Longer term Solar Minimum could lead to Little Ice Age

Ice Age Now ^ | August 15, 2009 | Robert W. Felix

[ReadTheLaw]

Massive evidence is emerging that we may well be headed toward a sudden Ice Age. We may need all the greenhouse gasses we can throw up in order to mitigate some of the potential damage. A new sudden Ice Age would leave all the world's harbors landlocked with catastrophic economic consequences. This year we have a dramatically cooler atmosphere combined with dramatically warmer oceans. This is a perfect recipe for massive evaporation and record snowfalls all over the world.

[ReadTheLaw]

See also...
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog

[ReadTheLaw]

see also....
http://iceagenow.com/

[HiTech RedNeck]

Too much global warming can cause global cooling! </gorebot>

[_Jim]

Yikes!

Something the ‘warmers’ have never considered: An Ice Age Cometh.

[_Jim]

Yikes!

Something the ‘warmers’ have never considered: An Ice Age Cometh.

[ConservativeMind]

No, I look forward to the mini-ice age this is describing.

New England states, along with Washington, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, will all get hit hardest. These states are the ones that have more liberals than most and they are the ones that have sent us backwards with “global warming” for years.

I want to see every liberal recant and then commit hara-kiri.

[ReadTheLaw]

Consider if there were a 50 foot drop in the ocean. No existing port in the world would be usable.

[allmost]

A shrinking and shifting of the temperate zones would lead to mass starvation as well. Humanity has very little to fear from global warming. Global cooling would be catastrophic on all levels.

[ReadTheLaw]

The polar ice would creep toward the equator causing mass migration and overcrowding everywhere. The ice mass increase leads to more sun reflection and ever more cooler atmosphere which severely impairs food growth. Famine of biblical proportions then becomes worldwide. The poorer nations could lose large percentages of their populations as food becomes rationed by price and ability to pay.

[The Cajun]

I think we are definitely in the beginning stages of a solar minimum and as bad as it may get, we should start calling it the “Gore Minimum”. The dirty bastard deserves to have it hung around his neck like an albatross.

[HiTech RedNeck]

There would be more coast and different ports.

[ActrFshr]

Alas, all the enviro-wienies in San Francisco were right 30 years ago. We ARE heading for a new ice age! More sunspots? Blame carbon emissions. Fewer sunspots? Blame carbon emissions. Higher intensity solar radiation? Blame carbon emissions. Obama got elected? Blame carbon emissions.

[ConservativeMind]

You simply build out the ports.

Heck, New Orleans would be habitable without a wall.

It all sounds good to me.

[ReadTheLaw]

Massive costs on an already strained economy would be required to build the infrastructure of ports and rail lines and roads.

[sheik yerbouty]

Maybe the Goracl;e and his Gorons will finally shut up!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Dern tootin. Carbon emissions will be blamed for global cooling. Result, nobody believes the “scientists” any more.

[Not now, Not ever!]

Now will NASA throttle Hansen?

[HiTech RedNeck]

A sea plunge wouldn’t happen that quickly.

[Justa]

"A new sudden Ice Age would leave all the world's harbors landlocked with catastrophic...."

The article speaks of a Maunder Minimum type cooling, not a new "sudden Ice Age". Even at the height of the last ice age latitudes up to 38 degrees were free of glacial ice. Snowball earth was 600 million years ago and is not likely to be repeated over the next few election cycles.