Arctic Environment by the Middle of This Century

• Published in: Energy & Environment
• Main Author: Mörner, Nils-Axel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2011
• Subjects: Energy (miscellaneous); Energy Engineering and Power Technology; Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment; Environmental Engineering; Arctic; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/0958-305x.22.3.207; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1260/0958-305X.22.3.207

At around 2040–2050 we will be in a new major Solar Minimum. It is to be expected that we will then have a new “Little Ice Age” over the Arctic and NW Europe. The past Solar Minima were linked to a general speeding-up of the Earth's rate of rotation. This affected the surface currents and southward penetration of Arctic water in the North Atlantic causing “Little Ice Ages” over northwestern Europe and the Arctic.