Earlier, in June of this year there was this article:
YOU may not have noticed but our sun has gone as blank as a cue ball. As in, it’s lost its spots.
According to scientists, this unsettling phenomenon is a sign we are heading for a mini ice age…
“For the second time this month, the sun has gone completely blank,” Mr Dorian says.
“The blank sun is a sign that the next solar minimum is approaching and there will be an increasing number of spotless days over the next few years.
“At first, the blankness will stretch for just a few days at a time, then it’ll continue for weeks at a time, and finally it should last for months at a time when the sunspot cycle reaches its nadir. The next solar minimum phase is expected to take place around 2019 or 2020…”
Given that the sun is the main driver of all weather and climate, the sinister-sounding “blankness” to which Mr Dorian refers has some experts predicting a “Maunder Minimum” phase similar to one which began in 1645 and which is referred to as the “Little Ice Age”.
Global land temperatures have plummeted by one degree Celsius since the middle of this year – the biggest and steepest fall on record.
But the news has been greeted with an eerie silence by the world’s alarmist community. You’d almost imagine that when temperatures shoot up it’s catastrophic climate change which requires dramatic headlines across the mainstream media and demands for urgent action. But that when they fall even more precipitously it’s just a case of “nothing to see here”.
The cause of the fall is a La Nina event following in the wake of an unusual strong El Nino.
That 2019-2020 period may be right around the time Italy is withdrawing from the Euro, something that has been described as being expected to be the biggest financial shock in history, dwarfing both 2008 and the stock crash of 1929 that set off the Great Depression.
An ice age will not make the Apocalypse more fun, if heat becomes an issue at the very time nobody can afford the fuel, and crop outputs are dramatically reduced on top of it all.
On the other hand, don’t expect to see a lot of r-strategists hanging around in Europe once that begins.
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I think they are being a bit sensational about this. Long periods of having a spotless sun is normal during solar minimums, which happen every 11 years or so. 2009 had over 260 days of no sunspots, and we are coming down from a maximum now.
What a solar minimum really does is play havoc with long distance radio communication via HF. Reduced ionization of the ionosphere means less of my signal gets out and I have to struggle to hear distant stations. I really picked the worst time to get into ham radio…
Watts Up With That is the preeminent discussion of the correlation of the Sun’s activity and Earth conditions. Leif Svalgaard is the expert professional, qv.