tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post1646715152991485664..comments2024-03-28T07:55:34.307-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: A new Maunder Minimum?Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-88457967281302486052016-08-14T04:19:28.737-05:002016-08-14T04:19:28.737-05:00Sounds like it's the perfect time for another ...Sounds like it's the perfect time for another federal government program to increase the amount of food production going to making ethanol for cars. There must be some under utilized acreage out there someplace we could use to reduce the efficiency of gasoline. <br /><br />You can convert ethanol back into corn flakes, right? Right? Inconsiderate Bastardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-34441016787311240612016-08-12T13:35:04.344-05:002016-08-12T13:35:04.344-05:00One of the issues that seems to be related to suns...One of the issues that seems to be related to sunspots is the magnetic field of the sun. Livingston and Penn have shown a strong relationship between the lack on sunspots and the reduction in the magnetic field of the sun. As the sun's magnetic field reduces, more cosmic rays reach the earth. Cosmic rays encourage cloud formation and cloud reflect sun light. <br /><br />So the while the amount of sunlight leaving the sun may not be changing, the amount of sunlight reaching the earth is decreasing. The lack of sunspots may not cause global cooling but may be side effect of weakening solar magnetic field, which will cause global cooling. Sidney Waltershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13244057542141437218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-27517437878197836362016-08-11T13:06:16.540-05:002016-08-11T13:06:16.540-05:00Cent, it depends on what happens to precipitation ...Cent, it depends on what happens to precipitation patterns. In Europe, the post-Roman, Dalton, and Maunder cold periods were marked by cold wet weather that rotted crops in the field, caused glaciers to advance, and increased the strength of North Atlantic storms. In the American Southwest, the onset of the Little Ice Age (1300s) was a period of long-term drought even if the air temps were cooler (probably because of suppression of the "monsoon" in summer. The east coast seems to have been warmer but also drier. The southern plains had more year-round rain that fell in smaller amounts, but also colder winters (ditto the Rio Grande Valley). It's so variable that once you get past very broad sweeps, exactly what happens where becomes a challenge, even with the best proxy data.<br /><br />LittleRed1 (who studies climate history as part of her day job)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-36820082660220814772016-08-11T11:01:40.633-05:002016-08-11T11:01:40.633-05:0040% reduction of crop in current farmable land, bu...40% reduction of crop in current farmable land, but we should also see less productive land in hotter area becoming more productive. with increase in expected population, there is definitely a concern for 4 horseman to be more active though. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-19365385771584468512016-08-11T10:43:29.131-05:002016-08-11T10:43:29.131-05:00Earth has been around 4,500,000,000 years. We hav...Earth has been around 4,500,000,000 years. We have been keeping records 100...150 years. We don't know squat!Judyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06530748998376076224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-84480386267156351352016-08-11T10:31:33.998-05:002016-08-11T10:31:33.998-05:00The main effect of another Maunder Minimum will be...The main effect of another Maunder Minimum will be a reduction of agricultural output - like 40%. Places that import a lot of their food where they lack productive economies to boot, such as the Muslim middle-east, will be drastically affected by the reduction, and subsequent increase in food prices.kurt9https://www.blogger.com/profile/02101147267959016924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-63594183487090293842016-08-11T10:31:08.044-05:002016-08-11T10:31:08.044-05:00Something that I think is important to keep in min...Something that I think is important to keep in mind is that no one alive today has ever seen the sun at the current activity levels. It's the lowest activity in at least a hundred years - some people say more like 150 years. <br /><br />That means not only has no observatory observed the sun this low, but no instrument invented in the last 100 years has measured it this low in activity either. Obviously 100 years ago is way before the "space age" started, and our satellites observing from orbit. And that means that our computer models have been built upon observations that don't include the current state - everything they're getting is extrapolated off the end of the curve and that means it can't possibly be as reliable or trustworthy as interpolations in the middle of the curve. Predictions would be much more reliable if the sun was at mid twentieth century activity. <br /><br />Long term solar activity predictions have always been unreliable, and predictions based on things that have never been seen are even less reliable. So take any predictions of another Maunder Minimum, Dalton Minimum or another Carrington Event with a giant grain of salt. <br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-68189693460208627222016-08-11T10:22:26.488-05:002016-08-11T10:22:26.488-05:00Mauder Minimum????? Unpossible because......GLOBAL...Mauder Minimum????? Unpossible because......GLOBAL WARMING!!!!Plethorayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10916090822365387328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-86643993432440733512016-08-11T10:02:44.753-05:002016-08-11T10:02:44.753-05:00This is what bugs me about the "global warmin...This is what bugs me about the "global warming" stuff. Is it warming? Sure, if it's not cooling. Do humans contribute? At least some, how much more than that? <i>Will it be bad for us?</i> You can't say! In the case like this post, GW might actually be a very good thing that saves us from a huge food shortage.Nate Winchesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00630873800235819300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-6657178303616675592016-08-11T09:56:05.124-05:002016-08-11T09:56:05.124-05:00"Winter is coming""Winter is coming"Topher_Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00010167523883034739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-47787095585341828672016-08-11T09:17:48.279-05:002016-08-11T09:17:48.279-05:00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_861us8D9M
Googl...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_861us8D9M<br /><br />Google some of the names of the "scientists" in this program. Today they are predicting hotter and hotter temperatures.<br /><br />And they want me to believe that the science is settled!<br /><br />Stephanie Osborn writes good scfi books.nonohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10946012129539132762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-55751226012635674432016-08-11T09:02:29.132-05:002016-08-11T09:02:29.132-05:00Stephanie Osborn, astronomer and all round science...Stephanie Osborn, astronomer and all round science geek, has a FaceBook page called the Cosmic Weather Report where she tracks current developments on solar activity and other celestial phenomena, and tries to put the findings into a perspective digestible by the lay person.<br />https://www.facebook.com/groups/294672317552181/<br />It's a closed group, but she's pretty responsive about requests to join.<br /><br />As for the year without a summer, the April 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa in the Dutch East Indies ejected massive amounts of Sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere. Coupled with a decrease in solar activity and other climate factors most of the northern hemisphere transitioned from spring to fall with only a brief cool summer season. Resulting crop failures led to the worst famine of the 19th century through much of Europe and parts of North America.Uncle Larhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04008207593205949098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-78712106607297384652016-08-11T08:25:02.936-05:002016-08-11T08:25:02.936-05:00If there is one thing observing the predictions of...If there is one thing observing the predictions of solar activity over the last fifteen or so years has taught me, it is that no one really understands what is going on inside the sun. The recent solar maximum was predicted to be a massive event, but was actually somewhat quiescent and started late. Interestingly, most of those predictions have disappeared from the internet. One group of scientists has been measuring the trend in the contrast between spots and the normal surface (that is, how dark the spots are) and have said that if the present trend continues, the spots will disappear by the end of this decade. They have not suggested a mechanism to explain this, it is just an observational trend. http://www.leif.org/research/apjl2012-Liv-Penn-Svalg.pdfTommyLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09558497602046645166noreply@blogger.com