There’s an extraordinary admission about solar activity and cold winters in the UK from the Met Office in an article in FT Magazine.

It is as if the blinders have been removed.

The relevant passage is below from the much larger article.

“We now believe that [the solar cycle] accounts for 50 per cent of the variability from year to year,” says Scaife. With solar physicists predicting a long-term reduction in the intensity of the solar cycle – and possibly its complete disappearance for a few decades, as happened during the so-called Maunder Minimum from 1645 to 1715 – this could be an ominous signal for icy winters ahead, despite global warming.

Read the article – http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/35145bee-9d38-11e0-997d-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1RacNghPj

h/t to WUWT reader “Lord Beaverbrook”

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