Post by britdave on Aug 31, 2019 17:11:24 GMT
We’re going to have to come up with new ways of growing food explains the CEO of Agweb and why he thinks our civilization will have to come up with new ways of growing food over the next 5 years.
"We have data that goes back to the 1600s and 1800s from ice core samples, tree rings, and from actually written testimony of the kind of problems that they had,” said Hackett. We are not doomist and gloomist, that's not our modus operandi," he said. "But the world we are heading into is a world of food scarcity and local famines. It’s not going to be pleasant. It’s going to be a very difficult time. We’re going to have to come up with new ways of growing food in this more difficult environment.
Things are happening that haven’t happened in a long time," said Hackett. "It’s just the beginning."
So whats this all about, and what have'nt happened for in a long time?
New research led by Irina Kitiashvili, a researcher with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA’s Ames Research Center, in California’s Silicon Valley, has a forcast of the NASA Solar Cycle 25.
Next solar cycle - Solar Cycle 25 - is expected to be the lowest in 200 years.
The forecast for the next solar cycle says it will be the weakest with climate getting colder. The maximum of this next cycle – measured in terms of sunspot number, a standard measure of solar activity level – could be 30 to 50% lower than the most recent one. The results show that the next cycle will start in 2020 and reach its maximum in 2025.
The forecast for the next solar cycle says it will be the weakest with climate getting colder. The maximum of this next cycle – measured in terms of sunspot number, a standard measure of solar activity level – could be 30 to 50% lower than the most recent one. The results show that the next cycle will start in 2020 and reach its maximum in 2025.
Previously, researchers used the number of sunspots to represent indirectly the activity of the solar magnetic field. The new approach takes advantage of direct observations of magnetic fields emerging on the surface of the Sun – data which has only existed for the last four solar cycles.
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