Grand Solar Minimum 101: The Future Looks Cold
November 18, 2021 Cap Allon
In recent years, the Sun has been at its weakest state in more than a century. This is revealed by the sunspot count (shown below)–a great barometer for solar activity.
Sunspot count–from solar cycle 12 to the start of solar cycle 25.
The Sun’s output ebbs and flows on a roughly 11-year cycle.
As visualized above, the most recent solar cycle (24) finished up closely matching those of ‘The Centennial Minimum’ (≈1880-1914) — the previous multi-cycle period of low output–otherwise known as a ‘Grand Solar Minimum’ (GSM).
Grand Solar Minimums themselves can also range in depth and length, and, crucially for all of Earth’s inhabitants, these factors determine the severity of the accompanying ‘global cooling’.
The Centennial Minimum was a relatively modest GSM.
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