skookerasbil
Platinum Member
This article is brilliantly instructive.........
"It is then that we will await the answer to what is the big scientific question in the solar science community: Will the Sun then enter a prolonged Grand Minimum, with no sunspots for decades and similar to the Maunder Minimum of the 1600s, or will the eleven-year solar cycle continue as it has for the past three hundred or so years?
The answer to that question is crucial, for two reasons. First, a Grand Minimum now, with our modern space-based technology, will give scientists an opportunity to study the Sun as it behaves in a relatively unusual manner at a resolution never before available. With such good data, they might actually figure out the solar dynamo that produces sunspots, a process that they presently really do yet not understand.
Second, and more important, a Grand Minimum now would help climate scientists figure out how important the Sun is to climate change. Most climate scientists dismiss the Suns solar cycle, considering the changes during its eleven year cycle too small to influence the climate. A Grand Minimum, however, might change those opinions significantly.
Moreover, though the Maunder Minimum in the 1600s coincided with the Little Ice Age, our data on the Suns brightness during that time period is simply not good enough to tell us if it was the minimum that caused the lower global temperatures. Another minimum now would help answer that question.
Knowing these facts, with good robust data, is essential if we are to get a true and unbiased understanding of the Earths climate."
The Sun makes the scientists look good ? for now! | Behind The Black
It is indeed hysterical how easily the climate crusading k00k left OCD's dismiss this out of hand as having an impact on the climate. Scientifically speaking.......its not at all scientific.
"It is then that we will await the answer to what is the big scientific question in the solar science community: Will the Sun then enter a prolonged Grand Minimum, with no sunspots for decades and similar to the Maunder Minimum of the 1600s, or will the eleven-year solar cycle continue as it has for the past three hundred or so years?
The answer to that question is crucial, for two reasons. First, a Grand Minimum now, with our modern space-based technology, will give scientists an opportunity to study the Sun as it behaves in a relatively unusual manner at a resolution never before available. With such good data, they might actually figure out the solar dynamo that produces sunspots, a process that they presently really do yet not understand.
Second, and more important, a Grand Minimum now would help climate scientists figure out how important the Sun is to climate change. Most climate scientists dismiss the Suns solar cycle, considering the changes during its eleven year cycle too small to influence the climate. A Grand Minimum, however, might change those opinions significantly.
Moreover, though the Maunder Minimum in the 1600s coincided with the Little Ice Age, our data on the Suns brightness during that time period is simply not good enough to tell us if it was the minimum that caused the lower global temperatures. Another minimum now would help answer that question.
Knowing these facts, with good robust data, is essential if we are to get a true and unbiased understanding of the Earths climate."
The Sun makes the scientists look good ? for now! | Behind The Black
It is indeed hysterical how easily the climate crusading k00k left OCD's dismiss this out of hand as having an impact on the climate. Scientifically speaking.......its not at all scientific.
