{"id":4517,"date":"2013-04-30T22:48:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T17:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=4517"},"modified":"2013-04-30T22:48:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T17:48:52","slug":"the-next-big-freeze-could-last-250-years-experts-say-suns-activity-wanes-every-200-years-and-the-next-cooling-period-is-due-by-2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=4517","title":{"rendered":"The next big freeze could last 250 years: Experts say Sun&#8217;s activity wanes every 200 years &#8211; and the next &#8216;cooling period&#8217; is due by 2040"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/i12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4513\" alt=\"i1\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/i12.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/i12.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/i12-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/i12-448x300.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>Forget global warming \u2013 the Earth may soon be plunged into a 250-year cooling period, scientists have claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Russian climate experts believe that every 200 years the Sun\u2019s activity temporarily wanes and it emits less heat.<\/p>\n<p>They believe this \u2018cooling period\u2019 could cause the earth\u2019s average temperature to fall by several degrees.<\/p>\n<p>The last time this occurred was between 1650 and 1850 \u2013 a period known as the \u2018Little Ice Age\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, most of Britain\u2019s rivers would freeze over during the bitter winters.<\/p>\n<p>Contemporary paintings show people could even cross the Thames using ice skates.<\/p>\n<p>The next \u2018cooling period\u2019 is scheduled to start between 2030 and 2040.<\/p>\n<p>But scientists from Pulkovo Observatory in St Petersburg think the cold period is unlikely to be as harsh as the last one.<\/p>\n<p>And Vladimir Kotlyakov, from the Russian Academy of Sciences, said: \u2018There are no grounds to claim that global warming will continue till the end of this century.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Climate moves in natural cycles of warmer and colder, as well as drier and more humid times.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Early signs of cooling are already there and the trend may pick up in coming years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Human activity and industrial discharges do have a great impact on the environment, but forces of nature are far more powerful.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget global warming \u2013 the Earth may soon be plunged into a 250-year cooling period,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}