continues the recent trend for increasingly weaker cycles.
The current predicted and observed size makes this the smallest sunspot cycle since
Cycle 14 which had a maximum of 64.2 in February of 1906.
Going back to 1755, there have been only a few solar cycles
in the previous 23 that have had a lower number of sunspots during its maximum
phase. For this reason, many solar researchers are calling this current solar maximum
a “mini-max”. Solar cycle 24 began after an unusually deep solar minimum that
lasted from 2007 to 2009. In fact, in 2008 and 2009, there were almost no
sunspots, a very unusual situation during a solar minimum phase that had not
happened for almost a century.
if history is a guide, it is safe to say that weak solar
activity for a prolonged period of time can have a negative impact on global temperatures
in the troposphere which is the bottom-most layer of Earth’s atmosphere – and
where we all live. There have been two notable historical periods with
decades-long episodes of low solar activity.
The first period is known as the “Maunder Minimum”, named
after the solar astronomer Edward Maunder, and it lasted from around 1645 to
1715. The second one is referred to as the “Dalton Minimum”, named for the
English meteorologist John Dalton, and it lasted from about 1790 to 1830. Both
of these historical periods coincided with below-normal global temperatures in
an era now referred to by many as the “Little Ice Age”. In addition, research
studies in just the past couple of decades have found a complicated relationship
between solar activity, cosmic rays, and clouds on Earth. This research
suggests that in times of low solar activity where solar winds are typically
weak; more cosmic rays reach the Earth’s atmosphere which, in turn, has been
found to lead to an increase in certain types of clouds that can act to cool
the Earth
The sun has gone quiet…solar cycle 24 continues to rank as
one of the weakest cycles more than a... Via:
The sun has gone quiet…solar cycle 24 continues to rank as one of the
weakest cycles more than a century
Herman Talmadge III posted in New Georgia Republican
Leadership for Principles above Politicians
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We’ve known for some time that carbon capture was based on
junk science and was merely a political pretext for UN Agenda 21, a plan to
wreck the U.S. By now, we could expect
that the media and Obama would go quiet on global warming, but not so. How can our elected officials stay quiet in
light of the obvious. We have been taken
on a $4 trillion ride. Is anybody as mad
as I am about this ? Out there… anybody
? I want to erect a gallows to hang everybody who perpetrated this hoax. I want to quit the U.N.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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