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Posted on 04/20/2021 4:39:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I wrote last week about the coming Grand Solar Minimum, something that will have much more impact on the environment than anything we puny humans can do. It generated a lot of interest from all sides, so it’s time to delve deeper into what we can expect.
Starting with the hype: During the last grand solar minimum (GSM), the Maunder Minimum of 1645 to 1715, glaciers advanced, rivers froze, sea ice expanded -- in short, the Little Ice Age. Is another one is almost upon us?
Probably not. Maunder occurred at the tail end of a bi-millennial cycle. These cycles range between 2,000 and 2,600 years in length and see the Earth first warm, then cool. Gradual cooling had been going on for hundreds of years. Maunder just capped it off. Today we are a few hundred years into the warming phase of the subsequent bi-millennial cycle. Different starting conditions yield different paths.
The progressives say that we’re so deep into anthropogenically accelerated climate change (AACC) that there’s almost no time left to turn things around. If we don’t act now, it will be too late.
Nope, sorry squad members. What we can predict, instead, is an overall temperature reduction of 1 degree Centigrade by the end of the GSM. Afterward, natural warming at the rate of around 0.5 C. every hundred years will continue for the next 600 years or so.
That gives us a good 35 to 50 years to hone the science and come up with the best ways to mitigate the impact of unstoppable global warming on humankind; until, that is, it naturally reverses. See suggestions below for better uses of funding currently earmarked to address the “climate crisis.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It does not matter. Our brightest and smirkiest say communism cures everything.
DOA. Anything contradicting anthropogenic global warming should be shunned. Of course the 7B tiny little ants crawling the planet can cause it to warm. The giant ball of fusing hydrogen about 1 AU away has NOTHING to do with it. At all. /sarc
The volcanoes in the Caribbean and Iceland are currently belching a bunch of fine particulate matter into the atmosphere.
Will there be an impact on our near-term weather pattern?
“Fortunately, We the People are amazing. We’re strong, courageous, resilient, smart, well-educated, and clever.”
Yeah, but leave it to our govt leaders to muck it up.
The limestone (marine shell accretions) in FL are about 100 feet higher than the present sea level. That gives an idea of how high sea level will eventually be before the next ice age. If it happened in prior inter-glacial periods it will likely happen in this one.
It’s their cash cow and it will not be butchered by facts......................
They will use GSM to say: “See, our crazy laws worked!”
In 1979, my late father attended a lecture from Iben Browning on solar cycles. Dad also bought a tape, of which I know have a copy (and a cassette player for that reason!)
As a result, Dad changed how he farmed. While the anticipated loss of growing days was not as many, it has happened. We get snow until May now, which was uncommon 30 years ago.
But farmers complain about the weather.
That is a wrong conclusion to reach. Another conclusion is that at some time those limestone deposits were much lower and plate tectonics has forced the plate upwards. There isn’t enough water on Earth to raise the sea levels another 100 feet.
Is another one is almost upon us? What?
It seems the prediction is for another 35-50 years of very gradual warming before it begins cooling again. There are cycles on top of cycles. The BIG cycle is the cycle of ice ages. We are currently in an interglacial warming period which happens between ice ages. Ice ages are long, interglacial warming is short. We are near the end of the interglacial warming. It could be upon us now or it could be a few thousand years away. And no one has been around to see how fast it happens. Yet.
The three previous inter-glacials were much warmer than this current inter-glacial which is about to end according to the ice core records. Solar insolation started to drop about 8,000 years ago. We are now past due to catch up to this drop.
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/abrupt-climate-change/Glacial-Interglacial%20Cycles
My comment was on the “sentence”. Do these writers actually read what they write prior to putting it out for all to see?
Yep... Absolutely. The earth has been ice age 80% of it’s life. Ice age condition is actually the normal condition.
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