The Sun's Odd Behavior

gyrogeerloose writes "Most of us know about the sun's eleven-year activity cycle. However, relatively few other than scientists (and amateur radio operators) are aware that the current solar minimum has lasted much longer than expected. The last solar cycle, Cycle 24, bottomed out in 2008, and Cycle 25 should be well on its way towards maximum by now, but the sun has remained unusually quiescent with very few sunspots. While solar physicists agree that this is odd, the explanation remains elusive."

Comments

Re:Anthropomorphic

[MacDork]

some (many) pro-agw people have been saying for a couple of years that man-made co2 has caused temps to increase but the lack of solar activity has negated the increase so we don't see an increase in measured temps.

Pity that statement is, itself, simply false. This was the warmest decade on record, period.

The geologic record shows the vast majority of earth history has been warmer than it is now. We're at what... 14, 15 degrees C for global mean temp? 22 is not unusual for this planet. I don't know what records you're talking about, but you're wrong.

Re:Global warming is the cause

[Frnknstn]

Educate yourself:

Sea level:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/the-ipcc-sea-level-numbers/

Tree ring:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2009/09/hey-ya-mal/

'Decline':
http://www.realclimate.org/wiki/index.php?title=Global_temperatures_are_decreasing

Peer review:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/01/peer-review-a-necessary-but-not-sufficient-condition/
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/01/peer-review-ii/