Mini Ice age?

[Extremeweatherguy]

Interesting article about the possibility of a "mini" ice-age:

http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?Story ... 1447-2345r

VERY INTERESTING TO ME!!!

[gigabite]

The interglacial period is 270,000 years. It has been a fairly regular pattern depending on the reference source considered. The current accepted rate of sea level rise 0.0104 of a foot per year. The maximum sea level rise is 60 feet. 60/.0104/year = 5769.23 years until sea level reaches equilibrium straight line. 10,000 years ago the Atlantic was completely frozen over. That will not happen again for 260,000 years. Maximum sea level rise will be in 130,000 years.

If anthropogenic effects are factored in to the period, it could shorten the period as much as 25 percent making the interglacial a 203,000 year period. That makes equilibrium 100,000 years from now. So, it seem that in order to balance the effect over the time of the interglacial the rate of sea level rise has to vary. Indicating the potential for mini ice ages.

The Maunder Minimum, the period of time which the article refers to is a period of time when sunspot activity was not detected. It was not necessarily a period of time when sun spot activity did not exist. It may have been to cloudy to see them, or no one was counting them.

My guess is that as average space temperature has been rising since the last solar maximum this has had a larger effect warming the massive southern oceans during the southern hemisphere summers which will put more water vapor in the northern hemisphere’s sky. Increasing dense cloud cover and increasing rainfall. This will eventually blend into the lower temperature, more luminous, phase of the sun cycle when there is more drought in the northern hemisphere.

My guess is that we will jump into a mini Ice age in about 250 generations. That would be 225 generations after humanity achieves light speed and Neo has been reborn three or four times, and cloned

I hope to see more rain in the south central United States as the ice age approaches. That would move the center for the potential of the stable mega storm to the central Atlantic.

[PeterRadanovic]

I'm skeptical. There are more than just natural causes here; humans are affecting the temperature too. Volcano emissions are working against sun emissions. So I'm not sceptical whether we're entering one or not, but rather if we're entering a mini one. There was a story I once heard, I think it was in Mexico or something, a volcano erupted, and crops died, hunger, etc., all because the sun was blocked. I think it was known as "The year without a Summer," I think in their location. Now, this isn't even mini. So imagine something like that happening on a global scale. The temperature will drop by a few degrees. Not enough for any amount of snow buildup worldwide, but enough to decrease productivity. I wouldn't call that an ice age necessarily. Oh, and solar activity is a very unpredictable factor. The Sun's inner energy has many different and random paths to escape from the Sun and reach Earth. So it is near-unpredictable to tell when the next portion of the Sun's energy is going to escape. We'll see.

[kenl01]

Another excellent article from a different scientist:


The Ice Age is Coming ! So says Zbigniew Jaworowski, world-renowned
atmospheric scientist and mountaineer, who has excavated ice out of 17 glaciers on six continents in his 50-year career. The shift from warm to cool climate might have already started, says Jaworowski.
See the Winter 2003-2004 issue of 21st Century Science and Technology, p. 52-65.
Or: http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/A ... arming.pdf

[kenl01]

New Little Ice Age
Instead of Global Warming?

by Dr. Theodor Landscheidt


Schroeter Institute for Research in Cycles of Solar Activity
Klammerfelsweg 5, 93449 Waldmuenchen, Germany


http://mitosyfraudes.8k.com/Calen/Landscheidt-1.html