There should be lively discussion of items such as this in Environment instead of stupid videos about a totally fantasy ice age. I will demolish the stupid half baked rationale for the so called ice age.
The principal underpinning of the ice age crap is:
1. Sunspots are reducing—reducing as we leave one solar cycle and enter the next, as happens every eleven years on average. The radiation, light etc, that we receive does not change during the change from one cycle to another.
2. Frauds say the decline is because the sun is entering a Grand Solar Minimum whew there is a decades long minimum in the number of sunspots and the radiation emitted by the sun, especially UV radiation, decreases a tad
3. This Grand Solar Minimum will cause an ice age.
4. There is crap talk of the GSM causing vulcanicity and earthquakes, total poppycock as these are driven by events deep in the earths crust.
5. Galactic Cosmic Rays reach us because the suns magnetic field weakens during a GSM. These GCRs cause clouds to form. Do a Google search—CRs do cause nucleation in the atmosphere but the nuclei are too small by orders of magnitude to form clouds. We have more clouds because warmer seas evaporate more into warmer air that can hold 8% more moisture than it could 100 years ago.
6. The decline in radiation (TSI-Total Solar Irradiation, the amount of solar energy received at the upper limits of the atmosphere) will cause an ice age.
This last point is the crux of their argument: a tad less UV reaching us means we go into an ice age. Bullshit! A Maunder Minimum level of cooling would reduce temperatures by 0.13–0.3°C. The world has warmed 1.2°C since 1880 so a tiny bit of cooling would hardly be noticed—and AGW will warm the globe by more than that tiny bit of cooling before long anyway.
Point 4 is interesting. The frauds and their dupes put a lot of stock in this but it is wrong as I said above. Why this is mentioned is that heavy vulcanicity was thought to be a trigger for the Little Ice Age 1300–1850 or so. We have not had any unusually active vulcanism so they twist that into saying the Ice Age causes earthquakes and volcanoes so they keep the connection to volcanoes, see?
Pure snake oil is what these frauds are selling.
Oh yeah, the
clever dupes say the Arctic/Greenland ice melting will stop the Gulf Stream and so plunge the UK and Europe into an ice age. An ice age with hot summers
The Gulf stream moderates summers as well as winters. Pure fantasy, pure snake oil on the part of the fraudsters like Dubyne. We have put 46% more CO2 in the atmosphere, I doubt anything like the LIA will happen if the Gulf Stream slows significantly.
The slowdown we have seen has boosted sea level rise off the US east coast. It also means the heat in the current accumulates and this heat fed Hurricane Sandy as it travelled northwards until it hit New York and also fed Hurricane Ophelia as it moved toward the British Isls.
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