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The sun's activity is in free fall, according to a leading space physicist. But don't expect a little ice age. "Solar activity is declining very fast at the moment," Mike Lockwood, professor of space environmental physics at Reading University, UK, told New Scientist. "We estimate faster than at any time in the last 9300 years."
But Lockwood says we should not expect a new grand minimum to bring on a new little ice age. Human-induced global warming, he says, is already a more important force in global temperatures than even major solar cycles.
So they are warning us of doom and nothing we can really do about it. Likely no one is ready for long term survival in a ice age even artic expeditions depend on those in non-artic conditions. Those living in wilds of even Alaska will tell you that they depend on warmer weather stocking survive.
Good grief.. Nobody is predicting an ice age....What people call the "mini ice age" only effected parts of the northern hemisphere and was not an ice age at all.
Sorry, but where you live is not the entire globe... You just don't seem to understand that....Climate models predict global climate, not the weather where you live.
It's cooler all over the globe. Australians are complaining about how relatively colder their winter is now, and their summer was cooler earlier this year.
_"Australia to become ANTARCTIC this weekend as icy blast sends temperatures plunging to their lowest levels in 15 years - so cold that even Queensland could get snow"_
"- Freezing conditions expected this weekend with temperatures to drop 3 to 7 degrees below average for five days
"- Massive cold snap will deliver sort of conditions not seen for 15 years as ski resorts expect 20-50cm of fresh powder
"- Rain to be heaviest in eastern Victoria and southeastern NSW with 50mm as cold is expected to linger for a week"
Despite the SUPPOSEDLY reduced sun activity, the climate on Earth has gotten warmer and warmer over the past years. Strange...
What's even stranger is that are talking about reduced sun activity starting in 2030 so the cooling predicted can't have taken effect yet. Hopefully, greenhouse gas Global Warming may save the planet from turning into an ice ball.
What's even stranger is that are talking about reduced sun activity starting in 2030 so the cooling predicted can't have taken effect yet. Hopefully, greenhouse gas Global Warming may save the planet from turning into an ice ball.
I was referring to post #46, where it says that sun activity was already in free fall in 2013.
How much hotter will the Earth be in 15 years? THAT's the real question.
After all, how much good will another ice age do to a desert? How fast will the ice re-capture all the water of the rising seas? We all starve at exactly the same rate, whether our geography is waterless or covered in an ice sheet.
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Nobody is predicting an ice age....What people call the "mini ice age" only effected parts of the northern hemisphere and was not an ice age at all.
