Posted by Tina Grazier
Turns out some scientists at the Danish Meteorological Institute released a study in 1991 from data that goes back centuries. The data tracked solar activity and temperature cycles and guess what? Global temperatures track right along with the cycles of the sunjust like somebody planned it that way! Its made Canadian scientists curious enough to seek funding for solar research. Be prepared for a chilling effect on science by consensusread the full article, The Sun Also Sets, from Investors Business Daily for full details. Heres a little tease:
Kenneth Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada’s National Research Council, is among those looking at the sun for evidence of an increase in sunspot activity. Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century. ** Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle. This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe. ** Tapping reports no change in the sun’s magnetic field so far this cycle and warns that if the sun remains quiet for another year or two, it may indicate a repeat of that period of drastic cooling of the Earth, bringing massive snowfall and severe weather to the Northern Hemisphere.
Yall better get out those parkas and warm up the snow blowers.
PSDid you hear about the little town in Oregon (Detroit?) thats buried under 12 feet of snow? They finally had to call in the National Guard to help with snow removalbrrrrrr!