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Why the sun going blank means a ‘Game of Thrones’-like winter is coming
The NY Post ^ | 6/29/2016 | News.com.au via NY Post

Posted on 06/30/2016 4:07:06 AM PDT by Salgak

ou may not have noticed but our sun has gone as blank as a cue ball. As in, it’s lost its spots.

According to scientists, this unsettling phenomenon is a sign we are heading for a mini ice age.

Meteorologist and renowned sun-watcher Paul Dorian raised the alarm in his latest report, which has sparked a mild panic about an impending “Game of Thrones”-style winter not seen since the 17th century.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Humor; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; cersei; hillary; ice; maunderminimum; winter
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Thanks Salgak.

41 posted on 06/30/2016 11:02:03 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: KC_Lion

Lena Hedly is tres hot.

Canes is just gross. .


42 posted on 06/30/2016 1:57:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Rebelbase
Game of Thrones is a documentary!

I have always thought that it was a tale of Earth (around England) before the last ice advance.

43 posted on 06/30/2016 3:49:07 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (The most vocal supporters of a good con man are the victims.)
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To: Salgak

Give a yell when the wine casks are frozen once again—then it will be cold!


44 posted on 06/30/2016 4:28:49 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Hekla


45 posted on 06/30/2016 4:31:39 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: Ozark Tom

A very fine medicinal spirit is made by scooping the ice from blackberry wine as it freezes. Yum.


46 posted on 06/30/2016 4:34:47 PM PDT by Ketill Frostbeard ("At every doorway, one should look 'round. And fare not one pace from thy weapons." ~ODIN~)
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To: Ozark Tom

I can see a problem with a Hekla theory. When it erupted in 2000, it produced a significant decline in the ozone layer in the North, believed to have been produced by chemicals such as chlorine.

However, its large eruptions, pumping out enormous quantities of silicon dioxide, would have to propel this dust into the stratosphere for it to inhibit solar radiation from reaching the surface. This would be very different from many other large volcanic eruptions, like Mount Rinjani that produce vast amounts of sulfur dioxide.


47 posted on 07/02/2016 7:12:26 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Ozark Tom

Actually, I’ve made “winter wine” back in my brewing days: put out a covered container of wine I’d made, and then throwing off the ice that forms on top every hour or so. . .


48 posted on 07/02/2016 2:39:41 PM PDT by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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To: Salgak

Ice wine
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ice wine (or icewine; German Eiswein) is a type of dessert wine produced from grapes that have been frozen while still on the vine. The sugars and other dissolved solids do not freeze, but the water does, allowing a more concentrated grape must to be pressed from the frozen grapes, resulting in a smaller amount of more concentrated, very sweet wine. With ice wines, the freezing happens before the fermentation, not afterwards. Unlike the grapes from which other dessert wines are made, such as Sauternes, Tokaji, or Trockenbeerenauslese, ice wine grapes should not be affected by Botrytis cinerea or noble rot, at least not to any great degree. Only healthy grapes keep in good shape until the opportunity arises for an ice wine harvest, which in extreme cases can occur after the New Year, on a northern hemisphere calendar. This gives ice wine its characteristic refreshing sweetness balanced by high acidity. When the grapes are free of Botrytis, they are said to come in “clean”.


It’s delicious.


49 posted on 07/02/2016 2:44:43 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

Not quite the same, but similar. Winter wine requires the partial freezing of the container, and removal of the ice, thus concentrating the alcohol, which has a much lower freezing temperature.

It’s effectively low-temperature distillation, but doesn’t yield a brandy. . .


50 posted on 07/03/2016 7:18:59 AM PDT by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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To: Salgak

It’s a fascinating subject.


51 posted on 07/03/2016 9:21:22 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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