Scientists Concerned Regarding Lack Of Sunspot Activity

The Sun has gone into an unusual lull in sunspot activity in the last 2 years and it has some scientists quite concerned.  Between 1650 – 1700 the sun once went 50 years without activity and produced a “Little Ice Age” These scientists are worried that this could be the beginning to a similar trend. Too early to tell perhaps, but there are some interesting comments in this report. Apparently between January 2007 and 2008 the temperature has dropped 0.7C. So much for Global Warming.

Too early to tell perhaps, but interesting in the fact that the lack of sunspot activity is correlating with the drop in temperature. One scientist from Australia notes:

“This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930,” Dr Chapman noted in The Australian recently.

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