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6 Dec 10 - Astrophysicist Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of space research at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, recently pronounced his belief that Earth will enter a little Ice Age as early as 2014, says this article by Terrence Aym. Such a period of cooling could last as long as two centuries and be ruinous, Aym warns. "Whereas global warming would be a good thing, a mini-Ice Age could be disastrous: growing seasons would be shortened, more energy must be extended to stay warm, and food shortages may lead to breakouts of regional warfare." The last little ice age occurred between 1650 and 1850 and "accounted for many crop failures, outbreaks of famines and mass migrations," says Aym.
According to Abdussamatov, "Long-term variations in the amount of solar energy
reaching the Earth are the main and principal reasons driving and defining the
whole mechanism of climatic changes from the global warmings to the Little Ice
Ages to the big glacial periods."
"If Abdussamatov's calculation is true—and the observable and historical data
seem to support it—then the countries of the world are moving exactly in the
wrong direction to deal with an impending Ice Age. Al Gore notwithstanding,
global cooling is much more dangerous than global warming.
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