NASA extreme low sunspot counts indicate global cooling onset

Get ready for the big freeze.

February 6, 2019 By Chriss Street

NASA space wather observations, extremely low sunspot counts, and a severe Polar Vortex are consistent with cyclical global cooling onset.   The complex flows of ions and electrons inside the sun produce sunspots that average about ten times the size of Earth and have magnetic fields that are ten thousand times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field. Sunspots were first observed by Galileo in the early 1600s and have been scientifically tracked as 11-year cycles since 1755.

The U.S. National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center uses NASA’s Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics satellite conducts Sunspot Number Progression counts, measures F10.7cm Radio Flux and the A_p Index geomagnetic activity, and its SABER carbon dioxide (CO₂) and nitric oxide (NO) instruments gage infrared solar output in Earth’s top atmospheric level.

As the Earth was completing Solar Cycle 24, sunspot counts and magnetic activity were expected cyclically fall from its high of over 100 in 2014, to a low of zero in 2022. But the sunspot count plunged to zero in mid-2018 and has remains substantially lower than forecast for Solar Cycle 25. The data could indicate onset of a super cycle ‘Maunder Minimum.’ The last Maunder Minimum period from 1645 to 1715 was a period with 7 percent less sunspots and global cooling, referred to as the ‘Little Ice Age.’.........To Read More