A nice graphical representation of the expansion of the Cryosphere of late...Global Warming, indeed!!!
Source: National Ice Center
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Showing posts with label Global Ice Age. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Cryosphere: Northern Hemisphere Snow and Ice Chart
A nice graphical representation of the expansion of the Cryosphere of late...Global Warming, indeed!!!
Source: National Ice Center
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Blizzard Interferes with Opening of new Global Warming Office
As D.C. continued to dig out from Snowmageddon and is keeping an eye on another storm system, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was busy making a climate change announcement.
NOAA, part of the Department of Commerce, is going to be providing information to individuals and decision-makers through a new NOAA Climate Service office. “More and more, Americans are witnessing the impacts of climate change in their own backyards, including sea-level rise, longer growing seasons, changes in river flows, increases in heavy downpours, earlier snowmelt and extended ice-free seasons in our waters. People are searching for relevant and timely information about these changes to inform decision-making about virtually all aspects of their lives,” the release says.
Earlier snowmelt? That would be nice.
Turns out the release was planned prepared ahead of the snowstorm, which shut federal agencies today and forced its senders to hold a press conference by telephone instead of at the National Press Club.
It’s not the first time inclement weather has put a chill on official efforts to tackle climate change. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had to leave the Copenhagen summit early in December to get back to D.C. before the blizzard known as Snowpocalypse grounded all flights.
Source: Washington Wire
Commentary
You can't make this stuff up!!! How many times have these things been preempted by excessive snow, blizzards or ice storms?
I wonder how much longer these people can remain in denial as this current cooling cycle progresses ever cooler?
How much time will be wasted screaming about the need to prepare for warmer temperatures, when we should be prepping for shorter growing seasons, colder winters and the need for more energy production?
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Climate Centers Caught in Data Manipulation,
Including Local Center in Asheville, NC
In a new report, computer expert E. Michael Smith and Certified Consulting Meteorologist Joseph D'Aleo discovered extensive manipulation of the temperature data by the U.S. Government's two primary climate centers: the National ClimateData Center (NCDC) in Ashville, North Carolina and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) at Columbia University in New York City. Smith and D'Aleo accuse these centers of manipulating temperature data to give the appearance of warmer temperatures than actually occurred by trimming the number and location of weather observation stations. The report is available online at http://icecap.us/images/uploads/NOAAroleinclimategate.pdf.
The report reveals that there were no actual temperatures left in the computer database when NASA/NCDC proclaimed 2005 as "THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD." The NCDC deleted actual temperatures at thousands of locations throughout the world as it changed to a system of global grid points, each of which is determined by averaging the temperatures of two or more adjacent weather observation stations. So the NCDC grid map contains only averaged, not real temperatures, giving rise to significant doubt that the result is a valid representation of Earth temperatures.
Source: Spaceref
Related: KUSI: Coleman's Corner (he also lists the Asheville NCDC as having participated in data manipulation)
I have the videos of the report below for your edification:
Here is an embedded copy of the report for you to download or read online:
Monday, January 11, 2010
Mini Ice Age to Last Another 20 to 30 Years?
The Ocean Cycle Theory
The bitter winter afflicting much of the Northern Hemisphere is only the start of a global trend towards cooler weather that is likely to last for 20 or 30 years, say some of the world’s most eminent climate scientists.
Their predictions – based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans – challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy’s most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in
summer by 2013.
According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado, Arctic summer sea ice has increased by 409,000 square miles, or 26 per cent, since 2007 – and even the most committed global warming activists do not dispute this.
They say that their research shows that much of the warming was caused by oceanic cycles when they were in a ‘warm mode’ as opposed to the present ‘cold mode’.
This challenge to the widespread view that the planet is on the brink of an irreversible catastrophe is all the greater because the scientists could never be described as global warming ‘deniers’ or sceptics.
However, both main British political parties continue to insist that the world is facing imminent disaster without drastic cuts in CO2.
This image of the UK taken from NASA's multi-national Terra satellite on Thursday shows the extent of the freezing weather
Last week, as Britain froze, Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband maintained in a parliamentary answer that the science of global warming was ‘settled’.
Among the most prominent of the scientists is Professor Mojib Latif, a leading member of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which has been pushing the issue of man-made global warming on to the international political agenda since it was formed 22 years ago.
Prof Latif, who leads a research team at the renowned Leibniz Institute at Germany’s Kiel University, has developed new methods for measuring ocean temperatures 3,000ft beneath the surface, where the cooling and warming cycles start.
He and his colleagues predicted the new cooling trend in a paper published in 2008 and warned of it again at an IPCC conference in Geneva last September.
Last night he told The Mail on Sunday: ‘A significant share of the warming we saw from 1980 to 2000 and at earlier periods in the 20th Century was due to these cycles – perhaps as much as 50 per cent.
'They have now gone into reverse, so winters like this one will become much more likely. Summers will also probably be cooler, and all this may well last two decades or longer.
Source: UK Daily Mail
Related: Not Such a Silly Question
"Global satellite data is analyzed for temperature trends for the period January 1979 through June 2009. Beginning and ending segments show a cooling trend, while the middle segment evinces a warming trend. The past 12 to 13 years show
cooling using both satellite data sets, with lower confidence limits that do not
exclude a negative trend until 16 years. It is shown that several published studies
have predicted cooling in this time frame. One of these models is extrapolated
from its 2000 calibration end date and shows a good match to the satellite data,
with a projection of continued cooling for several more decades."
Source: TREND ANALYSIS OF SATELLITE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE DATA [PDF Download]
Commentary
A cooling ocean cycle combined with a cooling trend from the sun should be a double-whammy to our climate that should continue for the next couple of decades...
It is my opinion that the claims of the 'scientists' supporting Global Warming are based in political need to have a scientific basis to stop us from using fossil fuels for energy production, and I believe that the ClimateGate e-mails should at least prove to anyone with a modicum of common sense that the supporters of Global Warming are acting more like people making up lies to support a superstition than scientists.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
It's Cold Out There!
As I write this, it is 20 minutes until 8 am, 17 degrees (Fahrenheit) and snowing at my house just northeast of Franklin, NC. [SEE ABOVE PHOTO]
The specific counties listed in the advisory are Avery, Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Swain, Transylvania and Yancey.
The forecast through late next week calls for highs ranging between the mid-20s to upper-30s during the day, dipping to the teens at night. The normal lows for this time of year are around the mid- to upper-20s.
“There’s a strong area of high pressure over the middle of the country that came from central Canada,” National Weather Service meteorologist Bryan McAvoy said. “As long as the area of high pressure remains, it will continue to push cold air into the region.”
Source: Asheville Citizen-Times
And it is just not here in North America that is cold, the United Kingdom has been having a cold snap as well...
The cold weather has devastated the Scottish football schedule for the second week in a row.
Falkirk v St Johnstone survived a late inspection but Motherwell v Hamilton, also in the Scottish Premier League, is off after pipes burst at Fir Park.
In the Scottish Football League the three scheduled First Division games are victims of the freezing weather and all five Second Division games are off.
Queen's Park's late call-off means all Third Division fixtures are wiped out.
East Stirling v Elgin, Stranraer v Annan, Berwick Rangers v Livingston and Montrose v Forfar had all been postponed earlier, and the staff at Hampden were hopeful that the Spiders' game against Albion Rovers could have gone ahead after a major effort was made to clear ice and snow from around the ground.
But further snowfall in the south side of Glasgow has caused continuing problems in the Hampden area.
Source: BBC Sport
It doesn't end there, Asia has been having unusually cold weather also...
Beggars and homeless people had to spend the cold nights with little protection beyond plastic sheets and bags, reports said. State authorities were distributing blankets and firewood to the poor, police said.
Weather officials said there would be no respite from the cold weather and expect temperatures to fall further over the weekend.
Cold weather prevailed in northern states like Punjab and Haryana. The season's lowest temperature on the plains was reported from Amritsar, which recorded minus 0,2 degrees Celsius.
In the Himalayan region, several parts of Indian Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh temperatures dropped below zero.
Winters in India are brief, beginning in mid-December and ending by February.
Source: IOL News
Commentary
It seems funny to me that when Lefties schedule major forums on Global Warming that record cold weather ensues shortly thereafter. You'd think that they'd learn and only hold conferences during the warmest part of summer.
Even the local believers in the Global Warming Religion are planning to meet today to discuss the recent Copenhagen Global warming Conference. My advice to them: "Dress Warmly, You Might Freeze" Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Today Is Blog Action Day – Blog About Global Warming
My Contribution
Today is the day in which multitudes of Lefty bloggers will be blogging their little hearts out about how mankind is destroying the earth and is changing the global weather patterns and causing the earth to heat up.
I here to tell you that human-caused Global Warming is a hoax. Just as Lefties were wrong and cried and screamed and warned us of the dangers of the coming Ice Age back in the 70's, they are wrong now. They are taking advantage of the way temperatures trend during warming and cooling cycles.
The earth has been warmer than it is now, and life thrived...even with more carbon dioxide in the air than we have now. As recently as the year AD 1000, Greenland was warm enough to produce grapes for making wine. When the next cooling cycle came, the Vikings had to abandon their vineyards and flee.
The earth has also been colder than it is now, with Ice Ages galore, including the Little Ice of the 17th Century and a smaller cold cycle from the 1940's to the 1970's. We are even in one now...global temperatures have been in decline since 1998 [source 1] [source 2], and will likely continue declining for the next two or three decades....so don't sell off your cold weather gear just yet, you might be needing them sooner than you think!
You can find out more about the lies that Lefties and Enviros have been telling us by visiting the following websites:
Watt's Up With That?
Al Fin (climate cycles keyword search)
Tom Nelson has an excellent blog where he links to zillions of articles
Global Warming Hoax News
WHNO News Feed
I've uploaded a few videos mocking the concept of human-caused Global Warming over the past couple of years, and here are a couple, complete with green borders to show you that I, too, care about the earth:
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
NASA now admits that a Dalton Minimum is possible
What a difference two or three years make!
It appears that NASA may be pulling it's help out of the sandbox built by lefty enviro-whackos.
From David Archidbald:
The oceans are losing heat, so the Canadian wheat belt will just get colder and drier as Solar Cycle 24 progresses. As Mark Steyn recently said, anyone under the age of 29 has not experienced global warming. A Dalton Minimum repeat will mean that they will have to wait to the age of 54 odd to experience a warming trend.
Where to now? The F 10.7 flux continues to flatline. All the volatility has gone out of it. In terms of picking the month of minimum for the Solar Cycle 23/24 transition, I think the solar community will put it in the middle of the F 10.7 quiet period due to the lack of sunspots. We won’t know how long that quiet period is until solar activity ramps up again. So picking the month of minimum at the moment may just be guessing.
Dr Hathaway says that we are not in for a Maunder Minimum, and I agree with him. I have been contacted by a gentleman from the lower 48 who has a very good solar activity model. It hindcasts the 20th century almost perfectly, so I have a lot of faith in what it is predicting for the 21st century, which is a couple of very weak cycles and then back to normal as we have known it. I consider his model to be a major advance in solar science.
As I've been blogging for the past four years...the evidence is mounting and it is looking to get even cooler.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
FOR SALE: One 2006 Predictive Flux-transport Dynamo Model. Make offer…
Scientists Issue Unprecedented Forecast of Next Sunspot Cycle
BOULDER—The next sunspot cycle will be 30-50% stronger than the last one and begin as much as a year late, according to a breakthrough forecast using a computer model of solar dynamics developed by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Predicting the Sun’s cycles accurately, years in advance, will help societies plan for active bouts of solar storms, which can slow satellite orbits, disrupt communications, and bring down power systems.
The scientists have confidence in the forecast because, in a series of test runs, the newly developed model simulated the strength of the past eight solar cycles with more than 98% accuracy. The forecasts are generated, in part, by tracking the subsurface movements of the sunspot remnants of the previous two solar cycles. The team is publishing its forecast in the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters.
Read the rest at Watts Up With That? and be sure to read it to the very end. I swiped the title of this post from a comment on the same site.
What brought this up is the news that NOAA has revised their earlier prediction of an active sunspot cycle downward. In my opinion, not downward enough...but they still have time to revise their figures again, and again. Previous predictions [2006] had the sunspot numbers being between 150 and 200.
**8.32am** Check out this animated gif.
**8.47am** Digital Diatribes has another excellent post of the temperature data he has been analyzing and graphing. (The numbers don't lie).
Here is a snippet of the latest from NOAA:
May 29, 2009: An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots.
"If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle since 1928 when Solar Cycle 16 peaked at 78," says panel chairman Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.
Source: NASA
I wonder if these "scientists" have even taken a moment of their time to look at the following chart of sunspot cycles in their zeal to predict a solar cycle that means the earth will be warning...
**9.52am** I have been informed that even the graph above is misleading...that the scientists have replaced the more accurate Wolf Number with the Group Number to make the modern sunspot numbers look even greater than they are...please find a better graph below:
Source: Solar Cycle 24
Hat Tip: Scarlet Girl
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Monthly Climate Report for April 2009,
Temperature Cooler Than Normal
Graphic: A Cooler April courtesy National Climatic Data Center in Asheville
The monthly climate report from NOAA has been released, and here are a few highlights:
The April 2009 temperature for the contiguous United States was below the long-term average, based on records going back to 1895, according to an analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC.
The average April temperature of 51.2 degrees F was 0.8 degree F below the 20th Century average. Precipitation across the contiguous United States in April averaged 2.62 inches, which is 0.19 inch above the 1901-2000 average.
-SNIP-
U.S. Temperature Highlights
April temperatures were near normal across much of the United States. On a regional scale, only the Northeast (above-normal) and the West North Central (below-normal) deviated significantly from the norm.
New Hampshire observed its eighth warmest April, based on data going back to 1895. Unlike much of the Northeast, the Midwest experienced a cooler-than-normal month. From North Dakota southward to Oklahoma, Missouri, Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia, temperature averages were below normal.
For the year-to-date period, only two states, North Dakota and Washington, have experienced cooler-than-normal average temperatures. In contrast, much of the South and Southwest regions were above-normal. New Mexico had its ninth warmest such period on record.
Based on NOAA's Residential Energy Demand Temperature Index, the contiguous U.S. temperature-related energy demand was 2.3 percent below average in April.
-SNIP
Other Highlights
- International Falls, Minn., recorded 125 inches of snow so far this winter season, breaking the previous record of 116 inches set in the 1995-1996 winter season. Another seasonal snowfall record was broken in Spokane, Wash., where 97.7 inches of snowfall broke the old record of 93.5 inches set in 1915-1916.
- About eight percent of the contiguous U.S. was covered by snow at end of April, according to an analysis by the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center. Snow coverage during the month peaked at 30.2 percent on April 6, after a late-season winter storm hit the Midwest and Plains.
- The 263 preliminary tornadoes reported in April was above the three-year average of 200 confirmed tornadoes.
Source: NOAA
Hat Tip: Watts Up With That?
Check out the daily snow cover animated loop from Jan 1 to April 30 to get a feel for how this past winter was...
As the climate continues to cool, as it has for the past decade, look for environmental extremists and lefties (but I repeat myself) to try to cover up and ignore the data as it comes in. I look for local lefties to only report the warmer data or skip this month's report.
Reading Assignment
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Snowball Earth
In honor of our brief flurry of winter weather today, I have embedded the Snowball Earth special from the BBC:
Saturday, March 14, 2009
A Plan to Counteract this Earth Hour Silliness
Earth hour will be from 8.30pm to 9.30pm on March 28, 2009.
VOTE FOR LIGHT
YOUR LIGHT SWITCH IS YOUR VOTE
This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Darkness and Light.
For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for the Dark Evil of Environmentalism, turning them on is a vote for the Light of Reason and against the fear-mongering environmentalists. I am urging the world to VOTE LIGHT and diminish the wacko agenda of the WWF. Their target is to reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.
This meeting will determine official government policies to take action against global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is the chance for the people of the world to make their voice heard.
Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights. Global landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome’s Colosseum, the Sydney Opera House and the Coca Cola billboard in Times Square all stood in darkness.
We can turn the tide on this stupidity...turn on every light in your house, and turn on the outside floodlights if you have them. As a bonus, you can also turn on every Television and Radio in your home. Turn up the heat or A/C depending on your location. Turn on your vehicle and let it idle for a few minutes during this hour.
It is time we stopped being mute, and doing nothing in the face of this environmental extremism. We must begin to cancel out their activities and Stand Up to them...and expose them as the idiots that they are!!!
Who is with me?
Monday, March 2, 2009
Epic Snowball Fights
Here are a couple of videos from the January 20, 2009 snow of college students engaging in epic snowball fights, the first is East Carolina University, and the second is UNC-Charlotte:
And I thought it was epic when a dozen or so of my cousins got together and had snowball fights...
And in related news...more lefties get snowed by yet another record-breaking snow storm!!! Read all about it at Gateway Pundit. When will the enviro-ecotards learn to only have protests when there is absolutely no chance of a snow storm...like July or August???
And I thought it was epic when a dozen or so of my cousins got together and had snowball fights...
And in related news...more lefties get snowed by yet another record-breaking snow storm!!! Read all about it at Gateway Pundit. When will the enviro-ecotards learn to only have protests when there is absolutely no chance of a snow storm...like July or August???
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Global Warming Debunk by Old Glory Radio
My man Tom Fredriksen delivers the smackdown!!!
I also have his show player embedded on my left hand sidebar for quick access.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Solar Cycle 24: Code Blue Alert
The graph above is of two year windows of the F 10.7 radio flux centered on the last five solar minima. They are stacked up so that they are 20 solar flux units apart on the same vertical scale. The original data is from: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/SOLAR/ftpsolarradio.html#qbsa
Source: Watts Up With That?
Just a reminder to the lefties that there is evidence that the sun affects our climate far more than we do, and the next few years look to be a continuance of the cooling trend.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Arctic Sea Ice Increases at Record Rate
Lefties will try to tell you that the Arctic sea ice is melting at a record rate. Don't listen to them, because they are telling you a lie.
A case in point:
Looking at this plot of the 30 day slopes of actual NASA gridded data, the maximum ice melt rate occurs in 1999 and in 2004 not in 2007. Surprisingly the maximum ice growth rates occur in 2007 and 2008, I don’t remember those headlines for some reason. Don’t forget when looking at the 2008 - 09 peak, the data is preliminary and hasn’t been through the same processing as the other data. From looking at the unprocessed data I doubt it will change much.
Source: The Air Vent
Hat Tip: Digital Diatribes
A case in point:
Looking at this plot of the 30 day slopes of actual NASA gridded data, the maximum ice melt rate occurs in 1999 and in 2004 not in 2007. Surprisingly the maximum ice growth rates occur in 2007 and 2008, I don’t remember those headlines for some reason. Don’t forget when looking at the 2008 - 09 peak, the data is preliminary and hasn’t been through the same processing as the other data. From looking at the unprocessed data I doubt it will change much.
Source: The Air Vent
Hat Tip: Digital Diatribes
Sunday, January 25, 2009
The Earth Continues Cooling Trend With Snow in the United Arab Emirates
White blanket of snow covers the Jees Mountain in the Gulf emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah on January 25. Residents in the most northerly Gulf emirate of Ras Al-Khaimah woke up to a rare covering of snow reaching up to 20 centimetres in depth with temperatures falling to -3 degrees Celsius.
(AFP/HO)
Snow is so rare in the region that one lifelong resident said the local dialect had no word for it.
Certainly, this can all be explained by global climate change due to man(?)
In related news, Power Line reported that recent scientific work has thoroughly debunked the Mann "hockey stick" global warming analysis cited by Al Gore in his junk science documentary.Andrew Bostom has more on the debunking.
Now remember...
Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979.
The oceans have been cooling since 2003.
Sea ice is growing at the fastest pace on record.
A rare 50 year arctic blast is cooling the west coast.
Greenland's glaciers are stabilizing.
There are growing fears of a coming freeze worse than the ice age.
Alaskan Sea Glaciers are advancing for the first time in 250 years.
And, for the second straight year the Earth is, in fact, cooling... not warming.
(AFP/HO)
Snow is so rare in the region that one lifelong resident said the local dialect had no word for it.
Certainly, this can all be explained by global climate change due to man(?)
In related news, Power Line reported that recent scientific work has thoroughly debunked the Mann "hockey stick" global warming analysis cited by Al Gore in his junk science documentary.Andrew Bostom has more on the debunking.
Now remember...
Arctic sea ice growth finished the year in 2008 at the same level as 1979.
The oceans have been cooling since 2003.
Sea ice is growing at the fastest pace on record.
A rare 50 year arctic blast is cooling the west coast.
Greenland's glaciers are stabilizing.
There are growing fears of a coming freeze worse than the ice age.
Alaskan Sea Glaciers are advancing for the first time in 250 years.
And, for the second straight year the Earth is, in fact, cooling... not warming.
Source: Gateway Pundit
One thing that lefties keep forgetting...we are at the end of a warming trend, and temperatures will be declining for at least the next generation.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Profiles in Cowardice, Profiles in Deceit, and Profiles in Global Governance
The intimidation tactics and belittling words of those in global warming alarmism are only a means to cloak the weaknesses of their arguments, especially now that the scientific and economic evidence has found a broader, more receptive audience -- check the latest poll results if you don't believe me.
Put succinctly, their efforts to silence opposing viewpoints to their dogma have only proven that they are a bunch of chicken-twits. Now that doubting Dorothy has doused Elmira Gulch's other ego with a cocktail of moderating temperatures and an economy in distress, the cries that their forecasts are "melting, melting, aagghhhh" approach a shrill peak.
What has happened in Arkansas the last few weeks is illustrative...
Source: Paul Chesser, writing in American Spectator
Hat Tip: ICECAP
Photo Credit: Solar Cycle 24
Notice anything wrong with the latest solar image above? A lack of sunspots. Solar Cycle 24 is getting off to a seriously slow start.
As far back as 2005, this NASA webpage was forecasting that the period of sunspot minimum would be in 2006 or 2007:
The Solar Cycle: Sunspots increase and decrease through an average cycle of 11 years. Dating back to 1749, we have experienced 22 full solar cycles where the number of sunspots have gone from a minimum, to a maximum and back to the next minimum, through approximate 11 year cycles. We are now well into the 23rd cycle, with the 24th cycle right around the corner. The number of sunspots in this cycle reached a peak in May, 2000 where the number of sunspots were measured at near 170. A secondary sunspot maximum occurred near the beginning of 2002 where the sunspot number was about 150. The next sunspot minimum is forecast to occur in late 2006 through mid 2007. A chart of cycle 23 is available at the NOAA Space Environment Center.
Let me remind you...it's January 2009, and we are still seeing a very low sunspot count. In fact, one so low for so long a period of time, that there is some concern that we could be in for another long term period of decreased sunspots like a Dalton or Maunder Minimum. Ice Age, anyone?
I have blogged about this possibility at least since October of 2007, and became aware of the possibility of a Landscheit Minimum in June of last year.
I give you Global Warming or Global Governance:
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