The sun has reached a milestone not seen for nearly 100 years: an entire month has passed without a single visible sunspot being noted.
The event is significant as many climatologists now believe solar magnetic activity – which determines the number of sunspots -- is an influencing factor for climate on earth.
According to data from the NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center, the last time such an event occurred was June of 1913. Sunspot data has been collected since 1749.
The alarmists will almost certainly yawn at the news, if they notice it at all. Sunspots, many argue, have no effect on the radiation output of the Sun.This is correct, but misleading. The solar magnetic activity represented by sunspots affects our climate indirectly by influencing cloud formation on our planet, which in turn does affect our climate.
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Now there was a little sunspot, which wasn't for sure regarded as a sunspot, but anyway was there.
Still the sun is extremely inactive and you're exactly right about the magnetic field.
To a very particular point IPCC do admit the covariation between sun activity in the sunspot sycle and temperatur. It's about a 0.2 degrees Celsius variation. I wonder how they explain that with the small variation of TSI. (Maybe they count on some large positive feedback? ;) )
It's also sad IPCC don't admit that Palle et al 2004 proved covariance between CR and low level cloud cover. IPCC's refusal of extremely high covariance is so obviously political.
I think and hope cold climate end their (IPCC's) days. It's very important that any ambitious new Kyoto agreement 2009 is abolished.
Hi, Magnus -
How was the summer in Sweden? Here in Texas we've had a typically hot/dry season (37C or higher was pretty common until mid-August), but it has been quite a contrast with last summer which was the coolest in the thirty-plus years I've lived here.
Up in the northern U.S. we're already getting reports of snow at higher elevations and frost a little lower.
Wow! 37C... I wish we had 30C. The early summer was quite normal. Sunny with not much rain. But from August it was below average temperature and lots of rain, just as in some cold years of the 80th. I read that 90% of Swedish wheat harvest has too bad quality to use for bread this year, which was a common in the 80th.
Ppl here are bored of the below average temperature. And soon the solar Minimum are here? :-(
Do you have any cheap houses in sunny Texas?
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I'm now reading this article by Vaclav Klaus which well describes the problems of environmentalism. The science is important but environmentalists and the left aren't interrested in science, but to advance its political agenda. I think we have to get McCain and other non-socialists who support stupid environmentalism (e.g. cap-and-trade) to realize that both "AGW science" and the environmentalism politics are crap which has to be abandoned.
Of course debunking error in science is crucial, but I think the left/environmentalists tries to be in the front seat by promoting a the enviropolitical
discourse, so it survive and change our society towards more regulation and less freedom.
Cap-and-tade I'm afraid is almost to abandon the market economy. Quite scary.
Here is also an article about Klaus.
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