dsi1 wrote:
> On 12/26/2015 9:41 AM, el dia del Cristo wrote:
>> dsi1 wrote:
>>> On Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 12:17:32 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
>>>> "dsi1" <> wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>>> That building manager ought to pay for the damage! At least it was
>>>>>> clean
>>>>>> water?
>>>>>
>>>>> It was clean water but the acoustic ceiling tiles just dissolves like
>>>>> toilet paper in water and makes a heck of a mess.
>>>>
>>>> Oh dear The houses being flooded here are having to dig out mud.
>>>> Imagine
>>>> having to do that 3 times in one month
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> The floods here come with mud and it destroys everything One
>>>>>> couple
>>>>>> were
>>>>>> watching tv and their carpet started to bubble. It was coming up
>>>>>> through
>>>>>> the floor. They got out fast. That water was contaminated with
>>>>>> diesel(
>>>>>
>>>>> How odd! Storm system are bad, very bad.
>>>>
>>>> I suspect money for flood defences have been cut back over the past few
>>>> years. They certainly are promising to put big money into it now!
>>>>
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>>>
>>> The weather system is the world's biggest heat engine. Global warming
>>> is like turbocharging the engine. Well, that's my theory anyway. It's
>>> a good idea to direct resources to fortify our defenses against water
>>> and wind. Well that's my theory too.
>>>
>>
>> People in Yurop better watch out for:
>>
>> The Maunder minimum ushered in a period known as the Little Ice Age, the
>> article continues. Colder-than-average winters became more prevalent,
>> and the average temperature in Europe appeared to drop by between 1 and
>> 2 degrees Celsius.
>>
>> A possible little ice age, that's the real story here, not "the
>> calm before
>> the storm."
>>
>>
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...04114.html?g=0
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Low sunspot activity has historically been linked with colder periods in
>> human history such as the period known as the “Little Ice Age” during
>> the 1600s. Higher levels of sunspot activity have been linked to warmer
>> periods like the one from the 1970s to the late 1990s.
>>
>> Solar activity is now falling faster than any other period in the last
>> 10,000 years, and some researchers have suggested that the planet could
>> cool off in the coming decades.
>>
>> “By looking back at certain isotopes in ice cores, [Professor Mike
>> Lockwood of Reading University] has been able to determine how active
>> the sun has been over thousands of years,” the BBC reports. “Following
>> analysis of the data, Professor Lockwood believes solar activity is now
>> falling more rapidly than at any time in the last 10,000 years.”
>>
>> “When we have had periods where the sun has been quieter than usual we
>> tend to get these much harsher winters,” Sunderland University climate
>> scientist Dennis Wheeler told the Daily Express.
>>
>> This is not necessarily a new discovery, as scientists have been
>> pointing to rapidly falling solar activity for some time now. Last year,
>> Russian scientists said that the world could soon plunge into another
>> Little Ice Age.
>>
>> “After the maximum of solar cycle 24, from approximately 2014 we can
>> expect the start of deep cooling with a Little Ice Age in 2055,” wrote
>> Habibullo Abdussamatov of the Russian Academy of Science.
>>
>> The U.K.’s Lockwood also told the BBC that falling sunspot activity
>> raises the risk of entering a new Little Ice Age “from less than 10
>> percent just a few years ago to 25-30 percent.”
>>
>> “So the warming we saw, which lasted only from 1978 to 1998, is
>> something that is predictable and expectable,” said Don Easterbrook,
>> professor emeritus of geology at Western Washington University. “When
>> the ocean changed temperatures, global cooling is almost a slam dunk.
>> You can expect to find about 25 to 30 years yet ahead of us before it
>> starts to warm up again. It might even be more than that.”
>>
>> http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/13/mu...lobal-cooling/
>>
>>
>
> It's tough to separate man's effect on the climate and Earth's periodic
> changes.

Not where sunspot cycles are concerned, those suckers are just
completely immutable by man.

> The good news is that Las Vegas won't be a hot desert but
> instead, it'll be a green and verdant land.

It sure could be!

> That would be just spiffy
> for me but I'm not sure if I can hold out for 10,000 years.

Would 15 work?