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If it gets below -40 in CO for long we'll all be screaming climate change.
"Climate, change!" lol"
That's for sure! According to some of the eggheads studying extended solar minimum possibilities, previous minimums brought sudden fluctuations of short duration, both warm and cold but mostly toward cold. We're about one year or thereabouts past the most recent time of maximum.
It wasn't much of a maximum with the dearth of solar activity relative to recent previous maximums. If those eggheads are guessing correctly, we'll see some short and unusual spikes toward cold. My first American ancestor that I could find information about successfully farmed in the northeast during the Little Ice Age (the Maunder Minimum). Most of the media chatter tends to overstate the weather conditions of such periods, but the weather may get interesting at times.
"Climate change," yes, but natural climate change. In my unqualified opinion, it is vanity for men to claim that we can do much at this point in history to appreciably change the weather. We're subject to it, and we can only learn to adapt and live with it. More distributed, less centralized production in agriculture, energy and manufacturing would be a good movement for our security in many ways. There are links to examples of permaculture in action in my
comment #53. Many other efforts are also under way.