Solar Cycle 24 - It’s the Sun, Stupid!
Since scientists have begun documenting solar cycles, there have been 23such cycles. We are at the end of cycle 23 with the beginnings of cycle 24 just recently noticed. Simply put, a solar cycle is a period of sunspot activity which changes polarity with each cycle. The length and intensity of the sunspot cycle has significant implications to our climate, and, unlike anything you’ll see from Nobel prize crowd, solar activity actually correlates with earth’s climate history. Cycle 24 is just around the corner, and as geophysicist (that is a real and relevant scientist, unlike Al Gore’s hotel administrator) Philip Chapman, said, “It is time to put aside the global warming dogma, at least to begin contingency planning about what to do if we are moving into another little ice age.”
Recently, the sun seems to have lost it’s spots. There has been no sunspot activity for a fairly extended period, an occurrence which historically has correlated with periods of prolonged cold on Earth. The “Maunder Minimum,” which occurred in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, was a roughly 70 year period during the “Little Ice Age” during which solar activity decreased dramatically. Sunspots had been well documented for many years prior to the Maunder minimum, starting as early as the fourth century BC. Over a 50 year period during the Maunder Minimum, where 40,000-50,000 sunspots would typically have been observed, astronomers noted only 50.
As was noted in a Financial Press article from last month, “During the Little Ice Age, the River Thames froze over, the Dutch developed the ice skate and the great artists of the day learned to love a new genre: the winter landscape. In what had been a warm Europe , adaptations were not all happy: Growing seasons in England and Continental Europe generally became short and unreliable, which led to shortages and famine. These hardships were nothing compared to the more northerly countries: Glaciers advanced rapidly in Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia and North America, making vast tracts of land uninhabitable. The Arctic pack ice extended so far south that several reports describe Eskimos landing their kayaks in Scotland. Finland’s population fell by one-third, Iceland’s by half, the Viking colonies in Greenland were abandoned altogether, as were many Inuit communities. The cold in North America spread so far south that, in the winter of 1780, New York Harbor froze, enabling people to walk from Manhattan to Staten Island.”
The article continued: “In the same way that the Earth shivered when sunspots disappeared, the Earth warmed when sunspot activity became pronounced.” (emphasis mine) “The warm period about 1000 years ago known as the Medieval Warm Period — a time of bounty in which grapes grew in England and Greenland was colonized — also was a time of high sunspot activity, called the Medieval Maximum.”
IMAGINE THAT!!!! As sunspot activity decreased, earth’s climate got cooler, and as sunspot activity increased, Earth warmed. IT’S THE SUN, STUPID!!!
Al Gore and his bleating sheep baah baah out the whine about a 1° temperature increase over a 100 year period. In the last 10 years, we have seen a 0.65° DECREASE in temperature. Well, actually, temperatures remained virtually unchanged for most of that last decade, then dropped nearly the equivalent of Gore’s entire century in the last year alone. Did we suddenly dump massively more CO2 into the atmosphere in the last year? That’s what Gore and his sycophants would have you believe. They’ve even changed their blather from “global warming” to “global climate change” in recognition of the undeniable! Was there such a sudden and dramatic infusion of CO2 to the atmosphere, as Gore et all STILL claim to be the cause of “climate change?” OF COURSE NOT!
The solar cycle has shifted. It is as DEAD SIMPLE as that. As with the rest of recorded history, earth’s climate changes in response to solar activity. It has done so before man came along, and it is doing so today. CO2 has nothing of any significance whatsoever to do with it. It’s the SUN, Stupid!
BUT…as long as Al Gore and his mindless propaganda regurgitators continue to consume the complicit press and our even more mindless elected representatives continue to fall for anything that blames America first, last, and always, we will do everything humanly possible to do EXACTLY the opposite of what we need to do. Instead of taking every drop of oil out of the ground that we can extract and store, building more nuclear AND coal power plants, returning our food crops to food usage instead of turning it into inefficient gasoline-substitutes, and building the economies of the nations capable of preparing for a potential climate shift, we will, unfortunately for our children and grandchildren, refuse to sanely address our energy needs, starve much of the world in the name of absurd token fuel alternatives, and destroy the very economies that keep the world running, all in the name of the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the world.
That can all, of course, be changed. Do we have the courage and the will to call the kettle black (and Al Gore a lying moron)? Or will we sit silently and watch the propagandists perpetuate their lies to our own detriment?
