[Bulwinkle]

hmmmm, this sounds familiar....Fairbridge Minimum

The alignment of the planets, and especially that of Jupiter and Saturn, control the climate on Earth.

So explained Rhodes Fairbridge of Columbia University, a giant in science over much of the last century whose accomplishments are perhaps unsurpassed for their breadth, depth, and volume.....

Every 179 years or so, the sun embarks on a new cycle of orbits. One of the cooler periods in recent centuries was the Little Ice Age of the 17th century, when the Thames River in London froze over each winter. The next cool period, if the pattern holds, began in 1996, with the effects to be felt starting in 2010. Some predict three decades of severe cold.
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=bfeddc8e-90d7-4f54-9ca7-1f56fadc7c2b

[King_Corey]

I moved from MN to TX, guess I was ahead of the cold front...

[gobucks]

What an article; thanks for that...

[21twelve]

Thanks for an interesting article. The other thread about the U.S. Geologic Survey teaming with NOAA isn’t such a bad idea I don’t think. Hopefully the geologists could tell the weather guys about long-term climate change.