Re:A Summer Without Sunspots
by chrisco255 on Monday September 30, 2019 @12:13PM
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You get that that chart is completely made up, right? That is, despite being an extrapolation of the future, there are no error bars as a function of time?
Furthermore, we lack a fundamental model for how cloud cover will change over the course of a deep minimum. And therefore we cannot accurately predict what the future will hold.
The Svensmark experiment from December 2017, confirming it:
Increased ionization supports growth of aerosols into cloud condensation nuclei - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02082-2
I should have said, it’s hard to take this link seriously, given that chart.
In other words, I completely agree that we have no idea what the impact will be if this minimum does occur, or if indeed it does occur at all.
I think we've a little idea-
[1] - https://skepticalscience.com/graphics/Grand_Solar_Min_500.jp...