CERN scientist says another Maunder Minimum in solar activity could occur by 2015

Dr. Jasper Kirkby, head of the CLOUD Experiment at CERN in Geneva notes in the video lecture below that if one extrapolates the current lull in solar activity, an extended period of no sunspots similar to the Maunder Minimum could occur by 2015. The Maunder Minimum was responsible for the Little Ice Age and lasted for 70 years. 

Above slide from Dr. Kirby's lecture around 9:50 mark shows reconstructed solar activity over the past 6,000 years. Dr. Kirby's preceding slide in the lecture below shows extrapolated solar activity could reach levels of the Little Ice Age [LIA] within only 2 more years. Also shown are the peaks in solar activity corresponding to the Medieval Warm Period ~1000 years ago, the Roman Warm Period ~2000 years ago, the Egyptian and Minoan Wam Periods ~3000 and 4000 years ago, and the Current Warm Period of the 20th century.

 

Same reconstructed solar activity cited above by Dr. Kirby: Vonmoos et al 2006 




Jasper Kirkby Head of the CLOUD Experiment - CERN, Geneva. This lecture is part of SFU's 2011 global warming seminar series "Global Warming: A Science Perspective".

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H/T Joe Bastardi