If you look at the chart below, you will see that sunspot activity (during solar maxes) has been relatively high since about 1900 and almost non-existent for the period between about 1650 and 1700. This period is known as "The Little Ice Age".
Posted on 04/25/2008 5:07:18 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
World might be heading towards Ice Age
23 Apr, 2008, 1327 hrs IST, ANI
CANBERRA: Scientists have warned that the world might once again be heading towards an Ice Age, with global warming approaching a possible end.
Evidence in support of this theory has come from pictures obtained from the US Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, which showed no spots on the sun, thus determining that sunspot activity has not resumed after hitting an 11-year low in March last year.
A sunspot is a region on the sun that is cooler than the rest and appears dark.
Some scientists believe a strong solar magnetic field, when there is plenty of sunspot activity, protects the earth from cosmic rays, cutting cloud formation, but that when the field is weak - during low sunspot activity - the rays can penetrate into the lower atmosphere and cloud cover increases, cooling the surface.
According to Australian astronaut and geophysicist Phil Chapman, this might have caused the world to cool quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7C.
"This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930," said Dr Chapman.
"If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over," he added.
Dr Chapman has proposed preventive, or delaying, moves to slow the cooling, such as bulldozing Siberian and Canadian snow to make it dirty and less reflective.
"My guess is that the odds are now at least 50:50 that we will see significant cooling rather than warming in coming decades," he said
Nature mocks Al Gore.
What compels people to try and influence the earths climate? Whether cold or warm it seems to be cyclical and a direct result of the sun's activity.
Algore is ready. He’ll sell us carbon credits through which we can pay him to build an even bigger mansion, drive an even bigger car, and release even more carbon on our behalf. Heck — there’ll probably be a second Nobel Prize in it for him.
And a nice one at that!
Help prevent global freezing.
Try to tell that to all the demorats and socialists and watermellon environmentalists who are constantly telling us the sky is falling in one form or another. If global cooling catches on, it will be the same story all over again. But, given your comments, it goes without saying that you are well aware of that already :o)
There’s a rain/snow mix in forecast for Sunday here in the upper midwest.
LOL!
It makes sense now.....
Its no longer global warming. Its climate change!
That way the nuts have both sides covered and can blame US prosperity and demand huge taxes that would be paid to the UN to fund their pet programs.
Yeah, that’s it says Gore, we need to fight global cooling with anti-freeze. WE NEED TO START STOCKING UP ON ANTI-FREEZE IMMEDIATELY!
You nailed it!
You need to buy anti-freeze credits immediately so the government can spray the clouds with it!
I think you’re on to something!
LOL
Get the biodegradable stuff :o)
Its all about conditioning Americans to open their wallet and purses in the name of protecting the environment.
It is the little steps that count.
Who cares if what they are preaching is factually and scientifically inaccurate.
The end justifies the means.
If you look at the chart below, you will see that sunspot activity (during solar maxes) has been relatively high since about 1900 and almost non-existent for the period between about 1650 and 1700. This period is known as "The Little Ice Age".
btt
Excellent chart. I will spread it far and wide. Thank you!
==Its all about conditioning Americans to open their wallet and purses in the name of protecting the environment.
...and to surrender our freedom to leftists in white lab coats.
"That there's some damned inconvenient news ain't it Darrel?"
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