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In recent years, the Sun has been at its weakest state in more than a century.

Low solar activity impacts Earth’s weather/climate through several different mechanisms, the most immediately noticeable one being the effect on the jet streams.

Jet streams are narrow bands of strong wind in the upper levels of the atmosphere. On Earth, there are four primary jet streams: two polar jet streams near the north and south poles, and two subtropical jet streams closer to the equator.

Low solar activity leads to a weaker, more meandering jet stream. This can lead to cold snaps in one region of the world but at the same time cause warmer periods in another.

But, discussion of the effects of solar activity is no longer permitted in scientific debates about the climate or the weather.

Grand Solar Minimum: The Future Looks Cold

By Cap Allon

In recent years, the Sun has been at its weakest state in more than a century, with the two most recent solar cycles (24 and 25) on course to be the weakest pair in more than 200 years, since the Dalton Minimum.

This is revealed by the sunspot count (shown below) – a great barometer for solar activity:

The Sun’s output ebbs and flows on a roughly 11-year cycle.

As visualised above, the most recently completed solar cycle (24) finished up closely matching those of The Centennial Minimum (≈1880-1914) – the previous multi-cycle period of low output, aka a Grand Solar Minimum (“GSM”).

Grand Solar Minimums themselves can also range in depth and length, and, crucially for all of the inhabitants of Earth, these factors determine the severity of the accompanying “global cooling.”

The Centennial Minimum was a modest GSM.

Conversely, one of the strongest on record was the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715) which, as documented by NASA, sent Europe and North America into a “deep freeze”:

From 1650 to 1710, temperatures across much of the Northern Hemisphere plunged when the Sun entered a quiet phase now called the Maunder Minimum. During this period, very few sunspots appeared on the surface of the Sun, and the overall brightness of the Sun decreased slightly. Already in the midst of a colder-than-average period called the Little Ice Age, Europe and North America went into a deep freeze: alpine glaciers extended over valley farmland; sea ice crept south from the Arctic; and the famous canals in the Netherlands froze regularly – an event that is rare today.

Chilly Temperatures During the Maunder Minimum, NASA, 15 November 2006

The above facts are no longer permitted in mainstream scientific debates, and calling them out sees you instantly dismissed as a conspiracy theorist. History, however, will view this censorship very poorly, likely seeing it as an illustration of the dangers of propagandising.

Discovery, it would appear, is no longer welcome in the field of climate science, we apparently know all that there is to know. But in reality, this suppression is a necessity if the anthropogenic global warming (“AGW”) train is to keep on rolling. It stands that the return of a cyclically waning Sun would instantly flush alarmists’ claims of a never-ending temperature rise down the proverbial pan.

The climate system is immensely complex; to claim otherwise exposes a blinding ignorance.

Case in point: While Earth’s overall temperature trends colder during prolonged bouts of low solar activity, not all regions experience the chill. As visualised in NASA’s Maunder Minimum Reconstruction Map (shown below), areas such as the Arctic, Alaska, and the North Atlantic actually warm during spells of otherwise “global” cooling.

It could be argued that this chimes with what we’re seeing today, and, unlike the baseless Polar Amplification Theory, could explain why the Arctic is warming while the Antarctic is cooling.

The Sun also goes through Grand Solar MAXIMUMS, periods of unusually high solar activity.

The most recent maximum, The Modern Maximum, ran through the years 1914 – the end of the Centennial Minimum – to 2007.

Global temperatures increased during this period (“global warming”) and have only recently, after a multi-year lag likely tied to ocean inertia, begun threatening to come back down.

Read more: Hunga-Tonga Driven Temperature Spike? Electroverse, 3 August 2023

Returning to past Grand Solar Minimums, The Dalton Minimum was another key one.  It ran from 1790 to 1820, and is clearly discernible on the sunspot chart below:

Like the deeper Maunder before it, the Dalton brought about a period of lower-than-average global temperatures.

Historical documentation reveals that the Oberlach Station in Germany, for example, experienced a 2^oC decline over just 20 years, which devastated the country’s food production and led to widespread hardships and ultimately famine.

The Mechanics

Low solar activity impacts Earth’s weather/climate via a number of different mechanisms.

The most immediately noticeable impact is the reduction of energy entering the jet streams, which changes the jet’s usual strong and straight ZONAL flow to a weak and wavy MERIDIONAL one.

Depending on which side of the stream you’re on, this means you’re either in for a spell of anomalously cold or warm weather and/or a period of unusually dry or wet conditions:

This is a phenomenon long-predicted by those who study the Sun, and it’s one forecast to intensify as the Grand Solar Minimum continues its deepening.

Read more: Explained: Low Solar Activity and A ‘Meridional’ Jet Stream Flow, Electroverse, 9 January 2023

Along with low solar activity’s impact on the jet streams, other “global cooling” mechanisms include, the great conjunction, cloud-nucleating Cosmic Rays, and also The Beaufort Gyre – and its influence on the AMOC and so the climate overall.

Faced with these realities, I still question what it will take for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (“IPCC”) and their corporate media lapdogs to admit that what they’ve been peddling for the past 30+ years was based on a warped ideology and not science.

Logic has now been twisted to such an extent that Arctic outbreaks (renamed Polar Vortexes) are now a direct result of global warming, i.e., warming = cooling; that pointing out past “climate fails” is heresy; and climate lockdowns are perfectly rational.

I see the draconian future Orwell described materialising, and I fear the climate will be the least of our problems in the coming years as we seem to be ringing in the destruction of civilization all by ourselves.

“Global Boiling” or “Climate Change” appears to be the excuse given for any freedom-stripping policy the elite deem fit.

However, rather than a “man-made” phenomenon capable of being taxed away, the perceived climatic changes can be fully explained by cyclical “buckling” of the jet streams (Zonal to Meridional), itself caused by a bout of historically low solar activity:

Take Europe in recent weeks, do alarmists really believe that it is carbon dioxide causing this:

Here it is, the omega blocking in all its glory, responsible for the annotated extreme weather events in Europe this week. pic.twitter.com/0TUmZMQzoT

— Mika Rantanen (@mikarantane) September 4, 2023

Read more: Wavy Jet Stream Delivers Extreme Rains to SE Europe; Polar Front Hits Australia; + Climate Lockdowns, Electroverse, 5 September 2023

Featured image: Weather warning: Earth could be hit by MINI ICE-AGE as Sun ‘hibernates’ – expert claims, Express, 6 February 2020