Some really smart scientists predict that Planet Earth is now entering a very deep and prolonged cooling period attributable to 100 - year record
low numbers of sunspots.
The extraordinary cold spell was probably strengthened and lengthened by the resulting increase in sea ice at high latitudes, as well as an unusually
low number of sunspots in the middle of the 7th century.
# 359 — Solar spots: I've just looked at your chart and have little idea why it is supposed to persuade me of anything, other than a much
lower number of sunspots this cycle compared with last.
«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.»
«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,» according to Vencore.
I have always sustained that the solar radiation hitting on the Earth is actually increasing despite the extremely
low number of sunspots:
That period coincided with the «Maunder Minimum,» an unusual
low number of sunspots through several sunspot cycles
There was an even
lower number of sunspots during the Maunder Minimum between 1645 and 1710 coincident with an even colder spell, known as the Little Ice Age.
low sunspots ---- I sure that has been in the news ----
low number of sunspots relates to lower solar output --------
Not exact matches
It isn't the
sunspots per se, but their relationship to changes in the Sun's magnetic field, which determines
number of cosmic rays forming
low cloud.
The peak
of cycle 24 is due next year with the
lowest sunspot number since 1928.
TSI is directly correlated with
sunspot numbers, and the long and deep solar minimum we just came through where the sun was blank for long periods
of time would necessarily mean that TSI was also
lower for an extended period
of time This is not what the measurements show.
Klapper, others - Note that there is some ambiguity about the
sunspot numbers - according to Svalgaard 2012, due to changes in counting methods the
sunspot numbers pre-1875 are
low by a factor
of 50 %, and the
numbers from 1940 onward are high by a factor
of 20 %.
Surely now the pseudoscience spouted here that
low sunspot numbers result in
lower temperatures can finally be put out
of our misery?
Feynman cycle
lows (extended minima) are characterized by very
low annual
sunspot numbers (less than 3, figure 89 a, black arrows and blue asterisks), and a slight increase in the duration
of the 11 - year cycle (figure 89 d).
In 1862 Rudolf Wolf, after completing the first continuous record
of sunspot numbers, «concluded from the
sunspot observations available at that time that high and
low maxima did not follow one another at random: a succession
of two or three strong maxima seemed to alternate with a succession
of two or three weak maxima».
Quite evident in the most recent several hundred years
of the isotopic records is a seventy - year period
of very
low solar activity in the 17th and early 18th centuries — known as the Maunder Minimum — and following it, an unsteady, long - term rise to the present - day era
of high
sunspot numbers, called the Modern Maximum (Fig. 2 c, d).
Secondly, natural and anthropogenic contributions to these phenomena are examined in detail and separated well through in - depth statistical analyses
of comprehensive measured datasets
of quantities, including cosmic rays (CRs), total solar irradiance,
sunspot number, halogenated gases (CFCs, CCl4 and HCFCs), CO2, total O3,
lower stratospheric temperatures and global surface temperatures.
One argument is that observation
of low sunspot numbers (less than 50) tends to coincide with the winter (December - February) and spring (March - May), while large
sunspot numbers tend to coincide with summer (June - July) and autumn (September - November).
Many climate realists believe that Earth appears to be entering a sharp downturn in temperatures over the next few decades because
of the falling
number of sunspots and
lower total solar irradiance.