Global Warming is Cooling Down

For the climate skeptics who need a little more proof that global warming is over and there is a relationship to the lack of sunspot activity and our weather and climate, here is a web site that is a good start. This past week, NASA pretty much said the same.

There hasn't been any significant sunspot activity now for two years; the first two years of this present cycle. The previous sunspot cycle began its decline in 2004.

Unless this cycle takes off significantly in the next 12 months for which there is no historical patterns to suggest that, we should assume we are in a solar minimum.

How will that impact us?

There is a climate time lag that appears to accelerated climate change as the earth cools down. Scientists have a range of 5 to 14 years depending on each one's selected variables.

Climate Changes:

Less hurricane activity and fewer strong hurricanes.

A significant drop in winter temperatures

Winters without summers

Long term drought

Increase in glacier activity

Increase in Polar Region ice

The extent will be interesting to see. Per Joseph D'Aleo, these sunspot minimums tend to come in pairs. Thus, 2008 + 22 years of solar minimum and climate time lag adjustments will put us near 2030 before global warming begins again.

We have no official data for this for the last two times sunspot activity was this low was in the early 1700s and 1800s.

The period between 1878 and 1933 showed more sunspot activity than the two periods just stated, but less than the period from 1934 to 2007 sunspot cycles. Our official data began around 1896.

Our overall global warming period for this past 100 years began in 1934 through 2007. There was cycle that came in flat from 1964 to 1975 that caused scientists to believe we may have started an ice age.

That cycle's overall coolness provided the drop in overall hurricane activity and an increase in Polar Region ice that grew to maximum size in 1979. It took three more cycles to raise the average winter temperatures in the USA to 37 degrees in 2000.

That last cycle gave us the strongest and the greatest number of hurricanes on record. Our glaciers and Polar Ice Caps declined with some exceptions.

I have found numerous scientists and historians that have researched this over the years. My work is posted at nationalforestlawblog.com October Newsletter under my name. The work's data is based on raw numbers from the stated sources. However, due to Climate-Gate and staying true to my work, I will review all my numbers again this coming summer.

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