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Solar activity heads for lowest low in four centuries
2013-11-01 19:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: The sun's activity is in free fall, according to a leading space physicist. But don't expect a little ice age. "Solar activity is declining very fast at the moment," Mike Lockwood, professor of space environmental physics at Reading University, UK, told New Scientist. "We estimate faster than at any time in the last 9300 years." 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...
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