Current prediction for the next sunspot cycle maximum gives a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 62 in July of 2013. We are currently over two years into Cycle 24.
The predicted size would make this the smallest sunspot cycle in nearly 200 years.
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David Hatherway Solar Cycle 24 Sunspot Forecast IS Making Solar Cycle 25 Even Worse!
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Updated below with comments about SC25 by Piers Corbyn
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THE NEW 'LITTLE ICE AGE' WILL COME!
The implications for not just this Cycle 24 but the NEXT solar cycle - Number 25 - are very important.
If solar cycle 25 is as low as these projections suggest then our predictions for major world cooling to continue into a 'Little Ice Age' for a decade or so centered around about 2035 look very likely to be on the way.
For more on this see slide 17 in the pdf in my submission to The UK Parliamentary Select Committee into the December cold & snow crisis (which as is well known we at WeatherAction predicted** ):-
http://www.weatheraction.com/displayarticle.asp?a=318&c=1
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http://www.weatheraction.com/docs/WANews11No6.pdf
Let us hope these legislators take note, or will the monarch in 2035 or thereabouts have to ask (as for the banking crisis) "Why did no-one tell Us?"? Well we did!
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