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Speaker 1: Nori with you. Ralph ellis back with us. Trained in
Speaker 1: mineral surveying, but became a computer analyst. He then retrained
Speaker 1: himself as a flying instructor and airline captain. Ralph has
Speaker 1: been exploring biblical and natural history for more than forty years,
Speaker 1: has written at least fourteen books on many of these subjects.
Speaker 1: He has also written and influenced peer reviewed paper on
Speaker 1: climate change. Ralph, welcome to the show. Good to have
Speaker 1: you with us, Good to be with you, George. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's good morning over him. Absolutely. I gotta tell
Speaker 1: you my twenty one year old granddaughter has her commercial
Speaker 1: pilot's license and has been offered a job by United
Speaker 1: when she gets her thousand hours, of which he's got
Speaker 1: about four hundred. Now, isn't that something twenty one years old? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Well you've got to start at some age, but that
Speaker 1: will be great if you can get into the majors.
Speaker 1: I was in the smaller airlines, you might say, and
Speaker 1: it was less stable. Did you have fun? Ah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had fun. Although aviation has changed a great deal
Speaker 1: in the forty years that I was associated with it,
Speaker 1: so it's a very different animal. Now I'm convince Ralph
Speaker 1: that the solar system through the Sun is heating up.
Speaker 1: What do you think of that? The TSI they call it,
Speaker 1: the total Solar index has not changed. So the total
Speaker 1: amount of energy from the Sun never changes within plus
Speaker 1: or minus half a percent. The only thing that really changes,
Speaker 1: which is still being investigated, but not by many people,
Speaker 1: only by friends Mark, I think is the name of
Speaker 1: the guy, is the magnetic flux from the Sun. Now
Speaker 1: that does change quite a bit, and there are some
Speaker 1: people investigating to see whether the magnetic flux will actually change.
Speaker 1: Whether that's like on the Earth, what's going on with
Speaker 1: the other star about ice ages, meltings and things like that. Well, yes,
Speaker 1: if you want to talk about modern climate, yeah, there
Speaker 1: is no evidence that CO two is causing that, and
Speaker 1: that's something they don't talk about very much. And we
Speaker 1: have an idea that CO two is not necessarily the
Speaker 1: controlling agent a because of my peer review paper that
Speaker 1: I wrote, Modulation of Ice ages by dust An Albedo.
Speaker 1: Now that's concerned with ice ages in the past. But
Speaker 1: you know what, happens in the past might reflect on
Speaker 1: the future on you current warming, and we sort of
Speaker 1: know that CO two is not involved because the troposphere
Speaker 1: is not warming now. When they started this CO two
Speaker 1: greenhouse warming business, they predicted that the tropical troposphere that's
Speaker 1: from you know, five hundred foot up to thirty thousand
Speaker 1: foot in the atmosphere, that would warm, because that is
Speaker 1: the very basis of the greenhouse warming effect, is a
Speaker 1: warmer troposphere. Now that has never really happened to the
Speaker 1: extent that they said it would, and therefore we can
Speaker 1: be fairly sure that it's not CO two that's causing
Speaker 1: the warming. How many trackable ice ages have we had
Speaker 1: ralph on this planet. We've had about eight of the
Speaker 1: major ones, so from eight hundred thousand years ago is
Speaker 1: when these big ice ages started, and we've had eight.
Speaker 1: So they last for about one hundred thousand years, so
Speaker 1: we get about ninety thousand years of cooling and then
Speaker 1: ten thousand years of warming, which is known as an interglacial.
Speaker 1: And we are in an interglacial now, it's known as
Speaker 1: the Holocene, and it's been going on for about about
Speaker 1: fifteen thousand years or so. Why are they so cyclical. Ralph, Well,
Speaker 1: that's a very good question that this is why I
Speaker 1: got involved in this actually is because nobody has explained
Speaker 1: why these ice ages actually occur. We know it's something
Speaker 1: to do with orbital cycles, because these orbital cycles can
Speaker 1: change the amount of sunlight, the strength of the sunlight
Speaker 1: hitting the northern and southern latitudes high latitudes, so you know,
Speaker 1: up in Canada sort of thing, and by a significant amount,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty five thirty percent. You know, it's quite
Speaker 1: a large increase in strength of the sun during one
Speaker 1: of these peaks in the cycle. It's a twenty two
Speaker 1: thousand year cycle. So we've known it's something to do
Speaker 1: with that for quite some time. But there is a
Speaker 1: problem which was never explained until my peer review paper
Speaker 1: on this, in that many of these peaks in this
Speaker 1: strength of sunlight orbital cycles do not cause any warming.
Speaker 1: Now that's odd because you have a cycle and the
Speaker 1: only acts once in every four or five times do
Speaker 1: you actually get an interclacial And that's very difficult to explain,
Speaker 1: and it was never explained previously when they were trying
Speaker 1: to use CO two as the feedback agent that was
Speaker 1: actually controlling and assisting in interclacials. So and my idea,
Speaker 1: of course, has nothing to do with COO two. It
Speaker 1: has to do with dust on ice sheets, and we
Speaker 1: have an ice age. When we have an ice age, Ralph,
Speaker 1: what's the definition of that, I mean, what happens during
Speaker 1: an ice age? Well, the polar regions will cool by
Speaker 1: up to fourteen degrees centigrade, so what's that is about
Speaker 1: twenty eight fahrenheit or something, and both poles will cool.
Speaker 1: The tropics don't. The tropics will only go in fahrenheit terms.
Speaker 1: They will reduce by about four or five degrees in fahrenheit.
Speaker 1: But the poles really cooled down over a long, long
Speaker 1: period of time, ninety thousand years. They're cooling, and you
Speaker 1: get these great ice sheets which come down almost to
Speaker 1: sort of New York Ish, that sort of far south,
Speaker 1: and so it's a very very different climate. And then
Speaker 1: suddenly all of that ice disappears. Within five thousand years,
Speaker 1: all of that ice will melt. So it's an incredibly fast,
Speaker 1: very intensive process. So we have to be looking for
Speaker 1: a feedback agent that is very very powerful. And that's
Speaker 1: what CO two never explained. It's just simply not powerful
Speaker 1: enough to actually do that. Now, have we had ice
Speaker 1: ages where there were humans around or not. Yeah, humans
Speaker 1: are around, that's for sure. We've been around for a
Speaker 1: million years or so, that is what's currently thought. Obviously
Speaker 1: we didn't live that far north because of the ice sheets.
Speaker 1: And we're going to talk about megaliths later on. The
Speaker 1: major megaliths in England, Stonehenge and Avebury are just about
Speaker 1: clear of the ice sheets. So the ice sheets came
Speaker 1: down to about where I am. I suppose down to
Speaker 1: Chester Liverpool sort of way Manchester, that sort of far south,
Speaker 1: and then they stopped at that point. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think England would have been a very satisfactory place
Speaker 1: to live really during the ice age, but certainly France
Speaker 1: and Spain and places like that, no problem at all.
Speaker 1: It would have been very balmy and nice. We had
Speaker 1: a guest who was past Don Ralph, who has written
Speaker 1: books about coming ice ages. He believes we're in one
Speaker 1: now starting. But the cover of his book, which was
Speaker 1: not by fire but by ice, was the picture of
Speaker 1: a city with tall skyscrapers and he had the ice
Speaker 1: up to the top of the skyscraper. Will it get
Speaker 1: that high? Oh? Yeah? The ice sheets were three kilometers. Oh,
Speaker 1: my god, ten thousand foot huge. Oh yeah, over Canada.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a lot of ice. That's why it
Speaker 1: caused such a change in the climate and a change
Speaker 1: in the sea levels. The sea levels went down by
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty meters. What's that. That's sort of
Speaker 1: like four hundred and fifty foot or something. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it made huge, great changes, and yes, that you would
Speaker 1: get at that amount of ice. Now, looking forward to
Speaker 1: the next ice age, we're in a benign era in
Speaker 1: these orbital cycles, so they fluctuate and they change depending
Speaker 1: on the eccentricity of the orbit of the Earth, and
Speaker 1: for the next fifty thousand years or seventy thousand years,
Speaker 1: we're in a period when we don't have very big fluctuations,
Speaker 1: and so to get an ice age you need what
Speaker 1: I call a great winter. So we have great summers
Speaker 1: and great winters, and they act very much like a
Speaker 1: normal summer and winter, except they last twenty two thousand years.
Speaker 1: And the next great winter, which we're just going into now,
Speaker 1: is very mild. I would say we're almost at the
Speaker 1: bottom of it, so it's not a very deep great winter,
Speaker 1: and so I don't know if it's cool enough to
Speaker 1: actually force another ice age. And the other thing is,
Speaker 1: of course, with my paper that I've written, we know
Speaker 1: exactly how to overcome an ice age. Now we can
Speaker 1: actually with our technology, we can overcome them and prevent
Speaker 1: the next ice an. I now, some regions in the
Speaker 1: United States have had a very mild winter so far.
Speaker 1: I mean in Saint Louis in the Midwest, as temperatures
Speaker 1: of sixty seventy degrees, have had quite a quite a
Speaker 1: deep winter, an awful lot of snow in California, which
Speaker 1: they've not had for the like tex Exactly. Why does
Speaker 1: it fluctuate like that? Oh, it always has if you
Speaker 1: look at the climate for places like California. This is
Speaker 1: what I don't like about climate science is they don't
Speaker 1: tell you about the history of the climate. California has
Speaker 1: had droughts and floods, you know, it's like Australia. It's
Speaker 1: a land of droughts and floods, and it's been doing
Speaker 1: that for hundreds of years. One of the good guys
Speaker 1: who points all of this out is Tony Heller. If
Speaker 1: you look up on his site, and he likes going
Speaker 1: into the past and digging into the past and saying,
Speaker 1: actually this happened a hundred years ago. This happened one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty years ago. These climate events which they
Speaker 1: like to blame on, you know, CO two and global warming,
Speaker 1: have happened in the past. There are some truths with
Speaker 1: which they're not telling you. The big one in America
Speaker 1: is that tornadoes in America, the number of strong tornadoes
Speaker 1: F three to F five tornadoes has been going down,
Speaker 1: decreasing for seventy years. Wow, And they won't tell you that.
Speaker 1: But that's that's standard data. You've only got to go
Speaker 1: onto the NOAH website, NAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Speaker 1: Administration or something administration, go onto their site, or just
Speaker 1: do an image search, you know, for the graph strong tornadoes.
Speaker 1: Look it up, and they have been going down for
Speaker 1: seventy years. The other one they won't tell you about
Speaker 1: is that hurricanes tropical cyclones in general have been going
Speaker 1: down for one hundred and twenty years. They've been decreasing.
Speaker 1: Are the ones that are around film big. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: been slight changes in the size of them. But there
Speaker 1: are two sites you can go on to check this data.
Speaker 1: One is doctor Ryan mao Ue I think it's spelt
Speaker 1: and he does the satellite data, So that's from nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy six or something and it's remained static since that time.
Speaker 1: And then the other one is a paper. It's a
Speaker 1: recent paper. It came out in just late last year,
Speaker 1: I think, and that's by chand at Ol decreasing decreasing
Speaker 1: hurricane frequency during global warming or something it's called, and
Speaker 1: that measures. It's got a graph there of tropical site
Speaker 1: clones from about eighteen eighteen fifty or something and it's
Speaker 1: been going down ever since that time. So when they're
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, hurricanes are getting worse, tornadoes are
Speaker 1: getting worse, that is completely not true. And you can
Speaker 1: look up the data yourself and see that they are
Speaker 1: lying to you. And if if they're only cherry picking
Speaker 1: data or giving you the wrong data, that is no
Speaker 1: longer science. That is politics basically, and that's what they're playing. Well,
Speaker 1: what can't you into interest with the ice age in
Speaker 1: climate change? Well is mainly because you know, I'm a
Speaker 1: I'm a truth seeker. I'm My normal job in this
Speaker 1: regard is looking at the historicity of biblical texts, which
Speaker 1: I've been very successful at. I've written twelve books on that.
Speaker 1: I think you know, finding the biblical characters in the
Speaker 1: historical records. So it's a search for the truth. And
Speaker 1: I've always been interested in climate because I mean, that's
Speaker 1: been a part of my job. I've been a pilot
Speaker 1: for forty years. We searched the weather and the climate
Speaker 1: every time you go into work, basically, and I came
Speaker 1: across just by accident, you know, this site that was
Speaker 1: talking about ice ages, and they didn't know how ice
Speaker 1: ages worked. This was, you know, ten years ago or so.
Speaker 1: The paper was written six years ago, and I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe that in the twenty first century nobody knew how
Speaker 1: ice ages worked, how they were controlled, because it was
Speaker 1: quite apparent that CO two was not responsible. There's a
Speaker 1: little thing about ice ages that is kept very quiet
Speaker 1: when because they say that CO two is the feedback agent.
Speaker 1: Of course, so when CO two is high during ice ages,
Speaker 1: the world cools, and when CO two is low, the
Speaker 1: world warms. It's a contrarian response because of course we're
Speaker 1: told that CO two is the primary feedback controlling temperature,
Speaker 1: and yet during the ice ages the temperature does the
Speaker 1: complete opposite. Are there some areas on the planets, Ralph
Speaker 1: that will escape in ice age, or does the entire
Speaker 1: planet get hit everything apart from the tropics. The tropics
Speaker 1: doesn't change much at all, but North and South are
Speaker 1: both hit by the ice age. It gets cold in
Speaker 1: both ends of the planet. But the other oddity is
Speaker 1: that all of the interglacials are northern hemisphere interglacials, so
Speaker 1: these orbital cycles they are equal and opposite. So you
Speaker 1: get a cycle in the north and then a cycle
Speaker 1: in the south, but all of the interglacials are associated
Speaker 1: with northern cycles. And again that would not happen. If
Speaker 1: two was the feedback agent, you would get them on
Speaker 1: either North or south orbital cycles, but we don't. We
Speaker 1: only get them in the north. And again CO two
Speaker 1: not would not do that. So you have to have
Speaker 1: a different feedback agent. And my feedback agent is dust,
Speaker 1: not CO two. And that's interesting because it has implications
Speaker 1: for modern climate. You know, if CO two is not
Speaker 1: the major operators during ice ages, then perhaps it's not
Speaker 1: the major operator during the modern climate. Did the c
Speaker 1: O two levels during the dinosaur era excel or exceed
Speaker 1: what we have today? Oh yes, yeah, During the Jurassic
Speaker 1: and Cretaceous they were six times higher than now. So
Speaker 1: we didn't have any factories and plants in those days. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we didn't have any of that. But also the biosphere
Speaker 1: was fine. You know, you have the Gretta the Gremlin
Speaker 1: with their tales of doom. You know, if CO two
Speaker 1: goes above a certain level, every everything on Earth will die. Well, sorry,
Speaker 1: during the Jurassic Era and the Cretaceous, CO two was
Speaker 1: six times higher and the biosphere thrived because CO two
Speaker 1: is plant food. Of course plants love it. Without CO two,
Speaker 1: all life on Earth will die. It's gone. We will
Speaker 1: come to that with the ice ages. But during the
Speaker 1: Jurassic era that you know, the enormous size of dinosaurs
Speaker 1: was only caused by extra CO two. What would you know,
Speaker 1: what would you do with four billion people who lived
Speaker 1: in an ice age area when this is happening. You
Speaker 1: will evacuate them, yeah you would. And you couldn't live
Speaker 1: up in the north, not with three kilometers of ice
Speaker 1: on top of the continents, so everyone would have to
Speaker 1: retreat down to the tropical regions. And how long would
Speaker 1: it take to melt? How long would all that ice melt?
Speaker 1: How long? Well, it took ninety thousand years to build
Speaker 1: in the last ice age and only five thousand years
Speaker 1: to get rid of it, then Melt's pretty darn fast.
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