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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
THE MILANKOVICH THEORY OF CLIMATE CHANGE vs GLOBAL WARMING
2014-05-24
Posted by:junkiron

#10  Gee trailing wife, and here I was just sitting down to have may dessert, Italian bread spread with marmotlade.

Oh well.
Posted by: Sonny Omavitle6490   2014-05-24 22:31  

#9  I didn't tie invisible sunspots to the little ice age. Historical records show that two periods of unusually low sunspot activity occurred during the Little Ice Age period: the Spörer Minimum (1450–1540) and the Maunder Minimum (1645–1715). Both solar minimums coincided with the coldest years of the Little Ice Age in parts of Europe.

Coincidence is not causation. But it is likely that we will have the chance to see if the third time is the charm.
Posted by: Squinty   2014-05-24 15:56  

#8  TW,
Yep and closer than people think. There are a lot more people to feed and shorter growing seasons will not help.
Posted by: Squinty   2014-05-24 12:24  

#7  A Little Ice Age means the four horsemen of the apocalypse ride in earnest. 'Ware the woodchucks!
Posted by: trailing wife   2014-05-24 11:59  

#6  Yes, I agree the Liefs have had it, pesky ice ages and all / sarc off
Posted by: Pliny Thrineth3633   2014-05-24 11:08  

#5  I forgot, credit for the image goes to Leif Svalgaard.
Posted by: Squinty   2014-05-24 11:05  

#4  Speaking of that pesky science:

According to an analysis of recent solar trends by William Livingston and Matthew Penn of the National Solar Observatory in Tucson:

"We have observed spectroscopic changes in temperature sensitive molecular lines, in the magnetic splitting of an Fe I line, and in the continuum brightness of over 1000 sunspot umbrae from 1990-2005. All three measurements show consistent trends in which the darkest parts of the sunspot umbra have become warmer and their magnetic field strengths have decreased, independently of the normal 11-year sunspot cycle. A linear extrapolation of these trends suggests that few sunspots will be visible after 2015."

The data (right) since 2006 has supported Livingston & Penn's prediction.

Hold on to your hats boys and girls, we might be heading for another Little Ice Age.
Posted by: Squinty   2014-05-24 10:35  

#3  This is the result of a long process of making kids learn less actual science in schools and more touchy feely stuff, then scaring the crap out of them when they become adults so they buy it without the tools to logically analyze it followed with large amounts of dirty money.

Boom! The elite political class has their serfs and the serfs chose to let them do it out of ignorant fear.
Posted by: DarthVader   2014-05-24 10:09  

#2  Now now,

Don't confuse these poor people with actual real science. They might wind up learning actual math and then realize their slave masters in the Demonrat party are just peddling warm brown stinky stuff.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2014-05-24 01:38  

#1  Yep. Once you factor in the earth's oblateness, Ice Age in 2,000 years.
Posted by: Squinty   2014-05-24 00:53  

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