Na een lange periode van duisternis kwam de Zon begin dit jaar onder meer te vroeg op boven Noorwegen, Groenland en Alaska.

In deze tijd van aardeveranderingen komen de Inuit aan het woord over hun eigen veranderende leefomgeving. Zowel de positie van de Zon en de andere sterren als de windrichting zijn veranderd, zo zeggen zij.

Voor het eerst in de geschiedenis van het meest westelijke stadje van Groenland Ilulissat kwam op 13 januari jongstleden de Zon al op, twee dagen eerder dan normaal. Op 20 januari kwam de Zon op boven de noordelijke Noorse stad Tromsø, een dag vroeger dan andere jaren. De Zon kwam boven Barrow in Alaska vier dagen eerder op dan gebruikelijk.

De Inuit uit de regio Qikiqtaaluk in het territorium Nunavut in Canada merken dat hun gehele leefomgeving aan het veranderen is. Zo hadden ze voorheen exact één uur om op zeehondenjacht te gaan, terwijl het nu tot een uur langer licht blijft in het gebied.

De Inuit volgen de Zon hun hele leven. Ze merken dat de zonsopgang niet zozeer is veranderd, maar dat de Zon op een andere plaats ondergaat.

“De Zon ging altijd bij de hoogste bergtop onder, maar op een bepaald moment ging hij voorbij de bergtop pas onder,” zo zegt Elijah Nowdlak uit Pangnirtung.

Jaipitty Paluq uit Igloolik merkt op dat de Zon nu hoger aan de hemel staat. De stralen vallen onder een meer rechte hoek op het aardoppervlak waardoor het volgens hem warmer is geworden.

De paden die de Inuit altijd gebruiken om te reizen werden voorheen gevormd door de noorderwind. Nowdlak geeft aan dat de wind is gedraaid. De wind komt nu meer vanuit het zuiden maar voornamelijk uit het oosten en brengt meer extreem weer met zich mee.

“’s Avonds na de jacht gebruiken we de sterren om te navigeren, maar ze zien er anders uit, ze staan niet meer op hun vertrouwelijke positie,” zegt Samueli Ammaq uit Igloolik. “Onze wereld is veranderd – het land, de lucht en de omgeving.”

Bron: NancyRedStar/Youtube.com

The drying up of the Aral Sea is one of the planet’s most shocking disasters, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday, as he urged Central Asian leaders to step up efforts to solve the problem.

Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, the sea has shrunk by 90 percent since the rivers that feed it were largely diverted in a Soviet project to boost cotton production in the arid region.

The shrunken sea has ruined the once-robust fishing economy and left fishing trawlers stranded in sandy wastelands, leaning over as if they dropped from the air. The sea’s evaporation has left layers of highly salted sand, which winds can carry as far away as Scandinavia and Japan, and which plague local people with health troubles.

Renowned physicist Vladimir Paar has revealed that Europe could be just five years away from the start of a new Ice Age, says this article in the Croatian Times.

Most of central Europe will soon be covered in ice, says Paar, “including Germany, Poland, France, Austria, Slovakia and a part of Slovenia.” The freeze will be so complete that people will be able to walk from England to Ireland or across the North Sea from Scotland to northern Europe.

“This could happen in five, 10, 50 or 100 years, or even later. We can’t predict it precisely, but it will come,” he added.

And the professor said that scientists think global warming is simply a natural part of the planet.

Professor Paar, from Croatia’s Zagreb University, has spent decades analysing previous ice ages in Europe and what caused them.

“The reality is that mankind needs to start preparing for the ice age,” says Paar. “We are at the end of the global warming period. The ice age is to follow. The global warming period should have ended a few thousands of years ago, we should have already been in the ice age. Therefore we do not know precisely when it could start – but soon.”

“Food production also might be a problem. It would need to be produced in greenhouses with a lot of energy spent to heat it,” commented the professor, who remains optimistic despite his predictions.

It will still be possible for man to survive in the ice age, but the spending on energy will be enormous.

See entire article:
http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/General_News/2010-02-10/8836/Croat_scientist_warns_ice_a ge_could_start_in_five_years

A Stanford Professor has used United Nation security officers to silence a journalist asking him inconvenient questions during a press briefing at the climate change conference in Copenhagen.

Professor Stephen Schneiders assistant requested armed UN security officers who held film maker Phelim McAleer, ordered him to stop filming and prevented further questioning after the press conference where the Stanford academic was launching a book.

McAleer, a veteran journalist and film maker, has recently made a documentary Not Evil Just Wrong which takes a sceptical look at the science and politics behind Global Warming concerns.

He asked Professor Schneider about his opinions on Climategate where leaked emails have revealed that a senior British professor deleted data and encouraged colleagues to do likewise if it contradicted their belief in Global Warming.

Professor Phil Jones, the head of Britains Climate Research Unit, has temporarily stood down pending an investigation into the scandal.

Professor Schneider, who is a senior member of the UNs Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said he would not comment on emails that may have been incomplete or edited.

During some testy exchanges with McAleer, UN officials and Professor Schneiders assistants twice tried to cut short McAleers question.

However as the press conference drew to a close Professor Schneiders assistant called armed UN security guards to the room. They held McAleer and aggressively ordered cameraman Ian Foster to stop filming. The guard threatened to take away the camera and expel the film crew from the conference if they did not obey his instructions to stop filming Professor Schneider.

The guard demanded to look at the film crews press credentials and refused to allow them to film until Professor Schneider left the room.
McAleer said he was disappointed by Professor Schneiders behaviour.

It was a press conference. Climategate is a major story it goes to the heart of the Global Warming debate by calling into question the scientific data and the integrity of many scientists involved.

These questions should be answered. The attempts by UN officials and Professor Schneiders assistant to remove my microphone were hamfisted but events took a more sinister turn when they called an armed UN security officer to silence a journalist.

Two officers corralled the film crew and one officer can be seen on tape threatening the cameraman. The Guard can also be heard warning that if the crew did not stop filming their would seize the equipment and the journalists expelled from the conference.

McAleer says he has made an official complaint tabout the incident.

I have met Mr Christopher Ankerson the UNs head of security for the conference and he has confirmed it was Professor Schneiders staff who asked the security guards to come corral us at the press conference. Mr Ankerson could not say what grounds the security guard had for ordering us to stop filming.

This is a blatant attempt to stop journalists doing journalism and asking hard questions. It is not the job of armed UN security officers to stop legitimate journalists asking legitimate questions of senior members of the UNs IPCC.

Professor Schneider was interviewed for McAleers Not Evil Just Wrong documentary but lawyers later wrote to McAleer saying he was withdrawing permission for the interview to be used.

McAleer, who is from Ireland, has gained quite a reputation for asking difficult questions of those who have been promoting the idea of man-made Global Warming.

His microphone was cut off after he asked former vice-president Al Gore about the British court case which found that An Inconvenient Truth had a nine significant errors and exaggerations. Almost 500,000 people have watched the incident on youtube.

Professor Begemann: Ik geloof niet dat er een klimaatcrisis is from Theo Richel on Vimeo.

From DailyTech, we have still more evidence that any warming occurring on planet earth is coming from natural sources and is cyclic in nature–NOT from the evil capitalism that Al Gore, the UN politicians at the IPCC and other socialists love to blame.

From the article:
Now, a new research report from a surprising source may help to lay this skepticism to rest. A study from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland looking at climate data over the past century has concluded that solar variation has made a significant impact on the Earth’s climate. The report concludes that evidence for climate changes based on solar radiation can be traced back as far as the Industrial Revolution.

Past research has shown that the sun goes through eleven year cycles. At the cycle’s peak, solar activity occurring near sunspots is particularly intense, basking the Earth in solar heat. According to Robert Cahalan, a climatologist at the Goddard Space Flight Center, “Right now, we are in between major ice ages, in a period that has been called the Holocene.”

If our media, culture and a large portion of the “scientific” community were really honest, it would be the worshippers of the religion of anthropogenic global warming who are called “skeptics,” wouldn’t it?

Because it is those pushing this silly theory that our puny SUVs and power plants are causing earth to warm up when the most obvious source of heat hangs over their head every single day.

Read the complete article at Dakota Voice