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This thread from WattsUpWithThat gives the technical answer to what we spoke about above for declining sunspot numbers.

Julian in Wales says: July 15, 2013 at 12:16 pm
I do not understand why cycle 25 is projected to be so low. Such a weak cycle seems to be out of line with anything from the historical record, so how has this projection been arrived at?
Try this WUWT-article from 2008 for an explanation: Livingston and Penn paper: “Sunspots may vanish by 2015″.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/06/02/livingston-and-penn-paper-sunspots-may-vanish-by-2015/

80 posted on 07/17/2013 11:46:28 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)

To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Thanks, Robt-that is fascinating info-correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the Maunder Minimum occur during the Little Ice Age? I don’t like the thought of that-an ice age winter isn’t something I want to live in-even in Texas...

82 posted on 07/17/2013 11:57:42 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)

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