The Maunder minimum was once thought to be linked to the Little Ice Age (LIA), a cool period in some parts of the Northern Hemisphere that occurred from the early 14th century through the mid ...

The Maunder Minimum was named by solar astronomer John Eddy in 1976 after E.W. Maunder, an English scientist who, along with German scientist Gustav Spörer, first noticed the decrease in solar ...

The Sun’s Maunder Minimum lasted from 1645 and 1715, during which its solar activity almost entirely fell off a cliff. Between 1672 and 1699, fewer than 50 sunspots were observed. Contrast that with ...

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But at present it is not unprecedented; in fact, the very previous solar minimum [2009-2010] was longer." The Maunder Minimum was the period between 1650 to 1715 when solar activity was extremely low.

Dear Tom, What is the Maunder minimum? — Bob Kozlik, Riverwoods Dear Bob, The Maunder minimum was a period of extreme reduced solar activity that occurred from about 1640 to 1715. It was named ...

Maunder minimum: The period from 1640-1710 when almost no sunspots were observed. It coincided with the coldest part of the Little Ice Age, a period of colder-than-average temperatures in Europe.

So during the Maunder minimum, the sun was a little less intense, and Earth's northern latitudes are more susceptible to even tiny changes in the sun's output.

Despite how much the Maunder Minimum might have affected Earth the last time, Lubin said that an upcoming event would not stop the current trend of planetary warming but might slow it somewhat.

"It turns out this would be a very minor impact on the climate, even if we were to return to Maunder Minimum conditions," climate scientist Michael Mann, of Pennsylvania State University, ...

But, there’s also fluctuation between cycles—some periods are more intense, and others, like the three decade Maunder minimum in the late 1600s, are almost entirely devoid of sunspots.

The Maunder minimum was once thought to be linked to the Little Ice Age (LIA), a cool period in some parts of the Northern Hemisphere that occurred from the early 14th century through the mid-19th ...