Posted on 04/14/2010 3:17:10 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
BRACE yourself for more winters like the last one, northern Europe. Freezing conditions could become more likely: winter temperatures may even plummet to depths last seen at the end of the 17th century, a time known as the Little Ice Age. That's the message from a new study that identifies a compelling link between solar activity and winter temperatures in northern Europe.
The research finds that low solar activity promotes the formation of giant kinks in the jet stream. These kinks can block warm westerly winds from reaching Europe, while allowing in winds from Arctic Siberia. When this happens in winter, northern Europe freezes, even though other, comparable regions of the globe may be experiencing unusually mild conditions.
Northern Europe freezes, even though comparable regions experience unusually mild conditions
Mike Lockwood at the University of Reading in the UK began his investigation because these past two relatively cold British winters coincided with a lapse in the sun's activity more profound than anything seen for a century. For most of 2008-9, sunspots virtually disappeared from the sun's surface and the buffeting of Earth by the solar magnetic field dropped to record lows since measurements began, about 150 years ago.
Lockwood and his colleagues took average winter temperatures from the Central England Temperature dataset, which extends back to 1659, and compared it with records of highs and lows in solar activity. They found that during years of low solar activity, winters in the UK were far more likely to be colder than average. "There is less than a 1 per cent probability that the result was obtained by chance," says Lockwood, .......
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What about all that global warming I’ve been hearing so much about?
Global warming?
Hmmmm, the beginning of a little ice age?
So are they attributing “Global Cooling” to a quiet sun?
What about Global Warming?
Is it dead yet???
That was from the propaganda ministry....
fyi
Why not a Big Ice Age?
Who says we have emerged from the Little Ice Age?
You mean....gasp....Al Gore lied?????
Next you’ll be telling me that Bill Clinton really did have sex with that woman.
“Is it dead yet???”
.
Its “un-dead.”
A climatic Zombie.
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Wed Apr 14 21:05:03 BST 2010 by BobM
"Lean says research like hers and Lockwood's is helping to overcome a long-standing reticence among climate scientists to tackle the influence of solar cycles on the climate and weather. "
"long-standing reticence" is not the right term... maybe corrupt is more like it! These phony scientist along with help from magazines like New Scientist are all part of the hoax known as AGW... there was money to be made and to hell with scientific ethics. Their goals justified their means.... really too sad that NS hasn't apologized to its readers yet.
Solar max in a year and a half or so. After that, maybe the real cold will come for a few years. I hope so. It can be peaceful.
Will the US continue with the cool winters, too? The freeze killed a lot of the pesty insects. The mosquito problem is very low and some of the insects are out of my garden. I am pretty happy about that.
Hmmmm, that's what the alarmists pulled in the '70's.
It’ll kill a lot of NIMBYs on the Rockies here, too, and I’m happy about that. ;-)
Gore lied and Europeans died!
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