The Real Cause of Global Climate Change
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Global Climate Change is the result of a succession of climatic distortions that have resulted from the man made alteration to a high pressure zone that had appeared in North Eastern Africa for the passed few million years. By introducing large scale river management dams on the Nile in Egypt to control the annual midsummer flood, this set off a sequence of events further south in the Ethopian Highlands that resulted in a reduction in the number and density of Easterly Waves, which has increased the amount of solar rediation absorbed by the Equitorial Atlantic and Pacific, thus warming the planet and distorting a number of major weather systems.
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The Little Ice Age
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THE LITTLE ICE AGE
Richard D. Tkachuck
Geoscience Research Institute
Origins 10(2):51-65 (1983).
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Have climatic changes taken place over centuries? If so, what were the causes and effects?
INTRODUCTION
The changeability of weather is a phenomenon known to all who live on Earth. Daily fluctuations in temperature, moisture and wind represent the most rapid weather changes that we experience. Changes in weather patterns through the seasons, the annual cycles, as well as multi-annual cycles are generally predictable. Spring does, in fact, follow winter year after year. Climate is defined as the composite of all the components that determine weather in a particular area averaged over time (i.e., a number of years). A particular region can be defined by the dominant weather feature(s) which affect the environment to the greatest extent: polar, monsoon, desert, tropical, etc. While a climate is described in terms of certain weather features, the presence of anomalies such as an unusual rainstorm or high-velocity wind need not change one's opinion about the overall climate for a specific region. In other words, extremes in a particular weather factor can be included just as long as the measurable weather characteristics approximate some average value over long periods of time.
Long-term climate changes measured in decades or centuries are difficult to quantify. Reminiscences of old-timers who recount the rigors of winters in the olden days are often taken with the proverbial grain of salt. Yet such comments do indeed raise the question: Has the climate in different parts of the earth changed over the centuries? The answer appears to be yes, but the basis for this answer is complex and, of necessity, relies on inferential data. It is the purpose of this article to examine a postulated climatic change in recent history. More specifically we shall analyze a time spanned by the dates 1450 AD to about 1850 AD when, at least in the Northern Hemisphere, there appeared to be temperatures much cooler than at present, a time which some have named the "Little Ice Age."
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There are certain difficulties in attempting a historical study of climate because the most common instruments of today such as the thermometer, wind gauge, barometer and rain gauge are all of .
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The Real Cause of Global Climate Change
- 1. The Real Cause Of Global Climate Change 111
- 2. ● . 2
- 3. Each summer for the passed few million years this area used to turn into one of the worlds largest lakes. 33
- 4. Nile flood created a 26,000 km² warm, shallow, fresh- water lake, plus affected a further 35,000 km²of the South East Mediterranean. 44
- 5. The Lower Nile Region 55
- 6. Rainfall on the Ethiopian plateau and Blue Nile flow compared to White Nile flow at Aswan. 66
- 7. Natural Nile flow up to 1898 in tons per second. (August, September, October) 77
- 8. First Aswan Dam built 1898 to 1902 88
- 9. Enlarged: 1907 to 1912 99
- 10. Enlarged: 1929 to 1933 1010
- 11. Not Used: 1959 to 1963 1111
- 12. Aswan High Dam controlled Nile flow from 1964 1212
- 13. Rainfall on the Ethiopian plateau and Blue Nile flow compared to White Nile flow at Aswan. 1313
- 14. The Original Dam at Aswan on the Nile 14
- 15. The remit for the dam was to artificially regulate water levels in the Lower Flood Plain to allow for optimum planting of the wheat crop. 15151515
- 16. . 1616
- 17. Sub Saharan rainfall compared to rainfall on the Ethiopian plateau and Blue Nile flow. 1717
- 19. Sub Saharan Rainfall compared to (inverted) change in Atlantic warming zone temperature 1919
- 20. May 1 20
- 21. MAY 3 21
- 22. JUNE 1 22
- 23. JUNE 3 23
- 24. JULY 1 24
- 25. JULY 3 25
- 26. AUGUST 1 26
- 27. AUGUST 3 27
- 28. SEPTEMBER 1 28
- 29. SEPTEMBER 3 29
- 30. OCTOBER 1 30
- 31. DECEMBER 23 3131
- 32. JANUARY 08 3232
- 33. JANUARY 23 3333
- 35. FEBRUARY 21 3535
- 36. MARCH 08 3636
- 37. MARCH 23 3737
- 38. APRIL 07 3838
- 39. APRIL 23 3939
- 40. MAY 08 4040
- 41. MAY 23 4141
- 42. JUNE 07 4242
- 43. JUNE 23 4343
- 44. JULY 07 4444
- 45. JULY 24 4545
- 46. AUGUST 09 4646
- 47. AUGUST 23 4747
- 50. OCTOBER 08 5050
- 51. OCTOBER 23 5151
- 52. NOVEMBER 07 5252
- 53. NOVEMBER 22 5353
- 54. DECEMBER 08 5454
- 55. Succession of climatic events from Aswan to Atlantic 55
- 56. Atlantic Sea temperature within the warming zone, compared to NASA’s figures for global temperature. 565656
- 57. Sea Surface Temperature. Credit NASA/Godard Space Flight Centre. Scientific Visualisation Studio 575757
- 58. Warming Zone Source: UK met Office, HadiSST1. 1870 to 1929 against 1940 to 2009. 1N to 30N – 1W to 150W 585858
- 59. Sea Temperature increase along the West African Coast 5959
- 60. June 6060
- 61. July 6161
- 62. August 6262
- 63. September 6363
- 64. October 6464
- 65. November 6565
- 66. December 6666
- 68. Atlantic Sea temperature within the warming zone, compared to NASA’s figures for global temperature. 686868
- 74. Dr Alan Gadian Research Scientist. School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT. UK. a.gadian@see.leeds.ac.uk +(44 )113 343 7246 7474
- 76. Introducing Terraced Evaporation Pans in such locations as Egypt’s Toska Lakes, to recreate meteorological conditions similar to pre 1900. 76767676
- 78. . Data Sources: Rainfall data Meteorology Department, Florida State University. 1980. Nicholson's Africa Precipitation, monthly 1901-1984. Research Data Archive at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. River flow data: The Global Runoff Data Centre, 56068 Koblenz, Germany. Sea Temperature Rayner N A ; Parker D E ; Horton E B ; Folland C K ; Alexander L V ; Rowell D P ; Kent E C ; Kaplan A (2003) Global Analysis of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century J. Geophys Res. Vol. 108, No D 14 4407 10.1029/2002JD002670 (PDF~9Mb) Special thank you to Em. Prof S Salter, Amelia Sparavigna. Author Conor McMenemie 7878