Posted on 12/02/2011 11:03:11 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Great graphic.
And the web site referenced on the graphic is very informative:
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html
Thanks for posting that.
Some research indicates that the ice ages happened VERY quickly - like 20 years or less to have much colder and extreme weather. I’ll try to look into that tomorrow.
But I have said from years and years ago - a REAL ice age (not this Maunder Minimum minor crap) is past due if you look at the Earth’s cycles. And it will be BAD. (Hint, Civilization as we know it arose AFTER the last ice age.)
LOL!
Sorry about the house. But seriously, who knows how to bias a 6146 anymore? And knows or cares about bias currents?
God did a great thing with solid state.
But I can't do squat without a little help from the ionosphere. And that requires sunspots.
I feel nekked without a nice thick ionospheric blanket pulled up around me.
Or as the popular song (many years ago, put it) Baby, it's cold outside.
/johnny
Yes, waiting for the next sunspot max was like waiting for Christmas, but a damn long wait :(
During the minimums, it was like being trapped in the doldrums.
Warm globally, cool locally!
No - for my own sake! And my poor memory was correct - 20 years for a full-blown ice age based on some Greenland ice core data. I saw the headline from some newspaper that said 6-months - but it was the Guardian or something and didn’t click on it.
Funny though, one article I quickly scanned was saying how we’ll just move to where it is warm and live and grow food there like it was no problem. Not even taking into the political ramifications (Mexican drug cartels shooting the Canadian and American refuges as they swarm the border heading south) - but most of the water for the crops will be locked in the ice - world wide drought conditions.
(Great - not only do I have to buy more long underwear - but have to make yet ANOTHER run to Costco for more bottled water.)
Ummm. actually.... that would be less than accurate. It started about 1627. It just took that long to get the locals (people on earth) to notice.
Yes, it probably began earlier. By 1642 it was cold enough to freeze Boston Harbor.
Told you so, but not quite the minimum they expect.
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Paul Pierett
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