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Global Warming: Natural Causes #7

Last week, International Business Daily had an interesting piece on global Warming and the potential that the Sun may be entering a solar minimum, which will bring lower temperatures.

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.

This is a reference to a period that took place roughly in the middle of the Little Ice Age when there were very few sunspots observed. There are probably a great deal more solar scientists observing and tracking the Sun today than there were four hundred years ago, and the tools are much better.

(Kenneth) 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.

Tapping is a solar research and project director for Canada’s National Research Council. I think that puts him in the category of real scientist rather than Al Gore who wants to be thought of as smart.

IBD points out:

As we have noted many times, perhaps the biggest impact on the Earth’s climate over time has been the sun.

For instance, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar Research in Germany report the sun has been burning more brightly over the last 60 years, accounting for the 1 degree Celsius increase in Earth’s temperature over the last 100 years.

There’s a concept: the sun has a direct impact on the Earth’s climate. Who’d have thought? Certainly not Al “Carbon Bigfoot” Gore.

Another scientist chimes in:

R. Timothy Patterson, professor of geology and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center of Canada’s Carleton University, says that “CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet’s climate on long, medium and even short time scales.”

Another scientist blowing off the consensus that it is our fault the Earth is warming up.

Patterson, sharing Tapping’s concern, says: “Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth.

“Solar activity has overpowered any effect that CO2 has had before, and it most likely will again,” Patterson says. “If we were to have even a medium-sized solar minimum, we could be looking at a lot more bad effects than ‘global warming’ would have had.”

According to Patterson, if he is right, we could be into some significant cooling before too long. This would be very bad for a lot of people as it will have a negative impact on food supply, not to mention straining energy reserves unless we do something to build new and better infrastructure to carry the load, and I don’t mean wind farms.

More and more scientists are coming out of the closet on Global Warming and debunking the Al Gore philosophy that it is man-caused carbon and/or other pollutants causing the warming trend that looks to me like it is at a close.

Why do I think it is at a close? Partially because when I look out my windows I see snow everywhere. This is the first winter I have experienced in Minnesota where there has been snow cover all winter long. Sub-zero temperatures also look to be on the rise.

Quite frankly, I wouldn’t mind a little “global warming” right now.

In Canada, some wacko named Suzuki is pushing an agenda to prosecute legislators that reject the U.N. line on “global warming, and toss them in jail. Will he advocate doing the same to those who bought into the idea of man-caused “global warming” and passed damaging legislation when the world finally wakes up to the fact that the Earth’s climate is a dynamic system that is not influenced by mankind?

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