{"id":44516,"date":"2019-03-16T08:17:56","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T13:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44516"},"modified":"2019-03-16T08:17:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T13:17:58","slug":"climate-change-real-fake-exaggerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44516","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change: Real \u2013 Fake \u2013 Exaggerated?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/world-news\/climate\/climate-change-real-fake-exaggerated\/\">Climate Change: Real \u2013 Fake \u2013 Exaggerated?<\/a>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Sunspot_Numbers.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Sunspot_Numbers.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50391\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>QUESTION:<\/strong>&nbsp;I find it interesting that you are against human-induced global warming yet you confirm that climate change is natural. You seem to be in the middle of these arguments. You warned that solar activity was declining and&nbsp;there was a risk of going into a mini ice-age, but you did not seem to place high odds on that one. So can you elaborate on this since you seem to be the voice of reason?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ANSWER:<\/strong>&nbsp;Sunspot activity has declined on schedule. February was an incredible month void of sunspots. This is clearly contributing to the extremely cold weather we are having. Cyclically, between&nbsp;1645 and 1715, there was a prolonged collapse in sunspot activity known as the Maunder Minimum. Indeed, that was a period where sunspots all but disappeared. This&nbsp;coincided with the \u201cLittle Ice Age,\u201d which was a period from 1500 to 1850 in the northern hemisphere. It was so cold, Viking settlers even abandoned Greenland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have stated many times that a major error in analysis is the attempt to reduce a problem to a single cause and effect. This topic of climate change is no different.&nbsp;Many scientists have strongly suggested that the Maunder Minimum caused the Little Ice Age. As I have shown, correlating everything that took place revealed that during solar minimum there is also an increase&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/international-news\/nature\/solar-minimum-correlates-with-volcanoes-earthquakes\/\"><strong>volcanic activity<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;and earthquakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will read that scientists seem to be debating between the two rather than comprehending that&nbsp;<strong>EVERYTHING<\/strong>&nbsp;is absolutely connected. We cannot reduce everything to a single cause and effect. Therefore, in order for me to confirm that we are heading into a new ice age requires more volcanic activity in addition to a prolonged solar minimum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Empires-Rise-Fall-Armstrong.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Change: Real \u2013 Fake \u2013 Exaggerated?\u00a0 QUESTION:&nbsp;I find it interesting that you are against human-induced global warming yet you confirm that climate change is natural. You seem to be in the middle of these arguments. You warned that solar activity was declining and&nbsp;there was a risk of going into a mini ice-age, but you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2648,5496,141,5479,22421],"class_list":["post-44516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-anthropogenic-climate-change","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-climate-change","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-sunspot-activity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44517,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44516\/revisions\/44517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}