Report: Scientists predict a century of global cooling | The Daily Caller
German scientists found that two naturally occurring cycles will combine to lower global
temperatures during the 21st century, eventually dropping to levels corresponding with the little ice age of 1870.
Due to the de Vries cycle, the global temperature will drop until 2100 to a value corresponding to the little ice age of 1870, write German scientists Horst-Joachim Luedecke and Carl-Otto Weiss of the European Institute for Climate and Energy.
Researchers used historical temperature data and data from cave stalagmites to show a 200-year solar cycle, called the de Vries cycle.
They also factored into their work a well-established 65-year Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
oscillation cycle. Global warming that has occurred since 1870 can be attributed almost entirely to both these factors, the scientists argue.
According to the scientists, the oft-cited stagnation in rising global temperatures over the
last 15 years is due to the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean oscillation cycle, which lasts about 65
years. Ocean oscillation is past its maximum, leading to small decreases in global temperature.
The de Vries solar cycle is currently at its maximum, explaining why temperatures have risen since 1870, but leveled off after 1998. However, this means that as solar activity starts to decrease, global temperatures will follow.
Scientists, however, have been increasingly turning against the global warming consensus and arguing that the world is actually in line for a colder century.
Professor Mike Lockwood of Reading University argues that the world is set for global cooling due to rapidly falling solar activity.
By looking back at certain isotopes in ice cores, [Professor Lockwood] has been able to determine how active the sun has been over thousands of years, the BBC reports. Following analysis of the data, Professor Lockwood believes solar activity is now falling more rapidly than at any time in the last 10,000 years.
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