[PapaBear3625]

The significance of this, from our prospective, is that we're in a very low solar minimum, comparable to the Dalton Minimum of the early 19th Century. The famous Year Without a Summer happened in 1816, from the combination of low solar activity and a volcanic winter event.

If we have a combination of low solar activity plus one or more major volcanic events, it may have a significantly adverse effect on agriculture around the world.

[PapaBear3625]

ping

[AFreeBird]

If we have a combination of low solar activity plus one or more major volcanic events, it may have a significantly adverse effect on agriculture around the world.

As if they aren't already starting to say that early 2010 is going to be quite cold, now we have mother Earth adding in her two cents.

This is really going to frost our shorts.

[muawiyah]

Yes, of course, and we have major volcanic events scheduled this year ~ as always.

I think this is how a glacial cycle gets kickstarted. First, low Sunspots. Second, volcanic events. Third, right spot orbitally speaking.

Then someone comes along and proves that Global Warming is a fraudulent scheme, and next thing you know it's ice up to your patooties, and then the roof, and then 2 miles high and it's all over for 100,000 years.

[rwfromkansas]

It’s been within days of eruption for what seems like weeks now. Is it going to happen or not?