The Sun is going to sleep ( not die or anything like that fyi )

[Sawin]

Good. This will counteract the runaway man made global warming and things will be perfect.

yeah, and [skin] cancer rates will go down too!

[Zundfolge]

Good. This will counteract the runaway man made global warming and things will be perfect.

Actually the good thing about a Solar Minimum is that we'll see less disruption of technology by solar activity. Furthermore mankind is much better prepared and technologically advanced this time around so a long cold period could be compensated for and the death toll should be much lower.

HOWEVER, the last quarter to half century of "man made climate disruption" alarmism will just go into hyper-drive once bad things actually start to happen and since they've already planted the anthropogenic seed in the minds of the people we'll see freedom and industrialization blamed instead of the truth of uncontrollable solar activity. So expect to see the man made climate change BS ratchet up with correlating increases in government power and decreases in liberty, property rights and cheap energy. Ironically progressive politics and environmentalist dogma will likely kill more people this time around.

[Bailey Guns]

I don't see how the sun can go to sleep with that bright light !!!

It sleeps at night time. Duh!

[HoneyBadger]

Time to invest in some equatorial real estate!


...Also, great news for anyone with oil or gas futures!

[Ridge]

I think I'll go ahead and put this on my list of things I don't really need to worry about.

Not only because it's a non event, but I see no point in fretting over things I have no control over. If I'm going to die because of some cosmic event, I see no need in stressing about it for the remainder. Live life to the fullest while you can.

[TRnCO]

Here's another article with predictions of a solar lull coming in about 15 years. This article can be found on Fox News today. I just chuckle, we're being told daily by the alarmist that it's all MAN MADE global warming, but here comes someone telling us that the sun, of all things, actually does have something to do with temperature here on earth. Who would've thunk it.

"Scientists warn that the Earth is just 15 years away from experiencing a "mini ice age" — something that hasn't happened in 300 years.Researchers in the U.K. created a new model of the Sun's solar cycles that allows them to make extremely accurate predictions of changes in solar activity like never before.
Solar cycles typically last 11 years and during that time, the north and south magnetic poles flip. It looks a lot like a heartbeat when graphed out. We're currently in Cycle 24.

The solar scientists say that the latest model shows the Sun's magnetic waves will become offset in Cycle 25 which peaks in 2022. Then, in Cycle 26, solar activity will fall by 60 per cent during between 2030 and 2040 causing this "mini ice age".
Professor Valentina Zharkova, who presented the findings at the National Astronomy Meeted in Wales, said, "In cycle 26, the two waves exactly mirror each other – peaking at the same time but in opposite hemispheres of the Sun. Their interaction will be disruptive, or they will nearly cancel each other."

So what does that mean for us? Pretty much what you'd expect.

Bitter cold winters — cold enough to freeze River Thames in England, which is exactly what happened when the last "mini ice age" hit between 1645 and 1715."

[Ridge]

I have no doubt that mankind has played a part in altering the natural pattern of global environment shifts, but it's not like we are the sole cause of it. This has been going on for millenia.

[vossman]

HOWEVER, the last quarter to half century of "man made climate disruption" alarmism will just go into hyper-drive once bad things actually start to happen and since they've already planted the anthropogenic seed in the minds of the people we'll see freedom and industrialization blamed instead of the truth of uncontrollable solar activity. So expect to see the man made climate change BS ratchet up with correlating increases in government power and decreases in liberty, property rights and cheap energy. Ironically progressive politics and environmentalist dogma will likely kill more people this time around.

Holy shit that is a lot of words but it's pretty much right on the money IMO.

[Monky]

Don't you try to tell me that some ball of fire in the sky millions of miles away has ANYTHING to do with how we are destroying the earth and making it warmer, or colder.. or whatever we are doing.. just hogwash.. HOGWASH!

[Gman]

Global cooling is far more dangerous to life than global warming.

We might have some influence on the climate, but it isn't quantifiable.