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In recent years, the Sun has been at its\u00a0weakest\u00a0<\/em>state in more than a century, with the two most recent solar cycles (24 and 25) on course to be the weakest pair in more than 200 years, since the Dalton Minimum.<\/strong><\/p>\n This is revealed by the sunspot count (shown below) \u2014 a great barometer for solar activity:<\/p>\n The Sun\u2019s output ebbs and flows on a roughly 11-year cycle.<\/p>\n As visualized above, the most recently completed solar cycle (24) finished up closely matching those of \u2018The Centennial Minimum\u2019 (\u22481880-1914) \u2014 the previous multi-cycle period of low output, aka a \u2018Grand Solar Minimum\u2019 (GSM).<\/p>\n Grand Solar Minimums themselves can also range in depth and length, and, crucially for all of inhabitants of Earth, these factors determine the severity of the accompanying \u2018global cooling\u2019.<\/p>\n The Centennial Minimum was a modest GSM.<\/p>\n Conversely, one of the strongest on record was the \u2018Maunder Minimum\u2019 (1645-1715) which, as documented by\u00a0NASA, sent Europe and North America into a \u201cdeep freeze\u201d:<\/p>\n \u201cFrom 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. Already in the midst of a colder-than-average period called the Little Ice Age, 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\u2014an event that is rare today.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The above facts are no longer permitted in mainstream scientific debates, and calling them out sees you instantly dismissed as a conspiracy theorist. History, however, will view this censorship very poorly, likely seeing it as an illustration of the dangers of propagandizing.<\/p>\n Discovery, it would appear, is no longer welcome in the field of climate science, we apparently know all that there is to know. But in reality, this suppression is a necessity if the AGW train is to keep on rolling. It stands that the return of a cyclically waning Sun would instantly flush alarmists\u2019 claims of a never-ending temperature rise down the proverbial pan.<\/p>\n The climate system is immensely complex; to claim otherwise exposes a blinding ignorance.<\/p>\n Case in point: while Earth\u2019s\u00a0overall\u00a0temperature trends colder during prolonged bouts of low solar activity, not all regions experience the chill. As visualized in NASA\u2019s \u2018Maunder Minimum Reconstruction Map\u2019 (shown below), areas such as the Arctic, Alaska, and the North Atlantic actually warm during spells of otherwise \u2018global\u2019 cooling.<\/p>\n It could be argued that this chimes with what we\u2019re seeing today, and, unlike the baseless \u2018Polar Amplification Theory\u2019, could explain why the Arctic is warming while\u00a0the Antarctic is cooling<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Sun also goes through Grand Solar MAXIMUMS, periods of unusually high solar activity.<\/p>\n The most recent maximum, \u2018The Modern Maximum\u2018, ran through the years 1914 \u2013the end of the Centennial Minimum\u2013 to 2007.<\/p>\n Global temperatures increased during this period (\u201cglobal warming\u201d) and have only recently, after a multi-year lag likely tied to ocean inertia, begun threatening to come back down.<\/p>\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electroverse.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-23.png?ssl=1\")
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