We are 5,000 years overdue for the next glacial cycle, and folks who know that are disturbed that there are those who want to put an end to Global Warming ~ it's all that's keeping the ice melted!
You said — We are 5,000 years overdue for the next glacial cycle, and folks who know that are disturbed that there are those who want to put an end to Global Warming...
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It’s a sort of “convoluted process” that is going for the why and how the sun affects the weather here on earth. It’s not as straightforward as you might think. Take a look at that video in Post #17 and that will give you some idea about it. It may *surprise you* for the reason why things warm up and then cool down ... on earth.
It doesn’t have to do with the sun (necessarily) heating up and cooling off, but rather with the sunspot activity. But, the sunspot activity actually affects *something else* and *not* directly the weather on earth... surprise, surprise... LOL...
Anyway, when there is a sunspot minimum for a long period of time, then you’re going to get cooler weather. But, when there is increased sunspot activity over a longer period of time, then you’re going to have things warm up.
We’re in what is similar to a “Dalton Minimum” right now...., and that will probably mean colder weather for another decade, a shift in the grow zones, to the south, by one grow zone (across this country) and then about a 30% loss in crop output in the U.S. over the next decade because of that...
Dalton Minimum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Minimum
And then for the “Little Ice Age” we had a few hundred years ago, look at...
Maunder Minimum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum
Little Ice Age
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
Great thread... thanks.
Makes we want to go buy a hummer, a parka, and build a fire in the backyard.