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Solar Cycle 24: Landscheidt minimum looking more likely

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The sunspot numbers and the solar flux for May are not keeping up even with the reduced expectations for this cycle.

Are we in the Landscheidt minimum or is it still to come?

Even though many of the alarmists of Global Warming reject the notion of the Solar Cycle having much influence on climate, there is little doubt that the period of the Maunder Minmum coincided with the Little Ice Age. It has been unfortunate that the so-called mathematical models on which Global Warming conclusions are based have descended to the level of glorified arithmetic even though there is little understanding of what the arithmetic represents.

It is time for science to return into the debate and for incomplete mathematical models relying on “fudge factors” to validate the model against temperature proxies (which are themselves highly unlikely to be solely dependant upon temperature) to be treated with the utmost scepticism. In fact it is time for scepticism to return to science.

Predictions of a global cooling over the next 20 or 30 years seem to be gaining substance.

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3 Responses to “Solar Cycle 24: Landscheidt minimum looking more likely”

  1. Unknown's avatar Beware the Icarus syndrome « The k2p blog Says:
    September 16, 2010 at 8:04 am

    […] magnetic flux and sunspots continue to be lower than the already low forecasts for this cycle. The Landscheidt minimum approaches and the sun is entirely oblivious of fanciful theories about coming ice ages or the […]

  2. Wrangler Wayne's avatar Wrangler Wayne Says:
    December 20, 2010 at 4:00 am

    We are in the Landscheidt minimum now (similar to a Dalton minimum).
    This should last until around 2020 to 2030. Afterwards, the true longterm grand minimum will emerge called a Gleissberg Minimum (similar to a Maunder Minimum?) and may easily last several decades if the sunspots disappear completely. The claimed miniscule warming of the past few decades may have been due to the residual effects of the CFC’s (which, unlike CO2, shows a positive correlation).

  3. Unknown's avatar Landscheidt minimum is here — a new Dalton is indicated « The k2p blog Says:
    December 21, 2010 at 7:43 am

    […] the indicators are that the Landscheidt minimum is here and that this is going to be close to a Dalton […]

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