Reblogged from Watts Up With That?:
Essay/paper by Dr. Leif Svalgaard
Abstract
As our civilization depends increasingly on space-borne assets and on a delicate and vulnerable earth-bound infrastructure, solar activity and its potential impact becomes of increasing importance and relevance. In his famous paper on the Maunder Minimum, Eddy (1976) introduced the notion that the Sun is a variable star on long time scales. After the recent decade of vigorous research based on cosmic ray and sunspot data as well as on geomagnetic activity, an emerging consensus reconstruction of solar wind magnetic field strength has been forged for the last century.
This is an important paper and deserves your attention. Solar activity will be the determinate factor in the Next Grand Minimum.
