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Bad news for warmists: Sun has entered 'weakest solar cycle in a century' By Thomas Lifson The conceit that human production of carbon dioxide is capable of driving the earth’s climate is running smack into the sun. CO2 accounts for a mere 0.039% of the atmosphere, while the sun accounts for 99.86% of all of the mass in our entire solar system. And Ol’ Sol is not taking the insult lightly. Vencore Weather reports: For the past 5 days, solar activity has been very low and one measure of solar activity – its X-ray output – has basically flatlined in recent days (plot below courtesy NOAA/Space Weather Prediction Center). Not since cycle 14 peaked in February 1906 has there been a solar cycle with fewer sunspots. We are currently more than six years into Solar Cycle 24 and today the sun is virtually spotless despite the fact that we are still in what is considered to be its solar maximum phase. Solar cycle 24 began after an unusually deep solar minimum that lasted from 2007 to 2009 which included more spotless days on the sun compared to any minimum in almost a century. There are several possible consequences to the solar quiet. The first is counterintuitive: By all Earth-based measures of geomagnetic and geoeffective solar activity, this cycle has been extremely quiet. However, while a weak solar cycle does suggest strong solar storms will occur less often than during stronger and more active cycles, it does not rule them out entirely. In fact, the famous Carrington Event of 1859 occurred during a weak solar cycle (#10) [ http://thesiweather.com/2014/09/02/300-pm-the-carrington-event-of-1859-a-solar-superstorm-that-took-places-155-years-ago/]. In addition, there is some evidence that most large events such as strong solar flares and significant geomagnetic storms tend to occur in the declining phase of the solar cycle. In other words, there is still a chance for significant solar activity in the months and years ahead. Our dependence on electronic devices is such that extreme solar events could have serious consequences. However, it is the likely impact on atmospheric temperatures that threatens the “consensus” on global warming: …if history is a guide, it is safe to say that weak solar activity for a prolonged period of time can have a negative impact on global temperatures in the troposphere which is the bottom-most layer of Earth’s atmosphere - and where we all live. There have been two notable historical periods with decades-long episodes of low solar activity. The first period is known as the “Maunder Minimum”, named after the solar astronomer Edward Maunder, and it lasted from around 1645 to 1715. The second one is referred to as the “Dalton Minimum”, named for the English meteorologist John Dalton, and it lasted from about 1790 to 1830. Both of these historical periods coincided with below-normal global temperatures in an era now referred to by many as the “Little Ice Age”. In addition, research studies in just the past couple of decades have found a complicated relationship between solar activity, cosmic rays, and clouds on Earth. This research suggests that in times of low solar activity where solar winds are typically weak; more cosmic rays reach the Earth’s atmosphere which, in turn, has been found to lead to an increase in certain types of clouds that can act to cool the Earth. It is common sense to believe that the sun has more influence on global temperatures than a trace gas. With a 17 year “pause” in the predicted outcomes of an increase in atmospheric CO2, warmists face more and more awkward questions. If temperatures actually decline as a result of an expected decrease in solar activity, at some point the game will be up, and the billions of dollars a year squandered on climate modeling that doesn’t predict what happens will have to dry up. Hat tip: Bryan Demko Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/02/bad_news_for_warmists_sun_has_entered_weakest_solar_cycle_in_a_century.html#ixzz3S6XQrc4f Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter \| AmericanThinker on Facebook Arch • an hour ago Chinese and Korean observers have been keeping records of sunspot activity for 2600 years. The solar maximums and minimums tend to align themselves with warm and cool climate periods. The problem is governments can’t tax or regulate the sun. .............. Global Warming Truth • an hour ago CO2 levels were higher than today in 85% of the past 600 million years and never has been observed, in the geological record, to be a driver of the climate. However, there is a very close association between changing solar activity and ocean cycles (AMO and PDO) and global temperatures. Solar activity in the 1980s was the strongest in the past 8,000 years, according to the prestigious Max Planck Institute in Germany. This, along with the Pacific (PDO) and Atlantic AMO), which were both in their warm dominated multi decadal phases. As the Pacific moved back to its cold, multi decadal phase in the late 1990s global temps stopped warming. When the Atlantic moves back to its cold dominated phase in the next decade or less, expect Arctic ice to rebound. This solar cycle is expected to be very long, followed by an even long and weaker cycle in the next 15 years. The combination of the oceans going into their cold phase, along with the weakest solar activity in over a century (weak solar activity is thought to increase low level cloud formation and this has a cooling effect by radiating solar energy back to space), will simply break the back of the global warming theory. The wild card is a major northern hemispheric volcanic event which would accelerate the cooling. This you tube explains much of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY-gRFSaP7o ..........