It was ice, not global warming, that
killed and entombed millions of mammoths and woolly rhinos in Siberia and
Alaska.
It was unrelenting cold and then ice, not global warming, that
forced the Vikings out of Greenland.
It was bitter winters, not heat waves, that finally defeated the
armies of Napoleon and Hitler in Russia. George Washington’s army also suffered
from an unusually bitter winter at Valley Forge in 1778, in the depths of the
Little Ice Age.
Snowy blizzards periodically kill more cattle than heatwaves in
Colorado, South Dakota and Texas.
When the Tambora volcano exploded in 1816, it spewed massive
volumes of ash and “greenhouse” gases including carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere. There was no global warming from the greenhouse gases, but the
heat-blocking ash-filled atmosphere and a quiet sun caused “the year without a
summer”. Failed crops and famine stalked Europe, Asia and America.
It is icebergs, not warm oceans, that sink ships like the Titanic,
and spreading sea ice trapped “The Ship of Fools” in Antarctica.
Every major geological era has ended with massive volcanism on
land and under the seas. Molten lava heats the seas and eruptions on land fill
the atmosphere with dust which blocks incoming solar energy. There is rapid
evaporation from the warm seas followed by rapid condensation in the cold dark
atmosphere. This process dumps massive snowfalls which become ice sheets on
land, starting a new ice age and bringing the extinction of many species.
Last Glacial Maximum, 18,000 years ago
It is lethal global cooling we need to fear, not life-sustaining
global warming.
