This question comes across as a bit bizarre in the face of the global warming crisis that the world faces. It’s not so bizarre when one realizes that our globe isn’t warming. It’s cooling - and quite rapidly to boot.
The Hawaii Reporter made this comment in an article on Feb. 10, 2009: “In the midst of all the hype about global warming, have you heard about the glitch that’s been encountered? After nine years of non-warming, the planet actually began to cool in 2007 and 2008 for the first time in 30 years. The net warming from 1940 to 1998 had been a minuscule 0.2 degree C; the UK’s Hadley Center says the earth’s temperature has now dropped back down to about the levels of 100 years ago. There has thus been no net global warming within ‘living memory’, says Dennis Avery. Add to this the fact that so far, 2009 doesn’t look like another barn-burner for the warming advocates.”
If you look at the above graph, you will see that the current average global temperature is now equal to temperatures recorded before anyone thought of global warming. Our current decline in temperature flies in direct contradiction to the UN-IPCC models which were used to predict the hellish nightmare scenarios that are supposed to be unfolding now. What explains this contradiction?
Recent solar research has revealed that the sun does not sit stationary at the center of our solar system. It wobbles about like a drunken sailor, succumbing to the intoxicating effects of angular momentum. This wobbling about results in the sun heating and cooling the earth in predictable long term cycles. Put more scientifically, the spin-orbit coupling of the sun and the Jovian planets governs the solar grand minima and cycle modulations of the sun. Right now, we are headed towards a grand minima cycle.
What does this all mean in layman terms? It means that we are in a cooling period of the sun’s Jovian cycle that should last for 30 or more years. We may or may not enter a little ice age as in the late 1700’s / early 1800’s but we will certainly see a cooling trend with temperatures lower than normal well into the mid century with some warming towards the end of this century (not anything as warm as the late 1990’s). Our current temperatures may well be the warmest for the entire century.
What can we expect over the next few decades? Lowering sea levels, lowering temperatures, increased snow levels, increases in the thickness and extent of polar ice, earlier winters and later springs, and increased sequestion of CO2 (due to cooling seas).
Don’t throw out that old coat yet! You’re going to need it.