Solar minimums and maximums have basically zero effect on our weather and climate.
I thought we hit solar minimum a year ago. I had set up to start looking at sun spots and realized I picked a terrible time.
I don't think anything I've ever read agrees with this. The IPCC uses a solar irradiance output in their climate simulations. If the sun's energy output didn't matter, then it wouldn't be included in the math.
In between flips, the total radiation from the Sun – known as total solar irradiance – waxes and wanes in a semi-regular cycle by up to 0.15%. The short term changes in solar irradiance are not strong enough to have a long term influence on Earth's climate. Sustained changes in solar radiance – that is changes that occur over decades or centuries – could potentially have an effect on Earth's climate system,
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That page is there to make the argument that solar cycles don't cause the man-made climate change that they measure. That's fine, I understand the argument. And then goes on to say that the last Grand Solar Minimum corresponded with the Little Ice Age, and that they basically don't know if they're connected, but that evidence may or may not support that.
I don't buy that solar output, in EM and particle output, doesn't effect our climate. In the extreme, if you turn the sun off, we freeze. There's clearly a scale here. Is their stance that the sun variations are so small that we can ignore them, basically? I can buy that variations are relatively small during the regular cycles, but it doesn't follow that it's always that way.
Smells like a physics problem where you assume every body is a sphere to make the math tractable.
Buy stock in Reynolds Wrap, it's going thru the roof on here.
Maunder Minimun was calculated to be 0.22%, so ~1.5x a normal solar cycle, and lasted much longer.
The length of the decrease as well as the magnitude would both matter in terms of long term trends.
Oh crap! I hope it's not going to affect my summer party plansI stopped reading at this point:
"We are currently in an interglacial, which began approximately 11,500 years ago and it is estimated that it will end some time within the next 50,000 years."
And the dirt blows in the spring on the LLano.Winter gets cold, and summer gets hot. Seems rather normal to me!