Major Drop in Solar Activity Predicted: Little Ice Age, part II?

JoNova ^ | September 15th, 2011 | Joanne

[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):

[Big_Harry]

I can’t quite figure out why folks that are miserable up North can come to a quiet spot and make it into the image of the place they were miserable in. They make the rest of us miserable too!

[Sequoyah101]

So why is it so bloody hot and dry in Texas?

[PreciousLiberty]

"So why is it so bloody hot and dry in Texas?"

Weather and climate are two different things, first off. A hot spell in Texas this summer is no more meaningful than frozen rivers and mass wildlife die-offs were in South America last winter.

Heck, just last Wednesday Iowa saw some record low temperatures.

Second, we are an increasing phase of Solar Cycle 24. The tail end towards the end of this decade and on into the early 2020's should see a perceptible drop in global temperature. However, it's the following cycle (25) where things will likely get very interesting. That's the one that some folks feel will feature no sunspot activity (and low solar wind, which relates to the recent CERN cloud experiments).

Time will tell, but the timing versus the global warming alarmism is pretty amusing. ;-)