Reports of imminent climatic catastrophes are turning out to be rather anticlimactic. That’s because rather than heating up to life-threatening levels, new scientific findings indicate it’s more likely the Earth will cool in coming years. That’s bad news for a global-warming industry heavily invested in a sultry forecast.
Cornelis de Jager, a solar physicist from the Netherlands and former secretary-general of the International Astronomical Union, announced that the sun is about to enter a period of extremely low sunspot activity, which historically is associated with cooling trends. Backed by other scientists, he predicted the “grand solar minimum” is expected to begin around 2020 and last until 2100.
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Afternoon Updates:
12:29 pm EDT, June 28th, 2011 — Mead: The Failure of Al Gore: Part Deux
12:57 pm EDT, June 28th, 2011 — Europe’s Green Agenda Folds As Economic Crisis Deepens
Have we driven enough stakes into the theory to kill it?
Less like driving stakes into the theory and more like playing a seemingly never ending global warming zealot version of Wack a Mole.
Can’t have “our government” looking like a dumb a$$ so “we” will still adhear to the changing climate myth, we will still try to tax carbon, we will still ship delegates off to conferences, we will still admit Algore into the country and keep Dr. Fruitfly in a style he is no accustomed to. It’s the “cost” of doing business that we bought into.
If – and I do say IF – the Sun is heading into another Maunder minimum and IF there is a direct corelation between sunspot activity and global tempatures and IF we are heading back to conditions similar to those in the 17th Century (the Little Ice Age) – then we’re heading into REAL adverse global climate effects.
Think: reduced harvests and food shortages; increased heating demands, and generally more bad weather than what we’ve become accustomed to. The most useful thing we could do to prepare for such a scenario is to get the Green Luddites and their carpet-bagging sycophantic supporters out of the halls of power. It will take energy and inginuity to survive another Little Ice Age: both are commodities that Greens hold in low regard.