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Fri, 07 May 2021 07:08 UTC Following its coldest APRIL since 1922, England is now on for its coldest MAY since record-keeping began some 362 years ago -since the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715)! Back in 1659, England was still processing the death of Richard Cromwell, who, after the execution of King Charles I, had ruled the Commonwealth of England for 5 years. The year 1659 is also the start date of the Central England Temperature (CET) dataset, which has proved an invaluable resource for meteorologists and climate scientists alike. Astonishingly, what the dataset reveals in 2021, in this time ...

Never mind The Great Reset. Here comes The Great Reject. It occurred to me that I never did finish the final instalment of last summer’s Jackpot Chronicles, wherein I posited four possible post-Covid scenarios. For a quick refresher,  The Jackpot is concept I cribbed from William Gibson. It’s a term he uses across a few of his near-future cyberpunk novels that describes a series of rolling global catastrophes that set in sometime around 2016 (his stories span multiverses, and timelines, but the common theme is that somewhere around 2016, some kind of irrevocable glitch in the matrix oc...

Spread the love Our model has projected we are entering another “grand-minimum,” which will overtake the sun beginning in 2020 and will last lasting through the 2050s, resulting in diminished magnetism, infrequent sunspot production, and less ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching Earth. This all means we are facing a global cooling period in the planet that may span 31 to 43 years. The last grand-minimum event produced the mini-Ice Age in the mid-17th century. Known as the Maunder Minimum, it occurred between 1645 and 1715, during a longer span of time when parts of the world became so cold...

Our model has projected we are entering another “grand-minimum,” which will overtake the sun beginning in 2020 and will last lasting through the 2050s, resulting in diminished magnetism, infrequent sunspot production, and less ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching Earth. This all means we are facing a global cooling period in the planet that may span 31 to 43 years. The last grand-minimum event produced the mini-Ice Age in the mid-17th century. Known as the Maunder Minimum, it occurred between 1645 and 1715, during a longer span of time when parts of the world became so cold that the period...

However, recent chemical analysis of Stradivari’s wood has thrown up an alternative suggestion that might actually be reproducible. Scientist have discovered that Stradivari treated his wood with complex preservatives containing aluminium, copper and zinc.  This type of chemical seasoning was an unusual practice that was unknown to later generations of violin makers. In its current state, the wood of Stradivari’s violins has very different chemical properties to that used by the maker’s modern counterparts. This analysis opens up the possibility of resurrecting the seasoning Stradivari...