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Subject: GLOBAL COOLING: Decade long ice age predicted as sun 'hibernates'
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 05:21:28 -0500
From: burfordTjustice
Organisation: At Her Service
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A team of European researchers have unveiled a scientific model showing
that the Earth is likely to experience a “mini ice age� from 2030 to
2040 as a result of decreased solar activity.

Their findings will infuriate environmental campaigners who argue by
2030 we could be facing increased sea levels and flooding due to glacial
melt at the poles.

However, at the National Astronomy Meeting in Wales, Northumbria
University professor Valentina Zharkova said fluctuations an 11-year
cycle of solar activity the sun goes through would be responsible for a
freeze, the like of which has not been experienced since the 1600s.

From 1645 to 1715 global temperatures dropped due to low solar activity
so much that the planet experienced a 70-year ice age known as Maunder
Minimum which saw the River Thames in London completely frozen.

The researchers have now developed a "double dynamo "model that can
better predict when the next freeze will be.

Based on current cycles, they predict solar activity dwindling for ten
years from 2030.

Professor Zharkova said two magnetic waves will cancel each other out in
about 2030, leading to a drop in sun spots and solar flares of about 60
per cent.

Sunspots are dark concentrations of magnetic field flux on the surface
that reduce surface temperature in that area, while solar flares are
burst of radiation and solar energy that fire out across the solar
system, but the Earth's atmosphere protects us from the otherwise
devastating effects.

She said: "In cycle 26, the two waves exactly mirror each other, peaking
at the same time but in opposite hemispheres of the Sun.

"We predict that this will lead to the properties of a ‘Maunder minimum.

It is 172 years since a scientist first spotted that the Sun’s activity
varies over a cycle lasting around 10 to 12 years.

“Over the cycle, the waves fluctuate between the Sun’s northern and
southern hemispheres. Combining both waves together and comparing to
real data for the current solar cycle, we found that our predictions
showed an accuracy of 97 per cent."

Research colleagues Simon Shepherd of Bradford University, Helen Popova
of Lomonosov Moscow State University and Sergei Zarkhov of the
University of Hull used magnetic field observations from 1976 to 2008 at
the Wilcox Solar Observatory at Stanford University.

A Royal Astronomical Society spokesman said: "It is 172 years since a
scientist first spotted that the Sun’s activity varies over a cycle
lasting around 10 to 12 years.

"But every cycle is a little different and none of the models of causes
to date have fully explained fluctuations."

The “double dynamo� theory appears to support claims of researchers who
argue Earth will soon experience major global cooling due to lower solar
activity as the sun goes into a sustained period of hibernation.

Environmentalists meanwhile claim global temperatures will increase over
the period unless we drastically reduce carbon emissions.




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