MAUNDER MINIMUM & THE VARIABLE SUN-EA..

This book takes an excursion through solar science, science history, and geoclimate with a husband and wife team who revealed some of our suns most stubborn secrets.E Walter and Annie S D Maunders work helped in understanding our suns chemical, electromagnetic and plasma properties. They knew the suns sunspot migration patterns and its variable, climate-affecting, inactive and active states in short and long time frames. An inactive solar period starting in the mid-seventeenth century lasted approximately seventy years, one that E Walter Maunder worked hard to make us understand: the Maunder Minimum of c 1620-1720 (which was posthumously named for him).With ongoing concern over global warming, and the continuing failure to identify root causes driving earths climatic changes, the Maunders story outlines how our cyclical sun can alter climate. The book goes on to view the sun-earth connection in terms of geomagnetic variation and climatic change; contemporary views on the suns operating mechanisms are explored, and the effects these have on the earth over long and short time scales are pondered.If not a call to widen earths climate research to include the sun, this book strives to illustrate how solar causes and effects can influence earths climate in ways we must understand in order to enhance solar system research and our well-being.