Global Warming – Its the Sun
At the Leading Edge Farm Conference held in Des Moines, Iowa this week, Drew Lerner of World Weather, Inc. gave a very informative talk on the current and future weather trends.
Some of the discussion focused on the Sun Spot activity over the last several hundred years. In periods of lots of Sun Spot activity, you will normally see higher temperatures and with less activity, lower temperatures. These cycles tend to repeat about every 12 years. The peak Sun Spot activity was about 25 years ago and it usually takes about 25 years for this peak temperature to show up.
Based on this, our temperature may have peaked last year and we may have lower temperatures over the next several years.
I think we need to remember that the Sun provides probably 99.99999999% of our heat and global warming may be more related to Sun Spot activity than mankind’s actions.
We shall see.
Also, based upon Drew’s analysis, we may have an El Nino effect coming on which might lead to lower temperatures and less rain in the corn belt this fall and winter.
Paul Neiffer is a certified public accountant and business advisor specializing in income taxation, accounting services, and succession planning for farmers and agribusiness processors. Paul is a principal with CliftonLarsonAllen in Walla Walla, Washington, as well as a regular speaker at national conferences and contributor at agweb.com. Raised on a farm in central Washington, he has been immersed in the ag industry his entire life, including the last 30 years professionally. Paul and his wife purchase an 180 acre ranch in 2016 and enjoy keeping it full of animals.
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