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Posted By Michael Snyder on Dec 17, 2013

Back in 2009, Al Gore boldly  declared that “the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer  months could be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years.”  Well,  it turns out that was a lie along with almost everything else that Al Gore has  been peddling.  The truth is that the polar ice cap is actually growing.  It is  about 50 percent larger than it was at this time last year.  And as you will  read about below, a shocking UN report that was recently leaked shows that the  planet has actually not been warming for the past 15 years.  So if you are  breathlessly anticipating that “global warming” will soon bring on the  apocalypse, you can stop waiting.  On the other hand, there is rising concern  about what “global cooling” will soon do to the planet as we suffer through the  beginning of the coldest winter in decades.  Thanks to an unusually  quiet solar cycle and an unusually  high number of volcano eruptions, global temperatures have been falling.   And if this cold weather persists, that could lead to massive global problems.   Periods of very low temperatures throughout history have resulted in mass crop  failures and widespread famines.  Could that soon happen to us?  The following  are 16 signs that “global warming” was a lie and that we have now entered a  period of global cooling…

1. According to a leaked UN report that absolutely rocked  the “global warming” believers, the earth has not gotten any warmer for  the past 15 years.

2. The amount of ice covering the Arctic is up by  50 percent compared to this time in 2012.

3. In just one week in late November, a combined total of more  than 1000 new cold temperature and snowfall records were set in the United  States.

4. In just one week in December, a combined total of more  than 2000 new cold temperature and snowfall records were set in the United  States.

5. On December 15th, 53  percent of the United States was covered in snow.  That was the highest  level on this date in 11 years.

6. A snowstorm that spanned more  than 1,000 miles slammed into New England on Sunday.

7. Some areas of upstate New York were hit with about  six feet of snow a few days ago.

8. Chicago just experienced that coldest temperatures that  it has seen in December in  nearly 20 years.

9. On December 7th, Eugene, Oregon recorded the lowest  temperature that it has seen since  December 11th, 1972.

10. A few days ago, three  feet of snow closed roads in Jerusalem.  It was the worst snow storm in  Israel since 1953.

11. Heavy snow also fell on  parts of Saudi Arabia.  That was considered to be extremely unusual.

12. The recent snowfall in Turkey was so bad that it closed 900  roads.

13. Temperatures have dropped so low that some Syrian war  refugees are actually dying  from the cold.

14. Cairo, Egypt just had the first snowfall that it has  experienced in  100 years.

15. It was so cold in Canada recently that the Arctic Winter  Games biathlon trials were  forced indoors.

16. According to NASA satellite data, a temperature of minus  135 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded in Antarctica back in July.

So why is all of this happening?

Well, the number one factor affecting our climate is the giant ball of fire  called the Sun that our planet revolves around.  As I detailed in a previous  article, solar activity has dropped to a 100 year low.  The following is how  a Space.com  article recently described what we are currently experiencing…

The sun’s current space-weather cycle is the most anemic in 100 years,  scientists say.

Our star is now at “solar  maximum,” the peak phase of its 11-year activity cycle. But this solar max  is weak, and the overall current cycle, known as Solar Cycle 24, conjures up  comparisons to the famously feeble Solar Cycle 14 in the early 1900s,  researchers said.

“None of us alive have ever seen such a weak cycle. So we will learn  something,” Leif Svalgaard of Stanford University told reporters here today  (Dec. 11) at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical  Union.

Another factor that is causing all of this cold weather is a dramatic  rise in volcanic activity.  Throughout human history, volcanic eruptions  have produced some of the coldest winters ever recorded, and in 2013 we have  witnessed a record number of volcanic eruptions.  Something appears to be  happening to the crust of the earth, and that is one of the reasons why I  included the future eruption of Mt. Rainier in  my new novel.  The mainstream media does not talk about this much, but right  now we are seeing a stunning rise in volcanic activity all over the planet.

The truth is that volcanoes can influence our climate far more than normal  human activity ever possibly could.  When a tremendous amount of volcanic debris  gets ejected into the atmosphere, it can have a huge impact on global  temperatures and the consequences can be quite dramatic.  The following historic  examples come from Wikipedia…

The effects of volcanic eruptions on recent winters are modest in scale, but  historically have been significant.

Most recently, the 1991 explosion of Mount  Pinatubo, a stratovolcano in the Philippines,  cooled global temperatures for about 2–3 years.

In 1883, the explosion of Krakatoa  (Krakatau) created volcanic winter-like conditions. The four years following the  explosion were unusually cold, and the winter of 1887-1888 included powerful  blizzards.  Record snowfalls were recorded worldwide.

The 1815 eruption of Mount  Tambora, a stratovolcano in Indonesia,  occasioned mid-summer frosts in New York  State and June snowfalls in New England  and Newfoundland and Labrador in what came to be known as the “Year  Without a Summer” of 1816.

A paper written by Benjamin  Franklin in 1783 blamed the unusually cool summer of 1783 on volcanic dust  coming from Iceland, where  the eruption of Laki  volcano had released enormous amounts of sulfur  dioxide, resulting in the death of much of the island’s livestock and  a catastrophic famine which  killed a quarter of the Icelandic population. Northern  hemisphere temperatures dropped by about 1 °C in the year following the Laki  eruption.

In 1600, the Huaynaputina in Peru erupted. Tree ring  studies show that 1601 was cold. Russia had its worst  famine in 1601-1603. From 1600 to 1602, Switzerland, Latvia and Estonia had  exceptionally cold winters. The wine harvest was late in 1601 in France, and in  Peru and Germany, wine  production collapsed. Peach trees bloomed late in China, and Lake Suwa in Japan froze  early.

So are we now heading for a similar period of time?

Will lower temperatures lead to mass crop failures and widespread global  famine

Author: Michael Snyder

Michael T. Snyder is a graduate of the University of Florida law school and he worked as an attorney in the heart of Washington D.C. for a number of years. Today, Michael is best known for his work as the publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog (End of the American Dream. Michael and his wife, Meranda, believe that a great awakening is coming and are working hard to help bring renewal to America.