Sunspots have been very active this month. Probably the highest they’ve been this max. I thought we had passed the max.
Magnetic strength has been very weak this solar maximum. Sunspot numbers are all biased by who and how the counting is done. For example a sunspot number of 90 today actually translates to a number of 50 once corrected to accurately compare it to sunspot counts from over a hundred years ago. So we are still in a weak solar maximum. Perhaps the second peak or second group of spikes in sunspot formation. Sunspots are just an approximation for total solar activity levels.
Sunspots have been very active this month. . . . . .
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Well, not exactly, they have been “comparatively” active but considering that this is Solar Max iti s rather slow compared to the last 4 solar Max’s.
Many scientest consider the little ice age both the Maunder and Dalton Minimums. Personally I hope we aren’t going into a Maunder type minimum, that could cause some serious problems. Even the less severe Dalton Minimum caused Frost in July in the North East. The Dalton Minimum was one of the reasons for the great westward migration in the first half of the 19th century in the US. Farmers got fed up with having summertime frosts and decided to move to a warmer climate.
The Maunder Minimum is normally thought of to have started aproximately at the time of the Mayflour Pilgrims and lasted about a hundred years however, after only 50 years we were hit with the Dalton Minimum. The Dalton was not so deep as the Maunder but for places already in high latitudes it was enough to ruin crops and make years with no harvest.
We have a lot of people in the world to feed now, think if Europe, North Asia and Canada could not feed themselves. What would the polotical landscape look like in that senario?