It contains this quote from long-range weather forecaster Hayden Walker:
“I base my forecasts on sunspot activity and there’s certainly been an intense
number of sunspot activities and this time through it’s more prolific than normal,”
he said.

Huh? Did I blink and miss these “prolific” sunspots?

His website can be found here: http://www.worldweather.com.au
I’m no expert, but it smells of pseudoscientific techobabble.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SSN_Predict_NASA_Pre2004.gif
2001-04
2001-08
2002-04
2002-10

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SSN_Predict_NASA.gif
2004-03
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2007-11

The newly recovered images for 2007 were a plus because that is the year when it became obvious that the old predictions were not working. If anyone is using my GIF files as a source for edited animations please take note. Remember, other than adding the images to an animated GIF, I have not edited the images in any way. Anyone using the predictions should reference the Wikimedia pages.

For some reason the Wayback Machine has not been doing a very good job of late, recording changes to Internet websites, which is why I have to go dumpster-diving via Google. There is a timed embargo on archived content but in the last few years the archiving process has not been as complete as it was in the past.

I will keep looking; nothing is ever completely deleted on the Internet.

Mike

A nice illustration of what the current sheet looks like in a meridional cut is Figure 1 of:
http://icrc2005.tifr.res.in/htm/PAPERS/SH34/jap-miyake-S-abs1-sh34-oral.pdf
Especially the solar maximum look [figure 1c] is often a surprise to people.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,478024,00.html

It also has a link to Hathaway’s prediction last November. I’m surprised this article is still avaiable .
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/081107-new-sunspots.html

I have some reservation (goes against my logic) towards existence of an open magnetic field.
In science we often employ concepts that are illogical or known to be plainly wrong as long as they are useful. The ‘solar system’ picture of an atom is a good example, or considering gravity to be a force. Same with ‘open’ field lines [which do not exist].

I assume that all lines of the Earth’s magnetic field close within its magnetosphere. Similarly, I would expect that solar wind and interplanetary magnetic fields would close somewhere within outer regions of the heliosphere, before the heliopause.
Your assumption is contradicted by direct observations. For the Earth, there are several pieces of evidence that the Earth’s magnetic field leaks out of the magnetopshere:
1) the Svalgaard-Mansurov effect that shows that solar and terrestrial field lines are directly connected all the time
2) the importance of ‘southward’ pointing interplanetary magnetic field in generation of magnetic storms and strong aurorae
3) the ‘polar rain’ where particles from the Sun has direct access along connected field lines to one or the other polar cap depending on the direction of the IMF
4) direct spacecraft measurements [in the news lately - magnetic portals, etc].
That solar and Jovian field lines are connected [reaching out of the Jovian magnetosphere] is even an integral part of your own theory [appropriately modified to be physically plausible - i.e. abandoning the speed-of-light electromagnetic feedback].
Similarly, the solar wind magnetic field is connected with the galactic field, e.g. http://www.ias.ac.in/jarch/jaa/21/431-437.pdf

Could you recommend one of your many papers with a detailed description of properties and events within HCS.
Thanks.

Dr Svalgaard
Thanks for the comments and the links. I am obviously guilty (among many other things) of using wrong terminology. The above explanation is precisely what I wonted confirmed, i.e. that loop has “has both feet on the Sun”, and the particles circulate within. I do understand that the magnetosphere do not inject anything into the loop.
However, properties (be it electrical, magnetic, rate of spin, momentum, energy or whatever else) of the loop’s particles will surely change in some way when the loop hits magnetosphere. Current consensus may be that if there are such changes, they may not matter, those particles may not constitute electric current and they cannot initiate feedback, etc. However, the loop is a close circuit and there must be a change within its properties.
In interest of peace and good will, I shall not mention f (feedback) word. Thanks again.

1. The interstellar medium in the form of galactic cosmic rays observed at energies above 200 MeV for protons and above 3 MeV for electrons
2. The termination shock in the form of anomalous cosmic rays
3. The corotating interaction regions which accelerate electrons up to around 300 keV and ions up to a few MeV/nucleon; and
4. the Jovian magnetosphere that generates electrons observed at 1AU during quiet times in the range from a few hundreds keV to a few MeV.

Here are some observations of energetic particles from Jupiter:
http://www.ieap.uni-kiel.de/et/ag-heber/cospin/gallery.php

But, remember the main point: the Sun produces vastly more than Jupiter.

If the graph shows a continuous loop, it follows that there is a close circuit current and an opportunity for a feedback.
The curved lines are magnetic field lines. Although most of the solar wind magnetic field is ‘open’ [extends to 'infinity'], the magnetic field on CMEs [clouds] is closed [has both feet on the Sun] and spiral inside the loop as the picture shows. Energetic particles will gyrate around the spiraling field lines and can reach us at much higher speeds than the Alfven speed as also cosmic rays can, but these particles do not constitute a current [and certainly not the HCS] as they are accompanied by electrons and the whole ensemble is neutral [the protons can even capture some of the electrons and get a stream of neutral Hydrogen atoms as recently observed http://www.universetoday.com/2008/12/15/the-neutral-hydrogen-gun-a-new-solar-flare-phenomenon/ ]
If you want magnetospheres to feed something back to the Sun you need them to produce lots of very energetic particles and inject then into the closed magnetic fields of CMEs when they go by. Our spacecraft would have observed these if they exist and we don’t see them.
There are cases where bodies in the magnetic field of another body react back. There are aurorae on Jupiter that are caused by Io interacting with Jupiter’s magnetic field. But in the case of the Heliomagnetic field, the Sun it the body that injects 99.99…9 % of the particles into the closed fields in the Heliosphere, not the planets, so any planetary effect would completely drown. In fact, we observe electrons going both ways in the closed loops: coming up one leg, going all the way out to the top of the loop, then continuing back to the sun down the other leg, turning around and repeating this many times. The same thing happens in the Earth’s Van Allen Belts. But all these particles do not constitute electrical currents and have nothing to do with the HCS.
The important point is that whatever particles the magnetospheres produce or accelerate, the Sun makes many, many more, drowning out any planetary contributions.