Thursday, December 17, 2009

Science.com: The upper atmosphere is cooling

So it looks like it might be getting colder:

Don Surber
Solar activity (sunspots and solar storms) dropped to zero in August 2007 and have barely increased since.

Is this a precursor to a lengthy period of little or no solar activity which may coincide with a mini-Ice Age — the so-called Maunder Minimum?


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