Posted on 04/18/2010 1:10:06 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
After enduring the coldest winter for 30 years, you might have been hoping for some respite from the cold weather.
However, scientists are now warning that Britain can expect to endure a series of extreme winters - the like of which have not seen for more than 300 years.
Researchers have found that low solar activity - marked by a decrease in the sun's magnetic field - influences the weather conditions across northern Europe.
The last time the sun showed similar behaviour, between 1650 and 1700, temperatures dropped so low that Londoners were able to skate and hold fairs on the iced-over River Thames.
According to a study published today, we are moving into "an era of low solar activity which is likely to result in UK winter temperatures more like those at the end of the Seventeenth Century."
According to Mike Lockwood, one of the main researchers, the latest winter marks the start of a Maunder minimum - when solar activity falls for a prolonged time.
The sun's magnetic field is thought to influence the jet stream - a fast-moving, high altitude current of air which moves eastwards at 35,000ft over the Atlantic.
During the famously cold winters of the late 1600s the mild westerly winds were blocked and replaced by much colder blasts from the north-east - bringing Arctic conditions with them.
The link between weaker solar activity and cold winters was made after experts found similarities between early weather records and this year's data.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
In freezing weather with lots and lots of time to contemplate how "cool" it was for them to rake in all that globull warming cash from people who can ill afford
Vostok, Antarctica -103 degrees F temperature, windchill -131 degrees F
This prediction doesn’t factor in the Iceland volcano either. The next decade could get pretty icy. Those travelers stuck in Europe may be able to walk home if the wait a few years.
It looks like along with his earthquake machine and his hurricane machine, Bush built a sun magnetic field demagnetizer or something like that. Darn that nasty Bush! Oh, I forgot about his volcano-eruptor machine. Is there no end to his perfidy? (smirk)
Wasn’t it just proved by official announcement that march was the warmest March on record?
It has been the rationale for the past year or two.
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