Showing posts with label Maunder Minimum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maunder Minimum. Show all posts

2/27/2008

Global Cooling

According to severl recent reports, solar activity has decreased, and sunspots have virtually vanished. The last time this happened was at the advent of the Maunder Minimum which gave birth to The Little Ice Age.

Maybe what we'll need is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere - you know, to take the chill off. Soon the politicians will be guaranteeing a Hummer in every garage, and other acts of governmental intervention encouraging citizens and corporations to spew more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere - and China and India have already climbed on the bandwagon!

2/02/2008

Punxsutawney Phil a global warming "denier"?

Well, that what the anthropogenic global warming fear mongers would say. This morning our furry friend, Phil, saw his shadow and had the audacity to predict six more weeks of winter! This prediction comes on the heels of Russian scientist Khabibullo Abdusamatov's recent proclamation that the earth started a cooling trend in the 1990's due to solar cycles. He goes on to state that this cooling cycle will end approximately 2041 when the earth will be plunged into another Little Ice Age, similar to the Maunder Minimum.

So much for anthropogenic global warming - time to go play in the snow!