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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:36 am Post Subject: Is Britain about to be plunged into a Little Ice Age?
Another spin on the scientific weather merry-go-round! :mrgreen:
Is Britain about to be plunged into a Little Ice Age? By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 8:15 AM on 4th July 2011
Scientists think Britain and Europe could be in for a chilly few years predicting a 'Little Ice Age' could be on its way in just a few decades time.
Average temperatures in Britain could fall by two degrees centigrade, according to the study led by Mike Lockwood, professor of space environment physics at Reading University, because of a drop in the amount of sunspot activity.
Sunspots are darker patches seen in the sun's surface which are caused by small areas of magnetic activity which disrupts the normal flow of intensely heated gases.
Scientists have discovered that a drop in sunspots, pictured in black could block winds that can keep Europe from excessive cold in winter
But last year, Professor Lockwood discovered that a drop in sunspots could block winds that can keep Europe from excessive cold in winter, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Professor Lockwood's team looked at the sun's activity of the past 9,300 years using Met Office data.
His findings, published by the Institute of Physics, (IoP) showed that in the next 50 years there is a one in 10 chance of the sun returning to conditions seen between 1645 and 1715 when the River Thames in London regularly froze over, as did the Baltic Sea.
Known as the Maunder Minimum during these years astronomers could not see any sunspots and Europe endured unusually harsh winters which came to be known as the Little Ice Age.
Professor Lockwood's findings could mean the average winter temperature could drop below 2.5C, compared to the average British winter now of 5C, the newspaper reported.
In June, three different studies all concluded that sunspot activity looks set to decline over the next 10 years.
Experts said the next upswing in sunspot activity, which follows an 11-year cycle, will not be as strong as normal - or might not even happen at all.
The findings were presented at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's solar physics division.
They said a decrease in global warming might result in the years after 2020, the approximate time when sunspots are expected to disappear for years, maybe even decades.
Merry go round or circus I call it a 'black comedy' :roll:
Actually Maurice Cotterell who I have read a lot of has just been on Redice as a guest and he is posing some interesting theories on the solar activity.
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 1:34 am Post Subject:
Yep interesting alright Niksta - sounds similar in scope to the "Thunderbolts" work :wink: Will have to check out some of Cotterell's stuff when/if I find the time. Thanks for the links.
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And in fact someone the other day mentioned a coin having three sides? :wink:
