As geophysicist Philip Chapman, a former NASA astronaut-scientist and former president of the National Space Society, warns, “It is time to put aside the global warming dogma, at least to begin contingency planning about what to do if we are moving into another little ice age.”
The sun has lost its spots. As of now, all of them. By this point in the solar cycle, sunspots would ordinarily have been present in goodly numbers. Lots off sun spots mean warmth on earth; no sunspots spell drastic cooling.
The speculation in the scientific community is that we could be entering a new epoch that few would welcome. Several renowned scientists have been predicting for some time that the world could enter a period of cooling right around now, with consequences that could be dire.
“The next little ice age would be much worse than the previous one and much more harmful than anything warming may do,” says Dr. Chapman. “There are many more people now and we have become dependent on a few temperate agricultural areas, especially in the U.S. and Canada. Global warming would increase agricultural output, but global cooling will decrease it.”
As I keep stressing, for millions of years the earth has experienced an ice age every 100,000 years without fail — 90,000 years of glaciation, 10,000 to 12,000 years of temperate interglacial climate. The last ice age ended 12,000 years ago. A new one is overdue.
And the record shows that the transition period between interglacials and glaciation is a mere 20 years, a period of increasing violence, like what we're beginning to see now. If you doubt that's where we are now, wait until this winter sets in. In all probability it will be the worst and most violent winter we've ever seen.
Fuente:
http://www.newsmax.com/brennan/financial_crisis/2008/09/24/133868.htmlotro, el viento solar alcanza un mínimo desde hace 50 años, o sea desde que se toman datos:
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/23sep_solarwind.htm
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