[H/T to Marc]  In the peer reviewed book “Global Warming—Global Cooling, Natural Cause Found”, meteorologist and climate researcher David Dilley utilizes nearly a half million years of data linking long term gravitational cycles of the moon explain the recent global warming, rises in carbon dioxide levels, and for 2200 global warming cycles during the past half million years.

The gravitational cycles are called the Primary Forcing Mechanism for Climate (PFM), and act like a magnet by pulling the atmosphere’s high pressure systems northward or southward by as much as 3 or 4 degrees of latitude from their normal seasonal positions, and thus causing long-term shifts in the location of atmospheric high pressure systems.

Research by Mr. Dilley shows a near 100 percent correlation between the PFM gravitational cycles to the beginning and ending of global warming cycles. Global warming cycles began right on time with each PFM cycle during the past half million years, as did the current warming which began 100 years ago, and it will end right on time as the current gravitational cycle begins its cyclical decline.

Greenland Ice Core Reveals History Of Pollution In The Arctic - But there’s a twist, it was worse 100 years ago

Coal burning, primarily in North America and Europe, contaminated the Arctic and potentially affected human health and ecosystems in and around Earth’s polar regions, according to new research.

A new paper published in GRL gives a 1000-year perspective on Hurricane activity in Boston, USA. The paper is entitled: 'A 1,000-year, annually-resolved record of hurricane activity from Boston, Massachusetts,' by Besonen et al.

The Abstract states:

The annually-laminated (i.e., varved) sediment record from the Lower Mystic Lake (near Boston, MA), contains a series of anomalous graded beds deposited by strong flooding events that have affected the basin over the last millennium. From the historic portion of the record, 10 out of 11 of the most prominent graded beds correspond with years in which category 2–3 hurricanes are known to have struck the Boston area. Thus, we conclude that the graded beds represent deposition related to intense hurricane precipitation combined with wind-driven vegetation disturbance that exposes fresh, loose sediment. The hurricane signal shows strong, centennial-scale variations in frequency with a period of increased activity between the 12th–16th centuries, and decreased activity during the 11th and 17th–19th centuries. These frequency changes are consistent with other paleoclimate indicators from the tropical North Atlantic, in particular, sea surface temperature variations.

Global warming isn’t humanity's biggest problemm according to one Mexican scientist who believes that the next ice age is due to hit Earth in just a couple of years. Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera works at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), one of Mexico’s biggest universities.

According to Herrera’s research, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has made drastic mistakes in its climate measurement and prediction. According to UN numbers, a drastic warming of the Earth’s climate is expected in the coming years.

Herrera, however, is convinced that the UN is ignoring valuable factors with its data, such as sun activity. According to Herrera’s research, we are currently in a transition period with diminishing sun activity. He predicts that in about two years, a cold period will begin that could last from 60 to 80 years.

Such ‘mini ice ages’ are a known part of Earth’s history. The last one lasted from the 15th to mid-19th century. Herrera disagrees with the argument that the glaciers around the world are melting, and the Mexican newspaper ‘Milenio Diario’ quoted him saying: “The glaciers are growing in this century.”

The scientist also argues that the shattering of a large chunk of the Perito Moreno glacier in Argentina this past July was not because of global warming, but due to water causing cracks in the glacier.

Are these theories pure rubbish or should we be worried about Herrera’s prediction of a new ice age?

His work has sparked controversial debates in the climate studies sector, as there is little known about the influence of sun activity on earth’s climate.

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Our ongoing quest for researchers making bizarre connections between (fill in the blank) and global warming frequently takes us to far-flung recesses of the library (or, more likely, dusty corner cobwebs of the World Wide Web). For this installment, we have uncovered some novel “climatology” being practiced in the Journal of Affective Disorders, a psychology journal “…concerned with affective disorders in the widest sense: depression, mania, anxiety and panic.” In a 2007 paper, provocatively entitled “Global warming possibly linked to an enhanced risk of suicide: Data from Italy, 1974–2003,” authors Preti, Lentini, and Maugeri argue that “global warming” has raised male suicide rates throughout the Boot.

After writing these essays for a few years, you get to the point where you can anticipate the study design, results, and interpretation without even having to read the paper. In this case, we assumed that suicide rates in Italy have, despite some annual ups and downs, been generally increasing since 1974. Of course, many places on the globe (Italy included) are warming. We likewise assumed the authors found a general increase in suicide rates. So, ipso facto, the two variables are positively correlated—write it up!