On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 21:21:31 UTC, JCW wrote:
Had a quick read of this, understood very little of it, but of course caught the last few lines which read:

"The first of these oscillations may even turn out to be as strongly negative as around 1810, in which case a short Grand Minimum similar to the Dalton one might develop. This moderate-to-low-activity episode is expected to last for at least one Gleissberg cycle (60-100 years)."

The remaining extract he

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...64682608003787

This should give rise to further discussion / analysis by those with interest and knowledge of cycles and their possible or potential impact on weather?

A Dalton minimum-type possibility, eh?


The transcript of the BBC's "The Big Chill" is he
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon...illtrans.shtml

The abrupt changes had been known before the ice core data was made available by Richard Alley and friends, but it was not known how abrupt they were - only three years for the first half of the Younger Dryas ending.

The THC did stop, but was that the cause of the YD or was it a result of the YD?