{"id":378777,"date":"2018-09-27T08:10:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T07:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/should-we-brace-for-severe-winters-ahead\/"},"modified":"2018-09-27T08:10:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T07:10:04","slug":"should-we-brace-for-severe-winters-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/should-we-brace-for-severe-winters-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Should We Brace for Severe Winters Ahead?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You may have missed a few brief mentions of an emerging threat in the mainstream news: The face of the sun has gone mostly blank in the past few years, with an extremely low number of sunspots. There have only been sunspots visible on the sun for 133 days in the past year. The last three solar cycles have become progressively weaker. There is now a legitimate concern that because there have been several very weak solar cycles in succession, that we could tip over into another Grand Solar Minimum (GSM).<\/p>\n

This potentially developing GSM could be something similar to the\u00a0Maunder Minimum<\/a>\u00a0that lasted from 1645 to 1715. (Or even longer<\/a>, depending the climatologist you consult.) In northern Europe, the Maunder Minimum was famous for decades of brutal winters in the deepest part of what is commonly called\u00a0The Little Ice Age<\/a>. This climate aberration caused huge crop failures that may have triggered or exacerbated the Anglo-Spanish War, the Second Northern War, the Austro-Turkish War, the War of Devolution, the Franco-Dutch War, two Russo-Turkish Wars, the Great Turkish War, the Nine Years War, and countless smaller civil wars and pillaging. Notably,\u00a0the River Thames in England froze quite deeply, in 1677<\/a>. (As shown in today\u2019s illustration.) It was also during the Maunder Minimum that the Vikings abandoned all of their settlements in Greenland.<\/p>\n


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\n<\/span>According to\u00a0climate historian Dagomar DeGroot<\/a>, the Maunder minimum had profound sociological, economic, and political effects. He wrote:\u00a0 \u201cAs growing seasons shortened, food shortages spread, economies unraveled, and rebellions and revolutions were quick to follow. Cooling was not always the primary cause for contemporary…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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You may have missed a few brief mentions of an emerging threat in the mainstream news: The face of the sun has gone mostly blank in the past few years, with an extremely low number of sunspots. There have only been sunspots visible on the sun for 133 days in the past year. The last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}