Posted on 04/20/2021 4:39:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I wrote last week about the coming Grand Solar Minimum, something that will have much more impact on the environment than anything we puny humans can do. It generated a lot of interest from all sides, so it’s time to delve deeper into what we can expect.
Starting with the hype: During the last grand solar minimum (GSM), the Maunder Minimum of 1645 to 1715, glaciers advanced, rivers froze, sea ice expanded -- in short, the Little Ice Age. Is another one is almost upon us?
Probably not. Maunder occurred at the tail end of a bi-millennial cycle. These cycles range between 2,000 and 2,600 years in length and see the Earth first warm, then cool. Gradual cooling had been going on for hundreds of years. Maunder just capped it off. Today we are a few hundred years into the warming phase of the subsequent bi-millennial cycle. Different starting conditions yield different paths.
The progressives say that we’re so deep into anthropogenically accelerated climate change (AACC) that there’s almost no time left to turn things around. If we don’t act now, it will be too late.
Nope, sorry squad members. What we can predict, instead, is an overall temperature reduction of 1 degree Centigrade by the end of the GSM. Afterward, natural warming at the rate of around 0.5 C. every hundred years will continue for the next 600 years or so.
That gives us a good 35 to 50 years to hone the science and come up with the best ways to mitigate the impact of unstoppable global warming on humankind; until, that is, it naturally reverses. See suggestions below for better uses of funding currently earmarked to address the “climate crisis.”
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Yeah, the warmist climate theory says that greenhouse gasses cause the middle atmosphere to warm, and that in turn warms the earth’s surface. But the only evidence they offer comes from surfaces affected by expanding urban heat islands. That’s because the middle atmosphere is actually cooling.
Conversely, I don’t see any reason to think that sun spots and solar radiation during ice ages differ from sun spots and solar radiation during interglacials. We have a definitive geometric explanation for the cause of ice cycles. It’s called the Milankovitch cycle.
Yes, still alive and kicking. Ice cores is not the only way to measure this. Sediment cores and stelactites (sp?) are others. There seems to have been a destinct change in the cycles around 1.5 million years ago.
That is a great graph, thank you. It definitely shows we have been cooling down for a looooong time now. :)
So between Communism sweeping much of the West and a reduction in agricultural yields due to dropping global temperatures, we could have a vast spreading of starvation and the Leftists crazies who want a 90% reduction in the population would get a real boost toward that goal.
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