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ssn = sun spot number had crut4 = what? The likely hood of coronal mass ejection is 5 times more frequent during the solar max, so it can be inferred that as the ssn drops the effective size of the sun decreases.

Nobody seems to realize that the primary metric humanity uses to measure the global warming is irradiance. It is a 16th century methodology adapted to the 21st century. Mankind would be bettered served by a gas filled sphere and a thermometer transmitting the temperature from L1. The smoothing of the data makes look like surface radiation varies only slightly from season to season, and that skews the greenhouse gas equation to the right. Irradiance fall in to the category of if the only tool you have is a hammer every problem looks like a nail. Life exists on this planet simply because of the range of the orbit, the intensity of the sun & the liquid planet core. In an expanding universe the earth's orbit elongates, the sun dims & the core cools.

The little ice age is a left tailed extreme of a global cooling trend.

Over the last 30 years negative SOI frequency has trended down. Indicating the El Niño threshold is occurring less often.

The elongation of the earth's orbit & the diminished solar max as a result of the closest approach of Jupiter ever could have an implication.

This is a well put together essay about current solar activity and cooling in Europe.

This is the max now

I think it is about the size of the Sun. When the Sun is more active it is larger. The techniques used to measure Suns output uses an inference and some offset math, and it is such a large distance that small differences in the constants can cause some hefty anomalies. A mission is planned in the near future that will get some direct measurement. Just to get a spacecraft to survive a trip to Venus requires some engineering, and that is only about 1/4 of the way there. What we need is long term real time data from "L3" (the back side of the Sun.) There is an inverse relationship between heat and distance.

A little CME before the alignment.

2009-Oct-17 04:06 zulu Venus & Mercury align. LASCOC2 http://sohodata.nasc...-bin/data_query

Keep the panda, and bring back the woolly mammoth. http://esciencenews.com/sources/la.times.science/2008/11/20/scientists.map.woolly.mammoths.dna.bringin

Here is a wood cut of the telescope that Hevelius and his wife used. http://en.wikipedia....nn_Hevelius.jpg This source has some drawings of the early sunspot record. http://books.google.com/books?id=EBTZ4LdSfhwC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=Hevelius+sunspots&source=bl&ots=g2sUx95IiA&sig=DCwUMFluM0lQaG7zn-3TcsCeaAk&hl=en&ei=qMy2StyWFoKasgPV5u3RDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3#v=onepage&q=Hevelius%20sunspots&f=true

1. Solar Cycle vs Jupiter's Perihelion 2. Two Sun things that effect winters on Earth other than the Sun angle are Sun size and Sun distance. Jupiter plays a role in both. Normally the Solar cycle starts just before Jupiter's closest approach, Jupiter's closest approach to the Sun is Earth's closest approach to Jupiter.

I think that solar cycle 23 started early as timed from Jupiter’s perihelion, and ran a relatively normal length of time then shut down. If Solar Cycle 24 starts at the normal interval after perihelion the spot count will start to increase nearer to 2011 with a peak in 2013. Since the Sun Jupiter distance is so much closer than it has been in the last few cycles, I think it might be a little premature to call for a low count cycle following this record minimum based on floating out raw Root Mean Square peak kind-of-look. That isn’t much to go on. Which is the main problem anyhow isn’t it? The bankers must have come with this let’s go to Mars to see if any thing died there plan instead of more solar research.