Is a mini ice age on the way? Scientists warn the Sun has 'gone to sleep' and say it could cause tem

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 18 January 2014 | Mark Prigg

[BenLurkin]

Mike Lockwood University of Reading says that the lower temperatures could affect the global jetstream, causing weather systems to collapse.

'We estimate within 40 years there a 10-20% probability we will be back in Maunder Minimum territory,' he said.

Last year Nasa warned 'something unexpected' is happening on the Sun'

This year was supposed to be the year of 'solar maximum,' the peak of the 11-year sunspot cycle.

[BenLurkin]

Well, it had to run out of fuel sooner or later.

[momtothree]

Not sure your age, BenLurkin... but do you remember this about forty some years ago? There was going to be another ice age and we were all going to die. I even remember movies about it. What’s old is new again!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Maybe I need to buy that expensive snow blower after all...

[hal ogen]

Does thius mean we should run our SUV’s 24 hours per day and burn old tires in the front yard so as to offset this?

[BenLurkin]

I’m fit, 39, have a full head of hair, and am as rich as Croesus.

[BenLurkin]

Yes.

And burn piles of newspapers in your back yard.

[detective]

All MSM reporters have been instructed to prepare more stories that say that global warming causes colder weather.

[darkwing104]

The Sun controls earth's temperature? Somebody call Al Gore, need more carbon...the UN must investigate this?

The horror...

[varmintman]

There's a paradigm problem here. IF you buy the idea of our sun being a 4B year old thermonuclear furnace, there is no reason to think it would heat up and cool off periodically.

But we know that it does. The sun is not a thermonuclear furnace. Stars are plasma physics phenomena and behave like lightning rods as focus points for cosmic discharge. As they travel through regions of space with greater or lesser electrical potential difference from themselves, they heat up and cool off.

www.thunderbolts.info

[momtothree]

39?! You’re still a baby! LOL!

[ThunderSleeps]

Even if there are glaciers pushing across Minnesota in July the Al Gore like scammers of the climate world will be claiming it is due to man-caused global warming and we should send money...

The earth, she is gonna do what she is gonna do. To think we have any real say in the matter is folly.

[detective]

“I’m fit, 39, have a full head of hair, and am as rich as Croesus.”

You should get a few messages from women who want to meet you after a post like that. :)

[HangnJudge]

Cue Women on the prowl...

[FreedomPoster]

Depending on the family situation, still plenty young to be sitting at the kid’s table at holiday meals!

(Inside joke from our family, specifically from my FIL’s side)

[BenLurkin]

Oops. Forgot the /s tag.

I’m actually a few years older than that.

And my hairline has actually “receded” a bit. Well, a lot.

And not really that “fit” either.

And the Croesus bit....sadly...not true either.

[Thom Pain]

Let’s call it the “Al Gore Minimum” so he will be known as a shyster for all eternity.

[momtothree]

He gets grape juice, too. No spirits of any kind. It will stunt his growth!

[FreedomPoster]

Also, for benlurkin:

I remember this nonsense from my teen years.

[FreeReign]

Not sure your age, BenLurkin... but do you remember this about forty some years ago? There was going to be another ice age and we were all going to die. I even remember movies about it. What’s old is new again!

Actually I remember Walter Cronkite preaching global warming even back in the seventies.

Anyway the earth heats up and the earth cools as the Sun goes thru active and inactive periods. We are now headed for a cooling period.