Solar Science

And, even if this is the actualy explanation of why there are no sunspots, how do we know that this wasn’t also the explanation during the Maunder Minimum? There were no instruments to measure this sort of then back then to find out.
For this reason, to me the whole article is a bit overblown. It is interesting and the facts are relevant and improtant, but we have no base to compare it to, therefore any conclusions are premature.

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What I find amazing is the almost desperate nature being applied by scientists to this lack of solar activity, and how they continue to cling to existing theories and models, while trying to find something to explain the slow down. The keep tossing out new thoughts with the hope that this one will stick. It’s coming up on three months since the whole “jet stream” news, and if anything there has been even fewer sunspots during this period that previously. Heck, the supposed spots during this time period are nothing of the sort, mere solar specks. Some might even claim the specks are merely an attempt to say there WAS a sunspot so they do not see a 0 in the records for a month (wasn’t it August of last year that initally was claimed to be 0? So they frantically poured over past pictures and finally announced some speck “should” have counted so it was actually 1). Another desperate attempt shot down .. would the next turkey please step.

They continue to ignore the fact that there is nothing in their theories to explain the occurrances of the Maunder Minimum, or other periods of confirmed minimal activity. We’ve been going through the Modern Maximum, a period of higher peak sun spot counts, for the last 60+ years. Radiocarbon dating of tree samples over the last 10,000 years has indicated the sun may spend about 25% of it’s time in these minimal activity periods, and maximums as we’ve been experiencing are less common, present in less that 5% or the time. Yet they continue to ingore this elephant standing in the room next to them, as to even acknowledge a minimum could occur would only highlight their lack of understanding. If they were true scientists, they would be jumping up and down for joy at this occurrance as the data and information can take their understanding in directions never thought possible. Yet they cling to what does not work, hoping something new has not started. Truely a most pathetic showing.