The Royal Astronomical Society release links to a Wikipedia entry defining the Maunder minimum as the "prolonged sunspot minimum" period from about 1645 to about 1715 "when sunspots became exceedingly rare." Wikipedia notes that it "coincided with a period of lower-than-average European temperatures."
#DAILY MAIL MINI ICE AGE CRACKED#
New study claims to have cracked predicting solar cycles.
Is a mini ICE AGE on the way? Scientists warn the sun will 'go to sleep' in 2030 and could cause temperatures to plummet In any case, the press attention includes plenty of what's predictable: not just linkage of the solar-causation and human-causation realms, but outright confusion of the two as well.Īn unconfused Daily Mail summarized the solar news and the weather implications with one of its multiple-subhead headlines:
No doubt this solar science news, bearing as it does on a topic important to everyone-weather-would have inspired international press attention even in the absence of a flourishing controversy over something else related to weather, human-caused climate disruption. The model suggests that "solar activity will fall by 60 per cent during the 2030s to conditions last seen during the 'mini ice age' that began in 1645." The resulting media stir merits notice. The Royal Astronomical Society press release "Irregular heartbeat of the Sun driven by double dynamo" explains that at the recent National Astronomy Meeting in Wales, Northumbria University astrophysicist and mathematics professor Valentina Zharkova reported on a new model of the Sun's solar cycle.
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