Ever recorded....gimme a break. When did we start counting these “spots”?
Quite a while back
Wiki
"The earliest extant report of sunspots dates back to the Chinese Book of Changes, c. 800 BC.[7] The first clear mention of a sunspot in Western literature, around 300 BC, was by the ancient Greek scholar Theophrastus, student of Plato and Aristotle and successor to the latter.[8] The earliest surviving record of deliberate sunspot observation dates from 364 BC, based on comments by Chinese astronomer Gan De in a star catalogue.[9] By 28 BC, Chinese astronomers were regularly recording sunspot observations in official imperial records.[10] +++"
1749
A REALLY long time ago. One of the first celestial events consistently recorded. You don’t even need a telescope and filters. Just punch a pin hole in a sheet of paper and project the image on another. Ever do this to watch and eclipse. Works for sunspots too, but don’t try it now, ‘cause THERE AREN’T ANY :)
Ever recorded....gimme a break. When did we start counting these “spots”?
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There has been a continuous record of the daily sunspot count since the days of Galileo. While he didn’t discover sunspots with the advent of his telescope he could count them accurately.
There have been changes in the way sunspots were counted, today we count any mole that has a magnetic polarity as a sunspot. That means that we would call many spots as sunspots that Galileo would not count. Even this this enhanced counting we have a VERY low count. Likely this is the lowest sunspot activity in the last 400 years anyway, perhaps even lower than the Maunder.
The statement made above says lowest ever recorded. Well that is only hundreds of years to absolutely possible that we are in the lowest sunspot minimum ever RECORDED. Sunspots have been noticed in the past before Galileo but there has not been a daily count that we are aware of before then.
Two years in a row of record low sunspot counts is unusual and signals a very low minimum. Deep minimums are known to come often after a very high solar maximum as what we just came out of during the 90’s.
It is very, I repeat, very probable that we are headed into some very cold climate for at least 30 years more likely 50 years and possibly a hundred years if the solar weather follows what we have seen in the past. This is not a good thing.
When the climate cools the oceans cool, oceans cooling absorb Carbon Dioxide. Human life depends on plant life which depends on Carbon Dioxide. Carbon Dioxide is a tiny percent of earths atmosphere, about four hundred parts per million, if it gets below about two hundred and eighty parts per million it could wipe us out by crop killing. Low Carbon Dioxide and cold temperatures, late and early frost could really do a number on earths population.
The global warming nonsense was just a scam to get more tax money, global cooling is a killer. Any scientist who knows anything about climate understands all of this and any person who is not a scientist can begin to understand with as little a few thousand pages of reading on the subject.
In the 1600’s
It’s a pretty extensive record, certainly more than climate hoaxers have.