how will you grow it ?

[airdrop]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qxdwP0tHT8 we need to think better gardening maybe some cooler plantings and cold box startups .

[Sacajawea]

Here's a hoophouse/high tunnel webinar, online this coming Tuesday. It's free, but you need to register and download the app. Experience tells me you should test it ahead of the start time, to troubleshoot any problems you run into.

Learn more about successful hoophouse growing and marketing strategies.

Register for this event: https://msu.zoom.us/meeting/register...538d7d4481ef37

Registration is required, but there is no fee to attend.
To join a Zoom webinar, you will need to:
1) download the Zoom application by clicking the Join URL upon registration,
2) have a connection to the Internet, and
3) ensure your computer has speakers or a headset.

ETA: would ya look at that? I think it's being given out of Lansing...

Zoom’s web-based conferencing uses high-quality video and audio and is accessible on MacOS, Windows, iOS and Android mobile devices. You should load and test the software on the device and location you will be using for the webinar.

[airdrop]

What was it like in the USA during the last little ice age and what might we experience this solar Minimum starting now . This is from some historical writings about those times . There are some saying this cooling event could last tell 2040 . If there are years we lose 20 to 40 % of our crops food will be in short supply and other parts of the world will not fair much better , Wars are fought over food but that's another subject .

North America

Early European explorers and settlers of North America reported exceptionally severe winters. For example, according to Lamb, Samuel Champlain reported bearing ice along the shores of Lake Superior in June 1608. Both Europeans and indigenous peoples suffered excess mortality in Maine during the winter of 1607–1608, and extreme frost was reported in the Jamestown, Virginia, settlement at the same time.[24] Native Americans formed leagues in response to food shortages.[23] The journal of Pierre de Troyes, Chevalier de Troyes, who led an expedition to James Bay in 1686, recorded that the bay was still littered with so much floating ice that he could hide behind it in his canoe on 1 July.[38] In the winter of 1780, New York Harbor froze, allowing people to walk from Manhattan Island to Staten Island.

The extent of mountain glaciers had been mapped by the late 19th century. In the north and the south temperate zones, snowlines (the boundaries separating zones of net accumulation from those of net ablation) were about 100 metres (330 ft) lower than they were in 1975.[39] In Glacier National Park, the last episode of glacier advance came in the late 18th and the early 19th centuries.[40] In Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, large temperature excursions were possibly related to changes in the strength of North Atlantic thermohaline circulation.[41]
Mesoamerica

An analysis of several proxies undertaken in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, linked by its authors to Maya and Aztec chronicles relating periods of cold and drought, supports the existence of the Little Ice Age in the region.[42]
Atlantic Ocean

In the North Atlantic, sediments accumulated since the end of the last ice age, nearly 12,000 years ago, show regular increases in the amount of coarse sediment grains deposited from icebergs melting in the now open ocean, indicating a series of 1–2 °C (2–4 °F) cooling events recurring every 1,500 years or so.[43] The most recent of these cooling events was the Little Ice Age. These same cooling events are detected in sediments accumulating off Africa, but the cooling events appear to be larger, ranging between 3–8 °C (6–14 °F).[44]

[airdrop]

This is an older grow zone page before they messed with it and it has a search by zip code to make it easier . http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/

[Cwi555]

AGW crowd hedging bets.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/11812282

https://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/SunspotCycle.shtml

Climate science is settled, or so say the government overseers. Yet 2/3 of the studies etc can't be reproduced across all branches of science.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39054778?SThisFB

Edit;

Speaking out doesn't help careers either.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/09/scientist-predicts-little-ice-age-gets-icey-reception-from-colleagues/

[KyDave59]

I rather like the idea of setting out some pawpaw trees.

Dave

[southernmom]

I rather like the idea of setting out some pawpaw trees.

Dave

I have been looking for some Paw Paw trees for a few years, now. They sound great and I think would round out the fruit trees on the land quite nicely.

[airdrop]

CW this site you posted is great for telling us about sun spots and the work their doing but not what it's going to mean as the sun slows down , even this guys seems to be afraid to say climate cooling . http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/11812282
He does bring up the start of another Maunder Minimum cooling period perhaps lasting until 2100 . One line at the last of the article OOooooo and how many people will even know what that is .

[Cwi555]

Statistical analysis/models is what the global warming hypothesis is based on. There are two kinds of statisticians, liars, and damn liars, or so said my old school stats professor decades ago.

One small sample base is insufficient to prove the hypothesis one way or another. That sample being this planet. More specifically, as it relates to solar effects on climate. However, this planet is not the only one bearing an atmosphere that can be studied. Not to mention moons near the size of planets surrounding places like Saturn and Jupiter.

The common thread being all are impacted by solar activity.

Telescopes have been around centuries now as has monitoring solar activity. Sunspot direct observation since the 1700's, and in the last sixty years satellites, which btw, Oct 4 this year will mark the sixtieth anniversary of the first one. We as a race have been to every major known solar object in the system now. We've orbited Mercury, Venus, Mars, jupiter, Saturn. We've passed at close quarters to Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto with the latter mission well on its way to the kuiper belt. We've passed into interstellar space with Voyager 1, and 2 will be in the heliosphere soon. The IBEX went vertical to the ecliptic plane, etc, etc.

All that data and still they refuse to incorporate it into climate models. The AGW crowd is so fixated on their BS conclusions that anything and everything that cast any doubt on it is summarily dismissed. In my eyes they are no different than the flat earthers. In the face of growing mountains of data, both refuse to entertain the thought they are 'wrong'.