So much for man-made global warming.... mini ice age coming due to solar activity!!
 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/ice_age/

What may be the science story of the century is breaking this evening, as heavyweight US solar physicists announce that the Sun appears to be headed into a lengthy spell of low activity, which could mean that the Earth ? far from facing a global warming problem ? is actually headed into a mini Ice Age.
Average magnetic field strength in sunspot umbras has been steadily declining for over a decade. The trend includes sunspots from Cycles 22, 23, and (the current cycle) 24. Credit: NSO/AAS

Ice skating on the Thames by 2025?

The announcement made on 14 June (18:00 UK time) comes from scientists at the US National Solar Observatory (NSO) and US Air Force Research Laboratory. Three different analyses of the Sun's recent behaviour all indicate that a period of unusually low solar activity may be about to begin.

The Sun normally follows an 11-year cycle of activity. The current cycle, Cycle 24, is now supposed to be ramping up towards maximum strength. Increased numbers of sunspots and other indications ought to be happening: but in fact results so far are most disappointing. Scientists at the NSO now suspect, based on data showing decades-long trends leading to this point, that Cycle 25 may not happen at all.

This could have major implications for the Earth's climate. According to a statement issued by the NSO, announcing the research:

An immediate question is whether this slowdown presages a second Maunder Minimum, a 70-year period with virtually no sunspots [which occurred] during 1645-1715.

As NASA notes:

Early records of sunspots indicate that the Sun went through a period of inactivity in the late 17th century. Very few sunspots were seen on the Sun from about 1645 to 1715. Although the observations were not as extensive as in later years, the Sun was in fact well observed during this time and this lack of sunspots is well documented. This period of solar inactivity also corresponds to a climatic period called the "Little Ice Age" when rivers that are normally ice-free froze and snow fields remained year-round at lower altitudes. There is evidence that the Sun has had similar periods of inactivity in the more distant past.

During the Maunder Minimum and for periods either side of it, many European rivers which are ice-free today ? including the Thames ? routinely froze over, allowing ice skating and even for armies to march across them in some cases.

"This is highly unusual and unexpected," says Dr Frank Hill of the NSO. "But the fact that three completely different views of the Sun point in the same direction is a powerful indicator that the sunspot cycle may be going into hibernation."

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And so it goes....




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See what happens when people don't use enough aerosol deodorant.

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but you'll still have to pay your carbon taxes :(

lol, if the gulf stream rips off we'll face iceage in europe also ... see? there IS a balance SOMEHOW ... every action causes REaction ...

sidenote: what effect does mankind have on solar behaviour? NONE ... so much to man-made ... rofl

footnote: how come even the last bantu in africa SEES the climate change while (mostly) americans refuse to see any change ...

So Chuck Norris can start farting again? I heard that was the leading cause for global warming

i honestly believe they don't know enough about the sun to predict such things.. the data we have on it is a crumb in the ocean.

The climate is ALWAYS CHANGING.



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get in line for your sun spot credits!

Is it impossible for the earth to be going through a natural warming cycle while the sun goes through a cycle which could impose cooling on the earth? The article writer seems to make a connection that literally is millions of miles apart.

Exactly. The planet we live on is an extremely complex system. There's millions of different factors that all effect each other.

call it whatever you want, to think all that we are doing has no impact on climate is moronic to say the least.

Does this mean I can snowboard all year long?

Of course we have an impact on our environment, but to claim that 'we' are somehow responsible for a major change in a enormously complex system (the interaction between, the sun, earth, other planets (like Jupiter), the jetstreams, volcanoes, the oceans,...) is the pretense of knowledge.

only if you pay your carbon taxes.

I can't believe the Mayans (the most astrologically advanced civilization ever, only excluding our own) were wrong all along. They predicted the 2012 to be the year of highest solar activity ever, end of their calendar.

fyi brainiac, the article is about the results from american scientists.

the very 1st fucking sentence in the article:
fyi, US = United States

the 2nd fucking sentence:
think for yourself and don't make ridiculous stereotypical generalizations about US. it makes you look like a shithead without much real world experience.

its like the old crap about eggs being good for you then there were bad now there only half bad. lol

You sure they didn't just run out of paper when they got to printing 2013 calendars?

they thought killing their children and eating their hearts would help them with their drought and crop growing problems and you are calling them the most astrologically advanced civilization? Maybe instead of watching tv you should actually read a book about the Mayans instead. They didn't predict anything, they stopped making calendars when the spanish killed most of them and forced the rest to abandon their religions and beliefs and to take on christianity instead.

Lay off the vodka.. that shit is making you crazy...

sure but some people want to use the idea that global warming is not caused by us and hense, we shouldn't worry about cutting pollution, using cleaner technology, etc.

I believe I'll just wait and see what happens.

you're shitting me right? you might want to lay off the idiotic Mel Gibson movies and do some research, google is your friend...
http://www.experiment-resources.com/...astronomy.html
and http://www.starteachastronomy.com/mayan.html

and at the same time people want to use the idea that humans somehow caused global warming to raise new taxes (carbon taxes), to wipe out their competition (in Europe the largest manufactures of light bulbs lobbied to make the production of incandescent light bulbs illegal, not to somehow stop global warming, but to wipe out there competition), to scare the people into voting for them etc etc

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they couldn't be REAL scientists. As has been explained over and over by the left, all REAL scientists believe in man made global warming. Nothing else could change our plant's temperature.

fyi maniac, i was talking about ppl EXPERIENCING climate change ... ask an old african in sahel zone ... 30 years ago there were girafs and other wild life --- no more ... and 10 years ago the last baobab (that is a tree btw) in that area died due to lack of water ... they SEE their climate change already :2 cents: one does not need to be a scientist ... CO² pushes warming and mankind produces a lot - FACT ... basta

Don't forget to start killing babies as well. After all, if its such a massive problem with the population at 7 Billion people, its certainly going to be huge at 50 Billion people no matter what pollution you try to cut or what "green" technologies you use.

no, you were stereotyping americans as being obtuse to world events, going so far as to suggest the last bantu (?) can see the world more clearly than americans.

their math was more advanced than the europeans during the dark ages?? STOP THE PRESSES! WHAT A FIND!!!

that was an educational black hole for obvious reasons.. everyone was concerned about living past 20 not doing math problems. The egyptians were far more advanced than them even before the mayans and nobody was claiming they could predict fuck all either...

my argument was against them being able to predict the future, are you seriously arguing against this?

Fuckin' tubes.

mini ice age, mini hot age, mini normal age, mini age, mini ice, mini hot, hot ice age... i dont trust them nothing, i just see crazy weather every day, sun, rain, thunders all the shit in cycle for month, fyck

yes it was a black hole because europeans were one notch above cavemen. they were largely idiots at the time and many of their practices of torture and mayhem for centuries would have made the mayans cringe.

2ndly, i never said the mayans predicted ANYTHING, i was simply pointing out your ignorance of their achievements in the field of ASTRONOMY (read, not ASTROLOGY)

and since you are somehow bringing the egyptians into a comparison shall we go into their many methods of torture and sadism for the gods?

well if you're a retarded caveman, i suppose. those with a brain would use preventative measures to avoid such a mess...

Invest in North Face bitches!!!!!

From :1orglaugh an :1orglaugh american!!!!!! :1orglaugh

blah blah, conquered by the spaniards who were seriously outnumbered and practically got erased from history... Last I checked there's still egyptians around and they don't speak spanish ;)

I'll attack anyone who perpetuates end of the world nonsense, since you don't we should not be arguing semantics..

were all gonna die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cool link thanks !

Reality check;)

There are still over a million people who speak Yucatec Maya, and these are people of Mayan descent, so who got erased from history?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucatec_Maya_language

The fact that millions of people today are arguing about whether or not the mayans predicted anything is a testament to their amazing culture.

The term Global Warming is used by the media, the proper term has always been Climate Change, and thats whats happening. It was always going to be that parts got hotter and parts got cooler, so nothing much has changed really!