On Friday, 22 March 2013 10:44:38 UTC, Togless wrote:
"Tudor Hughes" wrote:



"Togless" wrote:

Teignmouth" wrote:

People should be careful of what they wish for, a Mini

Ice Age would be much more damaging to the World

economy & day to day living than Global Warming.



A 'mini ice age' now would take us all the way back to the

blisteringly cold climate of... the 1980s.



If you'd said the 1880's I'd take the remark a little more seriously.



According to the palaeo data, the LIA was about 0.4C cooler globally than

the MWP and the mid-20th Century. 0.4C back from today's temperature takes

us to the global temperature of the mid-1980s.



The world has warmed so much in the last 100 years or so that a global

cooling of a few tenths of a degree would be insignificant, unless for some

reason it had highly localised effects which weren't seen in the 20th

Century.



Part of the reason for the locally harsh winters around the North Atlantic

and Europe during the LIA may have been expansion of ice and snow cover

which acted as a positive feedback to the relatively small global cooling..

It's unlikely this would happen now, given the rate of global warming which

is causing rapidly diminishing snow and ice cover over the northern

hemisphere. Solar physicists say that at best, a Maunder Minimum-scale

decrease in insolation would delay global warming by 15 years or so, but

then it would continue as before (assuming we don't come to our senses and

start fixing the problem).

"come to our senses" ? So are you saying that around two hundred years ago capitalism (us) should have switched to wind turbines and solar panels on the roofs of all those millions of semis in the UK at that time, FFS are you mad Sea ice is about tshow another increase upwards, I'm sitting here typing in SE London with two pullovers on desptite the CH on amd you just can't stop the bloody AGW mantra -not even the slightest hesitaition.


Thank god we have AGW ortherwise it would be even colder