A Quiet Sun - Update On Solar Cycle 24

During the last few years we have often written (see articles below) about the lack of sunspot activity in the current solar Cycle 24.

Solar Cycle 23 ended in 2007, and by now the sun should be displaying much more activity each month. Even though the new cycle 24 has kicked in, it remains in a minimum stage.

There should now be about 50 monthly sunspots peaking at around 250 each month in a few years. The normal cycle would usually ramp down after that until the next solar minimum is reached around 2019 when a new cycle would commence.

While there should be have been 50 sunspots in December, 2009 there were only 16. During several months last year there were few days with sunspots.

For the entire year, seventy one percent of the days did not have any sunspots. So, at the current pace of growth in the cycle, by the time we reach 2013, half the average number of sunspots of a solar maximum may even be unlikely.

In fact, the last two years have found to be so inactive that they have been entered into the top ten years of the last century that had a lack of sunspot activity.  

The earth appears to be getting colder and there is significant scientific evidence that long solar minimums actively decrease the temperature of the earth.   A quiet sun with long solar minimums that lead to increasing cold on earth may become the scientific story of the years ahead.

Articles on Solar Cycle 24 on eWorldvu.com

To Predict Global Climate Change Look To The Sun

Taking The Temperature Of Global Climate Change

The Year of Sun-Made Global Cooling

Global Warming Relief May Come From The Sun

The Third Year Of A Blank Sun

Its Time To Prepare For Another Dalton Minimum

Follow The Sun To The Landscheidt Minimum

The Quiet Sun Continues In 2009.

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