Hi! Holger,

On Thu, 26 Sep 13, you wrote to me:

 HG> I'm hoping that my eldest grandsons (37) import of his girlfriend from
 HG> USA will hold. You just don't a lady to Europe and then return her
 HG> with a "thanks for the loan". BTW he is the one that had the Amiga.

Ooh, I duuno about that.  If he was smart, and wanted to stay filthy rich,
he would send her back.  ;-)

 HG> This is apparently the punishment for the warmer than normal late-
 HG> summer teperature.

 HG> On the other hand I'm not surprised since according to previous sun
 HG> spot minima this one is noted as very similar to the one that
 HG> preceeded the Dalton Minimum 1790-1830. I'm not ecpected to be along
 HG> when that happens but I feel extremely sad for my children and
 HG> grandchildren.

 HG> So we are headed for a big climate change but not a Global warming.

Yes, it is.  Well, kind of.  For these things, you have to think on very
large time scales.  We are at the ending warm times for the last
post-glacial period.  These 'minima' swings will continue for the next five
thousand years or so, every couple of hundred years or so.  They're call
"flips" IIRC: flip on, flip off.  The periods between flips will
get shorter each time, and longer in duration, before they flip back to
warm.  There will come a time when there will be no flip back.  Oops. 
That's the next pre-glacial period.

I'm aware of one climatologist who has warned that given the current rate
of ocean warming (Global warming's effect), that the next flip in the next
500 years could be the last for a very very long time.

Cheers,
Paul.

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