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With almost a week to go, it's already the wettest July on record in Harrisburg and other towns
Scientists Say A Fluctuating Jet Stream May Be Causing Extreme Weather Events
According to some more skeptical scientists such a small solar influence is counterintuitive. The Little Ice Age, the period roughly from 1350 to 1850, in which winters on the Northern Hemisphere could be severe and glaciers advanced, coincided with the so-called Maunder Minimum, a period of supposedly low solar activity. In their eyes, the sun therefore still is a serious candidate to also explain a substantial part of the warming since pre-industrial times.
Trouble is, jet streams don't really cause weather. It's a common misconception, one that "consumer grade" science perpetuates.
Scientists Say A Fluctuating Jet Stream May Be Causing Extreme Weather Events
The Maunder Minimum happened quite a while ago but whether it affected climate, that's questionable. Solar activity has been declining for 50 or 60 years, while temperatures have been increasing.
Or could any of this be related to the maunder minimum?
Record rain and floods in Pennsylvania
She commented on how the changes in the Sun are likely to affect the Earth's environment. “During the minimum, the intensity of solar radiation will be reduced dramatically. So we will have less heat coming into the atmosphere, which will reduce the temperature.”
We must not ignore the effects of global warming and assume that it isn't happening. “The Sun buys us time to stop these carbon emissions,” Zharkova says. The next minimum might give the Earth a chance to reduce adverse effects from global warming.