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offsite link The Saker blog is now frozen Tue Feb 28, 2023 23:55 | The Saker
Dear friends As I have previously announced, we are now “freezing” the blog.? We are also making archives of the blog available for free download in various formats (see below).?

offsite link What do you make of the Russia and China Partnership? Tue Feb 28, 2023 16:26 | The Saker
by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

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offsite link The stage is set for Hybrid World War III Mon Feb 27, 2023 15:50 | The Saker
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offsite link Taxpayers Pay ?4 Million a Day on Migrant Hotels and Accommodation ? More than Triple Original Estim... Wed May 07, 2025 15:20 | Will Jones
Asylum hotels and other accommodation will cost the taxpayer ?15 billion over 10 years ? ?4 million a day and more than triple the Government's original estimate, the National Audit Office has revealed.
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offsite link Orsted Cancels Hornsea 4 Wind Farm ? and Kills Miliband?s ?Clean Power 2030? Agenda Dead Wed May 07, 2025 13:00 | David Turver
Orsted has today cancelled its flagship Hornsea 4 offshore wind farm, citing escalating costs, in a move that effectively kills Miliband's 'Clean Power 2030' agenda dead, says David Turver.
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offsite link Conservatives Slump to 17% in Poll Wed May 07, 2025 11:14 | Will Jones
The Conservatives have slumped to just 17% in the latest YouGov poll, a joint record low, following the party's terrible performance in the local elections last week as leader Kemi Badenoch tells MPs she will move quicker.
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offsite link Council Net Zero Madness Wed May 07, 2025 09:00 | Charlotte Gill
Local council Net Zero projects have spaffed away nearly ?30 million of public money ? and that's just the current projects funded by one Government research arm, says Charlotte Gill in the latest dispatch from DOGE UK.
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offsite link China?s Climate Charade: A Green Fa?ade for Economic Supremacy Wed May 07, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
China's claim to 'climate leadership' is a geopolitical manoeuvre to counter Trump's narrative, not a pledge of emissions cuts, says Dr Tilak Doshi. Expecting China to join the West's economic self-sabotage is delusional.
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Global Cooling?

category international | environment | other press author Wednesday April 29, 2009 14:37author by Saoirsí - Alliance of the Libertarian Left (Ireland)author email saoirsi at libertarian dot ie Report this post to the editors

Decreased Sun Spot Activity May Alter Global Warming Scenarios

Although there is much discussion about the Global Warming from CO2 theory, attention is increasingly being focused on an apparent lack of solar activity currently, which historically has been associated with global cooling.

We are in a period of low solar activity - “the deepest solar minimum of the entire Space Age,” says Dr. Soon, a Harvard astrophysicist. “In fact, this is the quietest Sun we have had in almost a century.”

Sun spots - like huge magnetic hurricanes causing relatively dark spots as eyes-of-the-storm on the sun's surface - are associated with periods of high solar activity, and increased energy outflow.

Cycles of sun spots have usually been observed in 11 year cycles. However, this has been subject to change historically, alternating between periods of high activity or "solar maxima", and low or no activity - "solar minima".

Solar Maxima are associated with generally warming conditions (such as our past century - although this does not in itself rule out other causes). Periods in the past associated with Solar Minima include the "Little Ice Age" (or Maunder Minimum, named after the scientist who brought it to attention) of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries.

References:

The missing sunspots: Is this the big chill?
The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-missing-s....html

Harvard astrophysicist: Sunspot activity correlates to global climate change
TGDaily
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42006/181/

'Curious' Why Is the Sun So Dim Lately?
WBZ-TV Video Archive
http://wbztv.com/video/?id=75101@wbz.dayport.com
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/curious_why_the...tely/

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