Mike Lockwood :”He raised the likelihood of another grand minimum to 25% (from 10% three years previously). “
Could a quiescent sun portend a new little ice age: a chilly era for humanity and agriculture?
Guest opinion by Paul Driessen
President Obama, Al Gore and other alarmists continue to prophesy manmade global warming crises, brought on by our “unsustainable” reliance on fossil fuels. Modelers like Mike Mann and Gavin Schmidt conjure up illusory crisis “scenarios” based on the assumption that carbon dioxide emissions now drive climate change. A trillion-dollar Climate Crisis industry self-servingly echoes their claims.
But what if these merchants of fear are wrong? What if the sun refuses to cooperate with the alarmists?
“The sun is almost completely blank,” meteorologist Paul Dorian notes. Virtually no sunspots darken the blinding yellow orb. “The main driver of all weather and climate … has gone quiet again during what is likely to be the weakest sunspot cycle in more than a century. Not since February 1906 has there…
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The Next Grand Minimum 
Laser Plasma Shields* to escape electro-volcanic winters and deadly space super-storms: National Space Weather Strategy Released for Public Comment | NOAA / NWS Space Weather http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/national-space-weather-strategy-released-public-comment 2015: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/images/u33/final_shibata_SWW_2015.pdf
* https://ShieldEarthFromSpaceDisasters.wordpress.com
‘The main driver of all weather and climate … has gone quiet again ..’
And yet India experience heatwaves over two months April/May with temperatures peaking at 47 deg.C while Australia recorded record average temperatures for March and Queensland recorded its highest March maximum.
Deniers use solar maxima cycles as an excuse for warming but in a solar minima its still warm and extra cold in other areas (equal reaction).