Global COOLING??

abc_123 · 05-05-2009, 20:16

Quiet sun may trigger global cooling...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518958,00.html

And who would believe that crap, when Al Gore says that we're heading towards an imminent global warming catastrophy.

Quiet Sun May Trigger Global Cooling
Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Could reduced sunspots be tied to temperatures on Earth?

That's what has astrophysicists and meteorologists wondering as the sun enters a prolonged "quiet period," a deviation from the usual 11-year sunspot cycle in which the dark blobs on our star's surface ebb and flow, reports National Geographic News.

And there may be a link to global warming — or, in this case, cooling. Current theories link an earlier solar quiet time to the "Little Ice Age," a cold snap that lasted from about 1300 to 1800 in Europe and North America.

During such "solar minimums," as they're called, the sun dims a bit, magnetic activity is reduced and solar storms are fewer. No one knows how long each will last until it's over.

The Maunder Minimum, a period of extremely low sunspot activity from about 1645 to 1715, coincided with the coldest part of the Little Ice Age, when Dutch canals regularly froze during the winter.

This past January, the Dutch canals again froze, for the first time in 16 years.

But scientists say it may be too early to tell if this solar minimum will really have a prolonged effect.

"There are many uncertainties," Jose Abreu, a doctoral candidate in Switzerland, tells National Geographic News. "We don't know the sensitivity of the climate to changes in solar intensity. In my opinion, I wouldn't play with things I don't know.

albeham · 05-05-2009, 20:19

The Truth is out there... But who is telling the truth?

11-year Sun spots, I do hope for them..It will be great HF conditions for us radio ops..

nmap · 05-05-2009, 20:29

Global cooling might have some negative implications, despite the good HF effects.

The little ice age had an interesting correspondence with reduced crop yields.

LINK

abc_123 · 05-05-2009, 20:33

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Originally Posted by nmap

Global cooling might have some negative implications, despite the good HF effects.

Please don't tell me that Al will get his Nobel Peace Prize taken away???

nmap · 05-05-2009, 20:35

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Originally Posted by abc_123

Please don't tell me that Al will get his Nobel Peace Prize taken away???

Probably not...if food prices skyrocket, he may need the prize money to maintain his ample girth.

Go Devil · 05-05-2009, 21:05

I am almost out of aluminum foil, but the sun data is credible.

Just think of the money to be gained from taxing all of those large carbon footprints when they are an absolute neccessity.
Hopefully Monsanto has a large supply of cold and dark resistant seeds.

**Pete** · 05-06-2009, 04:52

http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...ight=Sun+Spots

Nice to check in at the site below and follow the links every now and again.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

abc_123 · 05-06-2009, 05:00

Cool links.

Sorry if I'm rehashing old news. I searched on "global cooling".

I did see another article (and posted it in an existing thread that was talking about Antarctic ice) that stated that even though the large ice shelf in Antarctica was breaking off, on the OTHER side there are increases... preliminary conclusion was that there was an overall net GAIN in total ice mass over the 30yr study.

I can't remember where I put it.

ZonieDiver · 05-06-2009, 06:37

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Originally Posted by abc_123

Cool links.

Sorry if I'm rehashing old news. I searched on "global cooling".

I did see another article (and posted it in an existing thread that was talking about Antarctic ice) that stated that even though the large ice shelf in Antarctica was breaking off, on the OTHER side there are increases... preliminary conclusion was that there was an overall net GAIN in total ice mass over the 30yr study.

I can't remember where I put it.

I hate when that happens. I walked into my den this morning, and then couldn't remember why I went in there...

Here's the post:
http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...ica#post260496

**Pete** · 05-06-2009, 06:45

A link to Ice.

Click on the chart on the right, the one with the blue line.

http://www.nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

They do have an explaination of why they use the 30 year average only up to 2000. While it makes sense it will make you wonder what"average" really is.