[Caipirabob]

PAPER: Global warming ended 15 years ago; 'mini-ice age' next...

Wow, I'd like to hope it'll arrive before July. We live in the desert and the highlands have barely had any snow. We're in for a scorcher of a summer if there's no monsoon.

Mini Ice Age - we are counting on you. Y'all come on down an' see us some time!

[matchgirl]

Al Gore could not be reached for comment.

[trebb]

Mini Ice Age - we are counting on you. Y'all come on down an' see us some time!

Ten years from now may have many wishing for the good old catastrophic global warming years.

S. Mississippi has had a few really cold winters over the last decade, but this one has been pretty mild. It might not be long before I get to experience a New York winter without travelling north.

[familyop]

"Wow, I'd like to hope it'll arrive before July. We live in the desert and the highlands have barely had any snow. We're in for a scorcher of a summer if there's no monsoon."

You're more than welcome to the layer of ice here (day or so to your northeast). It sprays every few days for a day or two with 60-110 mph winds from the peaks just to the west of us. ;-) This summer, some mornings will bring lows in the 20s, some hail but little rain.

We were going to raise a few head of cattle each year from bobby calves, but we're looking more seriously at yaks now. ...better suited to the climate, and they don't eat much. ...found out that goats get pneumonia after sudden temperature drops. We've designed some solar drainback heating systems (large tanks for thermal storage in water without antifreeze), but even those are too costly to justify one each, for several livestock shelters. We might build a simple one for one chicken coop.

This is a very sparsely populated area (high, intermontane basin, looks kinda like Mars). But with the possible extended solar minimum, reductions in local robberies revenues, the rest of the default process ahead (foreclosures all around) and most folks around us in their late-60s and 70s now, we'll probably have even far fewer neighbors within four or five years. ...maybe none at all within five miles or so.