Lack of sunspots to bring record cold, warns NASA scientist

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“It could happen in a matter of months,” says Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center.
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“The sun is entering one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space Age,” wrote Dr Tony Phillips just six weeks ago, on 27 Sep 2018.

Sunspots have been absent for most of 2018 and Earth’s upper atmosphere is responding, says Phillips, editor of spaceweather.com.

Data from NASA’s TIMED satellite show that the thermosphere (the uppermost layer of air around our planet) is cooling and shrinking, literally decreasing the radius of the atmosphere.

To help track the latest developments, Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center and his colleagues recently introduced the “Thermosphere Climate Index.”

The Thermosphere Climate Index (TCI) tells how much heat nitric oxide (NO) molecules are dumping into space. During Solar Maximum, TCI is high (meaning “Hot”); during Solar Minimum, it is low (meaning “Cold”).

“Right now, it is very low indeed … 10 times smaller than we see during more active phases of the solar cycle,” says Mlynczak

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The Thermosphere Climate Index by Mlynczak and colleagues.
Displays times of Cold, Cool, Neutral, Warm, and Hot since 1940.

Record cold in a matter of months

“If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold,” says Mlynczak. “We’re not there quite yet, but it could happen in a matter of months.”

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The TIMED satellite monitoring the temperature of the upper atmosphere See more:

The Chill of Solar Minimum

Thanks to François M., John A. Brown, Craig Adkins, Loherchef, Laurel and Craig Adkins for this link

Dr. Tony Phillips was once (and perhaps still is) production editor of Science@NASA.

https://www.iceagenow.info/lack-of-sunspots-to-bring-record-cold-warns-nasa-scientist/
 
I've been hearing this every one of the last 20 years. The sunspots are going away and we're entering an ice age.

The global cooling advocates make stuff up just like the warmists do.
 
The sunspots going away has been going on for quite some time. Glad to see NASA has rediscovered this long term cyclical cycle. Even they have realized its time to get over the global warming hoax.
 
Why do lack of sunspots cause extreme cold weather, I hear you ask? Simple enough, the solar wind normally attenuates cosmic ray intensity. However during times of low sunspot activity the Sun goes into a quiscent state and the solar wind decreases. This in turn means that more cosmic rays, or muons, can penetrate the Earth's atmosphere. This causes greater cloud formation by the growth and formation of cloud condensation nuclei, the seeds necessary for forming clouds in the atmosphere.

https://phys.org/news/2016-08-solar-impact-earth-cloud.html

https://us-issues.com/2017/06/15/indirect-effects-of-the-sun-on-earths-climate/
 
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Global cooling is totally exxon's fault. That oil was like the planet's fat layer. Without it, burrrrrrrrrrrr

I hope the North East suffers from massive blackouts, that might finally wake the bastards up!! I especially hope that Grind's bollocks drop off and he has to have them surgically reattached.
 
I hope the North East suffers from massive blackouts, that might finally wake the bastards up!! I especially hope that Grind's bollocks drop off and he has to have them surgically reattached.

I live in the mid-Atlantic so fine with me. Our wind chill is only supposed to be down to like negative 15 or so tonight and if our power went out right now, my house would still be tolerable come daybreak thanks to you know, insulation and airtight windows and such. It would just stink to high heavens because somebody would insist of lighting all 37 different flavors of candles in their collection.
 
Hopefully Tom knows, global warming has to do with the Earth, not the sun. It doesn't change any effects on things overall on the globe. It just means we get to look forward to some nasty cold. That is, unless the sun happens to stay that way.
 
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