Cycles Six and Seven are interrelated in that one is seemingly a harmonic of the other. Cycle six we will call the <a href="http://virtualacademia.com/pdf/cli267_293.pdf">Gleissberg Cycle</a>, discovered by Wolfgang Gleissberg, is a 70-100 year cycle in the length variation of the Schwabe cycle (11 yr sunspot cycle). The Gleissberg cycle has an 83 year predominate period. Cycle seven we will call the <a href="http://bourabai.narod.ru/landscheidt/new-e.htm">Landscheidt Cycle</a>, discovered by Dr. Theodor Landscheidt, is a 166 year cycle associated to the Gleissberg cycle.

Gleissberg discovered that the Schwabe (sunspot) cycle durations varied in length in regular intervals. He noted that the longer the cycle (greater than 11 years) —the fewer number of sunspots; the shorter the cycle(less than 11 years)—the greater the number of sunspots. He discovered that about every 83 years on the average the sunspot cycle length grew from the Gleissberg minimum to the Gleissberg maximum and back again.

Something that I noted in my studies was that consecutive short cycles correspond to every increasing solar activity. The graph below is derived from NOAA, National Geophysical Data Center. Note that the length of the sunspot cycles (blue) corresponds inversely to the number of sunspots. Also note that for the consecutive short cycles 16-19; the number of sunspots increased dramatically. I guess it wouldn’t hurt to tell you that the temperatures on earth increased dramatically during this same period (1913 to 1964 temperatures increased 0.25° C). Finally, note cycle 20, which started around 1966, that the length increased and the number of sunspots fell. Does anyone out there remember the GLOBAL COOLING scare of the 1970s?

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When other outstanding astrophysicists looked at this phenomenon they also discovered that the earth’s temperatures varied in coordination with the sunspot cycle lengths, or in other words, with the Gleissberg cycle. This cycle accurately points to significant past periods of solar inactivity (Gleissberg cycle minima) such the Wolf minima (1320), the Spörer minima (1490), the Maunder minima (1670 – the Little Ice Age), the Dalton minima (1810), the period around 1895, and lastly during the 1970s. Each of the Gleissberg minima corresponds to periods when the earth was colder. The periods of shorter sunspot cycles as defined by the Gleissberg cycle maxima correlates to past warm periods such as the Roman warm period (100AD) and the Medieval Warm Period (1130).

Dr. Theodor Landscheidt discovered a relationship between the change in the sun’s rotational force and the Gleissberg cycle. He found that the rate of change in the sun’s orbital rotary force has an average period of 166 years that corresponds directly to the Gleissberg cycle minimums and maximums. Landscheidt also noted that the phases between the sun’s rotation and the Gleissberg cycles go through a phase reversal about every 850-900 years. This means that every 850 to 900 years, there are periods when Sunspot cycles do not lengthen, creating two Gleissberg maximums without a minimum. So every 850 to 900 years there is a period where the sunspot activity increases dramatically. The 1952 Gleissberg maximum was followed by another Gleissberg maximum in 1984 instead of a Gleissberg minimum. If there had been no phase shift in the 1970s the temperatures would have dropped during the 70s, 80s and early 90s, and we would have had to listen to Al Gore scream about CO2 causing Global Cooling. Landscheidt predicted that the sun would become less active after 1990 and continue to decrease in activity to 2030 AD when, according to his calculations, the next Gleissberg minimum will occur.

By the way there is a coorelation to the planets on this cycle too. The Landscheidt cycle corresponds to the alignment of <a href="http://landscheidt.auditblogs.com/archives/58">Venus-Earth-Jupiter</a> sysygy when Jupiter is at its perihelion. And the 850-900 year period corresponds to the <a href="http://vladimir_ladma.sweb.cz/english/cycles/reson/cconjunctions.htm">Jupiter-Saturn Great Inequality</a>, also known as the Laplace Period.

There is more to the story than this however. Landscheidt’s calculations predict that the next Gleissberg minimum will be as strong as either the Dalton minimum or the Maunder minimum. That means that the temperatures should begin to drop dramatically over the next 15 years and possibly put the northern hemisphere back into another Little Ice Age.

Here is my beef. We have a bunch of nut cases screaming about Global Warming and we are headed for a long period of cold. The science is quite clear, but we have powerful selfish idiots who have the media’s attention. We should be preparing for frigid temperatures and stock up on grain and corn while we have this great warmth, but instead we are burning it for fuel. What a bunch of fools we have running this country. Now we have the Wizard in the white house—uh should I say the empty suit behind the curtain.

Here is some corroborating <a href="http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Global-warming-is-not-our.4966808.jp">information</a> just released.