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SCIENTISTS claim we are in for a decade-long freeze as the sun slows down solar activity by up to 60 per cent.
This article has been widely misinterpreted -- solar activity (e.g. sunspots) is forecast by this one scientist to decline by 60%. This does NOT mean the sun will be putting out 60% less energy. If solar energy declined by 60% we'd all be dead.
During the Little Ice Age the average global temperature dropped by about -0.3 C. Today, due to global warming, we sit at +0.98 C and rising fast. Even if we got a new solar minimum it would not enough to override manmade climate change.
Scientists also say, the Hudson river was frozen over year around until the 1600's. The warm water that finally flowed from the Hudson, warmed the north Atlantic, and broke the mini-ice age that kept the Thames River frozen over too.
That global warming was much needed! But we all know, their polluting industry, cars and trucks caused that. Man made global warming and all that.
In case anyone is curious about what happened after the last period of solar hyperactivity, check the reconstructed temperature chart and description for the 8200ybp event.
Last edited by Goinback2011; 11-30-2015 at 10:13 AM..
Good thing we have Global Warming to mitigate the coming more destructive Global Cooling. Be cool if Global Warming saves the planet from Global Cooling.
Last edited by Tall Traveler; 11-30-2015 at 10:08 AM..
Good thing we have Global Warming to mitigate the coming more destructive Global Cooling. Be cool if Global Warming saves the planet from Global Cooling.
Global warming will save us from cooling in the same way a bullet cures cancer.
No, NASA is a scientific group, we should read their report:
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“At the end of the last Ice Age, the air became warmer and carried more moisture across the continent, doubling the amount of snow dropped on the ice sheet,” Zwally said.
The extra snowfall that began 10,000 years ago has been slowly accumulating on the ice sheet and compacting into solid ice over millennia, thickening the ice in East Antarctica and the interior of West Antarctica by an average of 0.7 inches (1.7 centimeters) per year. This small thickening, sustained over thousands of years and spread over the vast expanse of these sectors of Antarctica, corresponds to a very large gain of ice – enough to outweigh the losses from fast-flowing glaciers in other parts of the continent and reduce global sea level rise.
But it might only take a few decades for Antarctica’s growth to reverse, according to Zwally. “If the losses of the Antarctic Peninsula and parts of West Antarctica continue to increase at the same rate they’ve been increasing for the last two decades, the losses will catch up with the long-term gain in East Antarctica in 20 or 30 years -- I don’t think there will be enough snowfall increase to offset these losses.”
I don't give a damn but will someone make up their mind???
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