Global MINI ICE AGE lasting 30 years to cause ‘devastating FAMINE on mass scale'

A DRAMATIC cool down in global temperatures lasting at least three decades could lead to catastrophic food shortages across the world, a researcher has warned.

A bombshell study from a team of scientists, led by professor Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University, suggests Earth will enter a cooling phase within the next few years.

Zharkova and her team came to their alarming conclusions by producing a mathematical model of the sun’s magnetic fields.

Her findings suggest a “huge reduction” in solar activity for 33 years between 2020 and 2053 will cause global temperatures to plummet.

As solar activity decreases, temperatures will dip to freezing lows not seen since the 1600s – a period known as Maunder Minimum, her model predicts.

During the last Maunder Minimum, between 1645 to 1715, temperatures plummeted low enough to freeze over the River Thames in London.

Zharkova said the next mini ice age will be “slightly shorter” but no less brutal.

Speaking to Sputnik, she explained: “They keep repeating every 350-400 years because the Sun goes through this [period of] minimum activity.

She said planet Earth has “natural mechanisms” designed to withstand ice ages and has done so “for billions of years and survived”.

However, Zharkova said there is a risk crops “won’t be able to grow properly”, meaning food supplies could dwindle across the world.

By Joshua Nevett

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