The next mini-ice age cometh?

[30ashopper]

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.

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

Brrr..

 

[Mango]

:shock:Considering the fact that people were wearing jackets yesterday in New York, I am prone to believe this.

 

[30A Skunkape]

Do those curly-q light bulbs put off any warmth?

 

[30ashopper]

Do those curly-q light bulbs put off any warmth?

You would have to run more than one I think. I'll be happy to sell you one of my boot leg incandescent for a small, reasonable mark up.

 

[Lake View Too]

You would have to run more than one I think. I'll be happy to sell you one of my boot leg incandescent for a small, reasonable mark up.

I'm going back to burning whale-oil to read my parchments... I thought I'd use an Apache attack helicopter and hellfire missiles to kill 'em.

 

[BeachArkie]

Great! If this is true, the end of the this cool spell should coincide with us transitioning to renewable power and curbing emissions.

 

[idlewind]

The Earth runs in cycles that consist of decades. Which is far more complex than the radical environmentalists can grasp.

 

[Lake View Too]

The Earth runs in cycles that consist of decades. Which is far more complex than the radical environmentalists can grasp.

Have you seen a graph of the rise in CO2 levels in the atmosphere? It hasn't run in "decade cycles" in the last 200 years. It flat-lined for about 10,000 years and now it's going up like a rocket. Please explain this to my feeble mind.

 

[LuciferSam]

You would have to run more than one I think. I'll be happy to sell you one of my boot leg incandescent for a small, reasonable mark up.

There will be a craft industry for handmade incandescent bulbs. They'll be known as "home blowns".

 

[30ashopper]

Have you seen a graph of the rise in CO2 levels in the atmosphere? It hasn't run in "decade cycles" in the last 200 years. It flat-lined for about 10,000 years and now it's going up like a rocket. Please explain this to my feeble mind.

I'd say deforestation would be the most likely cause if those numbers are accurate. (If they came from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just throw the numbers out and start over.) I'm sure burning fossil fuels plays a role as well.

[Note - that airport we built here trashed thousands of acres of natural habitat well designed to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Even here in Greenish SoWal, progress it seems, takes precedent. ]

Things people should also remember:

1) The connection between CO2 and tempurature is not absolute.

2) The earth has the ability to adjust to changes in CO2 readily assuming man doesn't interfere in that process. (See deforestation.)

3) Over the earth's history, CO2 levels have been much much MUCH higher than they are now (or will reach in the next century), and during those periods life florished!

4) You are warm blooded. Cold bad, warm good!