Low Solar Activity Dims Northern Lights

Anchorage Daily News Feb 24,2009

Low solar activity dims the northern lights
Aurora scholar Neal Brown, who directs UAF's Alaska Space Grant Program, said the low in the current solar cycle is the most dramatic he has witnessed during his time in Fairbanks.

"I've lived here for 45 years, and we've had four solar cycles, and this is the worst one for me," Brown said. "It's just been pitiful. I don't think there's been three or maybe four half-hour to hour-long displays this winter.

1013 Sunspot

Space Weather.com Feb 25,2009

NEW SUNSPOT: The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is monitoring a sunspot now forming in the sun's northern hemisphere. The spot's high latitude and magnetic polarity identify it as a member of new Solar Cycle 24. Readers, if you have a solar telescope, now is the time to watch sunspot genesis in action.

THE SOLAR CONNECTION by Professor Will Alexander February 22, 2009

Background on our solar system.


THE SOLAR CONNECTION by Professor Will Alexander February 22, 2009

"It had been noted previously that there were linkages between sunspot numbers and famines dating back to 1810."

"The IPCC’s position is that solar energy received on earth is sensibly constant and that all anomalies (pages full of them), are therefore a consequence of human activities. As I demonstrate in this memo this view is fundamentally in error. The source of the error is the IPCC’s reliance on process theory instead of observation theory which is the basis of the engineering sciences."

He also attaches the following paper
Linkages between solar activity, climate predictability and water resource development*

"The analysis of this data demonstrates an unequivocal synchronous linkage
between these processes in South Africa and elsewhere, and solar activity"

"It is extremely important that all those
involved with water resource studies should
appreciate that there are fundamental flaws
in current global climate models used for
climate change applications."

23 consecutive spotless days

23 consecutive spotless days

"A sunspot is emerging near the sun's eastern limb. The spot's low latitude and magnetic polarity identify it as a fossil from old Solar Cycle 23. This breaks a string of 23 consecutive spotless days beginning on Jan. 20th."

Where are the updated predictions from NASA and NOAA?

Deep Solar Minimum

NASA noting "deep minimum"

Space Weather Feb 12, 2009
Yesterday, Feb. 10th at 2310 UT, Earth-orbiting satellites detected a B1-class solar flare. Normally, such a small eruption would pass unremarked, but during this deep solar minimum, it's a relatively big event. NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft photographed the probable blast-site shortly before and after the eruption:

Emerging sunspot 1012 is a member of old Solar Cycle 23. Credit: SOHO/MDI