From article: “Coldest Mardi Gras Ever?” asked the New Orleans Times-Picayune as revellers sported long underwear under their costumes to cope with temperatures in the thirties. On the same day it was four degrees Fahrenheit at the Baltimore-Washington International Airport, an all-time low — breaking a record set in 1873. Niagara Falls has frozen over twice this winter, and the ice cover on Lake Michigan reached 90 percent, matching the all-time record. Record-low temperatures, so much snow that municipalities are running out of salt, and one “polar vortex” after another. What’s going on? Where is the global warming we were warned about? The temperature of the planet has not risen for the past seventeen years. The climate models that were supposed to project “climate change” (global warming) on the basis of manmade carbon dioxide emissions have failed. The entire C02 output of industry and modern transportation since the Industrial Revolution has actually resulted in a wholly beneficial warming of less than one degree Fahrenheit. These predictions show the behavior of the sun is the real driver of major climate changes. Can we expect the relationship between the sun’s activity and climate, which we can see in data going back several hundred years, to continue for at least another twenty years? Yes we can. The Little Ice Age, from 1350 to 1900, was the coldest period in the last 8,000 years, which is what you would expect from the long-term cooling from the Holocene Optimum 8,000 years ago, when sea level was two meters higher than it is now. Sunspot activity began increasing in the mid-nineteenth century, and glaciers worldwide responded by beginning to retreat in 1859. Solar activity continued rising and in the second half of the twentieth century, the sun was more active than it had been for the last 8,000 years. In response, there was a gentle warming of the Earth’s climate. Unfortunately, solar activity didn’t stay at a high level for very long, it tipped over into decline from 2003. Our climate has responded by cooling. The consequences could be dire. As the world cools and the grain belt moves south to soils that are less productive, food prices will rise, threatening our standard of living — and the very livelihoods of millions in nations now wholly dependent on imported grain, particularly in the MENA region extending from Morocco in the West to Afghanistan in the west. My generation has known a warm, giving sun, but the next will suffer a sun that is less giving. A cold Mardi Gras this year will turn into a likely food shortage 15 years from now, and our world needs to focus on preparing for what’s coming.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:46:27 +0000
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