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June 16, 2011 10 Reasons to be Cheerful About the Coming New Ice Age <http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/authors/id.180/author_detail.asp> James Delingpole Print This <javascript:%20printVersion()> E-mail This <javascript:%20emailVersion()> <javascript:void(0);> http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/images/share.png ShareThis <javascript:void(0);> Comments (0) <http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/comments.asp?id=9756> http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/imgLib/20110616_FrostFair1814.jpg A frost fair on the Thames in 1814, with St. Paul's in the background. It's official: a new Ice Age is on its way. In what has been described as <http://www.thegwpf.org/science-news/3208-earth-may-be-headed-into-a-mini-ic e-age-within-a-decade.html> "the science story of the century", heavyweight US solar physicists have announced that the sun is heading for a prolonged period of low activity. This makes global cooling a much more plausible prospect in the next few decades than global warming. Indeed, it might even usher in a lengthy period of climate grimness such as we saw during the Maunder Minimum (when Ice Fairs were held on the Thames) or the Dalton Minimum (which brought us such delights as the 1816 Year Without A Summer). Here's how <http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/14/all-three-of-these-lines-of-research- to-point-to-the-familiar-sunspot-cycle-shutting-down-for-a-while/> Watts Up With That reports the bad news: A missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near the poles say that our Sun is heading for a rest period even as it is acting up for the first time in years, according to scientists at the National Solar Observatory (NSO) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). As the current sunspot cycle, Cycle 24, begins to ramp up toward maximum, independent studies of the solar interior, visible surface, and the corona indicate that the next 11-year solar sunspot cycle, Cycle 25, will be greatly reduced or may not happen at all... .."This is highly unusual and unexpected," Dr. Frank Hill, associate director of the NSO's Solar Synoptic Network, said of the results. "But the fact that three completely different views of the Sun point in the same direction is a powerful indicator that the sunspot cycle may be going into hibernation." Oh dear. Or is it "Oh dear?". Could there yet be a glimmer of hope and joy amid this black, treacly splurge of impending climate doom? Of course there could, and here are just a few reasons why we should welcome the arrival of the imminent Ice Age. 1. Well I've never ice-skated on the Thames. Have you? Also, I'd be quite interested to hear what that "expert" has to say: the one at Alan Howard's Downing College climate conference who blithely assured us that 17th frost fairs had NOTHING to do with the Little Ice Age. (It was all because the Thames flowed in a much more turgid way back then, apparently..) 2. People will no longer merely be mildly irritated at the way their landscape has been disfigured by bat-chomping eco-crucifixes for rent-seeking toffs (aka wind farms) in the name of saving us from "global warming." They will be incandescent. Lynch-mob incandescent. 3. As the starving polar bears march southward on the new sheet ice now extending from the North Pole to Gibraltar, desperate citizens will be forced to make tough decisions about which sacrificial victim should be fed next to the ravening beasts so that they leave the rest of us alone. Happily I have a suggestion. His name is <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8575352/Weekly-bin-collections-dea d-and-finished.html> Richard Kemp and - apparently - he is Vice Chairman of the Local Government Association. And among his taxpayer-funded functions - again, apparently - is to give quotes to newspapers telling us how grateful and happy we should be that our bins will now be emptied less often. He said: "Weekly rubbish collection is dead and finished. I'm delighted reason has prevailed. It's not what most local people want, it's not what most local councils want and it's certainly not what the advisers want. What local people want is a system that helps maximise recycling and helps to promote healthy living." Feed, my hungry ursine brothers! Feed! 4. Never in our lifetimes will we have to read another tendentious story about how daffodils are coming up three months earlier than usual/lambs are being born in December instead of spring/wildebeeste could soon be migrating across Salisbury Plain as a result of "global warming." 5. The 10-foot maneating Oceanic Whitetips which have been drawn to Cornwall's waters by the Concept Formerly Known As Global Warming will now be replaced by 30 foot maneating Greenland sharks. Which will kind of serve the Cornish right for being such impassioned early adopters of wind farms. 6. New edicts will be issued by world leaders including President Ryan of the US, Prime Minister Farage of Great Britain and Aussie premier Plimer, scrapping High Speed Rail, abandoning all renewable energy schemes (apart from, maybe, hydroelectric) and making the ownership of 4 x 4s or similar gas-guzzling vehicles compulsory by 2015. Stringent punishments to be introduced for those whose carbon footprint falls below a certain agreed minimum level. 7. Monbiot* the Musical (libretto: James Delingpole; music: James MacMillan) - a light-hearted celebration of one of the late 20th century's great comic figures* - opens simultaneously on Broadway and in the West End to enormous acclaim. 8. Woolly mammoth steaks are said to be surprisingly delicious. They taste like chicken, apparently. 9. Britain now stands a reasonable chance of cleaning up in the medals at the 2022 Winter Olympics. As, unfortunately, do Jamaica, Bora Bora, Egypt and, of course, the 2022 Olympics' host nation, Dubai. 10. The Prince of Wales, Al Gore, Rajendra Pachauri, James Hansen, Paul Ehrlich, David Cameron, Leonardo Di Caprio, Ed Begley Jr, Sir P Nurse of the Royal Society and Britain's second most famous celebrity mathematician Simon Singh will be among the many former Warmists who put their names to a grovelling apology published in all the world's newspapers explaining how incredibly bad and stupid they feel for all the economic damage they have inflicted, all the careers ruined, all the unnecessary fear promoted as a result of their misguided promotion of the "Man-Made Global Warming" myth. Yeah, right. Hell will freeze over before that happens. But wait: what are all those spike-tailed, horned, red figures doing gliding on blades across the surface of the Styx? James Delingpole is a British writer, journalist and broadcaster who is (he says) right about everything. He is the author of numerous fantastically entertaining books including <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Welcome-Obamaland-Seen-Future-Doesnt/dp/1596985887/ ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1264694924&sr=1-1-fkmr0> Welcome to Obamaland: I've Seen Your Future and it Doesn't Work. His website is <http://www.jamesdelingpole.com/> http://www.jamesdelingpole.com/ and he also has a blog at the <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/jamesdelingpole/> Daily Telegraph. *George Monbiot, Green "guru," Warmist. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. 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