The sun’s cooling ought to offset the alleged warming the earth has experienced over the past decade or century. In addition to (hopefully) muting global warming zealots for a while, it may cause 2020 to be the most memorable blur of a year in a long time. The last major sunspot minimum, the Maunder Minimum, ushered in a “little ice age.”
But.
I’m old enough to remember when our science classes taught us that an ice age, thanks to the things they blame on global warming now, was inevitable. So, maybe the solar minimum gets offset by global warming. Add a little, subtract a little. If that’s the case, we should feel precisely no effects.
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So we may have that to look forward to. 2020 continues to do everything but mess around.During the Maunder Minimum, temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere declined, relative to twentieth-century averages, by about one degree Celsius. That may not sound like much – especially in a year that is, globally, still more than one degree Celsius hotter than those same averages – but consider: seventeenth-century cooling was sufficient to contribute to a global crisis that destabilized one society after another. As growing seasons shortened, food shortages spread, economies unraveled, and rebellions and revolutions were quick to follow. Cooling was not always the primary cause for contemporary disasters, but it often played an important role in exacerbating them.
But.
I’m old enough to remember when our science classes taught us that an ice age, thanks to the things they blame on global warming now, was inevitable. So, maybe the solar minimum gets offset by global warming. Add a little, subtract a little. If that’s the case, we should feel precisely no effects.
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