without sunspots for decades<\/a>, starting in about 2020.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I love simplicity. It beats math-heavy arguments, or singular ideas that need an entire book to try and convince you. Check this out for a simple explanation for why you could\/should be preparing for the worst:
\nCredentials:
\nPhilip Norton, a member of Lincoln Astronomical Society, forecast the current harsh winter conditions way back in the 1980s. He also correctly forecast the weather this time around and last winter.
\nSimple theory:
\nWhen there are lots of sunspots, there are fewer clouds on Earth. If there is a lack of sunspot activity, the Earth gets cloudy, lowering temperatures.
\nPrediction:
\n“This winter is mild compared to those of the 2020s.”
\n“The sunspot activity is roughly following a 400-year trend.
\n“I predicted the last sunspot cycle would be the most active for a long time and it was.
\n“This would be followed by a long, deep solar minimum. We are just getting out of this.
\n“The next sunspot cycle, which has just started, would …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ice-age","category-sunspots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1820,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}