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As a bunch of self-deluded utopians gather in Paris in an irrelevant effort to "stop" global warming, the world is now said to be descending into a mini-ice age.  The only qualification that deserves to be made is that this prediction is being made by some of the very same people who, until a few months ago, were chicken-littling over global warming.

World is on brink of 50 year ICE AGE and BRITAIN will bear the brunt

BRITAIN faces DECADES of savage winters driven by freak changes in global ocean conditions and a weakening of the sun.

By Nathan Rao

Daily Express

Crippling blizzards, snowstorms and sub-zero temperatures threaten a yearly dose of Arctic misery for the next FIFTY YEARS at least - and possibly decades more.  Climate experts warn a rare pattern of water cooling in the north Atlantic will trigger a chain reaction of events leading to a “fully-blown ice age”.  They say the UK is on alert for a “serious climate situation” with regular winter whiteouts pushing emergency services to the limit.

The UK Met Office, long a cheerleader for the reality of anthropogenic global warming, was more tempered.
  It has begun to warn of a period of global cooling (although--tsk, tsk--not as bad as what it might have been due to recent global warming).

The warning comes just months after the Met Office warned Britain might be facing another maunder minimum period of cooling.  A recent report warned the amount of light and warmth released by the sun is nosediving to levels "not seen for centuries".

A so-called 'Maunder Minimum' has been responsible for historic winter whiteouts and led to the River Thames freezing 300 years ago.  The Met Office-led study claimed that although the effect will be offset by recent global warming, Britain could see some cooler than average winters in years to come.  A spokesman said: "A return to low solar activity not seen for centuries could increase the chances of cold winters in Europe and eastern parts of the United States but wouldn't halt global warming.

Those climate scientists and weather analysts not under the thrall of spurious global warming are far less sanguine.  Solar activity has dropped unexpectedly and sharply in recent months.  If that locks in--as indicated it well might--buy some skates for your grandkids.  They are likely to be able to go skating on the Thames.

James Madden, forecaster for Exacta Weather, said an unusually strong El Nino Pacific Ocean warming will contribute to the chilly mix.  He said the effects are likely to start emerging this year as Britain heads towards a severe, cold winter.  He said: “We are entering what a number of weather models are showing as a strong El Nino event.  “The significance of an El Nino event on weather patterns for the UK are not as clear-cut, but some past indications do give good weighting to the development of colder winters over the British Isles.

El Nino may well prove to be a distraction.  The far more serious factor is a radical slowdown in solar activity. 

“In terms of this winter the more direct and influential factors include the extremely low solar activity that we currently reside within, and the cold water anomaly in the North Atlantic.”  He said after a cycle of strong solar activity an “off the charts” dip in the sun’s energy output will trigger years of potentially cold winters in the UK.

This will disrupt the flow of the warming Gulf Stream which usually hikes winter temperatures and blocks the full thrust of any Arctic flow.  He said: “The Gulf Stream regulates winter temperatures to much warmer values than they should be for the likes of the UK and Ireland in respect to our overall latitude.  “In periods of high solar activity we experience a significant rise in solar energy which heats these vital ocean currents.

“An increase in solar activity levels heated ocean currents, which favoured certain atmospheric circulation patterns from around the globe whilst also retaining heat on earth from insulation.  However, we are now in something completely different, and after such a period of high solar activity in recent decades, we have gone to something completely off the charts in terms of solar output.  [Emphasis, ours]

“This also alters ocean behaviour to more long term cold cycles, and models can overcook El Nino conditions and their impacts as solar activity is currently low.  This serious climate situation is also something that is unlikely to correct itself overnight as repeated analysis of past cycles and other contributing factors in relation to the current solar output and size/frequency of sunspots reveal to us quite conclusively that we are heading into something like a Maunder Minimum - a time when the Thames used to freeze over regularly in London - or a fully blown ice age in the coming years and decades.”

We would just note in concluding remarks that severe cold is far more destructive to human beings and animal life than global warming was ever going to be.  Now that's something the apocalypstas could get really energised about.  Al "the-science-is-settled" Gore will doubtless wake up one day and a light bulb will go off in his head.  There is money to be made in global freezing.  And then it will all be on.  Again.  Fools never learn.  And in case you are wondering, we (collectively) have been the fools.