The headline of the New Scientist report (Nov. 30) on the study nicely captured its import, «Failing ocean current raises fear
of mini ice age.»
Scientists knew fifty years ago we are at the end
of a mini ice age.
Though an additional key, which people that are dead and determined to label this as shear man made global warming need to remember we are coming out
of a mini ice age (1400 - 1800ish).
Not exact matches
Headless human and animal symbols carved into stone in Turkey tell the story
of a devastating comet impact that triggered a
mini ice age more than 13,000 years ago
From time to time, we're told by parts
of the media that earth is headed for a «
mini ice age».
But the vast majority
of scientists do not agree that the sun is the main driver
of climate change — or that we're on course for a
mini ice age.
And people
of all
ages and gaming levels (from beginner to pro) enjoyed using the PSVita's rear camera and augmented reality features to play Table
Mini Golf and Table
Ice Hockey.
Of more concern to us and perhaps Andy will write about this is that we may be about to experience a
mini (or more)
ice age:
Is the current European freeze a sign
of a new
mini ice age?
Re # 135 The general opinion amongst most climate scientists and oceanographers is that a slow down in the THC will cause a cooling based on what they think happened at the start
of the Younger Dryas stadial (
mini ice age.)
As for mammoth steaks, oddly enough it was global COOLING, a
mini ice age, that spelled the end
of these great beasts along with the Clovis People who hunted them.
Valentina Zharkova, a professor
of mathematics at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom, used a new model
of the sun's solar cycle and its periodic change in solar radiation emissions to predict a «
mini Ice Age» may begin shortly.
I don't think he's predicting a
mini ice age, but he is adamant that the assumptions about climate sensitivity to CO2 built into the climate models are wrong and the models grossly understate the importance
of cosmic radiation.
Let us all be optimistic about whatever the New Year brings, even if it is to be the start
of a decade or two
of cooling or even another «
mini ice age» because forewarned is to be prepared.
For example, a change in global T
of a few tenth's
of a degree can be argued as sufficient to move us from the MWP into a
mini ice age.
Last year, a team
of European researchers unveiled a scientific model at the National Astronomy Meeting in Wales predicting a «
mini ice age» from 2030 to 2040 as a result
of decreased solar activity.
Nevertheless, we are in the midst
of the hottest decade on record, which is also difficult to reconcile with Corbyn's assertions that we are headed into a
mini ice age.
Early in the third millennium AD, Dr. Robert Gagosian
of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution postulated the possibility
of a new
mini ice age within two decades.
It is increasingly evident that we are on the cusp
of both the next major
ice age (as in 1 mile thick
ice in Chicago and NYC) caused by the orbital eccentricity and the tilt
of the Earth's axis (See Milankovitch cycles below) and the next
mini ice age (see Maunder, and Dalton, or Rohrer minimum related to the location and number
of sunspots (below)-RRB-.
German meteorologists say that the start
of 2013 is now the coldest in 208 years — and now German media has quoted Russian scientist Dr Habibullo Abdussamatov from the St. Petersburg Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory as showing it is proof as he said earlier that we are heading for a «
Mini Ice Age.»
During the last 10,000 years since the end
of the last
Ice Age, there has been what people call, mini ice ag
Ice Age, there has been what people call,
mini ice ag
ice ages.
Solar expert Piers Corbyn,
of British forecasting group WeatherAction and famous for his successful wagers against the British Met Office forecasts, predicts Earth faces another
mini ice age with potentially devastating consequences.
Yet some are quick to claim climate change due to human activity will be erased, or even replaced by a
mini ice age, once the next episode
of minimum solar activity occurs.
The geophysicist believes that a «
mini ice age» began in 2010 which will last between 60 and 80 years, and says that «there does not exist a scientific consensus regarding the influence and responsibility
of man in global warming,» according to a University
of Mexico press release describing his views.
I agree that we need to cut unrenewable energy consumption, but when I saw that chart them years ago, I realized that we are in a cooler era in our history, just coming out
of a
mini ice -
age, and that periods
of global warming and cooling have been taking place longer than we've been around to notice it.
The hypothesized causal factors include global warming, atmospheric brown clouds, land surface modification, recovery from the
mini ice -
age, and large scale drying
of the air among other factors.