ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT BY THE MIDDLE OF THIS CENTURY

• Main Authors: Nils-axel Mörner (sweden, Nils-axel Mörner
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic environment by 2040-2050; next Solar Minimum; return to Little Ice Age conditions; Arctic; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.306.4505; http://www.eike-klima-energie.eu/uploads/media/Moerner_Science_environm_sea_level_3_11_Paper_534.pdf

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.