Follow The Sun To The Landscheidt Minimum

He was a scientist that predicted the current lack of sunspot activity in cycle 24 and the prospect of much colder times ahead. The climate experts of the time predicted a cycle 24 sunspot maximum as high as those in the preceding cycles but that was not the opinion of Theodor Landscheidt.

Its not hard now to understand who won that scientific argument. A lack of sunspot activity continues through the first few months of 2009. Last year was the blankest sun in the last century and the year before was also documented in the top ten. Theodor Landscheidt was spot on in his prediction of the current lack of the activity of the sun.

His last paper would be published one year before his death in 2004, and the title of his work shows that despite all the propaganda, there never was a scientific consensus on man-made global warming. The title of Landscheidt's last paper is also his prediction: "Little Ice Age Instead of Global Warming".

The research behind the paper and the prediction was completed about a decade ago, around the time that global climate computer models were predicting continued global warming for the first decade of the 21st century. A climate change outcome that becomes more absurd with each passing day.

The truth is that the predictions of Theodor Landscheidt were often correct. Using the dependable forecasts of the suns activity, based on solar cycles, made it possible for Landscheidt to correctly predict climatic phenomena well ahead of actual events.

His predictions based on the suns activity included the end of the great Sahelian drought; as well as a period of drought in the U.S.A. around 1999. He predicted the last five global temperature anomalies; the last three El Niños; and the course of the last La Niña prior to his death.

Landscheidt calculated the change in the torque on the sun caused by the planets over time and theorized this accelerated and decelerated the solar transport in the solar core which in turn affected the solar activity which manifested itself in sun spots.

So, he theorized that the next process of solar braking would start in 1990 and that solar cycle 24 would be of a Maunder minimum character with a deep minimum occurring in the year 2022 and again in 2030. If he is correct, there are going to be much colder times just ahead.

Given the current quietness of the sun and it's low magnetic field, combined with the late start to cycle 24 with even possibly a false start, it appears that the sun has slowed it's internal dynamo consistent with Landscheidt's prediction of over a decade ago.

Since the experience of history acts as the best teacher, skepticism continues to grow on the actual science behind man-made global warming. This is because the climate has not been warming for the last decade and has even recently begun to cool. Predictions from the proponents of man-made global warming have not been right while climate computer models have not proven very accurate.

However, based on the strange lack of sunspot activity in the last few years, history tell us that our climate could soon get very cold. Its a prediction from the work of the scientist Theodor Landscheidt. To see if it really happens, just continue to follow the activity of the sun to what could eventually be called the Landscheidt Minimum.