Is a mini ICE AGE on the way?

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The Earth could be headed for a ‘mini ice age’ researchers have warned.
A new study claims to have cracked predicting solar cycles - and says that between 2020 and 2030 solar cycles will cancel each other out.
This, they say, will lead to a phenomenon known as the ‘Maunder minimum’ - which has previously been known as a mini ice age when it hit between 1646 and 1715, even causing London’s River Thames to freeze over.

Read more: dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3156594/Is-mini-ICE-AGE-way-Scientists-warn-sun-sleep-2020-cause-temperatures-plummet.html#ixzz3fXtJinSR
 
The ‘climate change crowd’ has been warning of this for a long time…so far, its another hot and humid summer where I live.
 
We must prepare for the mini–ice-age… Rev your engines! Get those GH gases up into the atmosphere! Cancel the ice-age with global warming!
 
no, i think you will see just normal weather patterns of hold, cold rain, dry

snow sleet etc etc

just like we’ve sen for the last thousand years

i think we (as catholics) should be more concerned about the slaughter of the unborn

rather than the weather
 
The paper which I think is used as the article source material,

“PREDICTION OF SOLAR ACTIVITY FROM SOLAR BACKGROUND MAGNETIC FIELD VARIATIONS IN CYCLES 21–23”, (Simon J. Shepherd, Sergei I. Zharkov, and Valentina V. Zharkova)

researchgate.net/publication/266799418_PREDICTION_OF_SOLAR_ACTIVITY_FROM_SOLAR_BACKGROUND_MAGNETIC_FIELD_VARIATIONS_IN_CYCLES_21-23

They are not making a claim for change in climate as a result of reduced activity, but that future cycles are likely to resemble the activity of the Maunder Minimum. It will be interesting to see how this solar activity prediction will pan out in the next 10 years (northern and southern magnetic field oscillations are predicted go into antiphase), and how this fits into the overall earth climate puzzle.
 
Mini Ice ages are normal. We were still seeing the affects from the last in North America during the Revolutionary War.

Remember how Washington’s men had to cross a frozen Delaware River? Well, the Delaware River doesn’t really freeze over. It’s moving water by Trenton and tidal at Philadelphia & Delaware. It requires a lot of cold in order to freeze the whole thing.

But people survived the cold fine. We have better technology and can easily handle a mini-Ice age. A real ice age is a different story… That would be tough. But mini-ice age should be doable.

Also, ice ages and mini ice ages are often triggered by warming. The hotter the summers, sometimes the colder the winters… Basically, when the weather patters of summer get out of sync It has an adverse affect on the winter patterns.
 
About 40 years for the news cycle to complete.

First it is global cooling.
Then global warming.
Then climate change - with an ambiguous meaning that simply warrants government restrictions.

And now we are back to cooling.

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phil19034 said:
Mini Ice ages are normal. We were still seeing the affects from the last in North America during the Revolutionary War.

Remember how Washington’s men had to cross a frozen Delaware River? Well, the Delaware River doesn’t really freeze over. It’s moving water by Trenton and tidal at Philadelphia & Delaware. It requires a lot of cold in order to freeze the whole thing.

But people survived the cold fine. We have better technology and can easily handle a mini-Ice age. A real ice age is a different story… That would be tough. But mini-ice age should be doable.

Also, ice ages and mini ice ages are often triggered by warming. The hotter the summers, sometimes the colder the winters… Basically, when the weather patters of summer get out of sync It has an adverse affect on the winter patterns.
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Food, I think, would get pretty expensive in a mini ice age.
 
gilliam said:
The Earth could be headed for a ‘mini ice age’ researchers have warned.
A new study claims to have cracked predicting solar cycles - and says that between 2020 and 2030 solar cycles will cancel each other out.
This, they say, will lead to a phenomenon known as the ‘Maunder minimum’ - which has previously been known as a mini ice age when it hit between 1646 and 1715, even causing London’s River Thames to freeze over.

Read more: dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3156594/Is-mini-ICE-AGE-way-Scientists-warn-sun-sleep-2020-cause-temperatures-plummet.html#ixzz3fXtJinSR
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Actually, terminology wise that was I think called a “Little Ice Age” back between “1646 and 1715” whereas mini ice ages have occurred recently and only last 20 to 40 years or so in duration …
Again as I’ve mentioned before, the warm spells cause much more humidity (evaporation of H2O) which when collides with cold fronts with 32 degrees F or less causes snow.

That snow tends to reflect sunlight as well as causing a cooling effect as it melts …
eventually though as enough snow accumulates, there is less evaporation of water as temperatures start to drop which lessens snowfall and gradually causes a reversal back to a warming trend.

Here’s the latest on the ice and snow coverage of the northern hemisphere:
arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/
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Go through those links and you’ll see that we’ve definitely got a lot more snow on the ground these past few years than in the previous past 20 years or so
And again, that snow is the key to cooling us off until it starts to get reversed.

rex
 
All weather comes from the sun, and there is much more evidence that the sun is going into a “quiet” phase which will result in colder temps. than there is for global warming. Time to think about throwing out the AC and upgrading the heat! :winter:
 
Catholic1954 said:
All weather comes from the sun, and there is much more evidence that the sun is going into a “quiet” phase which will result in colder temps. than there is for global warming. Time to think about throwing out the AC and upgrading the heat! :winter:
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Yes the 11 year solar cycles and a few other phenomena are the underlying causes;
But the end results, that is, where we get the “mini-ice ages” is from the accumulation of snow.

rex
 
_Abyssinia said:
Read more at gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Mini-ice-age-hit-Earth-15-years/story-26890817-detail/story.html#wAyy4grwtUPfm7UX.99
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The press release is a bit misleading. What the researchers are hypothesizing is that the northern and southern hemispheric magnetic fields will be in opposition in cycle 26, and that there will be a corresponding drop in sunspot numbers. They base this on observations made of the solar magnetic field at the Wilcox Solar Observatory, (which did not exist during the Maunder Minimum) and average sunspot numbers observed at the same time. They won’t know if the magnetic fields will actually be in anti-phase in cycle 26, and if there will be a corresponding drop in sunspot numbers, and if there is a climate effect on the earth, until cycle 26 actually manifests. The implication of a mini ice age occurring is the result of the term “Maunder Minimum,” but solar magnetic field data were not collected at that time, and we won’t know until cycle 26 passes. It may take even longer to establish a cause-effect relationship with the climate, mostly due to our poor grasp of the effects of natural variations on the climate today.
 
The same thing happened in the 1970’s- Scientists were so alarmed that they suggested - seriously- that we throw coal dust on the polar ice caps to warm them up and melt them.

Then the 80’s rolled around and it was all about global warming.

Global warming has been static for a while, I think 15 years? So not surprising that the cycle is turning the other way.

It’s cyclical.
 
It’s a climate. It’s changing. That’s what things in nature do.
 
AKDee said:
The same thing happened in the 1970’s- Scientists were so alarmed that they suggested - seriously- that we throw coal dust on the polar ice caps to warm them up and melt them.

Then the 80’s rolled around and it was all about global warming.

Global warming has been static for a while, I think 15 years? So not surprising that the cycle is turning the other way.

It’s cyclical.
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If I recall correctly though- the predictions of global cooling in the '70s was based on man-made pollution from fossil fuels not on sun activity. Hence, they proposed the same solutions as the global warming proponents-- increased taxes on fossil fuels, transition to much higher cost alternate energy, reduction in population, more government control of resources, international bodies to be formed to control energy utilization, force folks into mass transit, force folks into more densely populated urban centers with again, more government control of transportation and energy etc. etc. etc.
 
I am sure if we are heading for a mini Ice Age the global warming proponents will tell us the only way to stop it is massive tax increases and government regulations - in short it will be the exact same solution they’re offering for global warming and in truth the same solution the Left has offered for every problem or alleged problem that has afflicted the world the last few centuries
 
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