The Ice Age Cometh! Forget Global Warming!

[Chad]

In just the last couple of months i've been seeing so many social media posts from the Britain & Ireland showing sun dogs, strange clouds and really vivid sunsets , and i'm pretty sure it's not just because people have more time and what not because of the lockdown. Having lived in England for nearly 2 decades i'm pretty sure those kinda things were rare; i saw a moondog, once.

Anyway, as an example, and what prompted me to bring it up again (i've mentioned it elsewhere on the forum) was this stunning example of a sun dog from the 22nd April in Cork, Ireland

Sun dog - Wikipedia
Sun dogs are commonly caused by the refraction and scattering of light from plate-shaped hexagonal ice crystals either suspended in high and cold cirrus or cirrostratus clouds, or drifting in freezing moist air at low levels as diamond dust.[2]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1252995941923196928

https://twitter.com/x/status/1253033659243925505

Added: It's already up on SOTT: Giant rings around the sun over Cork, Ireland explained

 

[Persej]

For those who love maps of the last Ice Age, you're gonna love this video:

 

[treesparrow]

Snowfall reported on social media in Morocco in mid-May. (14th)

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=176538666981340

https://twitter.com/x/status/1261014339399626752

Meanwhile in Asia a snow storm warning has been issued for Mongolia:

ULAN BATOR, May 14 (Xinhua) - Mongolia's National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring on Thursday issued a dust and snow storm warning.

Heavy dust and snow storms are expected to hit several provinces of the eastern, southern and central parts of the country, such as Khentii, Dornogovi, Dundgovi, Sukhbaatar and Tuv on Friday, and wind speed will reach 26-34 meters per second in these areas, the weather monitoring agency said.

The agency advised citizens, especially nomadic herders, to take extra precautions against possible disasters.

Mongolia's climate is strongly continental, with long, frigid winters, and short, warm summers.

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And even though it's not snow perhaps we'll see more of this type of severe hailstorm event manifesting in the coming spring and summer seasons?

Severe hailstorm leaves streets of Delhi covered in icy white blanket -- Sott.net

Severe hailstorm in Delhi, India - 14 May 2020.

www.sott.net

 

[Laura]

Some pretty amazing weather, TreeSparrow! Things sure are getting interesting!

 

[thorbiorn]

The Norwegian weather service sticks to its Global Warming guns "come hell or high water", - well not really - in those regions they might say "come hell or high snow":

Therefore, the string of records are fully in line with climate change
The city is Tromsø, the month is April, and the year is 2020. After having shoveled snow away from the driveway for the third time in one day, a question slowly but surely begins to creep in: What happened to those climate changes, really?

It appears the Norwegian weather service has called in the crisis psychologists, to ease the impact of the effects of the cold and snowy weather?

The psychologist's advice to the Northmen: - Don't worry about the weather In the capital, the taps today were opened in sun and heat, but in Northern Norway the weather is so bad that some people become ill at ease, says a psychologist.

Edit:

Disappointing spring in the north - here January 2 still stands as the hottest day of the year
If you think spring in the north has been a weather tragedy, then you're right. In several cities in Northern Norway, January 2 is still the hottest day of the year.

 

[Debra]

Well, this article is getting passed around today.

Looks like the "Ice Age" part of the plot is starting to get some play, and they called it "Sunshine Recession":

The sun has entered a ‘lockdown’ period, which could cause freezing weather, famine
By Chris Pollard, The Sun
May 14, 2020 | 2:58pm | Updated

The sun has entered a ‘lockdown’ period – but scientists dismiss ‘apocalypse’ theories

OUR sun has gone into lockdown, with reduced solar activity as part of an 11-year cycle. The sun is currently in a period of “solar minimum”, meaning activity on its surface has fallen. Experts bel…

nypost.com

Our sun has gone into lockdown, which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, scientists say.
The sun is currently in a period of “solar minimum,” meaning activity on its surface has fallen dramatically.

Experts believe we are about to enter the deepest period of sunshine “recession” ever recorded as sunspots have virtually disappeared.
Astronomer Dr. Tony Phillips said: “Solar Minimum is underway and it’s a deep one.”

“Sunspot counts suggest it is one of the deepest of the past century. The sun’s magnetic field has become weak, allowing extra cosmic rays into the solar system.”
“Excess cosmic rays pose a health hazard to astronauts and polar air travelers, affect the electro-chemistry of Earth’s upper atmosphere and may help trigger lightning.”

NASA scientists fear it could be a repeat of the Dalton Minimum, which happened between 1790 and 1830 — leading to periods of brutal cold, crop loss, famine and powerful volcanic eruptions.

Temperatures plummeted by up to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over 20 years, devastating the world’s food production.
On April 10, 1815, the second-largest volcanic eruption in 2,000 years happened at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, killing at least 71,000 people.
It also led to the so-called Year Without a Summer in 1816 — also nicknamed “eighteen hundred and froze to death” — when there was snow in July.
So far this year, the sun has been “blank” with no sunspots 76 percent of the time, a rate surpassed only once before in the Space Age — last year, when it was 77 percent blank.

 

[Ennio]

NASA and its allied sock puppets in the media must be a bit riled up now given how the "solar minimum" information as it relates to an impending ice age (and what we're seeing unfold before our eyes) - is reaching ever greater numbers of people. See the "don't worry!" article below for how they lamely try to debunk the connections being made between the two.

It will be interesting to see what mental contortions these 'global warming' proponents make when things really get going.

What the solar minimum really means for life on Earth

You might have read some rather breathless reports about how the sun’s activity has been dimming toward a “solar minimum,” and how this could even cause problems like droughts or famine on Earth.

But there’s no need to panic: The sun is just fine and it’s not about to kick off a new ice age. Here’s what you need to know about a solar minimum:

The sun’s cycle

The sun varies in how brightly it shines over time, in a roughly predictable 11-year pattern called a solar cycle. As well as increasing in brightness at certain points during this cycle, the sun also shows a higher number of sunspots (dark patches on the surface of the sun) and solar flares.

Included in this cycle are regular periods of low sunspot activity called solar minimums.

During these periods, the sun does not become less active but rather becomes active in different ways, such as increased development of long-lived coronal holes. That makes these periods of interest to astronomers, and scientists are still figuring out exactly how the sun’s activity is related to phenomena like space weather.

It’s true that we are currently in a solar minimum, and that the minimum is forecasted to last longer than usual, just as it did in the previous solar cycle. But sunspot activity has not ceased entirely — in fact, two new sunspots were recently identified by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Entering a solar minimum doesn’t mean that the sun is about to stop shining, and it’s unlikely to have any impact whatsoever on life here on Earth.

A somewhat exasperated blog post by NASA’s Global Climate Change team says, “There is no impending ‘ice age’ or ‘mini ice age’ to be caused by an expected reduction in the sun’s energy output in the next several decades.” It explains that the sun goes through a natural cycle of activity, sometimes outputting more energy with many sunspots and sometimes less with fewer.

On occasions, the sun’s activity does dip to lower levels, in an event called a Grand Solar Minimum. The last Grand Solar Minimum was in the late 1600s, and coincided with a time of cooler global temperatures called the Little Ice Age.

But this drop in temperatures was related mostly to a rise in volcanic activity. A totally different set of factors affect the planet today.

So even if we were in a new Grand Solar Minimum, there’s no need to panic.

“Even if a Grand Solar Minimum were to last a century, global temperatures would continue to warm,” NASA says. “Because more factors than just variations in the sun’s output change global temperatures on Earth, the most dominant of those today being the warming coming from human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.”

NASA emphasizes that global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels is six times greater than any cooling which could be expected due to a Grand Solar Minimum.

So you should be worried about the Earth, not because the sun is going to kick off a new ice age, but rather because of the devastating impact of climate change.

 

[Aeneas]

NASA and its allied sock puppets in the media must be a bit riled up now given how the "solar minimum" information as it relates to an impending ice age (and what we're seeing unfold before our eyes) - is reaching ever greater numbers of people. See the "don't worry!" article below for how they lamely try to debunk the connections being made between the two.

It will be interesting to see what mental contortions these 'global warming' proponents make when things really get going.

Yes, they are mental contortionists. They say that people should not panic of the earth cooling, but wouldn't that be something to truly celebrate if one believes that the planet is going to burn into an apocalyptic oblivion in the very near future? Instead they want us to panic on the things which they determine to be the right things. So no need to panic about a coming ice age, but keep panicking about global warming and the end of the world.

So even if we were in a new Grand Solar Minimum, there’s no need to panic.

“Even if a Grand Solar Minimum were to last a century, global temperatures would continue to warm,” NASA says. “Because more factors than just variations in the sun’s output change global temperatures on Earth, the most dominant of those today being the warming coming from human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.”

"...global temperatures would continue to warm...". Famous last words from NASA. Trump turned the funding off for the WHO, perhaps he could do the same to NASA.

 

[Laura]

Yes, they are mental contortionists. They say that people should not panic of the earth cooling, but wouldn't that be something to truly celebrate if one believes that the planet is going to burn into an apocalyptic oblivion in the very near future? Instead they want us to panic on the things which they determine to be the right things. So no need to panic about a coming ice age, but keep panicking about global warming and the end of the world.


"...global temperatures would continue to warm...". Famous last words from NASA. Trump turned the funding off for the WHO, perhaps he could do the same to NASA.

That last bit was utterly, staggeringly, "Dunning-Kruger-ish".

I can't believe such morons are in charge of things.

 

[tschai]

Well, this article is getting passed around today.

Looks like the "Ice Age" part of the plot is starting to get some play, and they called it "Sunshine Recession":

The sun has entered a ‘lockdown’ period, which could cause freezing weather, famine
By Chris Pollard, The Sun
May 14, 2020 | 2:58pm | Updated

The sun has entered a ‘lockdown’ period – but scientists dismiss ‘apocalypse’ theories

OUR sun has gone into lockdown, with reduced solar activity as part of an 11-year cycle. The sun is currently in a period of “solar minimum”, meaning activity on its surface has fallen. Experts bel…

nypost.com

Our sun has gone into lockdown, which could cause freezing weather, earthquakes and famine, scientists say.
The sun is currently in a period of “solar minimum,” meaning activity on its surface has fallen dramatically.

Experts believe we are about to enter the deepest period of sunshine “recession” ever recorded as sunspots have virtually disappeared.
Astronomer Dr. Tony Phillips said: “Solar Minimum is underway and it’s a deep one.”

“Sunspot counts suggest it is one of the deepest of the past century. The sun’s magnetic field has become weak, allowing extra cosmic rays into the solar system.”
“Excess cosmic rays pose a health hazard to astronauts and polar air travelers, affect the electro-chemistry of Earth’s upper atmosphere and may help trigger lightning.”

NASA scientists fear it could be a repeat of the Dalton Minimum, which happened between 1790 and 1830 — leading to periods of brutal cold, crop loss, famine and powerful volcanic eruptions.

Temperatures plummeted by up to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over 20 years, devastating the world’s food production.
On April 10, 1815, the second-largest volcanic eruption in 2,000 years happened at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, killing at least 71,000 people.
It also led to the so-called Year Without a Summer in 1816 — also nicknamed “eighteen hundred and froze to death” — when there was snow in July.
So far this year, the sun has been “blank” with no sunspots 76 percent of the time, a rate surpassed only once before in the Space Age — last year, when it was 77 percent blank.

The sun on lockdown-as above so below?

 

[Mikkael]

The Barents Sea has become about one degree colder over the last five years, says the title of an article today on NRK.no. It speaks about two marine research teams from Norway and Russia which have been collaborating on measuring and collecting data since 2004 and their report is mentioning that colder seas move the ice sheet edge toward south since 2016. They point to reversal in warming trend, "until 2016, temperatures in the Barents Sea increased. Then it turned."

One reason is that the water coming to the area from the Atlantic has been cooler. The ice edge is also affected by how much ice comes in from the north and east, wind directions and whether the ice melts or freezes.

Whereas article speaks of cooling trend, at the same time the Norwegian research team is full of global warming sentiment. Perhaps it is not long before they'll see it freeze.

Temperatures in the southwest are now down to about the same level as they were in the early 2000s, says researcher at the Institute of Marine Research, Randi Ingvaldsen.
Ingvaldsen says these are natural fluctuations and says it is not an argument against human-caused global warming.
Natural temperature fluctuations are greater than man-made when you see variations in the short term, between years. Man-made raises the temperature curve all the time. There is no doubt that the Barents Sea is warmer today than in the 1950s, says Ingvaldsen.

The cold period we are entering now seems to be warmer than the previous cold period. Just as the warm period we had behind us was warmer than the previous heat. It fluctuates, but it swings around an increasing trend in temperature, says Arneberg.

Meanwhile mountains are buried under much snow that the power lines are snowed down on Sognefjellet.

 

[Persej]

WHERE HAVE ALL THE SUNSPOTS GONE? So far this year, the sun has been blank (without sunspots) 78% of the time. If this rate of spotlessness continues, 2020 will break the Space Age record for low sunspot counts. The previous record was set in 2019 with 77%. Two years in a row with so few sunspots adds up to a very deep Solar Minimum. Worried? Don't. The next solar cycle is coming.

SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids

Current Stretch: 20 days without sunspots.

 

[treesparrow]

Jesus H. Christ!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1264050688235130880

 

[goyacobol]

The sun on lockdown-as above so below?

@tschai,

I think you copied that just in time. They removed the crop loss and devastation of the world's food production part and put a disclaimer at the bottom of the article. Someone is very nervous about the truth I think.

The sun has entered a ‘lockdown’ period – but scientists dismiss ‘apocalypse’ theories

Disclaimer: A previous version of this article included misleading claims that the current solar minimum may be linked to extreme cold weather, crop loss, famine, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The scientific consensus disagrees with these claims, and the article has been amended.

 

[Laura]

@tschai,

I think you copied that just in time. They removed the crop loss and devastation of the world's food production part and put a disclaimer at the bottom of the article. Someone is very nervous about the truth I think.

The sun has entered a ‘lockdown’ period – but scientists dismiss ‘apocalypse’ theories

Nevertheless, all of those effects WILL happen, as they have happened before during ice ages.

Are the people in charge of this planet total morons? Or just liars?