Anthropogenic Global Warming; wasn't that supposed to be a curse on Dear Old Mother Earth? Apparently not; Stuff reports:
The world could be heading for a new 'solar minimum' period, possibly plummeting the planet into an Ice Age, scientists say.Researchers say the present increase in sun activity with solar flares and storms could be followed by this minimum period.The period would see a cooling of the planet, refuting predictions of global-warming alarmists.The research for this comes from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences.Its scientists analysed sediment in Lake Meerfelder Maar and found direct evidence of a 'solar minimum' causing a sudden cooling in Europe 2800 years ago.Dr Achim Brauer of the GFZ said the research shows there was an increase in humidity and windiness at the same time as the sustained reduction in solar activity.He said the measurements of lake sediment allow precise dating of short-term climate changes.The theory that increased solar activity affects weather on Earth is relatively new.It was first noticed in the 1970s when the American astronomer Jack Eddy noticed a strong correlation between historic weather records and accounts of solar activity.He noticed that a 'quiet' sun correlates with cold weather and a 'manic' phase means warmer conditions.The consensus view of global warming is mankind's use of fossil fuels is principally responsible.
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The sun has an impact on the climate? Whodathunk!
"scientists analysed sediment in Lake Meerfelder Maar"
Have they. Some scientists. Some mud in some lake. Sounds equivalent to the thoudsands of scientific works by the thousands of IPCC scientists that maintain that global warming is occuring.
Your lake-mud findings certainly are a powerful argument,
Two things: 1) Stuff is owned by Fairfax, which has a long history of climate change denial.
2) Most credible AGW predictions agree that we cannot foresee exactly what will happen, due to the nature of climate change producing extreme weather events.
P.S - Anon, use a pseudonym or a name when attacking a blogger. Much more polite and even-handed.
Thanks for that PS Alex- sometimes it's hard to tell the Anon's from the trees!
@ Anon - so who's to say that one single scientist's findings might not open what has previously been believed to debate? After all, most of the advances in science and technology in our lifetime have occurred because someone challenged an accepted norm
One single scientist studies some lake mud and we have to open the debate, KS?
Good God man!
I heard recently that a scientist has said that smoking doesn't lead to lung cancer - OPEN THE DEBATE! OPEN THE DEBATE!
Such short term (in geological terms)cycles are quite compatible with prognostications of adverse climate change brought on by human actions. No-one, to my knowledge, hjas ever seriously argued a single causation approach.
Moreover, as you must know, many climate chamnge advocates argue for complex interactions between various cyclical patterns and human interventions.
We are invited by all to consider the precautionary principle, which makes sense to me.
The news article is, of course, utter rubbish.
You're a climate change denier as well as a National Party stooge IV2? Whodathunk?
What other laws of physics would you like to disappear? The laws of thermodynamics are kind of sucky. They keep thwarting my perpetual motion machine. I'm sure the communists are behind them too...
This post is not panning-out very well for you, Keeping Stock.
Some would say you've become a laughing stock, but not I.
Too, too polite, me.
If we applied "the precautionary principal" to our daily lives, David Winter, we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning lest something bad happened.
And Keeping Stock, moi stari droog, does this mean that Mr Key is going to roll back the ETS?
"...does this mean that Mr Key is going to roll back the ETS?"
Yeah, Andrei. And while we're about it, why can't wimp-man Key be like mighty alpha monkey Putin, whom you idolise, and be more oppressive, dictatorial and anti-democratic? He could ride horse half-naked for camera too. Idiot.
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