Mini Ice Age coming? Sun may "hybernate...."


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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

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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.

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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]

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"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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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..

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Where I live here room temperature used to hike upto 38-40 C in Summer. So I don`t need more hot weather.

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not really when it's hot . we also have more people suffering heat stroke and droughts and stuff.

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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.

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Also think of the power savings in Data centre cooling

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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).

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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?

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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.

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