Posted by
Rich on Saturday, February 09, 2008 8:42:37 AM
Scientists around the world are putting more attention on the sun in trying to understand global temperature changes.
There
are a growing number of important studies and theories that the sun is
the greatest factor in determining heating and cooling periods over the
centuries. More importantly these theories and the data indicate we are
headed into a global cooling period.
According to Investor's
Business Daily, "Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for
more and better "eyes" with which to observe our sun, which has a
bigger impact on Earth's climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks
on our planet combined.
Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year
cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet.
The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is
known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of
centuries and can last as long as a century. Such an event occurred in
the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily
low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle.
This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that
began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming,
until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to
massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe."
Research
by John L. Casey, Director of the Orlando, FL based Space and Science
Research Center, has led to the "Theory of Rational Cycles of Solar
Activity" or RC Theory.
The RC Theory is based on an independent
analysis of sunspot records to the year 1610, solar activity proxy C14
isotope records for 1,200 years, temperature records for 2,000 years,
using multiple sources, both chart extrapolated data and original data
sets from other research sources.
"This research provides
sufficient information to conclude that underlying and fundamental
cycles of solar activity exist and are significant models of climate
change on the Earth on multi-decadal and centennial scales." according
to Mr. Casey's Report 1-2008, the RC Theory.
This research Mr.
Casey says, "offers the scientific community as well as the general
public, a plausible means for understanding the natural and predictable
shifts from global cooling to global warming and back to global cooling
that have occurred for thousands of years in the past and will likely
do so in the future.
As a direct result of the theory, it is
predicted that the Earth will experience a significant temperature
decline beginning between within 3-14 years and lasting two or three
solar cycles resulting in global temperature reductions of at least
1.0-1.5 C, a level not seen for over 200 years. The depths and extent
of the predicted cold period has the potential to result in world wide
agricultural, social, and economic disruption."
We have long
believed that global warming is a natural phenomenon caused by solar
activity and that it is cyclical. Recent studies are confirming these
beliefs. This has serious implications for public policy on global
warming.
It shifts the debate away from concerns about carbon
emissions and global warming to the more important concern of global
cooling and its impact on vast regions in terms of food production,
human and animal migration to warmer zones and the need for cheap and
reliable power to heat our homes and offices in the future.
Let the discussion begin.