Thank you for the post. I am concerned that the ice cap is growing at such a rate. We have heard so much about g****l w*****g, how it will affect life. Few are really looking at the consequences of a mini ice age. Yes, this is an event that is comes in cycles, just as most thing that happen to our Earth. The MSM do not consider the coming of the new ice age to be news, says Argiris. In the Netherlands we were not informed about the spring snow storms in the USA, but every little heat wave that happens gets a lot of attention because it proves the earth is warming (while it is actually cooling).
For a few years now, the sun has gone into a calm that affected our weather last year and if it continues, what we saw then is only the beginning. The sun goes through cycles that last roughly 11 years, marked by the ebb and flow of sunspots on its surface. At peak sunspot activity, the so-called solar maximum, the sun sports lots of sunspots and is steadily unleashing solar flares and c****al mass ejections (CMEs). Since our current solar cycle, Number 24, kicked off in 2008, the number of sunspots observed has been half of what heliophysicists expected.
Ive never seen anything quite like this," Dr. Richard Harrison, head of space physics at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in England, told the BBC. "If you want to go back to see when the sun was this inactive in terms of the minimum weve just had and the peak that we have now, youve got to go back about 100 years.
Now, being in a "solar lull" does not mean the sun is completely dormant.
"The sun is most definitely not 'asleep,'" Dr. C. Alex Young, solar astrophysicist and associate science director in the Heliophysics Science Division of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, told The Huffington Post in an email. In fact, on January 7th, 2014, NASA observed a massive solar flare burst from a sunspot group measured to be "some seven Earth's across."
But a relatively quiet sun could cause problems. Some scientists say that this period of weak solar activity may mirror what happened before the so-called Maunder Minimum of 1645 to 1715 -- a period named after solar astronomers Annie and E. Walter Maunder, who studied sunspots and helped identify the sun's strange activity in the latter part of the 17th Century. That time period saw only 30 sunspots (one one-thousandth of what would be expected) and coincided with a "Little Ice Age" in Europe, during which the Thames River and the Baltic Sea froze over.
Mike Lockwood, professor of space environment physics at the University of Reading in the U.K., estimated that we have up to a one-in-five chance of being in Maunder Minimum conditions 40 years from now.
A mini ice age will cause devastation across the planet. Just look at the 1800 mini ice age.
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It never seems to end . Does it?
Polar Ice Cap Expanding Gores Dire G****l W*****g Predictions Fail to Materialize
In a development that has drawn shock from g****l w*****g cultists and hearty laughs from those who have seen the h**x for what it is, new evidence confirms that the Arctic ice cap has grown at least 43% since 2012. Depending on where you measure the ice, it has grown as much as 63%.
To put this development in context, its important to remember the 2007 warnings from C*****e C****e Poobah Al Gore: The North Polar ice cap is falling off a cliff. It could be completely gone in summer in as little as seven years. Well, Gores seven years have come and gone and we certainly havent enacted the insane carbon reduction measures he recommends. Yet his dire predictions have not only failed to come true, but the very opposite has occurred. The ice cap is thriving, providing a living demonstration of the folly of climate prediction science.
As The Daily Mail puts it in their feature, An area the size of Alaska, Americas biggest state, was open water two years ago, but is again now covered by ice.
The good news about the ice cap extends beyond the expansion. Experts in climate satellite monitoring insist that recent measurements show a significant recovery of the caps thickness as well. This is important because thicker ice will be much more resistant to future melting.
Its crucial to remember that private citizen Gore was not the only one ringing the alarm bells. Our current Secretary of State, John Kerry, has gone on record several times with the same kinds of predictions. These predictions arent just made with the desire to change hearts and minds. They arent just part of a crusade to get businesses to voluntarily reduce emissions. If thats all they were, they could be dismissed with a laugh.
Unfortunately, they continue to be positioned as bedrocks upon which legislation can be created. This legislation has a damning effect on job growth, hurts American business, and costs the taxpayers untold millions. If the threat of g****l w*****g was a real one, and if factories and coal miners and electric cars could do anything about it, and if people like Gore were only trying to influence private policy, it would be one thing. But what we have now is a great deal of government overreach, bad policy, and wasted tax money going towards solving a problem that according to the latest measurements simply doesnt exist.
The world is indeed on a extraordinarily slow, extraordinarily minute trend towards warming. Scientists from across several disciplines are in consensus about this. But the dire predictions about changing sea currents, melting Arctic ice, and coastal cities sinking beneath the ocean have about as much to do with science as a modern-day Shark Week documentary. The premise that humans have anything to do with it is still hotly debated in the scientific community, a fact commonly glossed over by the mainstream media.
Well see how much coverage the growing Arctic ice gets and how its presented. It should be interesting how Gore and the rest of the tree-huggers twist the science, once again, to fit their narrative
T***H IS STRANGER THAN FICTION!
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