7/27/09

Are we at the threshold of a cold era?

What happened to the sunspots? Ever since Samuel Heinrich Schwabe, a German astronomer, first noted in 1843 that sunspots burgeon and wane over a roughly 11-year cycle, scientists have carefully watched the Sun’s activity.

In the latest lull, the Sun should have reached its calmest, least pockmarked state last fall. Among some global warming skeptics, there is speculation that the Sun may be on the verge of falling into an extended slumber similar to the so-called Maunder Minimum, several sunspot-scarce decades during the 17th and 18th centuries that coincided with an extended chilly period.(Source: accuweather.com)

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