114 Responses to The sun is still in a funk: sunspot numbers are dropping when they should be rising
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Harold Ambler says:
I contend in my book that a new Space Race between Russia and the U.S., this one regarding solar variabilitys effects on Earths ocean-atmosphere system, is taking place largely out of public view. Heres a paragraph from the chapter The Quiet Sun:
In 1990, James Hansen wrote that comparisons of available data show that solar variability will not counteract greenhouse warming. Conversely, in 2009, he wrote, it is likely that the sun is an important factor in climate variability. As Hansen moved toward this shift in perspective, a Russian space program scientist had come out swinging, boldly predicting that Hansens forecasted warming during the next half-century would simply not come to pass.
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Maybe it ran out of fuel and is going to die!