Posted on 03/03/2015 9:48:29 AM PST by Perseverando
The Maunder Minimum (also known as the prolonged sunspot minimum) is the name used for the period roughly spanning 1645 to 1715 when sunspots became exceedingly rare, as noted by solar observers of the time.
Like the Dalton Minimum and Spörer Minimum, the Maunder Minimum coincided with a period of lower-than-average global temperatures.
During one 30-year period within the Maunder Minimum, astronomers observed only about 50 sunspots, as opposed to a more typical 40,000-50,000 spots. (Source)
Climatologist John Casey, a former space shuttle engineer and NASA consultant, thinks that last year’s winter, described by USA Today as “one of the snowiest, coldest, most miserable on record” is going to be a regular occurrence over the coming decades.
Casey asserts that there is mounting evidence that the Earth is getting cooler due to a decline in solar activity. He warns in his latest book, Dark Winter that a major alteration of global climate has already started and that at a minimum it is likely to last 30 years.
Casey predicts food shortages and civil unrest caused by those shortages due largely to governments not preparing for the issues that colder weather will bring. he also predicts that wickedly bitter winter temperatures will see demand for electricity and heating outstrip the supply.
Casey isn’t alone in his thinking. Russian climate expert and astrophysicist Habibullo Abdussamatov goes one step further and states that we are at the very beginning of a new ice age.
Dr. Abdussamatov points out that Earth has experienced such occurrences five times over the last 1,000 years, and that:
“A global freeze will come about regardless of whether or not industrialized countries put a cap on their greenhouse gas emissions. The common view of Man’s
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We started using our outdoor wood burner last September 12th.Last year we burned 24 cords of wood,this year I’ve already burned 20cords and still have March and April to get through.
I’ll spend half of the summer back in the woods,cutting firewood-my aching back!
“I’m old enough to remember when man made climate change was going to the new ice age.”
Yes, they are working on that storyline now even as I write this.
;-)
I thought that NOAA was in charge of weather forecasting, not NASA? Of course, if you are a globul warming fanatic working for NASA, you don’t care what your lane of duty is (putting men in rockets into outer space), you do whatever is necessary to “promote the cause.”
I was in elementary, and then middle, school in the 70s, and I remember it as well.
Time magazine did at least one cover story on it.
Whoops, I just remembered that NASA’s mission is to make Moslems feel good about themselves about science and how they created algebra that put Americans and Russians into space. And Americans on the moon.
I know what you mean. I’ve cut and hauled and stacked a lot of wood.
And if they could, some envirowackos/Nazis would ban wood burning all together.
It'll hit the presses in June or July.
They will simply claim that the carbon caps are working, and we need more of it. The media will obediently report it, and the sheeple will believe it. The science is settled.
If that’s the case then they need to let us mine for coal and allow people to cut wood to heat their homes!!!
When are these damn scientists going to learn that you can’t put pretend info of such magnanimous diversity in and get realistic info out.
UH OH. I hope these solar scientists have their resumes refreshed. They won’t be employed much longer.
Well the solution to the problem of dissenting scientists is easy.... BURN THE HERETICS AT THE STAKE!!!! HIDE THE DECLINE er evidence. Let's all pretend the sun has no effect on the earth's temperature.
It sure is. It makes you stop and think.
I watch the NASA channel a lot and I’m in awe when I see the astronauts working on the outside of the ISS. Seeing the earth from their POV is breathtaking. It is truly amazing and even humbling because of how small I am compared to our planet as well as the entire universe.
Don't hold your breath. Liberals do not take credit for solving problems. Problems can't get solved. Otherwise the money would stop flowing to support the effort to solve the problem.
More like massive power...the power to run people's lives. Which is the ultimate goal of all leftists. All leftists are totalitarians at heart.
I want to see their heads explode. Every one of them especially the Hollywood morons like Leonardo DiCaprio.
Sorry. Can't burn them at the stake. It would cause more global warming. </Sarc>
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