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Well, more than a moment, but in the meantime, there's this article which deserves some attention. While all the world's Gaia freaks are panicking about the catastrophic consequences of living on a warming planet, some scientists are warning of another mini-ice age. Now that would not be pleasant. I'm sure I'll be gone long before we come out of it, but so could my kids and grandkids.  They'll be cursing the Gaia freaks for influencing governments to reduce carbon emissions, as if carbon has anything to do with it, especially if they have to dig through permafrost to bury their dear old gramma.

Chilling Evidence

"We are now in the onset of that next sunspot cycle, called Cycle 24 – these cycles typically last 11 years — and Livingston and Penn have this month published new, potentially ominous findings in a paper entitled Long-term Evolution of Sunspot Magnetic Fields: “we are now seeing far fewer sunspots than we saw in the preceding cycle; solar Cycle 24 is producing an anomalously low number of dark spots and pores,” they report."

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"The authors base their conclusions on the assumption that recent trends will continue, an assumption that, they note, may well be proven in time to be false. At the same time, given that their findings are consistent with those of other solar scientists, and given the stark implications of another little ice age for society at large, they felt compelled to publish a warning.

“It is important to note that it is always risky to extrapolate linear trends; but the importance of the implications from making such an assumption justify its mention,” they state."

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"The upshot for scientists and world leaders should be clear, particularly since other scientists in recent years have published analyses that also indicate that global cooling could be on its way. Climate can and does change toward colder periods as well as warmer ones. Over the last 20 years, some $80-billion has been spent on research dominated by the assumption that global temperatures will rise. Virtually no research has investigated the consequences of the very live possibility that temperatures will plummet. Research into global cooling and its implications for the globe is long overdue."

But, never fear.  Where there's a grant, there's a way.  Before long the Gaia freaks will be promoting policies to increase CO2 omissions. Mark my words. You heard it here first.

PS: Maybe China and India can save us, after all.


ht Dr. Roy