{"id":577,"date":"2008-09-03T12:49:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T16:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=577"},"modified":"2008-09-03T12:49:29","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T16:49:29","slug":"solar-cooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Solar Cooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/article.aspx?newsid=12823\" target=\"_blank\">An event occurred last August<\/a> that hasn&#8217;t happened since 1913, almost 100 years ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The sun has reached a milestone not seen for nearly 100 years: an entire month has passed without a single visible sunspot being noted.  <\/p>\n<p>The event is significant as many climatologists now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/Solar+Activity+Diminishes+Researchers+Predict+Another+Ice+Age\/article10630.htm\">believe<\/a> solar magnetic activity \u2013 which determines the number of sunspots &#8212; is an influencing factor for climate on earth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And how would this lack of sunspots influence Earth&#8217;s climate?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the past 1000 years, three previous such events &#8212; the Dalton, Maunder, and Sp\u00f6rer Minimums, have all led to rapid cooling. One was large enough to be called a &#8220;mini ice age&#8221;. For a society dependent on agriculture, cold is more damaging than heat. The growing season shortens, yields drop, and the occurrence of crop-destroying frosts increases.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The only thing worse for mankind than global warming is global cooling, if you want to look at it that way.&nbsp; And it looks like we could be in for quite the cold snap.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the article is worth a read.&nbsp; It includes charts showing sunspot activity since the year 1600 that seem to correlate with global temperatures (including a dip during the 1970s when global cooling was the cry of the scientists).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An event occurred last August that hasn&#8217;t happened since 1913, almost 100 years ago. The sun has reached a milestone not seen for nearly 100 years: an entire month has passed without a single visible sunspot being noted. The event is significant as many climatologists now believe solar magnetic activity \u2013 which determines the number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-environment","category-global-warming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}