Planet Earth is believed to be facing another ice age sooner than expected. The last ice age was million years ago which wiped out all living things, enveloping the entire planet with mountains of ice and snow making survival remotely impossible. The next ice age on Earth is bound to happen again because the sun is expected to sleep and be inactive.
According to Daily Star, the next expected solar minimum should not arrive until 2021. However, NASA images captured images showing barely visible spots on the sun's surface.
It is reported that the sun has gone into a cue-ball mode showing that it has been inactive twice in June 2016. The sun, without giving the heat required to control the balance of Earth's temperature and atmosphere would mean the next ice age on Earth happening once again.
The next ice age on Earth would mean free-flowing rivers would freeze over and the snow fields would remain all year round even on lower altitudes. While it may come as a pleasant surprise in tropical countries, as they too may see snow, it will not be for long.
Extremely cold temperatures would mean crops will not grow. Different vegetation will remain useless and will just freeze. Soon enough there will be shortage of food. This not to forget the problem of hypothermia, killing many people at one given time.
Glacial processes have been important agents of landscape modification and classic glacial scenery has been documented across this region.
— The Ice Age (@Jamie_Woodward_) November 25, 2016
In June, the sun was revealed to have entered its most quiet moment for the century. The last time the sun was reported to have behaved this way was on Feb. 1906.
The blank sun is a sign that the solar minimum is approaching. It is also expected to bring an increasing number of spotless over the next few years.
During the longest solar minimum on record between 1645 and 1715. These times, the Thames froze and frost fairs became popular. This period was called as the Little Ice Age. Harsh and extremely cold winters were experienced in the entire northern hemisphere.
As added by Daily Mail, the next ice age on Earth is expected to be between 2020 and 2030. The new model of the Sun's cycle is producing accurate predictions of irregularities within its 11-year cycle.
