I've been closely following this subject for about a year now, and have become convinced that we've already entered the Eddy Minimum.
If the hundreds of available studies are correct, we've got decades worth of freezing temps ahead of us. If the climate cools as much as climatologists think it will, billions are going to perish, due to crop failures and resultant food shortages.
And that's just the beginning. As snow and ice pile up year over year, electrical grids will fail, subsurface water supply lines will burst, roads will disintegrate, airports will become unusable, and people will flee south by the millions.
What's really frightening, is that these mini ice ages (grand solar minimums) can literally start on a dime. I'm talking warm age to ice age in less than a year's time.
Let's hope 30 million illegales head south.
It took just six months for a warm and sunny Europe to be engulfed in ice, according to new research.
Previous studies have suggested the arrival of the last Ice Age nearly 13,000 years ago took about a decade - but now scientists believe the process was up to 20 times as fast.
Geological sciences professor William Patterson, who led the research, said: 'It would have been very sudden for those alive at the time. It would be the equivalent of taking Britain and moving it to the Arctic over the space of a few months.' Professor Patterson's findings emerged from one of the most painstaking studies of climate changes ever attempted and reinforce the theory that the earth's climate is unstable and can switch between warm and cold incredibly quickly.
His conclusions, published in New Scientist, are based on a study of mud deposits extracted from a lake in Western Ireland, Lough Monreagh - a region he describes as having the 'best mud in the world in scientific terms'. Professor Patterson used a precision robotic scalpel to scrape off layers of mud just 0.5mm thick. Each layer represented three months of sediment deposition, so variations between them could be used to measure changes in temperature over very short periods.
He found that temperatures had plummeted, with the lake's plants and animals rapidly dying over just a few months. The subsequent mini Ice Age lasted for 1,300 years and was probably caused by the sudden emptying of Lake Agassiz in Canada, which burst its banks and poured freezing freshwater into the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.
Agreed. We are going to have many difficult years going forward. Just some final preps this summer here.
What’s really frightening, is that these mini ice ages (grand solar minimums) can literally start on a dime. I’m talking warm age to ice age in less than a year’s time.
Now be really frightened:
Some years back - perhaps in the early days for the internet there was a valid study published that the 2 KM high glaciers of the Ice Age formed in as little as 100 years ...