Either they are gonna use this to explain why gore-bull warming isn't going to occur in the next 20 years OR.... it actually is gonna get colder... Which they will blame the cooling on SUVs...
Either they are gonna use this to explain why gore-bull warming isn't going to occur in the next 20 years OR.... it actually is gonna get colder... Which they will blame the cooling on SUVs...
Am I glad I opted for a Hemi rather than a prius. I’m doin’ my part. It’s already cooling off in Reno. Fifty three this morning and forecast 50 tomorrow morning. Guess I’ll have to leave the truck running all night in the driveway. :>}
They really don’t know Chit !!!
By 2030 I’ll either be pushing daisies or have one foot on the banana peel.
Someone please set up the alarm clock for the Sun.
It’s the 10th of July and our high here in northern Ohio was 71.That’s about 20 degrees cooler than expected.I think that we could already be in trouble.
We’re going to need fire wood.
Cut all the trees down now, and in thirty years we will have another 30 years of growth to cut down, that should do it.
I read an article a few years ago from one scientist, from Harvard of all places, who said mans contribution to global warming is akin to someone dropping an eyedrop of ink into the Pacific ocean and then someone coming along claiming all the oceans of the WORLD are now irreversibly polluted. That the levels of CO2 are so infinitesimally small that even if we could spew out 100 times the amount of C02 and methane we do now, it still would never make any significant difference. For example the percentage of methane in the atmosphere is 0.000017%. Now try to imagine how much man contributes to that. It’s ridiculous. I tend to agree with that, go to Google maps and zoom in as far as you can . Tell me how many people can you see. Then zoom out as far as you can go. Now tell me how much ocean you can see not to mention green. Almost all of South America is green. We can no more change the atmosphere than Al Gore can go conservative. Never ever ever ever ever going to happen.
Serve them global warmists right, although they’ll blame it on change. It’s always something.
Well, I’m getting to work now. Got the BBQ fired up and the lawn mower just idling in the back yard.
What, mow the lawn? You got to be kidding!
All I know is that, living south central PA in one of those “normally colder valleys” as the National Weather Service terms it in what is supposed to be a temperate zone the grass has just about completely been replaced by moss and lichen and native trees are giving way to aspens.
THIS IS NOT “WARMING”!
This is the climate change we should be worried about. This might not be just a mini Ice Age. It could be the real thing. The Earth is overdue for one.
We’ll be glad to have fossil fuels to keep from freezing then and the CO2 fools can be left out in the cold.
Not even the obligatory mention of globull warming in the article. If this is accurate, it should be the end of AGW theory.
Nonsense! Warming and cooling is all caused by humans and our activities. We must all die for the earth the be OK.
Well!Ther go’s the global warming.The liberal idiots won’t believe it because there is no consensus.
They’ll find some excuse.
I’ll believe the solar cycles are changing before I believe in this global warming BS.It just makes more sense.Something liberals don’t usually have.
They could be right or even close..
The question is how long the minimum will last and what will be the effective total reduction of activity..
60% is quite a drop...but it’s entirely possible they are correct.
Q-Does the number of sunspots have any effect on the climate here on Earth?
A-Sunspots are slightly cooler areas on the surface of the Sun, due to the intense magnetic fields, so they radiate a little less energy than the surroundings. However, there are usually nearby areas associated with the sunspots that are a little hotter (called falculae), and they more than compensate. The result is that there is a little bit more radiation coming from the Sun when it has more sunspots, but the effect is so small that it has very little impact on the weather and climate on Earth.
However, there are more important indirect effects: sunspots are associated with what we call "active regions", with large magnetic structures containing very hot material (being held in place by the magnetism). This causes more ultraviolet (or UV) radiation (the rays that give you a suntan or sunburn), and extreme ultraviolet radiation (EUV). These types of radiation have an impact on the chemistry of the upper atmosphere (e.g. producing ozone). Since some of these products act as greenhouse gases, the number of sunspots (through association with active regions) may influence the climate in this way.
Many active regions produce giant outflows of material that are called Coronal Mass Ejections. These ejections drag with them some of the more intense magnetic fields that are found in the active regions. The magnetic fields act as a shield for high-energy particles coming from various sources in our galaxy (outside the solar system). These "cosmic rays" (CRs) cause ionization of molecules in the atmosphere, and thereby can cause clouds to form (because the ionized molecules or dust particle can act as "seeds" for drop formation).
If clouds are formed very high in the atmosphere, the net result is a heating of the Earth - it acts as a "blanket" that keeps warmth in.
If clouds are formed lower down in the atmosphere, they reflect sunlight better than they keep heat inside, so the net result is cooling.
Which processes are dominant is still a matter of research.
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/classroom/notsofaq.html#SUNSPOT_CLIMATE
Just wait and the church of the global warming will with twisted logic claim that global warming is actually causing global cooling.