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So, looks like I need to concentrate more on cold weather hardy gardens, chickens and ducks.
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Reduced energy from the sun might occur by mid-century—now, scientists know by how much
https://phys.org/news/2018-02-energy-sun-mid-centurynow-scientists.htmlThe sun might emit less radiation by mid-century, giving planet Earth a chance to warm a bit more slowly but not halt the trend of human-induced climate change.
The cooldown would be the result of what scientists call a grand minimum, a periodic event during which the sun’s magnetism diminishes, sunspots form infrequently, and less ultraviolet radiation makes it to the surface of the planet. Scientists believe that the event is triggered at irregular intervals by random fluctuations related to the sun’s magnetic field.
Scientists have used reconstructions based on geological and historical data to attribute a cold period in Europe in the mid-17th Century to such an event, named the “Maunder Minimum.” Temperatures were low enough to freeze the Thames River on a regular basis and freeze the Baltic Sea to such an extent that a Swedish army was able to invade Denmark in 1658 on foot by marching across the sea ice.
A team of scientists led by research physicist Dan Lubin at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has created for the first time an estimate of how much dimmer the sun should be when the next minimum takes place.
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The ‘imminent mini ice age’ myth is back, and it’s still wrong
https://skepticalscience.com/mini-ice-age-myth-still-wrong.htmlRoughly every two years we’re treated to headlines repeating the myth that Earth is headed for an imminent “mini ice age.” It happened in 2013, 2015, and again just recently at the tail end of 2017.
This time around, the myth appears to have been sparked by a Sky News interview with Northumbria University mathematics professor Valentina Zharkova. The story was quickly echoed by the Daily Mail, International Business Times, Sputnik News, Metro, Tru News, and others. Zharkova was also behind the ‘mini ice age’ stories in 2015, based on her research predicting that the sun will soon enter a quiet phase.
The most important takeaway point is that the scientific research is clear – were one to occur, a grand solar minimum would temporarily reduce global temperatures by less than 0.3°C, while humans are already causing 0.2°C warming per decade.
So the sun could only offset at most 15 years’ worth of human-caused global warming, and once its quiet phase ended, the sun would then help accelerate global warming once again.
The ‘mini ice age’ misnomer
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The blogger Ice Age Farmer said a lot of his colleagues with Grand Solar Minimum blogs are seeing their content either removed or their traffic throttled. So you might want to bookmark sites with good information about this topic before they get delisted by Google.
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It’s difficult to say.
Anyone pushing the whole “climate change/global warming” line of thought would have a vested interest in this information not being widespread. It does seem that most of the MSM is rather enthusiastic about that.
It’s something to explore, for sure.
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The only problem I have with the “Maunder Minimum” is that it was a localized event and showed up in tree rings. Trees further away, and ice core data show not much if any disturbance.
However, let’s give it all the benefit of the doubt. Pushing off catastrophic warming by 15 years gives us 15 years. Maybe something good will happen.
If the sun cooperates, that is.
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