When the weather gets hot, I hear people talking about global warming. Likewise, when the weather gets cold, I hear that global cooling is taking place. So I decided to try to find the truth which involved pouring over all kinds of data and different scientist’s opinions in order to come to some kind of credible conclusion.
With so much attention being paid to the warming of our planet, it would be quite a shocker to find we are suddenly entering into an ice age. Yet, I think that is exactly what may happen in the coming years. This has nothing to do with human impact on climate change, instead it is more so the activity of the sun and how solar cycles impact our climate as well.
I’m not denying climate change caused by man’s activities. But we have to look beyond human impact and factor in natural cycles, and other factors when we are pondering the catalysts for climate change. One of these factors is the sun. 
The fluctuations in the solar cycle impacts earth’s global temperature, which becomes slightly hotter during solar maximums when there are more sunspots, and cooler during solar minimums when there are less sunspots. Why is a lack of sunspot activity interesting? During the period from 1645 to 1715, the Sun entered a period of low activity now known as the Maunder Minimum, when through several 11- year periods the Sun displayed few if any sunspots.
Models of the Sun’s irradiance suggest that the solar energy input to the Earth decreased during that time and that this change in solar activity could explain the low temperatures recorded in Europe during the Little Ice Age. Scientists have also often speculated whether the Maunder Minimum, a 70-year absence of sunspots in the late 17th to early 18th century, was linked with the coldest part of the Little Ice Age, during which Europe and North America experienced bitterly cold winters. This regional cooling might be linked with a drop in the sun's extreme ultraviolet radiation. In fact, the sun could currently be on the cusp of a miniature version of the Maunder Minimum, since the current solar cycle is the weakest in more than 100 years. There is also more interesting research like the fairly recent report by Principia Scientific International alongside NASA, which tracked infrared emissions from the Earth’s upper atmosphere during and following a solar storm last March.
They found that the vast majority of energy released from the sun during this coronal mass ejection was reflected back up into space rather than deposited into Earth’s lower atmosphere. The result of this was an overall cooling effect because carbon dioxide and nitric oxide (greenhouse gases) were reflecting heat energy rather than absorbing it. This study suggests carbon dioxide is in fact cooling the atmosphere. Now that is a real twist on things. Also, according to the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS): A new model of the Sun’s solar cycle is producing unprecedentedly accurate predict
ions of irregularities within the Sun’s 11-year heartbeat. The model draws on dynamo effects in two layers of the Sun, one close to the surface and one deep within its convection zone.
Predictions from the model suggest that solar activity will fall by 60 per cent during the 2030s to conditions last seen during the ‘mini ice age’ that began in 1645. Personally, after looking at all of the data I’ve looked at, it’s clear to me that we are going through, and have been going through drastic climate change, and there is a lot of data that shows without a doubt that the climate change is real. As far as the level of impact humans have had on it, and whether greenhouse gases do contribute to climate change as much as the mainstream thinks they do, I’m still not convinced. Feel free to post comments and be sure to hit “Like” at the end of this post.
