Rusted Sky

Old Man Winter isn't finished with us yet

A late April snowstorm dumped a foot of snow or more across parts of western and northern Minnesota, forcing authorities to close a major freeway and St. Cloud State to cancel its spring football game. At least two deaths were blamed on the storm.

It must be Global Climate Change! Otherwise, the temperature would be a balmy 75 degrees (f) worldwide. All year around. Everywhere.

/sarcasm

You know, I REALLY would like to see some claim somewhere about what the global temperature SHOULD be. Haven't seen it yet - have you?

By the way, if you're interested - there's currently no sunspots. Low sunspot activity means low solar activity - and lessened solar radiation. In Canada, they're worried about it, and have been for a while. (This from last June, actually.)

Read the sunspots

The mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change - and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling.

Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe solar cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth. Beginning to plan for adaptation to such a cool period, one which may continue well beyond one 11-year cycle, as did the Little Ice Age, should be a priority for governments. It is global cooling, not warming, that is the major climate threat to the world, especially Canada. As a country at the northern limit to agriculture in the world, it would take very little cooling to destroy much of our food crops, while a warming would only require that we adopt farming techniques practiced to the south of us.

If you want to keep track yourself, you can check out SpaceWeather.Com, or you can check out solar radio flux readings here. The numbers are low - especially when you check out this article.

Wouldn't it be funny of the climate change folk are right - but in the wrong direction?

J.