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Re:A Summer Without Sunspots by zaroth on Monday September 30, 2019 @11:42AM (#21116552)
It’s hard to take this chart seriously, with the exponential extrapolation going on.

[1] - https://skepticalscience.com/graphics/Grand_Solar_Min_500.jp...

Re:A Summer Without Sunspots by chrisco255 on Monday September 30, 2019 @12:13PM (#21116921)
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

Re:A Summer Without Sunspots by zaroth on Monday September 30, 2019 @01:13PM (#21117496)
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.

Re:A Summer Without Sunspots by kylek on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @02:04AM (#21122457)