Sentences with phrase «lack of sunspots»

The Maunder Minimum was also characterised by an almost total lack of sunspots, which record how the solar dynamo, which creates the sun's magnetic field, is churning.

Cycle 24, so far, has shown a decisive lack of sunspots.

Anomolous global sea ice area would seem to be over a million square kilometers below the 1979 - 2000 mean... hmmm and continuing lack of sunspots should mean lower global temperatures... hmmm

But sunspots were recorded by several astronomers, and Rottman and others believe there is a correlation between the climate of the time and the lack of sunspots.

He conveniently forgot the «Maunder Minimum aka Little Ice Age that bottomed out around 1300 that has been attributed to lack of sunspots (inactive sun) This egregious straightening of the handle of the hockey stick graph is just one of the more obvious embarassments to AGW policy presented by the entire graph of the Holocene interglacial period.

Since it occurred immediately after the invention of the telescope, astronomers had no idea that the lack of sunspots were unusual and did not give it much attention.

The downward trend reflects the lack of sunspot activity.

Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, while others explain it through ocean currents.»

I'm an amateur astronomer and have noted the lack of sunspot activity recently, a phenomenon associated with reduced solar heat output.

You can't make a one - to - one connection between a lack of sunspots and an oncoming ice age.

Dramatic evidence of a strong linkage was provided by another astronomer, Walter Maunder, who at the age of 70, in 1922, linked the lack of sunspots between 1645 and 1715, to the bitter cold of that period.

But then, just when things were humming nicely and the billions were flowing in, along came some scientists, skeptics and sunspots — or more precisely, the lack of sunspots — to upset their apocalypse cart.