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[gothwalk]

Here's an an article about global climate. It argues that contrary to the majority opinion, there is in fact no global warming, and that we're about to start the slide into a Little Ice Age, bottoming out around 2030. It's well written, and fairly convincing in and of itself, although it's not for the faint-hearted, containing sentences like "Two consecutive negative extrema transgressing the threshold indicate grand minima of the Maunder minimum type, whereas a single extremum below the threshold goes along with an event of the Dalton minimum type.".

What I'm finding interesting is that either way, Little Ice Age, or global warming leading to the Gulf Stream shutting down, Europe seems to be in for some cold times. I'm not getting my hopes up, though - my bet is that the global warming (which I do think exists) will counter the effects of the cyclical minima, leaving us with pretty ordinary weather, barring the odd storm.

But it'd be nice to have real winters in Ireland.

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[socmot.livejournal.com]

It might be nice when you think about it, but it might be a disaster for economic reasons. a colder winter would be a colder year all around. Agriculture would suffer more than it is now, road and rail transport would probably become much tougher...fishing stocks would possibly become depleted as well. And mortality rates would drop as well - as Ireland's population grows older, they might well die off in higher numbers...

And it would give my poor arthritic left hip absolute hell :-)

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely. All you heat-lovers would have to move to Spain or somewhere. Me and grutok will have the whole country to ourselves. :)