>> 2009/7/4 Alan B. Pearce Alan.B.Pearce@stfc.ac.uk
>> Looks like the sun may be awakening ...
>> http://tinyurl.com/nqpox8
>> Sunspots Ahoy ... my colleagues will be pleased.
But, no.
That proved to be a temporay aberration in a consistent assymptote towards a
very dead sun indeed.
The sun is still continuing it's downwards activity plod. It's very hard to
plod towards zero when you are already bumping along zero.
And still "the establishment" says largely nowt *.

     http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/

What part of "gone out" don't we und ...
No, of course it hasn't.
But it is surely doing something vastly unusual.

* Not quite true. Some are now saying things like (non verbatim) "while the
trend in manmade global warming is continuing, it is being masked in the
short term by natural cyclical variations in solar output and we can expect
that warming may not 'get back on track' for a decade ot so but every care
must be taken to keep up efforts to combat arming so that we aren't caught
out when the short term solar fluctuation ends ...". All of which may well
be true. And may not. And nobody really knows. but you won't have any
problem getting people to take your money and giving an expert opinion in
either direction.

Very interesting graph though.



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Apposite abstract here.
It would be interesting to see what they made of the current cycle.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/576167w517041j37/










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