Posted on 08/12/2016 6:15:27 AM PDT by Bratch
Make the most of this summer because it could be your last decent one: winter is coming as the planet enters the most devastating cooling period since the 65-year Maunder Minimum of the 17th and early 18th centuries.
This is the dire forecast of Professor Valentina Zharkova, a solar physicist at Northumbria University, who has based her prediction on sun spot activity – known to be a significant driver of global climate – which is currently very low and likely to get even lower during the next three solar cycles.
She has spoken about her research and her battle to get it taken seriously by the climate establishment in an interview with the Global Warming Policy Forum. You can see it in this short film.
According to Professor Zharkova:
We will see it from 2020 to 2053, when the three next cycles will be very reduced magnetic field of the sun. Basically what happens is these two waves, they separate into the opposite hemispheres and they will not be interacting with each other, which means that resulting magnetic field will drop dramatically nearly to zero. And this will be a similar conditions like in Maunder Minimum.
What will happen to the Earth remains to be seen and predicted because nobody has developed any program or any models of terrestrial response – they are based on this period when the sun has maximum activity — when the sun has these nice fluctuations, and its magnetic field [is] very strong. But we’re approaching to the stage when the magnetic field of the sun is going to be very, very small.
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It’s the thought that counts. ;-)
I think I’d better buy a bigger greenhouse!
Bring it on! My electric bill plummets with the drop in temperature, though it's offset a bit by my gas bill.
July-Sep are my 3 most expensive electric bills of the year, a/c runs 18-20 hours a day. North Texas summers are brutal.
The global-warming cranks want most of us dead, the rest in chains.
1816 was due to Mt Tambora erupting.
That was the winter of ‘76-77. I saw snow flurries in Miami.
B I N G O! It isn’t just a hunch.
You forgot that we have to impose a carbon(less?) tax on the US.
No kidding... if there is an AGW coming on, it may be just in time to mitigate global cooling.
Or to reverse the metaphor, what we thought was the headlight of an oncoming train really is the light at the end of the tunnel.
Yep...my senior year in HS. Don’t want to see another winter like that. I’m south of there now but it still gets colder than I like in VA Beach.
“I saw snow flurries in Miami”
I had to drive home from a night course at FIU in those flurries in an old Mustang with no heat. LOL!
You're right lacrew...
A very important lesson in science is found in how things change. People adore on-off, yes-no, up-down, etc. things because they are easy to understand. But a lot of nature is not like that.
For example, look at the temperature in the room you are in right now. If it was an either/or of “too hot” or “too cold”, you would be miserable all the time. Instead you have a large “normal” range, say 3-5 degrees in either direction, before you even notice. So your thermostat is set so that only outside of a range, does it turn on to normalize the temperature.
Extrapolate that to the world as a whole and you have a gigantic and complicated system that is very resistant to change. If things are too warm, the Earth gives off more heat. If it is too cool, the Earth absorbs more heat.
This simple fact is why carbon dioxide based man made global warming is such hooey. CO2 is a trace gas in our atmosphere, and man made CO2 is a trace amount of that trace gas. It is a bacteria on a flea trying to force an elephant to change course.
So what about global cooling? It is just as hard to predict as is global warming. All sorts of things can change when it happens, how it happens, and how long it lasts. It might take decades to arrive, happen very slowly, etc. Or it might take place quickly.
Bflr
That may be the case where you live, but where I live I note significant differences from summer to summer, and from winter to winter.
Don’t eat the liver.
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