Posted on 09/16/2011 9:01:53 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Ominously, the embryonic markers of solar cycle 25 are three years late and are nowhere to be seen. Scientists are asking if this could be the start of another Maunder-type Minimum. (The bummer with that, being that during those 70 quiet years the world slipped into the Little Ice Age; animals froze in barns, people starved, disease raged… see The brutal cold of the Maunder Minimum and the Great Irish Frost for some light entertainment.)
If it were going to happen, we ought to start preparing now, right? You know, take precautions, “buy insurance”, figure out if CO2 actually does any useful warming (and if so, pump more of it into our atmosphere). You know it makes sense…
Seriously, if the cold is coming, we really ought to pay attention. — Jo
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From the press release today (June 14):
(Excerpt) Read more at joannenova.com.au ...
Since I’m in Myrtle Beach, the upside is that there will be fewer snakes in the swamp, and I won’t have to travel as far to hunt elk. The downside is all of the Yankees will move here and screw it up even more!
Drilling is going to become a very large issue.
Please vote accordingly.
Article is wrong, and overtaken by events.
There are a large number of sunspots on the sun at the moment; 9 just on the side facing us alone, which is a very high level of activity.
Beware of a lot of internet kooks eagerly proclaiming a new Ice Age.
the preparations our national and world leaders are making is to shut down energy production, ration healthcare resources, hoard mines/agricultural resources/gold and art, divert TRILLONS of dollars in mysterious loans, and build themselves reinforced bug-out bunkers
and that includes Algor, the global criminal shyster
Just in case anyone wants to panic - people survived the little ice age and history went on barely marking the event.
Well, it’s getting on toward being fall here ...
So I can post my “Yankees go home!” signs again?
After enduring 63 days of 100 degrees or hotter, I welcome a new ice age.
LOLOL!!!
Yes, but you must never tell him!
Actually, it's not for this phase of the solar cycle. The minimum following Cycle 23 was extremely long and low. This led to predictions that Cycle 24 would be even weaker and longer, which seems to be bearing out. The kicker is that according to the most current solar dynamics models, Cycle 25 will be weaker than the current Cycle 24, due to end somewhere between 2020 and 2024.
From this June, announcing NASAs latest thoughts on the matter:
Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity
The gist of it is that three different groups, looking at different phenomena, have concluded that the Sun is going into a long-term, unusually inactive state.
The final couple lines of the article:
If the models prove accurate and the trends continue, the implications could be far-reaching."Beware of a lot of internet kooks eagerly proclaiming a new Ice Age.""If we are right, this could be the last solar maximum we'll see for a few decades," Hill said. "That would affect everything from space exploration to Earth's climate."
By the way, this is not involve a full-blown Ice Age, just a few decades of below-average temperatures (a "Little Ice Age").
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We are almost certainly headed into another LIA. The real question is: how severe will it be? On a happy note, CAGW will by then have been relegated to the dust bin of history.
Unfortunately, the poor will suffer the most while the limousine liberals gin up another threat against humanity in order to bind us in green chains and force us to live out the remainder of our “managed” lives eating granola and shivering in a cave.
Fortunately, as recent events have shown, the political winds are shifting. The next president, barring a political miracle, will be a republican. Also, the republicans will probably have solid control of both houses. At that point, the CAGW scam will collapse and the next apocalypse requiring us all to sacrifice our liberties for the common good will undoubtedly be foisted upon us by the far left and their useful idiots.
We need to defund this scam, defang the EPA and put people ahead of fleas, ticks and anything else that lives on this planet! The republicans may not prepare us for a LIA but at least we will not be squandering precious resources on the non emergency CAGW!
(Once again wishing FR had an 'edit' function...)
LOL. Did you even BOTHER to read the article?
And BTW...you are wrong....not the article. We are currently on solar cycle 24. The article is speaking about solar cycle 25. It (the article) very clearly states that the embryonic markers that appear ahead of time (which are high-latitude jet streams in the sun) are not there and are 3 years late.
Solar cycle 25 will not peak until 2021 or 2022. So...yes...there are sun spots now...because we are in cycle 24....because markers for cycle 24 appeared when they were supposed to back in the late 90's.
“After enduring 63 days of 100 degrees or hotter, I welcome a new ice age”
I’ll second that emotion. Its been in the 90’s all summer here in GA.
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