A 1st Nov 2013 story in New Scientist by Fred Pearce reports on a claim by
Mike Lockwood, professor of space environmental physics at Reading University, UK,
that solar activity is declining "faster than at any time in the last 9300 years."
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Originally Posted by Fred Pearce, New Scientist
Lockwood and his colleagues are reassessing the chances of this decline continuing over decades to become the first "grand solar minimum" for four centuries.
During a grand minimum the normal 11-year solar cycle is suppressed and the sun has virtually no sunspots for several decades. This [northern hemisphere] summer should have seen a peak in the number of sunspots, but it didn't happen.
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Story here -
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...centuries.html