“All three of these lines of research to point to the familiar sunspot cycle shutting down...”

Watts Up With That? ^ | June 14, 2011 | Anthony Watts

[neverdem]

“All three of these lines of research to point to the familiar sunspot cycle shutting down for a while.”

I’ve managed to get a copy of the official press release provided by the Southwest Research Institute Planetary Science Directorate to MSM journalists, for today’s stunning AAS announcement and it is reprinted in full here:

WHAT’S DOWN WITH THE SUN?
MAJOR DROP IN SOLAR ACTIVITY PREDICTED

Latitude-time plots of jet streams under the Sun's surface show the surprising shutdown of the solar cycle mechanism. New jet streams typically form at about 50 degrees latitude (as in 1999 on this plot) and are associated with the following solar cycle 11 years later. New jet streams associated with a future 2018-2020 solar maximum were expected to form by 2008 but are not present even now, indicating a delayed or missing Cycle 25.

A missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near the poles say that our Sun is heading for a rest period even as it is acting up for the first time in years, according to scientists at the National Solar Observatory (NSO) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL).

As the current sunspot cycle, Cycle 24, begins to ramp up toward maximum, independent studies of the solar interior, visible surface, and the corona indicate that the next 11-year solar sunspot cycle, Cycle 25, will be greatly reduced or may not happen at all.

The results were announced at the annual meeting of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society, which is being held this week at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces:

http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/SPD2011/

“This is highly unusual and unexpected,” Dr. Frank Hill, associate director of the NSO’s Solar Synoptic Network, said of the results...

[Munz]

>No its not good. We could possibly see an ice age and for the poster before you the article is not wrong. The only ones saying look out for an active sun are the ones that want money to prepare. The good news is it would take more than a lifetime for an ice age to set in. Also there’s nothing we can do about it or to cause it.<

I have an idea that will work. To prevent an ice age, have elections every year, that should generate enough HOT AIR to keep us all living in a tropical zone till the sun gets through this cycle.

[familyop]

"Sunspot levels can serve as an indirect indicator of the strength of the solar magnetic field. I'm wondering if there could be some coupling mechanism involving interactions between the solar magnetic field and Earth's magnetic field which could have effects on the Earth's core? Any real physicists around who could chime in?"

Thanks for asking that excellent question.

[SunkenCiv]

• Earth may be headed into a mini Ice Age within a decade
• New insights on how solar minimums affect Earth
• Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity
• Study finds global warming over past 400 years was due to increased Solar activity
• The Origin of Sunspots --- A New Hypothesis
• The Watched Pot and Fast CMEs (Sunspot the froggy physicist)
• ScienceShot: The Mystery of the Absent Sunspots
• Scientists solve mystery of disappearing sunspots
• Sunspot group 1158 produces an X class solar flare ( last X class flare was Dec 13th, 2006 )
• Sunspot 1153 Brilliantly Explodes!
• Sunspot 1117 has exploded. (Headed for earth)
• Say Goodbye to Sunspots? (Goodbye, global warming; hello, little ice age)
• Sunspot Photo is Most Detailed Ever

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

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[Mama Shawna]

Bttt.

[unkus]

LOL!!!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[enduserindy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Corbyn

Piers Corbyn, uses the sun to predict weather a year out and is more accurate than anyone else is by far. He has said for years that AWG is BS. He also claims earthquakes can be triggered by the sun. I don’t know if I buy all of his theories but considering how good his forecasts have been (weather and quakes,) there’s something to look at for sure.

[TEXOKIE]

Thanks for the link!

[MarMema]

No aurora borealis watching.

[momincombatboots]

After looking at your post... I think it is absolute genius for the left to claim they are defeating global warming, when all they are really doing is lining up their policies to match the timeline for the cool down.

[mewzilla]

It also appears that volcanic activity has increased over the past few months. Increased volcanic activity, if it puts enough extra sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, can cause global cooling.

According to to April 2011 issue of National Geographic, every day the lava lake at the Nyiragongo Volcano puts out more sulfur dioxide "than the total from every car and factory in the United States.

Bad, bad, bad volcano!

Quick, somebody call Algore!

Meanwhile, from last year...

Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995