On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 03:15:31 -0800 (PST)
"Keith (Southend)G" wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-25743806

Interesting reading and yet another spanner in the works. I know many
put a lot of faith in the solar activity and it'd effects on the
weather, but as a weather forecasting tool I am a bit sceptical.
However, from a climate point of view, given the sun is basically our
engine, this does make me think.

What I do find amuzing is how we can move from one scenario to
another one in a completely different direction, eg, AGW being a
certainty to this suggesting a mini iceage in the century ahead. I
still have that book upstairs "The Weather Machine and the threat of
ice by Nigel Calder" published in 1974 ISBN 0 563 12646 9, I may give
it another read as it may be coming back into fashion like much of my
wardrobe LOL. Who knows it may be worth a fortune on ebay...

Again it appears to me that mother nature finds ways of balancing the
books, maybe she should get a post in the treasurery :-)

Oh I do love this subject


This was mentioned earlier in "possible Maunder minimum on the cards?"

From what I remember of the broadcast, we may have to wait forty years
to find out. I think some advances in medical science will be needed
for me to last that long.

Is "amuzing" shorthand for "amazingly amusing"? ;-)

I haven't read Calder's book but almost all of the predictions of a
mini ice-age that came out in the late 60s and early 70s were based on
temperature cycles, both local and global. These suggested a cold end
to the 20th century with winter conditions in UK similar to the those
that had occurred a couple of hundred years earlier. Instead of that,
winter temperatures were about 1.5C warmer. I wonder what went wrong?
[That's a rhetorical question, by the way.]

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