Posted on 02/07/2018 10:12:42 PM PST by BenLurkin
It’s what scientists have termed a ‘grand minimum’ — a particularly low point in what is otherwise a steady 11-year cycle. Over this cycle, the Sun’s tumultuous heart races and rests.
At its high point, the nuclear fusion at the Sun’s core forces more magnetic loops high into its boiling atmosphere — ejecting more ultraviolet radiation and generating sunspots and flares.
When it’s quiet, the Sun’s surface goes calm. It ejects less ultraviolet radiation.
Now scientists have scoured the skies and history for evidence of an even greater cycle amid these cycles.
It’s what scientists have termed a ‘grand minimum’ — a particularly low point in what is otherwise a steady 11-year cycle.
Over this cycle, the Sun’s tumultuous heart races and rests.
At its high point, the nuclear fusion at the Sun’s core forces more magnetic loops high into its boiling atmosphere — ejecting more ultraviolet radiation and generating sunspots and flares.
When it’s quiet, the Sun’s surface goes calm. It ejects less ultraviolet radiation.
Now scientists have scoured the skies and history for evidence of an even greater cycle amid these cycles.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
The article oversimplifies the reasons why the current pattern of solar cycles are very likely to result in cooler temperatures over the next few decades. But this is not an isolated observation or prediction. Even the global warming nut cases are very concerned that this likely scenario will torpedo their cause célèbre.
That's a very clever insight, Grace.
I had not realized that force carriers like photons were subject to entanglement.
Au Contraire!
I spent a few minutes at Wiki, and sure enough, photons have been experimentally entangled.
Re: “We are do for a mini ice age.”
Or worse.
The average “interglacial” period is 10,000 to 15,000 years.
We are already 12,000 years into the current interglacial.
Think of Washington crossing the Delaware
The river was slushy frozen, the weather was brutal...that is the nearest mini ice age
Well there is that....could be due for a pole reversal
Yes, it actually happened sort of like that in the 1800s during the Dalton Minimum. Several Volcanoes, and then Mount Tamboro and we had what was know as “The Year Without a Summer”-1815 IIRC.
Grand Solar Minimums are periods that are also associated with increased seismic/volcanic activity. The big New Madrid quake also happened during the Dalton Minimum.
Learn to grow some food. Stock up on food before the prices rise. Last year, there was a shortage of vegetables in Europe, because the weather was too cool in Spain. There’s also been quite a few cycles of wheat failures here and there.
Food will likely be a good investment/hedge against inflation. Things like beans, rice, sugar, honey etc. Lasts forever and cheap enough right now to stock up just in case there is some sort of disaster.
We are not that close to another full-on glacial period (or ice age as some here are calling it, technically we are still in an ice age, this is an inter-glacial warm phase).
Reason why is that orbital cycles that contribute to the glacial maximum are only changing slowly this time around and the inter-glacial could linger 30 to 50 thousand years, by which time, I would imagine that science will have solved many questions about the atmosphere and we may have ways of preventing a glacial advance of any large extent.
Perhaps it will become mandatory to generate electricity with coal-fired power plants, and the 100 billion people of earth will all have to drive six hours a day. Come to think of it, when the earth is all one extensive city, whether the AGW theory is right, partly right or wrong, we’ll have a giant urban heat island and that should keep the glaciers where we want them.
I am not being facetious here, another glacial maximum at any time during our future will be a mass extinction event forcing everyone to cluster together in about half the current land mass, and the people who are already there are not going to want our white asses any more than we appear to want theirs, so I suspect glacial maximum is pretty much equivalent to global warfare and famine.
“We are do for a mini ice age”
If you look at the longer cycle of “ice ages” - I believe that we are overdue for the mile-thick ice over Chicago type.
Here comes the ice age I wrote about based on United Nations climate studies in 1965 for my fifth grade science report.
I thought Global Dimming was the result of Common Core.
Steve McQween did!
Are my neighbor’s solar panels still going to work?
To think that humans can reliably predict the incredibly near-term behavior and thermonuclear activity of a star is preposterous, even if that star is only 93,000,000 miles from earth.
Correct. Especially since it takes like 100,000 years for a photon emitted at the center of the sun to reach the surface and get generated our way.
Still, one can somewhat rely on the Vostok ice sheet data to tell us what;s happening,
Not if the cloud cover becomes as prevalent as during the Maunder Minimum.
Any article that presents itself as scientific, and which uses the words “scoured the skies” and “the Sun’s tumultuous heart races and rests” is an incompetent article.
So, then will we have global cooling? What will algore do now?
“the Sun’s tumultuous heart races and rests”!!
You’ll never have a full on ice age like the one in the past. That was caused by the earth being covered in water a few God promised he wasn’t doing that again.
I do love these climate change scientists though, always doubling down on their idiocy.
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