Posted on 11/03/2013 10:57:43 AM PST by Signalman
Here we go with sun spots again. I say: If we just use the proper laundry detergent, those spots will go away when we wash the sun. There, problem solved.
There is a conversation between two astronauts in Larry Niven’s book “Lucifer’s Hammer”. Are we warming or are we cooling? The other astronaut says we’re at risk of another ice age - and we’re running out of oil!
And the book was written in the 1970s.
My first American ancestor moved from Jersey (Europe) to Early America and started successful farming during the worst of that time.
Lol. People profit from it. That is their motivation.
Sunspots have been very active this month. . . . . .
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Well, not exactly, they have been “comparatively” active but considering that this is Solar Max iti s rather slow compared to the last 4 solar Max’s.
Many scientest consider the little ice age both the Maunder and Dalton Minimums. Personally I hope we aren’t going into a Maunder type minimum, that could cause some serious problems. Even the less severe Dalton Minimum caused Frost in July in the North East. The Dalton Minimum was one of the reasons for the great westward migration in the first half of the 19th century in the US. Farmers got fed up with having summertime frosts and decided to move to a warmer climate.
The Maunder Minimum is normally thought of to have started aproximately at the time of the Mayflour Pilgrims and lasted about a hundred years however, after only 50 years we were hit with the Dalton Minimum. The Dalton was not so deep as the Maunder but for places already in high latitudes it was enough to ruin crops and make years with no harvest.
We have a lot of people in the world to feed now, think if Europe, North Asia and Canada could not feed themselves. What would the polotical landscape look like in that senario?
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