{"id":101959,"date":"2020-02-06T08:44:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T16:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/is-a-mini-ice-age-coming-maunder-minimum-spurs-controversy"},"modified":"2020-02-06T08:44:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T16:44:07","slug":"is-a-mini-ice-age-coming-maunder-minimum-spurs-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/is-a-mini-ice-age-coming-maunder-minimum-spurs-controversy","title":{"rendered":"Is a Mini Ice Age Coming? \u2018Maunder Minimum\u2019 Spurs Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-a-mini-ice-age-coming-maunder-minimum-spurs-controversy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A scientist who claims waning solar activity in the next 15 years will trigger what some are calling a mini ice age has revived talk about the effects of man-made versus natural disruptors to Earth\u2019s climate.<\/p>\n<p>Valentina Zharkova, a professor of mathematics at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom, used a new model of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/33345-solar-cycle-sun-activity.html\">sun\u2019s solar cycle<\/a>, which is the periodic change in solar radiation, sunspots and other solar activity over a span of 11 years, to predict that \u201csolar activity will fall by 60 percent during the 2030s to conditions last seen during the \u2018mini ice age\u2019 that began in 1645,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ras.org.uk\/news-and-press\/2680-irregular-heartbeat-of-the-sun-driven-by-double-dynamo\">according to a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scientist who claims waning solar activity in the next 15 years will trigger what some are calling a mini ice age has revived talk about the effects of man-made versus natural disruptors to Earth\u2019s climate. Valentina Zharkova, a professor of mathematics at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom, used a new model of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}