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  About me and my co-author

  

  William

  June 15, 2024

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I am William Thornbro- I’m a writer/researcher in the physical/social sciences- other particular favorites include ancient texts and poetry. The intent in this blog is to bypass much of the politics and economics surrounding today’s debate; to instead explore what can be discerned from science about the causes of the changing climate, and where it’s headed- and to promote our new book- ‘The Coming of the Dryas.’ This is a second (updated) edition, and includes important recent changes. My own focus is the geological/historical aspects of climate, its present conditions and future trends; while the interests of my co-author son Nicholas Thornbro principally involve the solar/extra solar physics (magnetics) end of it.

I have always been an avid science reader, but became particularly interested in climate in 2005 with the publication of a research paper detailing a significant and rather long-term decline in Atlantic Ocean circulation. My own research in the years following revealed a serious lack of any scientific basis of support for the prevailing theory of a carbon dioxide caused ‘global warming,’ but that’s not primarily what this book is about. What I found was that rather than an out of control warming, the real concern is a coming larger change toward a new age of global cooling! The map shown is a NASA image revealing the scope of ocean cooling in the Atlantic that has set in since the occurrence of the most recent of two climate shifts there in the last several decades. This conclusion is supported by, what I will call at least a significant minority among the scientific community, as well as some other science writers. Dryas is our attempt to bring attention to this very important problem. You don’t have to take our word for it, however- it is based solidly on science. An extensive list of references is included in the book to help those who want to research it on their own.

September 9th Post

In a recent independent study, comparing changes in the concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide with both human use of fossil fuels and sea surface temperature, using publicly available data beginning in 1960 from credible sources such as NASA and UK-HADLEY, a very high correlation was found between carbon dioxide and sea surface temperature. The human contribution to carbon’s increase, however, was found to be so low as to be described as irrelevant. These results fit very well with our own findings.

Amid increasing doubts surrounding the official story that blames a minor atmospheric gas, warming temperatures, and we the people for climate change, there is a better answer; there is a comprehensive, science-based, and completely natural explanation- the climate is changing, and warming does play a part, but things are not exactly what they seem!

At no time until now, not since the end of the last ice age 15,000 years ago, has the great Atlantic Current ever deviated from its northward trek. Until recently it has held ‘the’ commanding position in the northern seas. Even as the critical ocean-water overturning machine in the Greenland Sea grew silent in the mid-nineties, Atlantic water, although weakened, continued in its steady course- but now much has changed. The Atlantic Current today has assumed a secondary role; it must give its Arctic antagonist a wide birth- it now takes the long way around towards its destination in the Nordic Seas. Directly in its path stands a monster of cold, fresh Arctic water. Never before during this period of warm Holocene climate has Arctic water held such a pervasive presence in the North Atlantic.