Corrected sunspot history suggests climate change not due to natural solar trends
In a recent study by The International Astronomical Union (IAU), a long time discrepancy between two different models dealing with climate change and its direct correlation to solar activity or flares has been found to be somewhat inconclusive now after one of the longest going scientific experiments on the subject. Based on the 70 plus year period of the Maunder Minimum which has shown through data that earth’s harsh winters coincided with a higher frequency of sunspots has been believed to been a large factor in what we today believe has to do with climate change. The Maunder Minimum is a measurement of the suns activities between the years of 1645 and 1715. Basically, some scientists have believed that global warming has been connected to this effect and the fact that since this time, solar activity has increased and especially in the 20th century. According to EScienceNews.com, ‘The two methods of counting the sunspot number -- the Wolf Sunspot Number and the Group Sunspot Number [2] -- indicated significantly different levels of solar activity before about 1885 and also around 1945. With these discrepancies now eliminated, there is no longer any substantial difference between the two historical records’. These new findings were disclosed on August 10th at the IAU XXIX General Assembly in Honolulu, Hawaii. Also according to the same article, ‘The new correction of the sunspot number, called the Sunspot Number Version 2.0, led by Frédéric Clette (Director of the World Data Centre [WDC]-SILSO), Ed Cliver (National Solar Observatory) and Leif Svalgaard (Stanford University, California, USA), nullifies the claim that there has been a Modern Grand Maximum’.
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