Above: The sunspot cycle from 1995 to the present. The jagged curve traces actual sunspot counts. Smooth curves are fits to the data and one forecaster's predictions of future activity. Credit: David Hathaway, NASA/MSFC.

This coming from NASA about the current slumbering sun that we have been reporting on for months now. The climate is experiencing some rather dramatic cooling as a result of this quite solar period, just as it warmed as a result of the very active period of the past fifty years which the article acknowledges.

I know it must have hurt them to publish this as they are knee deep in the "global warming" scam that is perpetrated by federal grant money given to the loyal adherents of "global warming" mania.

They even remark later in the article that this cooling cycle won't ultimately slow down "global warming"... further demonstrating their loyalty to the political winds of our day.

Just sad and amazing to have science in bed with our federal tax dollars and the politicians who administer the dollars.

Deep Solar Minimum

April 1, 2009: The sunspot cycle is behaving a little like the stock market. Just when you think it has hit bottom, it goes even lower.

2008 was a bear. There were no sunspots observed on 266 of the year's 366 days (73%). To find a year with more blank suns, you have to go all the way back to 1913, which had 311 spotless days: plot. Prompted by these numbers, some observers suggested that the solar cycle had hit bottom in 2008.

Maybe not. Sunspot counts for 2009 have dropped even lower. As of March 31st, there were no sunspots on 78 of the year's 90 days (87%).

It adds up to one inescapable conclusion: "We're experiencing a very deep solar minimum," says solar physicist Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center.

"This is the quietest sun we've seen in almost a century," agrees sunspot expert David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center.....

NASA article via the Drudge Report