Sunspot Cycle appears broken at 24-cycles

You beat me to it.Piers Corbyn stated this a few months ago.Recently Ive counted maybe 20 sources from NASA to various Astrophysicists and Solar physicists who are in agreement.
We are entering a mini Ice Age for the next 20-30 years or more.
Unless we are entering a full blown Ice Age which is eminent.
Full blown Ice Age,when it arrives ,takes from 3 to 20 years to manifest itself.
At that point there will be 1-2 mile thick glaciers over NYC.
Hopefully we wont witness that.
Anyway the AGW FUD has been canceled by Mother Nature.
GAIA says you AGW doomers are full of BS and is about to cool the planet.
I hope its not the case but there will be, massive crop losses resulting in hunger and rioting and death by starvation.
Hows that for FUD Sagebrush?You dished out FUD,now eat it.
But most are calling for a mini Ice Age .Thats the best scenario.Lets hope for that.
BTW
Amount of Galactic Cosmic Rays are a geological historical proxy of Earths temp and Solar activity.
Today GCR's are abundant due to the weak Solar activity.

 

Interesting.

Here's a video on the flow of currents on the sun's surface (like the oceans of earth flow), but your article (the OP, original post) has a much better description of the future decline in activity.
Sunspots Suggest a Drop in Solar Activity

science.nasa.gov also has more info.

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See also Sky & Telescope: Is the Sunspot Cycle About to Stop? Most of the authors are not expressing any opinion on terrestrial climate effects.

I don't see anything at Science News yet.

 

I think a better title for the article would be "Sunspot cycle theories appear broken: Several centuries of data are inconclusive for evolving 5 billion year old star."

Not that I am weighing in on any of the environmental issues, just on the philosophy of science issue.

 

mojo, the Medieval Climate Optimum and LIA are part of the Bond 1,500 year cycle.. it is too early for new ice age, at very least we should have another 700 years.

If we approaching it now that would mean that cycle is broken, as in few decades we managed to generate enough GHG to what mother nature takes centuries.

The question becomes if the regulatory system has enough capacity to purge excesses or it is broken for good.

 

Interesting the Prius people are following the solar activity The Ham Radio guys have been noticing the less than stellar sun activity on this current cycle. Just when we think the bands are getting better, we go into another decline in sun spots

Mike
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I'm going to check this in eight hours and see what it looks like after dark.

Tom

 

Humans have been changing the makeup of the atmosphere for longer than we think. Widespread cutting of trees, burning and plowing fields all have added CO2 to the atmosphere that would otherwise stay in roots, dirt and tree trunks, in fact those activities still account for probably 1/3rd of the human addition to greenhouse gases. (Don't buy Chinese wood products - they probably come from unprotected rain forests).

That said, losing 20-30% of the human population in Europe (the primary location of the plague) at a time when agriculture worldwide was still pretty primitive doesn't seem like it would have a big enough effect to cause the Little Ice Age. And I've heard it argued that the LIA is what pushed the rats to live in the houses in greater numbers, contributing to the plague, but that's probably just hear-say (or heresy?), but either way, I'm not sure of the exact timing there.

 

Decline? Wouldn't that be an increase in sun spots causes interference?

 

If there are more sun spots, that makes the atmosphere layers reflect the VHF and lower frequency radio waves better. Less sunspots make our signals go into outer space The solar flare last weekend closed down many HF bands but enhanced the lower VHF bands. The first place I go before going on the air is to check the online solar condition sites to see if the bands are even open other than just across town

Mike

 

mojo's being funny again. He makes me laugh almost as much as qbee, but in a different way.

 

Sure, you think it's funny that I'm going to look at the sun after dark. Well let me tell you, I intend to use night vision goggles.

Tom

 

I challenge that it had been at least 10F cooler then seasonal here in last 4 days, I think it is beginning of the Ice Age.

I am off to REI to pick up a pair of skis just in case

 

It is up now: Next solar cycle could be a no-show. I don't know if this article is available to non-subscribers.

While the reporter teases with the possibility of cooling in the first sentence, he really gives nothing to address this issue. I suspect that the climate commentary came from other directions, not from the scientists who wrote the three solar cycle papers.