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<blockquote data-quote="hexah" data-source="post: 726977" data-attributes="member: 333852">They will put it in their pipe and smoke it.:toke:Here is a sensible article about the decline in sunspots, from New Scientist:_http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627640.800-whats-wrong-with-the-sun.html?full=trueIt is partly based on a paper by a Reading University scientist and others,&nbsp; &quot;Are cold winters in Europe associated with low solar activity?&quot; published in the peer reviewed scientific journal Environmental Research Letters. It was inspired by the cold winter of 2009-10, which inspired the original Batten Down The Hatches thread. The answer is yes, but the authors think there is only an 8% chance of a new Maunder Minimum and another Little Ice Age. Solar activity warms Northern Europe more than elsewhere and the decline in sunspots means Northern Europe will be cooler than it was in the 20th century. NASA now think the next solar cycle will also have few sunspots, a state of affairs that will go on to around 2030.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite81" alt=":-toilet" title="Toilet&nbsp; &nbsp; :-toilet" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":-toilet" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="hexah, post: 726977, member: 333852"] They will put it in their pipe and smoke it. [CENTER]:toke:[/CENTER] Here is a sensible article about the decline in sunspots, from New Scientist: _http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627640.800-whats-wrong-with-the-sun.html?full=true It is partly based on a paper by a Reading University scientist and others, "Are cold winters in Europe associated with low solar activity?" published in the peer reviewed scientific journal Environmental Research Letters. It was inspired by the cold winter of 2009-10, which inspired the original Batten Down The Hatches thread. The answer is yes, but the authors think there is only an 8% chance of a new Maunder Minimum and another Little Ice Age. Solar activity warms Northern Europe more than elsewhere and the decline in sunspots means Northern Europe will be cooler than it was in the 20th century. NASA now think the next solar cycle will also have few sunspots, a state of affairs that will go on to around 2030. [CENTER]:-toilet[/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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