New mini ice-age starting 2013???

Whoot.Whoot!
cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/14...hints-at-a-big-chill


In the past, such periods have coincided with lower-than-expected temperatures on Earth. The most famous example is the Maunder Minimum, a 70-year period with virtually no sunspots from 1645 to 1715. Average temperatures in Europe sank so low during that period that it came to be known as "the Little Ice Age."

From the actual article cited, despite the misleading headline:

"Even then, however, he estimated that the effect of greenhouse-gas emissions would be on the order of 10 times as great. "What you might see over a 20- to 30-year period is a slight slowdown in the pace of warming," Schmidt said. "In terms of how we should think about climate change prediction in the future, reducing emissions and so on, it really wouldn't make much of a difference.""

And a thorough debunking at thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/06/15/246202...deniers/#more-246202

Interesting how a potential slowdown in rate of warming (or mitigation in the increase in rate of warming) gets translated into a "big chill" in the article's headline.

Well lets be positive......at least we'll have global warming mitigated by solar chilling and hopefully that will mean the status quo is preserved and good skiing for the rest of my selfish little life. Next generation= screwed.....sorry.

What we really need is for the earth to get over this spate of earthquakes and move onto a whole bunch of major volcanic eruptions.   Then we would be talking big chill.

Does anyone know the impacts on warming from the use of helicopters in the BC?

Yes... it is 1/10,000 of the amount of warming being produced by the Subaru's full of TAYers driving to Paradise.