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NASA extreme low sunspot counts indicate global cooling onset

Thursday, 7 February 2019, 20:00 MJA Uncategorized 12

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

The complex flows of ions and electrons inside the Sun produce sunspots that average about ten times the size of the Earth and have magnetic fields that are ten thousand times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field.  Sunspots were first observed by Galileo in the early 1600s and have been scientifically tracked as 11-year cycles since 1755.

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center, using NASA’s Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics satellite, conducts Sunspot Number Progression counts, measuring F10.7cm Radio Flux and the Ap Index geomagnetic activity, and its SABER carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitric oxide (NO) instruments gage infrared solar output in Earth’s top atmospheric level.

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.  But 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.  more here

12 Comments on NASA extreme low sunspot counts indicate global cooling onset

  2. Thanks for the update to wake up tomorrow too! ‘(Sarc)’ no disrespect meant.
    NASA, the MARS rover works somehow since August 6, 2012 on solar charged batteries, yet my constantly recharged phones I’ve had to replace the batteries in twice since than.
    London’s Thames River froze over most years during the period. And thawed.
    So tomorrow we are all still going to die,
    Have a blessed day,
    Sincere best regards,,

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  3. Stinks too because long distance
    radio communication is way down.
    The sun spots cause radiation to
    “electrify” the “F” layer & the “D”
    layers of the ionosphere causing radio
    waves to reflect back to earth.

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