Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century
By Michael Asher
Daily Tech
September 1, 2008
“Drop in solar activity has potential effect for climate on earth.
The sun has reached a milestone not seen for nearly 100 years: an entire month has passed without a single visible sunspot being noted.
The event is significant as many climatologists now believe solar magnetic activity – which determines the number of sunspots — is an influencing factor for climate on earth.
According to data from Mount Wilson Observatory, UCLA, more than an entire month has passed without a spot. The last time such an event occurred was June of 1913. Sunspot data has been collected since 1749.”
“In the past 1000 years, three previous such events — the Dalton, Maunder, and Spörer Minimums, have all led to rapid cooling. One was large enough to be called a “mini ice age”. For a society dependent on agriculture, cold is more damaging than heat.”
http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/09/02/no-sun-spots-means-bigger-problem-global-cooling-not-global–
Here we are in Late July 2009 and still no significant sunspot activity.
Yet Idon’t see any indications of a cooling trend.
It has reached over 50 c in the shade here in the Gulf.
Greenland continues to melt and the politicians dont know what to do and are afraid of upsetting effing China and India.
Ah well……….
Some help while you sit in the shade of SUMMER:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/21/gavin-schmidt-on-solar-trends-and-global-warming/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/18/global-sea-level-updated-at-uc-still-flattening/
http://climatesanity.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/vancouver-underwater/
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