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Climate Change Not So Bad ?
- Thread starter Bro. Curtis
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I think that they have been observing solar flares for four hundred years. They have a great influence on climate and go through eleven-year cycles I believe. It has been warmer in the past because Vikings used to live in Greenland, but it is no place to live nowadays. I don't seem much change in my lifetime and this April has been one of the coldest in many years. My heating bills have been terrible this year.
The 11-year cycle is more directly tied to sunspots, though solar flares are more common when there are more sunspots, so the above comment is not incorrect. The previous minimum and the recently ended maximum both had the fewest sunspots of any cycle in many decades. Sunwatchers are intensely interested in what the upcoming minimum will show, and whether/how it will influence weather.
We need to take care in pointing to the weather in our own particular area when evaluating the world's climate. Consider early 2010, which nationwide was one of the coldest and snowiest seasons on record. Meanwhile, Maine, and especially northern Maine, had its mildest winter on record by far, and much below normal snowfall. Dutchmen were able to (briefly) skate on that nations canals this past winter, for the first time in decades. During the so-called little ice age about 300 years ago, the skating lasted for months.
Even the medieval warm period was evidently limited to the North Atlantic regions rather than being worldwide. It was indeed mild, enough so that the Greenland settlements were able to crop farm in addition to keeping sheep. By the time those settlements were deserted in the 1400s, the climate had cooled to where even sheepherding was precarious and the remaining populations had been starving and stunted.
We need to take care in pointing to the weather in our own particular area when evaluating the world's climate. Consider early 2010, which nationwide was one of the coldest and snowiest seasons on record. Meanwhile, Maine, and especially northern Maine, had its mildest winter on record by far, and much below normal snowfall. Dutchmen were able to (briefly) skate on that nations canals this past winter, for the first time in decades. During the so-called little ice age about 300 years ago, the skating lasted for months.
Even the medieval warm period was evidently limited to the North Atlantic regions rather than being worldwide. It was indeed mild, enough so that the Greenland settlements were able to crop farm in addition to keeping sheep. By the time those settlements were deserted in the 1400s, the climate had cooled to where even sheepherding was precarious and the remaining populations had been starving and stunted.
The world has always been under a warming and cooling cycle, since dawn of creation!
I am not sure about that although I am not trying to dispute it. Adam's sin caused the earth to be cursed but things changed again with Noah's Flood 4300 years ago and then the Ice Age that lasted about seven hundred years. I think the climate is generally stable but some years the ice cap retreats and some years it grows and some years it remains the same.
Very funny!
yes, but really, yesterday it was 85F clear and sunny. Today 60F and rain.