Readers will know that I feel the numbers on Global Warming simply do not add up and that we are headed for a period of cooling. Here is another brick in the wall from the London Daily Mail:
The 'dead sun': Stunning Nasa video reveals barren solar surface with lowest level of activity since 2011
The face of the sun was nearly spotless this month as our star marches toward solar minimum, hitting its lowest activity level since 2011.
Images captured by Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory from Nov 14-18 reveal just a handful of barely-visible spots on the surface of the sun, which is otherwise as blank as a cue ball.
The sun follows a pendulum-like pattern of activity over roughly an 11-year period, and while scientists say this behaviour is not unusual, some have warned the current trend could send Earth into a ‘mini ice age.’
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In late June, it was revealed that the sun had entered the quietest period for more than a century.
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During Solar Minimum, the opposite occurs. Solar flares are almost non-existent while whole weeks go by without a single, tiny sunspot to break the monotony of the blank sun. This is what we are experiencing now.
The longest minimum on record, the Maunder Minimum of 1645-1715, lasted an incredible 70 years.
The Maunder Minimum (also known as the prolonged sunspot minimum) is the name used for the period starting in about 1645 and continuing to about 1715 when sunspots became exceedingly rare, as noted by solar observers of the time.
It caused London's River Thames to freeze over, and 'frost fairs' became popular.
This period of solar inactivity also corresponds to a climatic period called the 'Little Ice Age' when rivers that are normally ice-free froze and snow fields remained year-round at lower altitudes.
Stock up on firewood. It is going to be a cold 30-50 years.
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