Seriously, are we are the verge of a new Ice Age?
Perhaps because if you will notice: the media now tries to avoid asserting that the temperature is rising instead opting to call what is happening as climate change because the temperature is actually getting much cooler.
NASA Still Hiding Correlation Between Solar Activity & Temperature
We have a chart:
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Much more discussion regarding sunspots aand their relation to the earth temperature....the Little Ice Age happened in the time of the Maunder Minimum....
Hard to say, but you can approximate the thermodynamic situation of earth by putting 9 rocks in a box with a whole cut out from the top. Put an incandescent bulb through the whole. Measure the temp of each rock.
Now, if you use a dimmer switch, you can lower the intensity of the bulb. Do this and record the temps after 1 hour. Now increase the intensity to maximum and repeat.
First law of Thermo - energy is neither created nor destroyed. It is in fact converted. From potential to kinetic, etc. Planets aren’t creating new energy either, but converting any potential energy available there to either heat or radiation (Jupiter, for example, or Saturn).
The sun is gradually going out, since the total amount of energy in the Sun is fixed. The longer it radiates, the less energy it has. The only place the planets are getting new energy is from the Sun.
Each planet’s atmosphere is held to the surface of the planet by its mass. Mars was too small to hold something like the atmospher of earth down onto it. The moon - same thing. Remember, mass is differnt than volume. Some stars are relatively small, but their cores are so dense that a square foot chunk of it could weight 100,000 lbs. on earth.
So, if you take into account that all of the energy being expended on the planet is actually energy being CONVERTED from potential energy to kinetic or radiant energy (no new energy being created or destroyed) the only place that can have a signficant impact on warming is the Sun.
The evidence tends to bear this out. When the sun is hotter (higher sunspot activity) the airtemps on Earth are higher. When they are not (ice ages and maunder minimums), then the airtemps on Earth are low.