" I Am Fairly Skeptical about a New Maunder Minimum "
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چکیده
“Solar Activity” is a rather vague term. Thanks to cosmogenic isotopes we have some “visions” of “solar activity” in recent millennia (Usoskin, 2013). The most striking of these “visions” of solar activity is that the Sun may be in a “normal” state, or in two states named grand solar maximum or minimum (Usoskin et al., 2014). Obviously, we think that if the Sun is in a state of grand maximum (minimum), then more (less) energy arrives on Earth and, therefore, the temperature of our atmosphere will increase (decrease). This simple idea agrees with the fact that the Little Ice Age coincided with the Maunder Minimum (MM) and the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) coincided with the Solar Medieval Maximum. But in the end, things are a bit more complicated.
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