Posted by
AJH on Monday, March 16, 2009 3:37:50 PM
— Dr. Anastasios Tsonis
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“The bitter cold and record snowfalls from two wicked winters are causing people to ask if the global climate is truly changing.”
“The climate is known to be variable and, in recent years, more scientific thought and research has been focused on the global temperature and how humanity might be influencing it.”
A new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee used a method known as synchronized chaos and applied it to climate data from the past 100 years.
Scientists said that the air and ocean systems are now showing signs of synchronizing.
Eventually, the systems may begin to couple and the synchronous state will be destroyed, leading to a climate shift.
“In climate, when this happens, the climate state changes. You go from a cooling regime to a warming regime or a warming regime to a cooling regime. This way we were able to explain all the fluctuations in the global temperature trend in the past century,” Tsonis said. “The research team has found the warming trend of the past 30 years has stopped and in fact global temperatures have leveled off since 2001.”
The most recent climate shift probably occurred in the year 2000.
Tsonis said he thinks the current trend of steady or even cooling earth temps may last a couple of decades or until the next climate shift occurs.
AJH