SOLAR Ice Age

[MEXICOWANDERER]

https://www.iflscience.com/environment/we-could-be-heading-mini-ice-age-2030/

This I believe. But I do not believe in spewing useless hot air politics about it.

My response is to prepare. Based on the reliability of the data.

Better insulation. More efficient heating or cooling.

My casita in tropical Michoacan has 4" slabs of closed-cell foam board walls and 6" of overhead insulation. 1-1/8" tongue and groove sub floor. And 300 square feet. Everything has been framed with 3/4" plywood to allow paneling to be nailed to the edgewise plywood on 12" centers. The roof is complete. It has a four inch peak. Now to save up for double pane glass windows, and a suitably insulated door.

No matter which way the worm turns I will be spending INCREDIBLY less on energy to bias climate. I have a long way to go with fixtures, and outfitting so I cannot be in a rush. The galley is outside enclosed with screens and a corrugated fiberglass roof.

If RV manufacturers suffered one inch gain in insulation thickness it would make a huge difference in BTU loss/gain.

No politically based responses! I am not soliciting your hot air 🙂

[MEXICOWANDERER]

"The inhalation of superheated destructive distillates of burning vegetation in San Francisco"

Source of cancer asthma, birth defects, and too many other maladies to list.

"What? The Campo Fire? It's like the end of the world"

"No, the one that has been legalized."

The hypocrisy makes a mockery of science, never mind common sense.

[2oldman]

pnichols wrote:
What is mankind going to do NOW about all that CO2 in the upper atmosphere turning the Earth into a humind hot house?

Ignore it.

[pnichols]

Never mind what the Earth has, or has not, been doing "naturally" for thousands of years. What is mankind going to do NOW about all that CO2 in the upper atmosphere turning the Earth into a humind hot house?

Excuses for our weather getting more and more dangerous for us to live in won't help stop it.

By the way, RV's require much less energy to live in than do multi-thousand square-foot houses ... no matter how thick the insulation might be in those houses sitting underneath their huge capacity solar clad roofs.

Probably we all should be planning on TeePees or RVs for our grandkids.

[docsouce]

Yes... yes. I am a firm believer that it gets warmer in the summer and cooler in the winter. Sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less of each in both seasons. As usually suggested here, I did a search on this theory and it appears that this has been so for the past few million years.. I wish my RV had bit more insulation. It would allow me to extend my camping season. Have to look into that..

[zigzagrv]

It's difficult to not be political about this subject, but, as in everything else, including science, you get what you paid for. 😉

[SidecarFlip]

99 and 44/100ths pure phooey. If I bought into all the phooey on the net, I'd be living in a fallout shelter underground.

[azrving]

Big Katuna wrote:
Anyway you cut it, Mother Earth doesn’t have a climate change problem or a pollution problem.

We do.

And we as rvers are concerned so we leave perfectly good houses to haul cheap inefficient mini houses to far away places with vehicles that get very poor mpg.

You're joking right? 🙂

[Big_Katuna]

Anyway you cut it, Mother Earth doesn’t have a climate change problem or a pollution problem.

We do.

[3_tons]

The science of sun spots is not faked, it has a uber high level of accuracy - I see little reason to so readily dismiss this forecast possibility, but either way, more insulation will easily pay for itself in the long run. It’s been reported that about 80% of a homes heat loss occurs through the roof...

[MEXICOWANDERER]

Remember George Washingmachine WALKED across the Potomac, orchids grew in Whitehorse, and Kansas made the Okefenokee swamp look like the Atacama desert.

I am a member of The Fast Fast Fast climate change gallery.

And home may turn sub tropical. Higher up potatoes and wheat. Even more fruit and vegetables.

But hotter or colder, lack of insulation will be a big factor in whether or not life is tolerable.

[free_radical]

Before its too late you may want to learn this
Inuit building igloo
https://youtu.be/RzBGY1XKNjE
:B

Btw
Instead of plastic insulation,,
Wouldnt adobe mud bricks be cheaper better alternative in your neck of the woods ?

[Lwiddis]

What a waste of fabric...bell bottoms!

[azrving]

Like gold RV cabinet handles and bell bottoms. Back in fashion just like back when my teachers were pumping it in 1970.

[wanderingaimles]

Mex, if you read some of the archives you will find articles of that sort from over a hundred years ago until now.
Popular Science has run articles on both global cooling and warming. And many seem to follow the sunspot cycle.
An interesting article from the 1950's was reprinted in Harpers Magazine which tracked a lot of data from multiple fields, you may find it interesting.
https://harpers.org/archive/1958/09/the-coming-ice-age/

This one I tend to have faith in because it speaks in terms of millenia, not the short term, and the long term data does show shifts.

Mini ice ages were forecast back in the 1880's and 90's.
A global superheating period was forecast in conjunction with the Dust Bowl days.
And another mini ice age was broadly predicted in the 1970's before Al Gore jumped on the bandwagon in 2000 after getting the US govt to fund some studies which predicted warming again.

Global consensus was formed when money started flowing into the studies, as the money has slowed, some have started showing differing forecast. When the researchers quit being driven by finding the results desired by whoever is funding the research, some idea of what is coming may be eventually gleaned, but for now, there is just too much money contaminating the science.

[2oldman]

Why would you believe this over real science?