Sunspot update for March 2018: the sun crashes!

Bethind the Black ^ | April 9, 2018 | Robert Zimmerman

[oldasrocks]

But you don’t understand. These scientists were stuck in the 2nd grade so long they gave up and gave them a degree anyway.

This is the new progressive way.

[21twelve]

Got it. Observable with remote sensing - but not with the visual. I don’t know - I’m pretty sure those scientist’s have it ALL figured out by now! Well - at least the part where the sun doesn’t have much to do with global warming.

[null and void]

True, but terrestrial life flourishes whenever it’s warm.

[Reily]

True.... But he & I are big fans of woolly rhinos!

[Georgia Girl 2]

The last time the Thames river froze hard enough for a frost fair was 1814 the last little ice age. We are likely heading into another one now.

[Chickensoup]

colddddd

[Windflier]

I was taught in the 3rd grade that the sun was on an 11 year cycle.

Where did you go to school - Einstein Elementary?

;-)

[Windflier]

Grand Solar Minimum ping.

[PAR35]

Nope, public schools in the south. That was pre-integration.

[Windflier]

Nope, public schools...

If you say so :-)

[FreeReign]

Yeah, it does that every 11 years. That’s why they call it the sunspot ‘cycle’...

Not all SS minimums (and maximums) are the same.

For example, recent studies have suggested that when a northern hemisphere sunspot minimum and a southern hemisphere sunspot minimum are phasing, you get a grand minimum.

That's what they are claiming is going on now.

[trebb]

Or multiplied by zero....in the “new math” era there’s always different ways to come up with any number of answers to a single problem.....

[FrogMom]

I was taught the same thing in a California public school in the 50s.

[SkyDancer]

To help the snowflakes in math, Pi is now => 3

[DuncanWaring]

The sun is putting out the same energy per square foot as it always did, ...

Actually, I've seen recent claims that the sun's output is down about 0.1%.

Taken in isolation, that should cool the earth by about 0.5 degrees F.

Throw in the increased cloud cover due to more cosmic rays, and it cools even more.

Plan for shorter growing seasons.

[DuncanWaring]

There’s an 11-year cycle, and a 206-year cycle, and a 400-year cycle, and a 2000-year cycle.

[DuncanWaring]

Thanks.

[DuncanWaring]

Bicentennial Decrease of the Total Solar Irradiance Leads to
Unbalanced Thermal Budget of the Earth and the Little Ice Age.

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/abduss_APR.pdf

(amusingly, found via Bing, not by Google)

[Windflier]

"Decrease of the Total Solar Irradiance Leads to Unbalanced Thermal Budget of the Earth and the Little Ice Age."

I've read that the TSI number is very close to the trigger point, and dropping.

SuspiciousObservers.org has covered this extensively. They've gained a well earned reputation as the leading solar observation group in the country, in recent years.

[Windflier]

I was taught the same thing in a California public school in the 50s.

So was I, but that was in junior high.