Oh No! What If It Gets Colder?

Contracting Business ^ | 05/29/2008 | Matt Michel

[Entrepreneur]

I'm positively gleeful about the prospect of runaway global warming - anthropogenic (i.e., man caused) or otherwise. You see, we've got the solution to global warming. It's air conditioning. Eureka - the future is bright!

But what if it doesn't get warmer? What if it gets colder?

If some solar physicists are correct, the sun's magnetic activity may impact world temperature more than man-made greenhouse gases. And the sun's magnetic activity appears to be slowing.

For more than 200 years, scientists have noted a correlation between sunspots (areas of intense magnetic activity) and temperature, even if they weren't quite sure how sunspots affected climate. In 1801, the "King's Astronomer," William Herschel, noted a relationship between the number of sunspots and the price of wheat. Fewer sunspots meant colder temperatures, less wheat production, and higher prices.

[21twelve]

Well - those end of the world prophecies do sound a lot like a “kill shot” (to quote Art Bell!) from the sun.

But, in all seriousness - the world and the solar system and the universe is huge. With all sorts of probabilities of disaster. In that light I view the entire earth as a Garden of Eden. And also in that light, while we need to take care of our environment - to think that we have any affect on the Earth's climate is ridiculous IMHO.

[redgolum]

Colder would be a bigger problem. Shorter growin seasons will cause a lot of problems.

And looking at the sunspot cycle, we are going to be colder.

[steelyourfaith]

 

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