dear friends,

a somewhat better article concerning sunspot activity with graphs.

http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/8/10/16/1

be well, be love.

david

sunspots hit new highs
27 october 2004

the sun is more active at present than it has been for over 8000 years according
to a new method for determining the level of sunspot activity in the past. sami
solanki of the max planck institute in katlenburg-lindau and colleagues in
finland, germany and switzerland have developed a technique that relates the
number of sunspots to the concentration of carbon-14 in tree rings. however, the
team insists that this high level of solar activity is unlikely to be the main
cause of global warming (nature 431 1084).




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