Posted on 12/02/2011 11:03:11 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Just published in GRL, a new paper by Lockwood et al that suggests the sun may be headed for a Maunder type minimum.:
The persistence of solar activity indicators and the descent of the Sun into Maunder Minimum conditions
Key Points
Abstract:
The recent low and prolonged minimum of the solar cycle, along with the slow growth in activity of the new cycle, has led to suggestions that the Sun is entering a Grand Solar Minimum (GSMi), potentially as deep as the Maunder Minimum (MM). This raises questions about the persistence and predictability of solar activity. We study the autocorrelation functions and predictability R2L(t) of solar indices, particularly group sunspot number RG and heliospheric modulation potential Φ for which we have data during the descent into the MM. For RG and Φ, R2L(t) > 0.5 for times into the future of t ≈ 4 and ≈ 3 solar cycles, respectively: sufficient to allow prediction of a GSMi onset. The lower predictability of sunspot number RZ is discussed. The current declines in peak and mean RG are the largest since the onset of the MM and exceed those around 1800 which failed to initiate a GSMi.
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Bush’s fault?
Maunder Minimum Ping!
fyi
Palin had a picture of the sun with a target on her web site.
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kbray in california says:
Santa Anna says it’s cooling too…
Since reports in 2008/9 indicated AG-warming would reduce Santa Anna winds….
here…
and here too….
http://www.energy.ca.gov/2009publications/…/CEC-500-2009-015-D.PDF
Therefore the current powerful Santa Anna winds must be a confirmation of Global Cooling !!
That’s cool.
Well there goes my Martian vacation this year. Rats.
Last solar max I was working California from Texas on 6 meters with 4 watts. I WANT MY SUNSPOTS!
/johnny
Ping. Thanx!
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Link to the paper:
Thankfully, we’re prepared because of all of that CO2 we’ve been spewing. Industrial age win!
From the comments:
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crosspatch says:
There is a discussion of the solar UV paper here: http://theresilientearth.com/?q=content/winter-sun
Whew!! Maybe the polar bears can be saved after all!
/s
I just hope we get a new republican president and republican congress that will undue the green agenda that is paralyzing our energy industry.
LOL!
Global cooling is because of global warming. Everyone knows that.....geeze!
The galactic Sunspot Nazi....”NO sunspots for you”
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