Past times of low sunspot activity were called the Maunder Minimum and the Dalton Minimum. Both resulted in extended periods of cold weather on earth and the Maunder Minimum coincided with the Little Ice Age,
What do we call the current apparent solar minimum?
From What should we call the current solar minimum? at Watts Up With That?
There is growing press coverage about the current state of the sun, most recently from Charles Osgood of CBS News as well as the BBC and other major outlets. While the sun slumbers
deeper and has missed its cyclic snooze alarm, our media is finally
waking up to the solar somnolence.Here is a short roundup of news articles on this subject today:
‘Still Sun’ baffling astronomers
Scientists warn sun has dimmed
Sun ‘at its quietest for 100 years’
Has the sun gone in? Earth’s closest star ‘dimmest it’s been for a century’
So the question arises, now that this has been identified, what should we call it?










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