[ETS/PARC List] Fw: [NJDXA-L] Maunder Minimum Predicted

[Don WILSON]

Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 06:10
Subject: [NJDXA-L] Maunder Minimum Predicted







New data released Tuesday at the annual meeting of the solar physics division of the American Astronomical Society in Las Cruces, New Mexico<about:blank>, may suggest that we are headed towards a solar event that hasn't happened in hundreds of years. 

The new findings came from studies that found a missing jet stream in the solar interior, fading sunspots on the sun's visible surface, and changes in the corona and near the poles - all of which point towards declining solar activity at a time when our closest star should be showing signs of increasing activity.

There are some scientists at the conference believe that the current findings from the studies mean that we are at the beginning of a Maunder Minimum, a decades long period of low solar activity. 
http://losangeles.ibtimes.com/articles/162919/20110614/solar-flare-ice-age-global-warming-sun.htm<http://losangeles.ibtimes.com/articles/162919/20110614/solar-flare-ice-age-global-warming-sun.htm>