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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
Last time there was no sunspot activity for 50 years (?) was when we had the last "little" ice age. Fact check, please, but I think that is right.
Is it true that sunspot activity is now minimal?
What affects will that have?
Can we have a global conference to REQUIRE the sun to submit paperwork, detailing its planned sunspot activity, and the probable effects that such activity will have on earth, and earth's life forms?
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The sunspot cycle is around the minimum currenlty of an 11 year cycle. In 2001 and 2002 there were a lot of sunspots. Now halfway through the cycle later there are very few sunspots. This past school year (I work at an observatory for a public school) there were only two large groups of sunspots but several little ones. In about 2012 or so the cycle will again be at a peak.