Quiet Sun - Cold Earth: 2008 Now #3 for Most Sunspotless Days - Could we Reach #2?
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One of our loyal Canadian Icecap readers asked us to comment on the fact we are now at the end of November, in the top five years with the most sunspotless days the last century (ranking #3) perhaps even heading topwards a #2 finish depending on how many spotless days we have in December. …..
QUIET SOLAR PERIODS ARE COLD PERIODS
Case in point the Maunder Minimum during the little ice age, virtually spotless for decades/centuries from the late 1400s to early 1700s. The early 1800 quiet sun period known as the Dalton Minimum was a mini ice age. Cold returned in the late 1800s and early 1900s with again a declining sun.