{"id":26606,"date":"2020-02-17T12:18:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T01:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26606"},"modified":"2020-02-17T12:18:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T01:18:49","slug":"mini-ice-age-warnings-for-next-30-years-with-50c-temperatures-in-coldest-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26606","title":{"rendered":"Mini Ice Age warnings for next 30 years with -50C temperatures in coldest areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"799\" height=\"532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Snowstorm.jpg\" alt=\"Snowstorm\" class=\"wp-image-26607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Snowstorm.jpg 799w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Snowstorm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Snowstorm-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cold snaps so severe they could threaten food shortages and plummeting temperatures are a very real possibility over the next 30 years, an expert claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Sun entering a natural &#8220;hibernation period&#8221; or solar minimum in which it projects less heat at the Earth there could be frostier weather and heavy snow storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientist Valentina Zharkova, of Northumbria University, said average temperatures could drop by 1C in 2020 and last up to a year &#8211; while resulting in wet and cold summers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the minimum was the cause for Canada&#8217;s recent -50C, she claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-au\/news\/techandscience\/mini-ice-age-warnings-for-next-30-years-with-50c-temperatures-in-coldest-areas\/\">https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-au\/news\/techandscience\/mini-ice-age-warnings-for-next-30-years-with-50c-temperatures-in-coldest-areas\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold snaps so severe they could threaten food shortages and plummeting temperatures are a very real possibility over the next 30 years, an expert claims. With the Sun entering a natural &#8220;hibernation period&#8221; or solar minimum in which it projects less heat at the Earth there could be frostier weather and heavy snow storms. Scientist &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=26606\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mini Ice Age warnings for next 30 years with -50C temperatures in coldest areas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26608,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26606\/revisions\/26608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}