Solar Cycles, Climate Change and the Giggling Party

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by Glenn R. Geist

As an amateur radio operator, I’m familiar with the 11-year solar cycles because they strongly affect the ionosphere and thus the kind of long-range radio propagation many hams enjoy.

I’m also somewhat familiar with longer cycles, like the predicted Grand Minimum, called the “Maunder Minimum when it last occurred in the 17th century. Apparently, that was a period of reduced sunspot activity unrelated to the 11-year cycle.

Despite the giggling that occurs every time we get a cold January morning in South Florida, there’s little doubt that Earth’s climate is getting hotter on the average and the effect is strong and observable in high latitudes, but the question of the rate of heating is subject to some uncertainty.

An article in The Astrophysical Journal: “Ultraviolet Flux Decrease Under a Grand Minimum from IUE Short-wavelength Observation of Solar Analogs, ” predicts that the coming Grand Minimum starting around 2020 will give us an additional 7% reduction in solar output, and probably, much to the annoyance of HF band users, fewer sunspots.

You’re right, that should reduce the rate of increase in global warming for a time, but not the warming itself. If you’re cynical and think that the giggling party will use this to deny the whole thing and all the data, I agree with you. They will fight this to the death. Not their own death, of course, they’ll already be dead when the world climate goes to hell and the land and sea become far more toxic and inhospitable.

It’s my grandchildren and their children who will, barring some technological miracle, pay the price.

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Glenn Geist lives in South Florida and wastes most of his time boating, writing, complaining and talking on the radio
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Timmy Mahoney
6 years ago

I hope this doesn’t sound naive but what the hell Mikes a friend of mine: what does cause global warming?

Jerry Girard
6 years ago

The myth:

Solar cycles cause global warming: A new peer-reviewed study on Surface Warming and the Solar Cycle found that times of high solar activity are on average 0.2°C warmer than times of low solar activity, and that there is a polar amplification of the warming. This result is the first to document a statistically significant globally coherent temperature response to the solar cycle, the authors note (source: Mark Morano).

Ron Reed
6 years ago

I’m with Lyndon 100% on this, the learning part and the Hitler reference.

Lyndon Probus
6 years ago

You’ll never change the minds of the climate deniers. That would be like telling Hitler Youth the Jews weren’t a threat to the Fatherland. Ain’t gonna happen. Interesting though the solar cycles. I learned something and for that I am most grateful.

Reply to  Glenn Geist
6 years ago

We have developed some alternate sources of energy such as wind and solar, but as you point out the Trump Gang won’t spend a dime to support them unless there’s something in it for them. Oddly, there is, as both are big business, but Trump’s blinded by his own stupidity and his giggling gaggle of climate deniers.

Neil Bamforth
6 years ago

If even I know climate change is real then it is.

You’re right of course. Our grandchildren will pay the price.

What a bloody world eh? 😢

Admin
6 years ago

Unless it’s broadcast on Fox News it isn’t real; it’s fake news. That’s where we are today, and that’s fcked up.

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