Monday, February 11, 2019

NASA extreme low sunspot counts indicate global cooling onset

NASA extreme low sunspot counts indicate global cooling onset

  • NASA space weather observations, extremely low sunspot counts, and a severe Polar Vortex are consistent with cyclical global cooling onset.

...As the Earth was completing Solar Cycle 24, sunspot counts and magnetic activity were expected cyclically to fall from a high of over 100 in 2014 to a low of zero in 2022. 
See the source imageBut the sunspot count plunged to zero in mid-2018 and has remained substantially lower than forecast for Solar Cycle 25. 
The data could indicate onset of a super-cycle "Maunder Minimum." 
The last Maunder Minimum period from 1645 to 1715 was a period with 7 percent less sunspots and global cooling, referred to as the "Little Ice Age."
The Little Ice Age altered atmospheric circulation patterns across northern Europe, resulting in widespread crop failures, famine, disease, and increased child mortality.
London's Thames River froze over most years during the period.
Martin Mlynczak of NASA's Langley Research Center reported in September: "High above Earth's surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy.
If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold."...
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