On the same day as the story about the Weather Channel nut-job who said said global warming meteorologist "heretics" who don't march in lockstep with the myth of global warming should be decertified, we have the story from the National Post of Canada about how, gee, this global warming thing isn't really settled after all (kinda like evolution, huh).
Nigel Weiss, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, and past President of the Royal Astronomical Society, says global warming is "anything but settled" and that the planet is about to enter a period of cooling.
It goes back to the science that many socialists have tried to suppress, that the earth has been going through cycles of warming and cooling for hundreds or thousands of years.
Typically, sunspots flare up and settle down in cycles of about 11 years. In the last 50 years, we haven't been living in typical times: "If you look back into the sun's past, you find that we live in a period of abnormally high solar activity," Dr. Weiss states.
These hyperactive periods do not last long, "perhaps 50 to 100 years, then you get a crash," says Dr. Weiss. 'It's a boom-bust system, and I would expect a crash soon."
In addition to the 11-year cycle, sunspots almost entirely "crash," or die out, every 200 years or so as solar activity diminishes. When the crash occurs, the Earth can cool dramatically. Dr. Weiss knows because these phenomenon, known as "Grand minima," have recurred over the past 10,000 years, if not longer.
Next comes perhaps the most interesting part (what you may have already heard, if you were listening, but not if you were waiting for the dominant media to pass it along to you):
"The deeper the crash, the longer it will last," Dr. Weiss explains. In the 17th century, sunspots almost completely disappeared for 70 years. That was the coldest interval of the Little Ice Age, when New York Harbour froze, allowing walkers to journey from Manhattan to Staten Island, and when Viking colonies abandoned Greenland, a once verdant land that became tundra. Also in the Little Ice Age, Finland lost one-third of its population, Iceland half.
The previous cooling period lasted 150 years while a minor crash at the beginning of the 19th century was accompanied by a cooling period that lasted only 30 years.
In contrast, when the sun is very active, such as the period we're now in, the Earth can warm dramatically. This was the case during the Medieval Warm Period, when the Vikings first colonized Greenland and when Britain was wine-growing country.
The article does go ahead on page 2 to provide a pacifier to those who insist on still believing in this man-made global warming myth, telling them that hey, if global warming is real, the man-made variety can help offset this natural cooling cycle.
Who says there's no comfort in fantasy?
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