Arctic Sun Cooling Blanket

Frost fairs on the Thames: How the sun caused global cooling three centuries ago

For more than 25 years now we have been predicting a grim, overheated future of droughts, heat waves, rising sea levels and flash floods as global warming plunges the earth in to climate chaos.

Mankind’s profligacy with fossil fuels has led to billions of tons of carbon dioxide bring pumped into the atmosphere, creating a warming blanket around the earth – in turn triggering a global fever from which many scientists believe we will take millennia to recover.

But along this week come extraordinary claims that cosmic forces beyond our control may be about to plunge the Earth in to a mini-ice age or at the very least they will ameliorate the perilous effects of manmade global warming.

The idea that the Sun could now be about to cause global COOLING seems bizarre, but it is not as outlandish as it seems. For there is some evidence that this has happened before – most notably three centuries ago when changes in the Sun appeared to be linked to a period of almost unprecedented cold.

So could this be about to happen again? And what does this mean for the great climate change thesis?

At an American Astronomical Association conference this week in New Mexico, three groups of scientists who study the Sun reported on a missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near the poles and say that our Sun is heading for a period of ‘hibernation’ - a period of solar quiescence in which sun spots (relatively dark patches on its surface which can be seen from Earth) disappear and the solar wind – the stream of electrically charged gases spewed in to space by our star – dwindles to nothing.

All this is surprising because most Solar experts have been predicting such a ‘manic’ phase in the next few years, so much so that some have warned the Earth is at risk from powerful Solar storms which could wreck electrical grids and satellite communications. If the Sun really is entering a period of hibernation then this could, in theory, put a dampener on global warming.

The link between Solar ‘moods’ and the weather down here on Earth was first noticed in the 1970s, when the American astronomer Jack Eddy noticed a strong correlation between historic weather records and contemporaneous accounts of Solar activity, most notably the long record of sunspots published a century before by the astronomer Edward Maunder.

Eddy noticed that a ‘quiet’ Sun correlates with cold weather and a ‘manic’ phase means warmer conditions. His best evidence for this link comes from the last time the Sun went to sleep, the so-called ‘Maunder Minimum’ period from 1645 to 1715. During this period and for about a century either side, much of Europe and North America suffered a succession of bitterly cold winters and damp washout summers - the ‘little ice age’.

Traumatic Brain Injury Clinical Trial: Normothermia Protocol for ...

Comparison between a normothermia protocol and current protocol (acetaminophen plus blankets) 1. Normothermia Protocol is successful in achieving and maintaining normal temperature in moderate to severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patients.(using Arctic Sun for 96 hrs from admission to Neuro ICU) 2. Normothermia is translated into improved neurologic Outcome and survival compared to standard of...

Comparison between a normothermia protocol and current protocol (acetaminophen plus blankets)

1. Normothermia Protocol is successful in achieving and maintaining normal temperature in moderate to severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patients.(using Arctic Sun for 96 hrs from admission to Neuro ICU)

2. Normothermia is translated into improved neurologic Outcome and survival compared to standard of care (Physician management)

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