Global Cooling!

Reporters report that Scientists say so!

Scientist predicts 'mini Ice Age'

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- A Russian astronomer has predicted that Earth will experience a "mini Ice Age" in the middle of this century, caused by low solar activity.

Khabibullo Abdusamatov of the Pulkovo Astronomic Observatory in St. Petersburg said Monday that temperatures will begin falling six or seven years from now, when global warming caused by increased solar activity in the 20th century reaches its peak, RIA Novosti reported.

The coldest period will occur 15 to 20 years after a major solar output decline between 2035 and 2045, Abdusamatov said.

Dramatic changes in the earth's surface temperatures are an ordinary phenomenon, not an anomaly, he said, and result from variations in the sun's energy output and ultraviolet radiation.

The Northern Hemisphere's most recent cool-down period occurred between 1645 and 1705. The resulting period, known as the Little Ice Age, left canals in the Netherlands frozen solid and forced people in Greenland to abandon their houses to glaciers, the scientist said.

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Of course, this is all rather speculative; but that's what all climate predictions are: speculation. This one is just about 1000 times less unlikely as the scenario in The Day After Tomorrow. As somebody that has worked in the computer (pardon me, information technology industry) for the last 30 years, including gigs at scientific instrumentation and supercomputer companies, I am touched at the naïveté of unsophisticated people's faith in computer models.

Anybody who tells you that their computer model can predict the weather one year from now is not naïve, they are dishonest. Anybody who tells you that their computer model can predict the climate 100 yeras from now is not a scientist, they are a politician, and a dishonest politician at that.