Return of the Dust Bowl

[C-Mag]

Yeah, the most powerful force in our solar system might just have a wee affect on our weather. Somehow those praying at the altar of global warming seem to leave Sol out of their calculations.

Anyway, better get going on cloning those wooly mammoths. We are going to need to hunting them for food.

[Montegriffo]

Another Maunder Minimum ?

As of May 8th, the Earthward face of the Sun had been spotless for 73 out of 128 days thus far for 2018, or more than 57% of the time. What’s is store for Cycle #25? If the current trend continues, with spotless days more the rule than the exception, we could be in for a deep profound solar minimum through the 2018 to 2020 season, the likes of which would be unprecedented in modern astronomy. A similar dearth of sunspots was documented during the 1645-1715 period referred to as the Maunder Minimum. During this time, crops failed and the Thames River in London froze, making “frost fairs” along its frozen shores possible.

https://www.universetoday.com/139189/ar ... r-minimum/

Just saying...

The Maunder Minimum roughly coincided with the middle part of the Little Ice Age, during which Europe and North America experienced colder than average temperatures. Whether there is a causal relationship, however, is still controversial.[13] Research at the Technical University of Denmark and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has linked large solar eruptions to changes in the Earth's cloud cover and clouds are known to affect global temperatures.[14] The current best hypothesis for the cause of the Little Ice Age is that it was the result of volcanic action.[15][16] The onset of the Little Ice Age also occurred well before the beginning of the Maunder minimum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum

[SuburbanFarmer]

Didn’t Krakatoa kick off the Little Ice Age?

[TheReal_ND]

Yes. It released green house gasses causing a mini ice age.

[Montegriffo]

Didn’t Krakatoa kick off the Little Ice Age?

Krakatoa was 1883.
About 20 years after the end of the LIA.

[Montegriffo]

Yes. It released green house gasses causing a mini ice age.

Not greenhouse gases. Volcanic matter blocking out the sun.
Some great sunsets all the way around the planet.


Illustration by William Ascroft from "The eruption of Krakatoa, and subsequent phenomena"

[C-Mag]

FOIA reveals EPA coordinating with Watermelons to put working class people out of jobs
Plans by EPA and Sierra Club to cripple coal industry exposed by FOIA Documents Obtained as a Result of E&E Legal FOIA Request

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/01/new ... al-access/

[doc_loliday]

Ceding enormous swaths of the continent to nature because there isn't enough rain is dumb. We have the technology to get water where we want it to go, we just lack the political will.

[Speaker to Animals]

To pay for their social programs, coastal cities could build desalination plants and sell the water to the rural counties.

You would be fine with a robust nuclear power system and lots of desalination plants.

[doc_loliday]

To pay for their social programs, coastal cities could build desalination plants and sell the water to the rural counties.

Absolutely they could. Nuclear desalination plants at every Mission in the state.