Earth heading for 'mini ice age' in just 15 years, scientists say

UPI ^ | Updated July 11, 2015 | Doug G. Ware

[ETL]

Solar scientists predict that the Earth will enter a "mini ice age" around 2030 due to decreased activity by the sun, which will bring with it frigid cold winters. The last time the Earth experienced a similar situation occurred between 1645 and 1715.

[TexasRepublic]

Yikes! This is damned serious!

We are all gonna die! (sooner or later) </Chicken Little>

[shotgun]

All that nasty Freon finally reached the sun so it only makes sense that the sun is cooling off. Imagine if we hadn’t got rid of when we did. It would probably had been a full on ice age event instead of a mini.

[Pontiac]

Do we increase greenhouse gas emissions to prevent the world from freezing over??

Whatever we do I guarantee you that it will take a world government to accomplish.

[ETL]

From NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory's "Not So Frequently Asked Questions" section:

Q-Does the number of sunspots have any effect on the climate here on Earth?

A-Sunspots are slightly cooler areas on the surface of the Sun, due to the intense magnetic fields, so they radiate a little less energy than the surroundings. However, there are usually nearby areas associated with the sunspots that are a little hotter (called falculae), and they more than compensate. The result is that there is a little bit more radiation coming from the Sun when it has more sunspots, but the effect is so small that it has very little impact on the weather and climate on Earth.

However, there are more important indirect effects: sunspots are associated with what we call "active regions", with large magnetic structures containing very hot material (being held in place by the magnetism). This causes more ultraviolet (or UV) radiation (the rays that give you a suntan or sunburn), and extreme ultraviolet radiation (EUV). These types of radiation have an impact on the chemistry of the upper atmosphere (e.g. producing ozone). Since some of these products act as greenhouse gases, the number of sunspots (through association with active regions) may influence the climate in this way.

Many active regions produce giant outflows of material that are called Coronal Mass Ejections. These ejections drag with them some of the more intense magnetic fields that are found in the active regions. The magnetic fields act as a shield for high-energy particles coming from various sources in our galaxy (outside the solar system). These "cosmic rays" (CRs) cause ionization of molecules in the atmosphere, and thereby can cause clouds to form (because the ionized molecules or dust particle can act as "seeds" for drop formation).

If clouds are formed very high in the atmosphere, the net result is a heating of the Earth - it acts as a "blanket" that keeps warmth in.

If clouds are formed lower down in the atmosphere, they reflect sunlight better than they keep heat inside, so the net result is cooling.

Which processes are dominant is still a matter of research.

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/classroom/notsofaq.html#SUNSPOT_CLIMATE

[ETL]

The Danish National Space Center has since changed their website. I'm not sure what they are up these days. Haven't checked in awhile.

The Center for Sun-Climate Research at the DNSC (Danish National Space Center) investigates the connection between variations in the intensity of cosmic rays and climatic changes on Earth. This field of research has been given the name 'cosmoclimatology'"..."Cosmic ray intensities – and therefore cloudiness – keep changing because the Sun's magnetic field varies in its ability to repel cosmic rays coming from the Galaxy, before they can reach the Earth." :

http://www.space.dtu.dk/english/Research/Climate_and_Environment

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"The authors explain their theory that sub-atomic particles from exploded stars have more effect on the climate than manmade CO2."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/books/t/1840468157-the_chilling_stars_the_new_theory_of_climate_change.htm

Amazon Books: "The Chilling Stars, 2nd Edition: A Cosmic View of Climate Change"
http://www.amazon.com/Chilling-Stars-2nd-Cosmic-Climate/dp/1840468661 zs90]

[tx_eggman]

[RayChuang88]

In fact, the very fact that every planet in our Solar System has been warming since the 1920's tells me either the Sun's radiation output has changed or we're getting bombarded with cosmic rays that is heating up the upper atmosphere of every planet--including the four gas giants. With no visible activity of any advanced lifeforms on other planets in our Solar System, how else can you explain the warming of every planet?

[JohnBrowdie]

^^^^^ win.

[joe fonebone]

these people cannot even tell me if it is going to rain today, much less years from now

[Palio di Siena]

minorities to be hit hardest.

[mjp]

Solar scientists predict that the Earth will enter a "mini ice age" around 2030 due to decreased activity by the sun, which will bring with it frigid cold winters.

According to Wheeler cold periods tend to bring individualism, individual freedom, democracy, constitutional politics, decentralized government, nationalism, reformers,civil wars, social reform, more liberalism and less conservatism.

In economics,competition,private interest, suburban development, agriculture, small business, falling prices, free enterprise.

[BlueYonder]

>>While the planet is preparing for record heat the opposite will happen.<<

This will permit future Chicken Littles to claim victory. They won’t admit they were wrong. They will claim that it is now proven that man’s (or whatever politically correct term is in use at the future to indicate humankind) action can have a measurable effect on the Earth’s climate. The cooling will have roved that.

They will say that all they must do now is adjust their strategy for the new cooler climate.

[DouglasKC]

I believe this. Unlike the “settled” science of global warming this is based on actual data, past history and something that actually affects weather...the sun.

[spokeshave]

Article here: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/is-the-sunspot-cycle-about-to-stop/

and a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7whL9jvdL5s

[joshua c]

Oh goodie! This will coincide nicely with Obama’s increased energy costs plan to combat the Global Warming Theory.

[ETL]

Jane Fonda sounds climate change alarm in Toronto
The Star ^ | July 4, 2015 | Christopher Reynolds

"The climate change problem is the issue of our civilization. It will affect everything about our lives if we don’t do something about it," she [Jane Fonda] says.
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Well, whatta you know, these 3 guys apparently agree(ed) with Jane...

“The environment is suffering damage that could be irreversible — global warming, the greenhouse effect, the melting of the polar ice caps, the rising sea level, hurricanes — with terrible social occurrences that will shake life on this planet.”

“I believe this idea has a strong connection with reality. I don’t think we have much time. Fidel Castro said in one of his speeches I read not so long ago, ‘tomorrow could be too late, let’s do now what we need to do’.”

“I believe it is time that we take up with courage and clarity a political, social, collective and ideological offensive across the world — a real offensive that permits us to move progressively, over the next years, the next decades, leaving behind the perverse, destructive, destroyer, capitalist model and go forward in constructing the socialist model to avoid barbarism and beyond that the annihilation of life on this planet.”

—Hugo Chavez, at the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Caracas on August 8-15, 2005

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Bin Laden blasts US for climate change

CAIRO – Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has called for the world to boycott American goods and the U.S. dollar, blaming the United States and other industrialized countries for global warming, according to a new audiotape released Friday.

In the tape, broadcast in part on Al-Jazeera television, bin Laden warned of the dangers of climate change and says that the way to stop it is to bring “the wheels of the American economy” to a halt.

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“Charles Manson, the notorious cult leader, has broken a 20-year silence in an interview from his prison cell to warn the world of an impending apocalypse due to global warming.

[snip]

“Everyone’s God and if we don’t wake up to that there’s going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we’re doing bad things to the atmosphere,” he said.

“The automobiles and fossil fuels are destroying the atmosphere and we won’t have air to breathe.

[MUDDOG]

Charles Manson... warn the world of an impending apocalypse due to global warming.

He's discovered that "Helter Skelter" is really about global warming.

[Bigg Red]

Quick! Start up all the SUVs so they can save us!

[South40]

The "experts" all agree. Earth is getting warmer.

[ForYourChildren]

Don’t forget the federal law that will be passed requiring only SUVs to manufactured and sold.