“As the climate cools, hundreds of millions in America and abroad will lack the resources to feed themselves or heat their homes.”
Sunspots and the Great Cooling Ahead
By Jeffrey Folks
(Excerpts) – Presumably, even among the ill-informed ideologues at the White House, there are a few who have heard of sunspots. There may even be one who knows, as most informed persons do, of the correlation between sunspot activity and the earth’s climate. But apparently no one has bothered to inform the president.
When sunspot activity is high, as it was during the 1990s and early 2000s, temperatures tend to be high as well. When it is low, as it is now, temperatures fall. And because sunspot activity occurs in decades-long cycles, the unusually cold winter and spring of 2012 may be just the beginning. As a Barron’s article recently noted, current sunspot activity is now the least it has been in a century.
What this means is that the era of global cooling has begun. In the northern hemisphere, three out of the four last winters and springs have been unusually cold. This spring was so cold in East Asia that China was forced to import millions of tons of grain and soybeans from the U.S. and other suppliers.
For the world’s poor, a cold year means the difference between eating and going hungry, or between heating one’s home and shivering all winter. Or as the philosopher Thomas Hobbes put it (while living through the thick of the Little Ice Age himself), it’s the difference between a life that is warm and comfortable and one that is “nasty, brutish, and short.”
That is because shortages inevitably result from global cooling. As supplies of foodstuffs and energy become constrained due to cold, damp growing seasons and the need for more heating, a global bidding war arises in which the poor lose out.
What America is facing with global cooling is year after year of crop failure, higher heating bills, and general inflation (as the effects of higher food and fuel prices ripple through the economy).
As the climate cools, hundreds of millions in America and abroad will lack the resources to feed themselves or heat their homes.
See entire great article:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/07/sunspots_and_the_great_cooling_ahead.html
Thanks to Sonya Porter for this link