Hot enough for you? It’s edging back up to 100 degrees F at the rancho this morning, where it’s topped out daily for more than a week now. And, frankly, when the sunspots started up again last year, I figured, well, predictions of an ice age were more than a bit premature.
So imagine my surprise at today’s announcement at the AAS: “The American Astronomical Society meeting in Los Cruces, NM has just made a major announcement on the state of the sun. Sunspots may be on the way out and an extended solar minimum may be on the horizon.”
If so, the current heat wave will soon be relegated to nostalgia and global warming a desirable phenom. Indeed, perhaps the only thing to save us from widespread crop failures due, not to excessive heat, but frigid, icy temperatures worldwide.
UPDATE: If you want an idea of what it might be like, try Fallen Angels, with its predictions of blizzards in Missouri in September and returning glaciers (300-feet high at their leading edge) sliding ever-farther south.
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