Not good news.
NASA’s latest prediction for Sunspot Cycle 24 gives a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 60 in the Spring of 2013, making this the smallest sunspot cycle in about 100 years.
Sunspot Number Prediction - Jun 2012 - NASA
If the sunspot cycle affects our climate – which I think it does – then we’re headed into a strong period of cooling.
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Don’t forget Feb. 2012: five meters (16 ft) of snow in Romania, 3-5 m elsewhere across great swaths of Turkey, Balkans, and Central Asia.
Don’t forget Jul. 2011: snow-skiing in USA, parts of Glacier Park never did open during the summer.
Don’t forget this past weekend: 20 inches (50+ cm) of rain in Florida.
USA East Coast had an exceptional winter in early ’12. So what if it has a non-exceptional winter in 6 months…16 feet of snow here in American cities, too?
20 inches of “rain” this winter would equate to snowfall of 200 inches (5 meters). If you bury the plows under snow that’s triple their height, nobody goes anywhere for a very long time.
And to top off more weather anomolies,a raging snowstorm going on TODAY in Gillam Manitoba,Can…1 foot of the white stuff all these quick weather shifts could be a precursor to major cooling on the way 2015? Little by little I see these weather/climate changes via instant media. The bubbles about to burst,what goes up must come down and (temps)always have as in world climate records. Writings on the wall,for all the warmists to see.
a Chilling thought…
well reminded:-)
and I add the comment that NASA have had to downsize their original solar estimates some 3x if not more, already. this, after they were raving up intense solar activity and rising temps etc etc.funny how very short term the warmists memories are?meanwhile Hansimian continues his warmist spiels, embarrassing the more intelligent members of NASA- the ones that deal in Fact not fantasy
Isn’t this down your way?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-12/farmers-to-turn-moo-poo-into-carbon-credits/4066206
Just so I understand it; burning the methane will cost you money, cause more carbon to be created both during the actual burning process and in the production of the equipment necessary to capture and compress the methane, but you earn ‘carbon’ credits for changing one green house gas into another. Not burning the methane will not produce carbon so you won’t earn a carbon credit.
What kind of nonsense is this?
Uh, so if it’s generally colder year round, all the precipitation happens at once?
I blame global warming.
The warmists find a way to blame virtually every negative event on global warming.
I can see it now-
“If we keep burning fossil fuels, our children are going to grow up not knowing what sunspots are.”
If there is a lot of rain in Florida, and perhaps the temperatures there will go down, maybe all the exotic snakes, such as the Burmese python, will be killed off.
Welcome to the new mini ice age, maybe even a full on one.
Get ready people.
Let the alarmists freeze to death in there shorts.
NASA have a big interest in this because the sun’s magnetic field strength is approximately correlated with the sunspot activity. When the sun’s magnetic field strength is very low Earth’s thermosphere partially collapses and hence low orbiting space junk remains in space much longer. Also slightly less power is needed to get payloads into space. ICBM trajectories will also be slightly different in periods when the sun’s magnetic field is lower than usual.
In this solar cycle there seems to be an unusual incidence of unipolar sunspots. Unipolar sunspots do not increase the sun’s magnetic field as much as normal sunspots so the sun’s magnetic field currently seems to be lower than the amount of sunspot activity should normally produce.
Finally, last year there were several papers produced by people in NASA’s heliophysics division that suggested that there was unusual, even missing, jet stream activity in the sun. These papers suggested that the next solar cycle (25) was going to be much weaker than this one.
Obviously we need a huge new tax on fuel.
No! We need to heavily tax solar, wind, and any “Green” product that collected any subsidy money!
Tax Al Gore, Mann, the IPCC and any other “Climate Change” believer!
agree 100 percent !!
I say tax them 80 percent of any profits made.
Well ………. its good news for many of the. Desert regions of the N hemisphere since most of them were ranging grasslands and woodland durring the last iceage…..
Boreal or taiga(forests) are a big deal on this earth. Russia,Brazil,Canada in that order… have about 30percent of the worlds canopy. It is a huge carbon store and when spring/summer growth occurs-the world oxygen level increases because of the not so desert like boreal forests,which still thrive. Now,bring on a N. Hemishere glacial period ice sheet,scraping and burying a good percent of the boreal,bye/bye o2. Gameover,human physiology requires a certain amount of oxygen and other warm bloods,no doubt it will be megadeath. I’m assuming an iceage will ravage the N. Hemis forests,ya see what I am saying…no plants because of cold frost,no oxygen. Therefore no complex life! As in humans.
Liked the info so much,I think I will comment on my own info,which I discovered from other people..who dedicate their expierience to the lay man! Robert Felix opened my mind,in our lifetime,heads up to climate changes veering towards,very cold!
uh… what about the oxygen from all the green stuff in the oceans?
Your right,oceans are 50percent of world o2 production but not enough for warm blood mammals,including man. If,boreal forrests die off fast and cannot produce oxygen,there may be horrific dieoff. I would like to hear Robert Felix on the subject of oxygen being deprived from our atmospere because photosynthesis will slow from extreme cold,plants killed or stunted in the north. I’m sure he will have a very good answer!
The on dit is that cycle 25 will be even weaker, certainly the weakest since the Dalton minimum and possibly the lowest since the Maunder.
Nature/God/Zen/whatever will doubtless tell us in the next 15 years whether the physicists know what they are talking about or are spouting bookie bullshit.
No we don’t need more taxes! We need a gulag for taxers and their ilk. Same thing for lawyers and politicians and politically correct and perverse special interest groups. Mankind can do without them. What does this have to do with a lower peak in sun spots? Nothing at all except for being a solution to the problem of there being people who want more government, crime, perversion, laws and taxes.
Just like to say to zakos,that your quote made my day absolutely hilarious.Ice age is coming,were headed for another minimum.
Just a reminder for our amusement:-
“Evidence is mounting: the next solar cycle is going to be a big one. Solar cycle 24, due to peak in 2010 or 2011 “looks like its going to be one of the most intense cycles since record-keeping began almost 400 years ago,” says solar physicist David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center. He and colleague Robert Wilson presented this conclusion last week at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco”
Link:- http://phys.org/news86010302.html
Well, if a full-blown ice age is in the making, then all bets are off. The world will change in a way we cannot yet imagine. Whole populations will have to migrate. Economies will collapse (although, they may in any case) and new wars for the protection of resources will be fought. It won’t be pretty. On the other hand, as the effects of the last ice age were fading (about 5,000 years ago) there were oaks and pines growing in what is now the Northern Sonoran Desert around Tucson, Arizona. Acorns and pine nuts in pack rat middens, dated to that age, were found in the desert several years ago. So, the Arizona desert areas should be a pretty good place to live when the next ice age comes.
Well come on Ice Age , but all the really interesting animals are gone! Alas no diprotodons , no giant goannna , no yarrie , no bunyip . The world will be empty ,dry, dusty and cold ,with few Pankalanka to cull humans .
Well someone is supposed to be cloning a mammoth aren’t they?
Sorry to beat a dead horse, but I have to say that I don’t think we have to worry about excessive snowfall or plows being buried, or people freezing to death. Houston’s high yesterday was 97, a very humid 97 I might add, June has been quite hot so far. At least we have gotten some rain too… A/C’s down here have been getting a workout. Add to that the winter that wasn’t we just went through, and the high temperature records that were blown out of the water all over the lower 48 throughout spring. Don’t know about ya’ll, but here in southeast Texas summer started in early May… like it usually does. Nothing remarkable…
A paper by De Jage&Duhau, suggests that there will be no grand solar minimum this millennium and that the next solar minimum will be in the regular range.