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 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 uses NASA’s Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics satellite conducts Sunspot Number Progression counts, measures 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 fall from its 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 the onset of a super cycle ‘Maunder Minimum.’ The last Maunder Minimum period from 1645 to 1715 was a period with 7 percent fewer 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.
Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center reported in September: “High above Earth’s surface, near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy. If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold.”
The Swiss National Science Foundation also published in early 2017 a research paper by the Physical Meteorological Observatory Davos, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, ETH Zurich, and the University of Bern that warned that particle and electromagnetic “radiative forcing” could cause Maunder Minimum low temperatures in “in 50 to 100 years’ time.”
The United Nation’s International Panel on Climate Change has been the major “denier” of cyclical solar activity “forcing” climate change because it directly challenges the supposedly settled science that “anthropogenic” releases of fossil fuel CO2 are the exclusive cause of global warming that threatens the destruction of all living creatures.
As the evidence of solar forcing has mounted, the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change argues that climate model simulations of the period suggest that multiple factors, “particularly volcanic activity in the northern hemisphere” caused the Little Ice Age.
But the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction issued an October warning that the Ring of Fire’s 452 volcanos along the edge the Pacific Ocean edge that causes 90 percent of earthquakes and tsunamis had entered its 100-year active phase.
The Polar Vortex is a center of low pressure that typically spins near the North Pole. But in January it dipped down to cause 22 hypothermia deaths in the U.S. and at least 10 in Poland.
Eleven U.S. states and Poland recorded temperatures lower than minus 14 degrees Fahrenheit. Chicago reported frostbite cases after just 60 seconds exposure.
Winter Storm Lucien that brought freezing rainfall and flooding across California, then dumped three feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, is forecast to dump another 12 to 18 inches of freezing rain and sleet across the Midwest over the next three days.
Dr. Robert Hartwig, president of the International Insurance Institute “Severe winter weather is the third-largest cause of insured catastrophe losses, after hurricanes and tornadoes.
Based on a similar Polar Vortex experience, he warns that U.S. insured losses from severe 2018-2019 winter will likely exceed $2.5 billion by year’s end.
Read more at American Thinker
Most predictions include the word “could”. The data could indicate the onset of a super cycle Maunder Minimum.
We’ll just have to wait. Too soon for alarmism. Unlike the 17th century, we can handle it.
Not with windmills we can’t.
Climate Change/Global Warming has become like Evolution its stilll a total theory yet to be proven and most of the evedence they come up with is faked or fakes like Piltdown Man,Lucy and Archoraptor and the liberal written text books still show those fake embreos
Climate warmist alarmists naturally do not present their case in their articles (because they’ve not got one) and misrepresent the facts and mislead, but one should not write articles refuting them in their style. It just looks like climate coolist alarmism then. The above article is poor. Sunspots were not first observed by Galileo. There are extant written records, though scant and sporadic, from Arab, Indian and Chinese sources that predate that by centuries. Under the right haze conditions big sunspots can be seen when the Sun is low by naked eye. I’ve observed this myself on three occasions. Cavemen observed this. As for the title, “extremely low sunspot counts” (that would mean zero sunspots) do not suffice to “indicate global cooling onset.” That “the sunspot count plunged to zero” last year, earlier than expected, in itself comes nowhere close to indicating an onset of something like a Maunder Minimum. The eleven-year cycle is irregular. It’s eleven plus or minus two years. Also, that “near the edge of space, our atmosphere is losing heat energy” is to be expected. That happens with every sunspot cycle minimum. I think that’s enough to show how this kind of writing is similar to other substance-bereft scare-tactic pop-science articles out there, so I’ll stop.
Of course, there are lots of articles floating around like this of late. They all feed on the general lack of knowledge about sunspot cycles.
Svensmark Cosmic Theory.
2 models . I believe the astrophysics are much more grounded that the climate and pollution analyse . But the rise in demographic numbers have consequence in climate as the destruction that the over populated areas are determining is a cause of concern ! ambient , energy , food …