DocM Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 The sun's activity goes through 11 year sunspot cycles. As the number of sunspots increase so does solar activity, and vice versa. In the 70-year period from 1645 to 1715 there were virtually no sunspots, a period known as the Maunder Minimum. This extended period of solar inactivity coincided with a mini-ice age, which it took decades to pull out of. We may be heading into another such cycle. For the record: while westerners were wringing their hands over "global warming" Russian solar scientists were predicting this almost a decade ago. http://www.space.com/11960-fading-sunspots-slower-solar-activity-solar-cycle.html >Some unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles, could be indications that our sun is preparing to be less active in the coming years. The results of three separate studies seem to show that even as the current sunspot cycle swells toward the solar maximum, the sun could be heading into a more-dormant period, with activity during the next 11-year sunspot cycle greatly reduced or even eliminated. > > Currently, the sun is in the midst of the period designated as Cycle 24 and is ramping up toward the cycle's period of maximum activity. However, the recent findings indicate that the activity in the next 11-year solar cycle, Cycle 25, could be greatly reduced. In fact, some scientists are questioning whether this drop in activity could lead to a second Maunder Minimum, which was a 70-year period from 1645 to 1715 when the sun showed virtually no sunspots. [Video: Rivers of Fire Inflame Sunspots] > "We expected to see the start of the zonal flow for Cycle 25 by now, but we see no sign of it," Hill said. "The flow for Cycle 25 should have appeared in 2008 or 2009. This leads us to believe that the next cycle will be very much delayed, with a minimum longer than the one we just went through." Hill estimated that the start of Cycle 25 could be delayed to 2021 or 2022 and will be very weak, if it even happens at all. > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deactivated_ Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 So? At least this time we have global warming to balance things out. =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMH Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 I have never seen snow. Looking forward to this. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Patriot Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 I have never seen snow. Looking forward to this. :) Hell, maybe it is already starting. Where I live, snow used to be a once-in-a-decade thing, now we are getting it two or three times a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anibal P Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 somehow this too will be blamed on Humans and plans will be actually made to "fix" the sun, or I might be recalling a really bad movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holey Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 somehow this too will be blamed on Humans and plans will be actually made to "fix" the sun, or I might be recalling a really bad movie *gruff macho voice* It's daylight savings time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M_Lyons10 Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Hm... Interesting. I guess we'll just have to see what happens. The weather has definitely been changing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chsoriano Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 *gruff macho voice* It's daylight savings time Ha, nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YounGMessiah Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Humans are partially to blame, but there is a normal cycle.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharpGreen Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Hell, maybe it is already starting. Where I live, snow used to be a once-in-a-decade thing, now we are getting it two or three times a year. Ha..I know what you mean. In the winter here, it will snow at least once a year..but its not normally more than an inch. This year however not only did it snow multiple times if I remember correctly but the last time dumped like 8 inches. Totally unusual for us to get that much snow at once. Plus so far this summer it seems there have been more "just warm" days then hot ones. I don't know; perhaps its just a fluke. It'll be interesting to see how this "decline" effects things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
count0nz Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 somehow this too will be blamed on Humans and plans will be actually made to "fix" the sun, or I might be recalling a really bad movie Not Humans. But this is Directly Related to Violent Video games... The Energy required to run all those PS3's and X360's is sucking the power from the Sun. BAN them i say, Jack Thompson was right.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Yey more hot coco!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Zlip792 MVC Posted June 15, 2011 MVC Share Posted June 15, 2011 Where I live here room temperature used to hike upto 38-40 C in Summer. So I don`t need more hot weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flawed Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Where's Michael Mann's hockey stick when you need it :D In all seriousness though, lets face it, global cooling is a lot worse for life than warming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 not really when it's hot . we also have more people suffering heat stroke and droughts and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakers Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 No. Not only have we only just come out of a period where the sun was very inactive (and temperatures went up, not down - although the full effect may take another year or so to fully play out), but this mini ice age crap is just propaganda by the anti-global warming crowd that people have been spouting for the last 20 years. Not only that, but in the tudor/stewart era, there weren't 6 billion people living on the planet, and there weren't masses upon masses of greenhouse gases being pumped into the atmosphere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
He's Dead Jim Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 ^Yup, diminished sunspot activity wont stop the acceleration of degratory human activity^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trix Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 What? No one has said it yet?! fine.. Winter is coming! :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teebor Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Mini ice age will be a convenient solution to Global Warming. Also think of the power savings in Data centre cooling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unix2 Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Nice, looking forward to it... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 Also think of the power savings in Data centre cooling this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJohnSmitherson Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 I suggest a coordinated nuclear strike for the center of this "sun". Lets take it out before it tries to freeze us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neoadorable Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 muhahaha the pieces are falling in place, less solar activity means space exploration has just become that much easier and cheaper muhahahahaha. it's off to outer space, we're leaving mother Earth, to save the human race...bring on the deuterium! (sung to the tune from Star Blazers for the uninitiated. Yes, this is what a life of sci fi and gaming does to a person). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Growled Member Posted June 15, 2011 Member Share Posted June 15, 2011 Humans are partially to blame, but there is a normal cycle.. I hope you are being sarcastic. How, pray tell, are we to blame for the sun's cycles? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trix Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 NS has something on this If you believe the world's newspapers today, the sun is about to send Earth into another "Little Ice Age", cooling the planet and reprieving us from global warming. Don't believe the world's newspapers. link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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