Baby It's Cold Outside

Ever hear of the Maunder Minimum? Me neither, but a number of climate scientists say that weather like it is going to make winters unbelievably cold and summers pretty darn weak for some time to come.

The Maunder Minimum was a time of minimal sun spot activity that occurred during a 65-year period at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, which was not so affectionately referred to as the "Little Ice Age." Sound fun? Well perhaps not as it was marked by, "... a period of feeble summers and bitingly cold winters, war, pestilence and famine."

Professor Valentina Zharkova at Northumbria University in England predicts that:

"We will see it from 2020 to 2053, when the three next cycles will be very reduced magnetic field of the sun. Basically what happens is these two waves, they separate into the opposite hemispheres and they will not be interacting with each other, which means that resulting magnetic field will drop dramatically nearly to zero. And this will be a similar conditions like in Maunder Minimum."

Well now, that's pretty definitive. It would seem in the next few years we will see if the Global Warmists have it right or the contrarians do. I can't wait. Excuse me while I go dig out my long johns. 

www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/08/12/winter-is-coming-warns-the-solar-physicist-the-alarmists-tried-to-silence/