Can anyone boil this down to what we can expect as a result?
Can anyone boil this down to what we can expect as a result?
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Sure. Buy heating fuel stocks and move to a warm clime ...
The 20th century sunspot excursion was easily the most energetic solar activity in the last thousand years. They now say 8000 years to match the combination of spots, flares, coronal ejections.
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research:
https://www.mpg.de/research/sun-activity-high
I predict weather will continue.
Fewer sunspots have been theorized to lead to less energy striking earth and thus cooling over time. Right now, however, the oceans are warm and an el Niño is forming so we will probably see higher water vapor > more clouds > rain and snow and stormy weather.
The liberal media will only report on how American capitalism is killing Gaia.
Re: “Can anyone boil this down to what we can expect as a result?”
With just three “opposite” polarity sunspots, it’s too soon to predict if the next Solar Cycle has started.
The Cycle we are currently in has had a very low number of sunspots, and, if this cycle ends now, I think it will be the shortest solar cycle ever recorded.
The author and a number of other solar experts have noted a close similarity between today’s sun and the sun that existed at the beginning of the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715), which was a 70 year period of almost no sunspots, and very low Earth temperatures.
Other solar experts point out that technology and solar knowledge was so limited in 1645 that trying to compare that period with 2018 is impossible.
During the Maunder Minimum in 1645, Earth temperatures went down dramatically, causing events like the Thames River to completely freeze over in the winter.
Prediction?
I’m hoping for a Maunder Minimum just so the Global Warming fanatics shut up for a couple minutes, which, of course, they will never do. They will just claim that the Maunder Minimum is “concealing” man made warming.
On the other hand, a new freezing cold Maunder Minimum would almost certainly cause significant human suffering, so it is not something that men of high character should wish for.