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.
Read more at NY Post
NOAA has already noted the low sunspot numbers and hibernation, and reassured us (?????) that there is very little link between sun activity and temperature and climate, and CO2 etc has anyway cancelled out any possible slight fall in temperatures. So now we know……..well……..But whatever, CO2 will be to blame.
Freeman, there is evidence that increased cosmic rays affects silica-rich magmas resulting in increased eruptions. Check out https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1342937X10001966?via%3Dihub
Interesting. I note: “This radiation-induced nucleation can lead to the pre-eruptive exsolution of H2O in the silica-rich magma.”
In other studies it is pointed out that a volcanic plume is mostly water, not smoke.
Thanks, Paul! Interesting!
“there is evidence that increased cosmic rays affects silica-rich magmas resulting in increased eruptions.” This is exactly the kind of explanation that is needed in articles like the one above.
My prediction is this. AFTER this cooler weather hits, we will still hear all the same stuff from the global warmers: “2022 was the warmest year ever”, “2023 was the warmest year ever”, “At the rate the arctic is already warming there will be no summertime ice within 15 years”, etc. etc.
The latest time that there was marked cooling – 1940 to 1970 – “It’s the aerosols – they’re blocking sunlight – we have to do away with fossil fuels”. Hansen did some calculations for one of the leading “researchers” of the time – what would happen if the aerosols increased by a factor of four? The answer – ice age.
It doesn’t seem to matter what the problem is – heating or cooling – “get rid of fossil fuels” is the answer.
“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.”
How are these wordings that imply a causal link between weak solar magnetism and volcanic eruptions sensible? I’ve seen it in a few articles lately. Either the writer should explain how there could be such a causal link or else not imply it.
Agree with Freeman 100%
Quite possibly, no one is more stupidly arrogant
than
Dope franny and those who cohort and
drink altar wine with him
Naturally we should thank the DOPE
for sharing his infallible logic
with such plebeians as us
After all
Who speaks for DEITY
The DOPE doesn’t even realize
That all he’d have to do is speak in
philosophical and religious generalities
to maintain the fiction of VICAR
But because the DOPE speaks of specifics
He exposes his
FALLIBILITY !
All the jerk would have to do is
KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT
and just bless everyone ceremoniously in
Saint Peter’s Square .
YES
He is actually that STUPID !
I wouldn’t trust greenhouse gases to fend off Jack Frost. Thank you, frackers! Great timing.