In the past 1000 years, three previous such events -- the Dalton, Maunder, and Spörer Minimums, have all led to rapid cooling. One was large enough to be called a %26quot;mini ice age%26quot;. For a society dependent on agriculture, cold is more damaging than heat. The growing season shortens, yields drop, and the occurrence of crop-destroying frosts increases.
http://www.dailytech.com/Sun+Makes+Histo...
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I see the global warming cultists are loyal to their religion, well at least they believe in something.Do these alarmist ever look at the facts or are they simply interested in preserving their pet scarenario, global warming?
The truth is, solar output can include various things. Those things that affect the climate may have to do with particular ranges of radiation and the cosmic rays. There is too much we don%26#039;t understand. If you look at my graph, you can see a correlation. Having a bunch of pompous arrogant bureaucrats claim that there is no correlation, and alarmists lap it all up, is insulting to our intelligence.
which comes from:
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu - - BTW, I have no affiliation with the University of Illinois. Just happen to have had information I was looking for a few months ago.
Just how could that be, since the sunspot count has been so low, as shown in your link???
http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/9110_...
Temperature data...
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs...
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/res...
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temper...
1. Your links show 1998, 2005 and 2007 solar activity was unremarkable to low, yet annual means are .57, .62 and .57 (C), respectively. No correlation!
2. 1991 and 1993 show spikes in solar activity, but their respective annual means are .35 and .14 (C) respectively. No correlation!
Climatologists have always understood the sun has a role in climate change. You never got the memo, or conveniently decided to ignore it so as to perpetuate your myth.