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The trail of this story dates back to 1970s and 80s when the frigid temperatures across the plannet especially in Europe and USA sent the scientific community into a tizzy and the speculations of another ice age became rife.
Further research and studies raised conserns about the rising global temperatures which though warming up the earth but could also possibly herald in another ice age.
Well,that ice age never came but most of the last 3 decades went into leaders ,climatologists,scientists,global thinkers,etc. Flitting and fretting around the globe,discussing reduction of carbon footprints,preventing polar ice caps from melting,protecting mangroves from vanishing ,saving coastal regions from flooding and much more.
What everyone missed in this frenzy was the possibility of another ice age and now we have one mini ice age knocking our doors by 2030.
Climatologists have very sound mathematical models to support their prognosis of the possibility of starting on the Thames within a decade from now. And that would really be a time travelling for the Londoners as they did really skate on the Thames from 1645-1715,when the first mini ice age after the evolution of Homo sapiens had happened.
Scientists give these three reasons for the global warming heralding on the mini ice age.
THE SOLAR CYCLES:- Sun goes through the cycle of soalr Maxima when it gives off more heat and has high magnetic activity and solar minima when both the heat and magnetic activity of the sun are less.
These cycles are alternate after every 11 years and this time we are in the cycle of solar minima.
The heat of the sun will be less due to decrease in magnetic waves.scientists predicts that this low magnetic activity will continue for next 33 (3 solar cycles ).this will lead to knock on effect and temperatures will dip to sub zero by 2030.
WEAK GULF STREAM:- Yes, gulf stream,the ocean currents which bring in warm water from Crribean to UK and north-west Europe,that makes north wegian coast plush with strawberries and adorn corn-wall with palms,the same gulf streams have been weakened by the melting arctic glaciers because of global warming.
So the warm Carribean waters fails to reach Europe and other parts of the world.
Due,to this the temperature across the world are already five degrees less than normal and the recent frigid winters are proof enough an ice age already on its way.
COSMIC RAYS- When stars explode in space,they send out cosmic rays due to which the charged particles called the ions fall on earth.
These charged particles pull water and sulphuric acid in the Earth's atmosphere together to form small clusters which later form clouds.
As these clouds grow and accumulate,the temperatures also dip to sub zero because clouds block heat from the sun.
Tmini ice age will come but it gives us 33years ripe when we can also revers the effects of global warming by doing our bit i.e reducing pollution by planting more trees.
"WHAT IS AN ICE AGE??"
"Ice age begins when summer temperatures in the northern hemisphere fails to rise four years.To make it simple,winter snowfall doesn't melt but keeps building up,compress and over the years it starts to compact,or glaciated into ice sheets."
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