Don't blame me.. The announcement was out of the UK Met office.. 50% in the next 100 years..
Natural cooling of the Sun will not be enough to save Earth from global warming warn scientists - Science - News - The Independent
Over the past several decades, the Sun has been in a “grand solar maximum” but it is quickly becoming less and less active, with an increasing probability of it entering a grand solar minimum by the end of the century, according to calculations based on radioactive isotopes affected by solar radiation over the past 9,300 years.
“The trajectory at the moment is on a path towards a Maunder minimum in the next 50 years but with an overall probability of about 20 per cent. However, over the next 100 years the probability rises to about 50 per cent,” said Professor Mike Lockwood, a solar physicist at Reading University.
“There is a significant probability that within the next half century we’d be entering another grand solar minimum and although that doesn’t make much difference to global average temperatures it might cause us in Europe to suffer more extreme cold winters,” Professor Lockwood said.
The last grand solar minimum – known as the Maunder minimum after 19th Century solar astronomers Annie and Walter Maunder – occurred between about 1645 and 1715 and was marked by the virtual disappearance of the 11-year cycle of sunspots, accompanied by a small but significant decline in the total solar radiation reaching the Earth.
My only issue with this MET assessment versus the Ruskies and other Solar Labs around the world -- is their statement about how this Solar Min would not compete with their dearest GWarming campaign.. So they ran it thru the SAME models that repeatedly UNDERestimated natural variations to be able say that GW would indeed prevail... They are DieHard fanatics.
Ignore that part. But this makes all of these cooling warnings a little more interesting dont it?
Natural cooling of the Sun will not be enough to save Earth from global warming warn scientists - Science - News - The Independent
Over the past several decades, the Sun has been in a “grand solar maximum” but it is quickly becoming less and less active, with an increasing probability of it entering a grand solar minimum by the end of the century, according to calculations based on radioactive isotopes affected by solar radiation over the past 9,300 years.
“The trajectory at the moment is on a path towards a Maunder minimum in the next 50 years but with an overall probability of about 20 per cent. However, over the next 100 years the probability rises to about 50 per cent,” said Professor Mike Lockwood, a solar physicist at Reading University.
“There is a significant probability that within the next half century we’d be entering another grand solar minimum and although that doesn’t make much difference to global average temperatures it might cause us in Europe to suffer more extreme cold winters,” Professor Lockwood said.
The last grand solar minimum – known as the Maunder minimum after 19th Century solar astronomers Annie and Walter Maunder – occurred between about 1645 and 1715 and was marked by the virtual disappearance of the 11-year cycle of sunspots, accompanied by a small but significant decline in the total solar radiation reaching the Earth.
My only issue with this MET assessment versus the Ruskies and other Solar Labs around the world -- is their statement about how this Solar Min would not compete with their dearest GWarming campaign.. So they ran it thru the SAME models that repeatedly UNDERestimated natural variations to be able say that GW would indeed prevail... They are DieHard fanatics.
Ignore that part. But this makes all of these cooling warnings a little more interesting dont it?
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