Author Topic: NASA, 2001: “Low Solar Activity = Global Cooling”  (Read 357 times)

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Electroverse by Cap Allon June 13, 2020

It appears scientific objectivity and a quest for the truth were once permitted, perhaps even encouraged in US government agencies.

Back in 2001, NASA researchers found a strong correlation between low solar activity (namely the Maunder Minimum) and global cooling (namely disruptions to the ozone which impact the jet stream).

Many things can reduce the temperature on Earth, asserts the opening lines of a now archived NASA article —so we’re already treading on potentially “content-removing-ground” here Facebook and Twitter, as this logical contention runs against all modern IPCC reports— including an erupting volcano swathing the Earth with bright haze that blocks sunlight, and a drop in solar activity.

From 1650 to 1710, temperatures across much of the Northern Hemisphere plunged when the Sun entered a quiet phase now called the Maunder Minimum. During this period, very few sunspots appeared on the surface of the Sun, and the overall brightness of the Sun decreased slightly.

Europe and North America went into a deep freeze: alpine glaciers extended over valley farmland; sea ice crept south from the Arctic; and the famous canals in the Netherlands froze regularly—an event that is rare today.

A team of NASA scientists, led by Drew Shindell at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, set out to discover how low solar activity could cause such a dramatic cooling. The researchers’ first task was to create the Maunder Minimum Temperature Map in order to work out exactly how cold it got:

More: https://electroverse.net/nasa-2001-low-solar-activity-global-cooling/