Interesting study opining that solar activity will significantly decrease in 2030 causing a mini ice age. The last time the sun's activity decreased to the level predicted, there was also a mini ice age (late 1600 century) and the Thames River froze over. 95 and sweltering in Houston of the weekend, not much better this week - plus heading to Arizona on Friday. I, for one, am looking forward to the cold.
Mini Ice Age
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Yea, I read that a day or so ago from the University of Northumbera (I take it that's North England/Scotland)
EDIT: Here's the article
Solar activity predicted to fall 60% in 2030s, to 'mini ice age' levels: Sun driven by double dynamo
EDIT: Here's the article
Solar activity predicted to fall 60% in 2030s, to 'mini ice age' levels: Sun driven by double dynamo
good thing we have this CO2 blanket built up other wise we minght have been in trouble.
Well since we'll all (conceivably) still be alive when this happens, let's talk about what the real life impacts will be in our areas.
I live in South Florida and from the little that I could find it seems the last time it was warm and wet in S. Fl. The summers were much milder and the waters dropped a couple of degrees.
If true, I could live with that, but what about the folks up north?
I live in South Florida and from the little that I could find it seems the last time it was warm and wet in S. Fl. The summers were much milder and the waters dropped a couple of degrees.
If true, I could live with that, but what about the folks up north?
It sounds like the whole thing was blown out of proportion, and there's not going to be a mini ice age after all.
Not so fast, my friend.
And to think, I went out and bought a bunch of extra shovels and road salt last night...
Not so fast, my friend.
And to think, I went out and bought a bunch of extra shovels and road salt last night...
Anyone using Time magazine for their science has a seventh grade scientific education.
Never mind the fact that it's now known that the 70's cooling was almost entirely due to anthropogenic aerosol emissions and that in the scientific literature there was no "imminent ice age" coming. But that doesn't stop LemonThrower from muddying the waters.
What were climate scientists predicting in the 1970s?
However, these are media articles, not scientific studies. A survey of peer reviewed scientific papers from 1965 to 1979 show that few papers predicted global cooling (7 in total). Significantly more papers (42 in total) predicted global warming (Peterson 2008). The large majority of climate research in the 1970s predicted the Earth would warm as a consequence of CO2. Rather than 1970s scientists predicting cooling, the opposite is the case.
Figure 1: Number of papers classified as predicting global cooling (blue) or warming (red). In no year were there more cooling papers than warming papers(Peterson 2008).
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