Posted on 11/03/2013 10:57:43 AM PST by Signalman
leading U.K. scientist.
Professor Mike Lockwood from Reading University told the BBC that at the current rate of decline in solar activity, there is a risk that Northern Europe could become much colder and enter a new Little Ice Age.
The Little Ice Age refers to a period during the 1600s when winters were harsh all across Europe. The cold weather that plagued the continent coincided with an inactive sun, called the Maunder solar minimum. Lockwood argues that during the late 20th century, the sun was unusually active, with the so-called grand maximum of solar activity occurring around 1985. But solar activity has decreased since then.
By looking back at certain isotopes in ice cores, [Lockwood] has been able to determine how active the sun has been over thousands of years, The BBC reports. Following analysis of the data, Professor Lockwood believes solar activity is now falling more rapidly than at any time in the last 10,000 years.
Based on these findings, Lockwood argues that there is an increased risk of a Maunder minimum; and a repeat of a Dalton solar minimum, which occurred in the early 1800s, is more likely than not to happen again.
He believes that we are already beginning to see a change in our climate witness the colder winters and poor summers of recent years and that over the next few decades there could be a slide to a new Maunder minimum, BBC reports, adding that harsh winters and cooler summers would become more frequent.
Lockwoods research flies directly in the face of scientists who argue that human activities are causing the planet to heat up, commonly known as global warming. They argue that greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, trap heat in the planet, causing the Earths surface
It is clear from extensive scientific evidence that the dominant cause of the rapid change in climate of the past half century is human-induced increases in the amount of atmospheric greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2), chlorofluorocarbons, methane, and nitrous oxide, according to the American Physical Society.
However, the globe has not significantly warmed in the last 15 years or so, leading some to criticize previous predictions made by climate scientists.
[I]n attributing warming to man, they fail to point out that the warming has been small, and totally consistent with there being nothing to be alarmed about, said Dr. Richard Lindzen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
no, they will simply pivot and say that humans are actually causing global cooling will all the carbon dioxide and pollutants and thus we need to crack down on these things even more.
Never in a MILLION years will the left advocate for us to polute more to help save the planet from an impending ice age.
Answer: whatever the temperature is as the time is the optimal temperature.
But if all of the “bad things” that humans are doing are causing global warming, wouldn’t logic dictate that in order to counteract global cooling we should do more of the “bad things?”
Answer- yes. And the global warming investment world would have had people directed to the warming and....voila made a killing in oil/carbon stocks— the works. Taking actions designed to prevent global warming in theory anyway would—accentuate cooling. Great job algore you pimp. And Golden Slacks.
yep, which is why at some point they will have to pivot and say their original analysis was wrong and that humans are actually causing global cooling :)
Because under no circumstances will the assault on capitalism cease.
Looks like Time will have to dust off their infamous “global cooling” cover that they did in the 70’s...that is, if anyone reads that rather expensive bird cage liner anymore.
Magnetic strength has been very weak this solar maximum. Sunspot numbers are all biased by who and how the counting is done. For example a sunspot number of 90 today actually translates to a number of 50 once corrected to accurately compare it to sunspot counts from over a hundred years ago. So we are still in a weak solar maximum. Perhaps the second peak or second group of spikes in sunspot formation. Sunspots are just an approximation for total solar activity levels.
You’re correct, of course.
But the sad reality is that the average 20-something knows lots more about “climate change” than the US Constitution.
“Let a thousand flowers bloom,” so we can cut their heads off. Nice predictable Marxism.
We might just as easily be heading into a major glaciation period. Historical records show we are due for it if past patterns hold. It won’t be fun if we are.
Yes, perhaps a second peak of a weak solar max.
You should read the novel, “Fallen Angels” (1991) Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn. I used to think it was science fiction. But as I get older it seems like it gets closer and closer to reality. Basically, its about what happens when the Greens take over the Government and bring about a real Ice Age.
LOL, yep, I think they were saying this in 1975.
Do you mean to tell me the author actually thinks that the sun is responsible for the temperature on earth? I mean, come on man - Sol is 93,000,000 miles away! How much can it possibly affect us?
Exactly well said.
Luckily our DNA technology will soon be able to make mastodons.
ROFL! Stolen!
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