If the writers of the Old Farmer's Almanac are correct we'll have to rethink our ideas about climate change.
When the most recent edition of the book that has been published continuously since 1972 Tuesday it's writers predicted decades of global cooling. The writers of the almanac use time tested methods of predicting weather including the study of sunspots and ocean temperature measurements to provide fairly accurate weather forecasts.
A Sept. 10 Associated Press article quoted meteorologist and climatologist at the Old Farmer's Almanac Joseph D'Aleo0 as writing, "We at the Almanac are among those who believe that sunspot cycles and their effects on oceans correlate with climate changes...studying these and other factor suggests that cold, not warm, climate may be our future."
The almanac though does not take into account human effects on the climate. They stand behind their prediction that the climate would cool if it were not for the climate changing effects of humans. The Jud Hale, editor-in-chief of the yearly publication said it is possible that human effects on global temperature may override or cancel out the predicted natural cooling trend.
"We say that if human beings were not contributing to global warming, it would become real cold in the next 50 years," Hale said.
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