Maunder Minimum II?

[Dr Mordrid]

From the International Astronomical Union Symposium No. 273....

Paper......

Since 1990 solar astronomers Matthew Penn & William Livingston with the National Solar Observatory have been studying the magnetic field strength of sunspots. During that time they found that the average strength has dropped from 2,700 to 2,000 gauss. If the field strength continues to decrease at this rate it will drop to <1,500 gauss by 2016, and they state that below 1,500 gauss the formation of sunspots is very unlikely.

They caution that this still needs more work. That said, it does fall in line with work the Russians have been reporting for several years.

If this happens it could cause a mini-ice age on Earth, just like the last time sunspots disappeared during the Maunder Minimum of 1645 to 1715.

Now....what was that about limiting CO2?

[Evildead666]

That was also before the industrial revolution, where sh*tloads of crap was thrown into our atmosphere without any thought, a bit like parts of China now, where there is thought, about how much money is saved not filtering anything...

A small ice age would just give the proponents against global warming a bit of something to play with....Just like the good old Christians of this world held back the entire Human race during the Dark ages and before and after.

Science be praised

[degrub]

So we will be able to thank China for building all of those new coal fired power plants....

[Evildead666]

Until the mini ice age is over, and then we will be back to square 1, or even -1...