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Originally Posted by allenk893
So is it global warming or an ice-age?
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It's neither.
If the average global temperatures increase another 10.4° F the only thing you can say is that this Inter-Glacial Period is as warm as the previous, and there is nothing abnormal about that.
In a Solar Minimum, temperatures decline slightly.
The last Solar Minimum resulted in several million deaths.
In the Americas, they were lucky. The New England Colonies experienced near-famine conditions, because the growing season (generally for the area above Interstate 80) was shortened to about 6-8 weeks.
In the Scandinavian kingdoms and Central Europe (mostly the German principalities and Poland, Latvia and Lithuania) millions died of starvation, due to the shortened growing seasons.
You can imagine that food prices will be inflated very high because of Demand-pull Inflation. Don't worry, I'm sure your government will institute price controls and rationing.
Aside from that, when the Sun comes out of a Solar Minimum, you only have to worry about an EMP event destroying America.
I'm sure you'll be looking forward to that.
Historically...
Mircea