What Effects Will The Sun’s Reduced Activity Over The Next 30 Years Have On Earth?

The sun is going through a stage known as a grand solar minimum.

This is where the solar activity that ignites solar flares or sunspots has decreased.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and others all appear to agree the sun is entering a solar minimum phase.

In 2019, Professor of Mathematics Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University, one of the first people to raise awareness of the decrease in solar activity, joined veteran journalist Stuart McNish, host of Conversations That Matter, to discuss the sun, its reduced activity and her reading of the impact it will have on temperatures on Earth.

The activity of the Sun will be slightly lower in cycle 25 than in cycle 24 but the Sun will be least active in cycle 26.

Valentina Zharkova is a Ukrainian solar researcher with a solid academic background, world-leading research, and numerous groundbreaking publications.

In a 2019 interview with the award-winning Canadian journalist Stuart McNish on his program ‘Conversations That Matter’, Zharkova explained with great seriousness and caution that solar researchers have been observing signs since 2015 that solar activity is decreasing in a manner only seen during the grand solar minimum, which last occurred during the Maunder minimum 400 years ago. 

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