOBAL IN EXTENT?

Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Univ of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Nat.Rutter@ualberta.ca and WEAVER, Andrew J., School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Univ of Victoria, PO Box 3055 STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6Evidence for the Younger Dryas cooling event (~10,500 - 13,000 calendar years ago) is found in a variety of climatic proxies, such as variations in pollen records, composition of ice cores, grain size in loess deposits, chemistry of ocean sediments, and the presence of glacial moraines. Here, we evaluate worldwide evidence, chronological control and duration of the Younger Dryas and compare these results to climate models. The Younger Dryas is well established in the North Atlantic region becoming more problematic in both evidence and chronological control in other areas of the world. In addition, ocean records reveal conflicting evidence for Younger Dryas forcing mechanisms and the timing of events. Further the Younger Dryas may be mistaken for other short term cold intervals such as the 8.2 ka event, when dating control is weak. Nevertheless, the Younger Dryas appears to be global in scale, albeit the signals vary in strength. We compare the proxy records to the ocean general circulation model coupled to the energy and moisture balance atmospheric model. We find the model results compare favourably with the temperature change interrupted from palaeoclimatic reconstruction and the general duration of the cooling of the Younger Dryas.

HYDROTHERMAL DISCHARGE FROM VOLCANIC AREAS IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES:

MARINER, R.H.¹, EVANS, W.C.¹, HURWITZ, S.¹, and SCHMIDT, M.E.², (1) US Geol Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, seingebr@usgs.gov, (2) Dept. of Geosciences, Oregon State Univ, Corvallis, OR 97331-5506Except in the MOR environment, voluminous, high-temperature hydrothermal discharge is commonly associated with silicic volcanism and a shallow regional water table (e.g. Yellowstone, Kamchatka, Taupo Volcanic Zone). In the western US, hydrothermal heat discharge ranges up to 6 GW (Yellowstone) and values in the 100 MW range are not uncommon (Long Valley, Lassen, Austin Hot Springs). Such large heat discharges likely imply mining of magmatic heat and, as pointed out by Clive Lister (1974), may require active fluid circulation near or within recently crystallized magma. The average hydrothermal heat discharge from some silicic magmatic systems is fairly constant on a multidecadal scale. For instance, measurements at Yellowstone and Lassen suggest relatively steady heat discharge since the early 20th century. Large seasonal variations observed at some localities over the past 30 years are due mainly to interaction with the shallow, cold hydrologic system. Mining of heat from subaerial deposits (Katmai, Loowit Hot Springs at Mt. St. Helens) can temporarily generate comparably large (100s of MW) values of hydrothermal discharge, but pronounced declines in heat output are observed on decadal scales. Relative to silicic systems, focused basaltic magmatism can provide similarly large heat inputs (e.g. 5-6 GW at Kilauea), but depth to water table tends to be greater in basaltic terranes, and hydrothermal discharge tends to be weaker and less conspicuous (e.g. a maximum of ~1 GW of subaerial hydrothermal discharge at Kilauea, mainly as low-temperature, dilute discharge near the coast). Andesitic arcs worldwide exhibit a range of length-normalized hydrothermal-discharge rates. The most important factors controlling hydrothermal discharge may be the rate of magmatic heat input and depth to water table. In the central Oregon Cascade Range, perhaps the most active part of a relatively "weak" andesitic arc (intrusion rate ~9-50 cubic km/m.y./km arc length), hydrothermal discharge (~2 MW/km arc length) is relatively hot and visible west of the arc, where the water table is shallow, and relatively cool, dilute, and inconspicuous east of the arc, where the water table is deep. Current length-normalized rates of hydrothermal heat discharge from the Cascade arc are ~10 times lower than those in the Taupo Volcanic Zone, an arc segment analogous to the more-silicic Miocene Cascades.

A MID-CARADOCIAN (453 M.Y.) DRAWDOWN IN PCO2: EVIDENCE FOR A DECREASE IN SEAWATER TEMPERATURE AND ICESHEET DEVELOPMENT?

DE LA GARZA, Pablo¹, and BERGSTROM, Stig M.², (1) Natural Sciences, Texas A&M Int'l Univ, 5201 University Blvd, Laredo, TX 78041, ktobin@tamiu.edu, (2) Ohio State Univ - Columbus, 155 S Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210-1308Previous workers have recognized a positive d¹³C excursion during the mid-Caradocian from Laurentian and Baltic platform carbonates. This study documents the mid-Caradocian excursion in Kullsberg Limestone (central Sweden). Significantly, we observe increases in both d¹³C and d¹⁸O unlike previous studies which only observed increased d¹³C marine values from the Baltic platform during this event. Brachiopods from the lower Kullsberg Limestone reflect pre-excursion conditions having more negative d¹³C (0 to 1�) and d¹⁸O (-4 to �6�) values compared with least-altered marine cement from the upper Kullsberg Limestone, which have more positive d¹³C (2.1 to 3.6�) and d¹⁸O (-1.8 to �3.6�) values. Least-altered marine cements from the Kullsberg Limestone include: columnar calcite, first-generation equant calcite, and translucent fibrous calcite (from earliest to latest in timing of formation). Kullsberg seawater during the excursion event likely decreased in temperature by @ 5 ^oC with an approximate @ 1� increase in d¹³O_H₂O attributable to increased salinity and/or formation of a small to moderate-sized transient ice sheet during the mid-Caradocian event. The results of this study are consistent with multiple independent approaches that characterize the composition of the Ordovician atmosphere/hydrosphere systems. Specifically, marine abiotic calcite formed at moderately low paleotemperatures (15 to 21 ^oC) coincident with a transient drawdown in mid-Caradocian atmospheric pCO₂ (<10 times present atmospheric level, PAL). Ambient, pre-excursion paleotemperatures on the Baltic platform were 20 to 25 ^oC with atmospheric pCO₂ values significantly greater than 10 PAL.

THE MICROBIAL ECOLOGY OF GAS HYDRATES:

MILLS, Heath J., and MARTINEZ, Robert J., School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 310 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332, patricia.sobecky@biology.gatech.eduGas hydrates are the subject of intense investigation owing to their potential use as an alternative energy resource, possible effects on sea-floor stability, change in climatic conditions, and presence on other planets and satellites. Numerous groups are also investigating the biological communities found in connection with hydrate deposits at marine seep sites. While the macrofauna (e.g., vestimentiferan tubeworms, methanotrophic mussels, bivalves and methane-hydrate-dwelling worms) of these chemosynthetic communities have been the subject of study for more than a decade, surprisingly much less is known about the free-living microorganisms associated with either the dense Beggiatoa sp. mats present at many of these locales or in the sediments containing hydrates or within hydrates themselves. A number of geochemical-based studies have demonstrated significant contributions of sulfate reduction and anaerobic methane oxidation (AMO) activities to the cycling of carbon in methane seep sediments with naturally occurring hydrates. In addition, the phylogenetic diversity of extant microbial communities has also characterized. Although it has been proposed that AMO is mediated by a syntrophic coupling between archaeal (i.e., ANME-1 or ANME-2 groups) and sulfate reducing bacterial (i.e., Desulfosarcina sp.) partners, recent evidence by some investigators suggests that such a specific association may not always be necessary for AMO. In this talk, the microbial ecology of free-living prokaryotes extant in the hydrocarbon-rich Gulf of Mexico seep sediments and associated gas hydrate habitats will be discussed. In addition, data will also be presented highlighting the metabolically active microbial constituents within sediment-free gas hydrate and Beggiatoa-mat dominated hydrate-containing seep sediments.

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