Well we'll find out won't we. Hopefully we won't have fallen for the hoax of man made global warming in the meantime.
Please go to the link below and see what Alarmist and Hansen/Gore buddy Hathaway had to say about Solar Cycle 24 back in Dec. 2006. Also his quote from todays article.........Prior to the industrial revolution, the sun probably accounted for about 10 to 30 percent of climate variability, Hathaway told SPACE.com, but now that greenhouse gases have started to build up, “the sun’s contribution is getting smaller and smaller,” he added. ..
I would ask Dr Hathaway if the sun is only responsible for 10 to 30% of climate variability, what would happen if the sun disappeared? This guy and Hansen are both tools of the Global warming crowd, and our paid to preach that gospel with our tax dollars. His forecast below from less than two years ago has been proven false already. He claims cycle 24 has started already, but by most definitions Cycle 24 will not start until the smoothed average of Cycle 24 sunspots outnumbers Cycle 23 sunspots over a three (I think) month period. Right now there is only a cycle 23 spot on the sun, and the last three months have only seen cycle 23 spots. That means that cycle 24 has NOT started, and probably will not for at least another three months. More deception on the part of our gov’t.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/21dec_cycle24.htm
Dec. 21, 2006: Evidence is mounting: the next solar cycle is going to be a big one.
Solar cycle 24, due to peak in 2010 or 2011 “looks like its going to be one of the most intense cycles since record-keeping began almost 400 years ago,” says solar physicist David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center. He and colleague Robert Wilson presented this conclusion last week at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco
Cross correlating sunspot number vs. IHV, they found that the IHV predicts the amplitude of the solar cycle 6-plus years in advance with a 94% correlation coefficient.