Posted on 02/06/2006 7:29:47 PM PST by AdrianR
ST. PETERSBURG, February 6 (RIA Novosti) - Low solar activity could trigger a global freeze in the middle of the 21st century, a Russian astronomer said Monday.
Khabibullo Abdusamatov of the Pulkovo Astronomic Observatory said temperatures would begin falling six or seven years from now, when global warming caused by increased solar activity in the 20th century reached its peak, and that the coldest period would occur 15-20 years after a major solar output decline in 2035-2045.
Abdusamatov said dramatic changes in the earth's surface temperatures were an ordinary phenomenon, not an anomaly, and resulted from variations in the Sun's energy output and ultraviolet radiation.
The Northern Hemisphere's most recent cool-down period of 1645-1705, known as the Little Ice Age, left canals in Holland frozen solid and forced people in Greenland to abandon their houses to glaciers, the scientist said.
It can't be so, all the greenie talking heads have been wringing their hands about the wrong climate change. It must be Bush's fault he tricked them...again.
I suppose the New Ice Age is caused by global "warming", too.
Waiting with bated breath to see how they're gonna blame this one on the U.S.
Real fur will come into fashion.
We might see ice skaters, skiiers and biathaloners from the Caribbean. Harhar.
Tally me banana.......Day---oh!
Well crap! Global warming, global cooling...which way are we going?
I'm sorry; were eggs and wine good for me this week, or bad... I'm so confused...
This guy hasn't heard about Al Gore has he?
That's funny - this is exactly what the professional Chicken Littles were hollering about in the early '70s...
This will be good for Florida real estate, unless this theory also allows for a drastic rise in sea level! Weird.
Globaling warming causes ice ages. Actually, the enviro-whacko scientists figured out a while ago that this makes no sense. That's why their preferred term is "climate change"--it applies to all findings they come up with and can be used to describe two wholly incongruous scenarios at the same time.
This guy is in Russia; he hasn't gotten the official bulletin on this from Greenpeace yet...
No, no, no, global warming is caused by man made CO2. The UN told me so. And if you can't believe the UN who can you believe? < /mother of all sarcasm>
[...temperatures would begin falling six or seven years from now, when global warming caused by increased solar activity in the 20th century reached its peak, and that the coldest period would occur 15-20 years after a major solar output decline in 2035-2045.]
Everybody ready?
AH - ONE.
AH - TWO.
AH - THREE.
IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!!!
As a rule, man's a fool
When it's hot, he wants it cool
When it's cool, he wants it hot
Always wanting what is not.I heard this countless times when I was a child.
There is some truth in these old sayings!LOL
Bring it on...
I love snow!
Bingo, this guy gets it
Oh goody, so they're back to where the nutters were in the '70s. LOL
Walmart has coats marked down to 5 dollars. Maybe I should stock up on some for the great/great grandkids:')
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