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Is apparently the reason[^] why our winters are getting colder:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25771510[^]
Quote:
Scientists are saying that the Sun is in a phase of "solar lull" (aka a "Maunder Minimum[^]") - meaning that it has fallen asleep - and it is baffling them.
History suggests that periods of unusual "solar lull" coincide with bitterly cold winters.
Does this mean I can send my heating bill to Bob? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Colder?? Uhm... I haven't seen snow (or below zero (°C) temperatures ) here in weeks... it was sometimes even as warm as 20+°C ... 
(Not that I like snow ... or the cold... I'm perfectly happy with the moderate temperatures  )
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It's kinda chilly around Rotkreuz right now. I want the sun back.
Not even the Ticinesi got sun, instead they got a shitload of snow.
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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Marco Bertschi wrote: they got a shitload of snow
That would be brown snow then, I gather?
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Who's winters are getting colder? It sure isn't ours.
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This winter is crazy warm where I am, south Europe, hardly had the heating on at all.
Mind you it can change in a day or two....
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Here! A couple of weeks ago, the lows went down to -10F to -15F. We haven't had cold like that in 20+ years.
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The BBC, suggesting the sun might be behind climate change?!??!?!  
Whatever next, the Guardian!
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The Maunder Minimum was an event that happened back between 1645 and 1715.
There have been other minima, but not called Maunder.
(Oort, Wolf, Sporor and Dalton).
We are currently entering A solar minimum, but certainly not the Maunder Minimum.
It could, however, lead to, as you say, a new, second, Little Ice Age, similar to the one that ran between 1550 and 1850, which, co-incidentally, came straight after the Mediaeval Warm Period.
I am one who like to look at data rather than make up a model based on what I want to happen for the purposes of funding, and so I can categorically state that no-one knows for sure what will happen but that it is at the very least possible, and given the data and cyclical nature of these things, probable that the Earth will be entering a cold period. Whether it turns out to be an Ice Age or not is a different matter.
(Although we are actually still IN an ice age).
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Colder? One of the main roads through Crawley was well and truly flooded this morning. Some pratt in a taxi drove through the flooded road, which did for his taxi and he sat there in the water causing major congestion for miles around. The police tried to "help" (rolleyes) by placing an accident sign by the lights and slinging a length of "POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS" tape across two posts to stop other traffic driving through. Naturally, the sign and tape was no obstacle as they simply drove around it compounding the problem that Pratt Tosspot-Dipstick caused in the first place. A 12-15 min commute took 1hr 20min as every road was clogged.
Are those sodding jet streams behind it all, picking up 2/3rd of the Atlantic and dumping it on poor old Blighty?
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I have said this before.
The Maunder Minimum is 5 beers!
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Vivic wrote: I have said this before.
The Maunder Minimum is 5 beers!
Bullshit!
The Maunder Maximum is 2 beers and he has never finished the 2nd.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Yeah, I've read your posts, Mick. Apparently our dear host is no real Aussie. Maybe he's been a closet Canadian all his life... They claim to like beer, but they still make that Molson's stuff.
Will Rogers never met me.
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But from the upvotes I suspect at least two people have solved it.
The answer is BURGER KING.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Spam! Spam in the lounge!
Burn the heretic!
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Burger King is not Spam. Spam has too much meat in it be used by Burger King.
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CBadger wrote: A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
I actually do that 
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And it does make sense. Because "one-way" obviously isn't a concept understandable by everyone
(Besides: Cyclists usually are eligible to use a one-way street in both directions)
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but seriously though, I will not put my life into the hands of a complete stranger hoping (s)he knows the one-way street concept.
Look at it as "defensive programming" 
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V. wrote: Look at it as "defensive programming"
I guess the best defense is indeed a good offense
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So do I, after I was hit by a Japanese tourist riding his bike the wrong way down a two way road in Cambridge...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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just for my piece of mind, just how do you travel the "wrong way" down a two way road? is it a Japanse thing?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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This may help: In Japan people travel on the left side of the road.
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they do that in cambridge too, it's the proper side
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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