There’s a wonderful irony in the fact that, back in the
1970s, the Greens were issuing warnings and even writing books about the coming
Ice Age. They would abandon this issue, based in well-known and accepted solar
science, in favor of a vast international hoax alleging man-made global
warming.
As the global warming hoax begins to lose its power to
influence public opinion and policy, the Greens are not likely to be heeded for
a long time to come because they were right about an Ice Age and lying through
their teeth about global warming.
Scientists and laymen who follow the Ice Age cycles have
been warning that, if not a full-fledged Ice Age, at the very least a Little Ice
Age comparable to one that lasted from 1300 to around 1850 is on its way
Amidst all the media coverage of Hurricane Gustav and the
Republican Convention, a report in DailyTech.com was not likely to get much
attention, but it forecast a very cold world in the years to come. The Earth
has already started to cool and scientists date the change from 1998.
Headlined, “Drop in solar activity has potential effect for
climate on Earth”, the news is that, for the first time in 100 years, “an
entire month has passed without a single visible sunspot being noted.” The author,
Michael Asher, noted that “The event is significant as many climatologists now
believe solar magnetic activity—which determines the number of sunspots—is an
influencing factor for climate on Earth.”
My friend, Robert W. Felix, wrote an excellent book on this
titled “Not by Fire, but by Ice” ($15.00, Sugarhouse Publishing, softcover,
second edition) which can be purchased from his website at IceAgeNow.com.
“We’re beginning to realize that Earth is a violent and
dangerous place to live,” wrote Felix. “We’re beginning to realize that mass
extinctions have been the rule, rather than the exception, for the 3.5 billion years
that life has existed on Earth.”
Felix has a new book soon to be published that addresses
magnetic reversals, another cyclical factor affecting life on Earth. “During
the last 4.5 million years, at least six out of nine radiolarian extinctions
occurred at magnetic reversals.” They appear to be a factor in the sudden
emergence of new species so Darwin’s
theory is likely to be reexamined.
As the DailyTech report notes, “In the past 1000 years,
three previous such events, the Dalton, Maunder, and Sporer Minimums,” of
reduced sunspot activity, “have all led to rapid cooling,” adding that, “For a
society dependent on agriculture, cold is more damaging than heat. The growing
season shortens, yields drop, and the occurrence of crop-destroying frosts
increases.”
An article by William Livingston and Matthew Penn of the
National Solar Observatory in Tucson,
Arizona, “Sunspots May Vanish by
2015”, predicts that sunspots will disappear completely. “Such an event would
not be unprecedented, since during a famous episode from 1645-1715, known as the
Maunder Minimum…” That solar cycle “was shown to correspond with the reduced
average global temperatures on the Earth.” In other words, it’s going to get
COLD.
The Little Ice Age had an effect on history as you might
imagine. The French Revolution is attributed to it insofar as the cost of bread
rose as wheat crops failed. Riots followed. Similarly, Napoleon’s invasion of
Russia met with defeat thanks to a winter that killed thousands of his troops.
In America,
it was reflected in the travails of Valley Forge.
Over at IceAgeNow.com, Felix posts the latest news from
around the world that tells of anomalous events ranging from freak early snow
storms to expanding glaciers. Soon enough, those living in the northern
hemisphere will become more aware as winters lengthen and become more severe.
After that, the scenarios grow quite serious.
Even the venerable Old Farmers Almanac is making news these
days forecasting a far cooler winter and suggesting that the Earth is already
in a cooling cycle.
No doubt some diehard Greens like Al Gore will continue to
spout nonsense that the cold weather is due to global warming, but it has to do
with the Sun that’s gone quiet. It’s not myth. It’s reality.
