Posted on 06/15/2011 12:00:11 PM PDT by Signalman
It’s official: a new Ice Age is on its way. In what has been described as “the science story of the century”, heavyweight US solar physicists have announced that the sun is heading for a prolonged period of low activity. This makes global cooling a much more plausible prospect in the next few decades than global warming. Indeed, it might even usher in a lengthy period of climate grimness such as we saw during the Maunder Minimum (when Ice Fairs were held on the Thames) or the Dalton Minimum (which brought us such delights as the 1816 Year Without A Summer).
Here’s how Watts Up With That reports the bad news:
A missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near the poles say that our Sun is heading for a rest period even as it is acting up for the first time in years, according to scientists at the National Solar Observatory (NSO) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).
As the current sunspot cycle, Cycle 24, begins to ramp up toward maximum, independent studies of the solar interior, visible surface, and the corona indicate that the next 11-year solar sunspot cycle, Cycle 25, will be greatly reduced or may not happen at all…..
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
I’ll tell you a positive. Upon hearing this prediction/news yesterday was that ‘well, at least snow tire technology is so incredibly advanced that with a set of, Blizzaks, for example, really renders snow covered roads impotent’ (Well, at least the non-10”+ snowfall versions).
That, and I have heated seats in the ride. (Sorry honey, your paid for minivan’s garden variety cloth seats are going to have to do)
Reason #11. I've already moved from Alaska to Houston, Texas. Bring on the cooling...
...then in the late 1990's, the granola's of the day were warning about the coming global warming...
...in the 2000's a former hippie masquerading as presidential candidate Al Gore (who, by the way, served in Vietnam...newsflash!)...found a way to make a fortune by "playing on our fears" about the coming heat catastraphe...
Ironic...
...we've come full circle, but remains to be seen...
Who will come forward to make their fortune on the newest fad of "carbon credits" (relable them "icing crystal credits", perhaps?) in the new decade?
To my fellow FReepers who say this will put a quietus upon the Goreacle bunch, au contraire, it but gives them the slip. Now they can claim that BUT FOR THE SUN, they were correct and we need to keep with government intervention and depend upon the government funded science. Liberal statism means that you are NEVER WRONG, it is everybody else!
No, this is quite real. The upshot to this is that we must begin drilling now, gas and oil because the evergy use is going to go up substantially over the next 30 years.
Again, this is quite real and will affect you.
All the more reason to get our MA house remodeled and sold, so we can head back home to South MS!!
The article you have referenced is from June 2009, two years ago. We did not have enough data to call it a Maunder Minimum at that time. We now have enough data to predict, with some degree of reliability, that we have entered a Maunder (mild, although mild is relative) minimum. It will be another 4 or so years before we have enough data to predict a Dalton Minimum which can be really severe.
Your data is old and superceded by new data.
Yep, AC is way more inefficient than heating.
Suppose AlGore is going to put a horse's head in this author's bed?
#11 Reason: Stanley Cup playoff in June won’t seem so weird!
True enough....but you'll be able to legally keep polar bears, penguins, and baby seals as pets!!!
All is not lost.....
Why would I want to keep penguins and baby seals - food for the polar bears???
From the article:
The deniers have been rooting for a Maunder Minimum to stifle global warming (which it wouldn’t have done anyway, see here). But human-caused global warming is so strong that not bloody much stifling has been going on given that “this will be the hottest decade in recorded history by far,” nearly 0.2°C warmer than the 1990s. Heck, even with a La Ni±a and an unusually inactive sun, 2008 was almost 0.1°C warmer than the decade of the 1990s as a whole —and of course the 1990s were, at the time, the hottest decade in recorded history. Changes in the sun just ain’t the big dog anymore when it comes to driving climate change (see here).
If it wasn’t 100 degrees in the shade here in Oklahoma, I would go out and split another cord of firewood.
Throwm another log onto the fire.
“Your data is old and superceded by new data.”
My statement stands.
It’s not my data.
1. I live in Houston.
Recent posts.
New insights on how solar minimums affect Earth
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2734760/posts
Sun’s Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2734593/posts
Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2734777/posts
Scientists predict rare ‘hibernation’ of sunspots
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2734864/posts
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