Link to sign the petition (don’t use handles please)
Jack Eddy was a solar scientist who discovered the sunspot period known as “Maunder Minimum” in the 1970’s, and despite intense academic pressure of the consensus then, argued that this demonstrated that our sun was not constant, but indeed a slightly variable star.
A humble man, he didn’t even name his discovery after himself as some scientists are known to do.
Jack Eddy recently passed away, as announced on WUWT here
Fellow solar astronomer and friend Dr. Leif Svalgaard announced his plan to present this idea formally in comments there:
At the Solar Physics Division [of the American Astronomical Society] next week in Boulder, CO, I will formally request that if a significant solar minimum materializes that it be called the “Eddy Minimum”
If you support this idea, please sign the petition so that Leif can present it with his formal request.
Also dear readers, please link this post and/or the petition to the science (and other) blogs you frequent on a regular basis. Thanks – Anthony
UPDATE: We have 50 signatures in the first half hour. Also just an FYI, don’t sign using a “handle”, or I’ll have to delete the entry as invalid. I’ll provide the complete list in a few days, with names only, no emails. Also if you want to leave an affiliation or title, use the “comments” window of the petition. Thanks – Anthony
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If there are any Wikipedia editors out there, Jack Eddy’s page needs updating at the request of his widow, Barbara.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Eddy
Or if you know of a Wiki editor, please ask them to make an update.
– Anthony
I did sign, and it was an honor to do it.
KlausB
Anybody can edit Wikipedia, Anthony, what do you need done?
REPLY: Just update the birth and death dates, and provide links to relevant current news, perhaps the interview and petition, and maybe post the photo. I’d do it myself but Wiki Climate Cops Kim Petersen and William Connolley would likely delete it simply because my name is attached to the edit. Thanks, Anthony
Leif,
I don’t like to press you, you good fella,
but when somebody here is capable to do the best to edit the wikipedia entry of Jack Eddy, I feel it should be your job. By admitting, it’s not an easy one, maybe filled with tears. But I can’t think about somebody else who could do it.
“The good ones always are leaving much to soon,
our duty is to successfully try to fill their emptied boots”
(KlausB)
Best Regards
KlausB
” I am the tomb of one shipwrecked,
but sail thou.
Even while we were perished
the other ships sailed on
across the sea”
(Greek Anthology, Ulysses)
Are they just counting the magnetic dipoles now? The SSN is 12 according to the sun stats. on this site and the only dark spots on the yellow-orange MDI image are dead pixels.
Does it seem to you the sun doesn’t feel as intense outside as in previous years, right now in Wichita the main reason I seem to get hot outside is not neccesarily the Sun beating down on you compared to the factor that is the humidity. If this is a logical observation then you’d think the Sun would then have just a tiny bit less power to burn away clouds among other things? You’d think the tropics would also see the effects of a grand minimum first because that’s where the sun is most intense and the heat is the most direct?
Petition signed! Thanks, Anthony et al.
Nasif
Anyway, after that said, I support the calling of the next grand minimum after him though I’m not sure of signing online petitions, may his work and contributions be known well into the future
Dr. Svalgaard has a great idea and I will support the designation of “The Eddy Minimum” for the next grand solar minimum. I was looking forward to naming it “The Gore Minimum” in honor of the great Nobel Prize Laureate but Dr. Eddy is clearly more deserving and I would not be serious if I used the latter term.
Has any thought been given to a scholarship in Dr. Eddy’s memory?
Mike
Adam from Kansas (13:46:25) :
Does it seem to you the sun doesn’t feel as intense outside as in
previous years. . .
The only time I go outside in Houston is to reset the AC circuit breaker when it pops from being overloaded. It has been a darn boring time for us sunspot watchers.
I thought we agreed already on “Landscheidt Minimum”, as he was the first to predict it.
REPLY: We had a poll, here:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/22/wuwt-poll-what-should-we-call-the-current-solar-minimum/
“Svalgaard Minimum” won with 1220 votes, 49%. Leif has decided to present “The Eddy Minimum” at the next conference, even though his name was the clear winner. Thus I think we should honor and support his request. – Anthony
I just expanded the wikipedia article on Eddy based on his interview with Spencer Weart and other references. Also corrected what his wife requested.
REPLY: Thanks Mike, you da man. Can I ask one more favor? A link to this petition post on WUWT? I’m sure a lot of people will read that Wiki entry soon, and the exposure would be helpful for Leif’s effort. – Anthony
Does it seem to you the sun doesn’t feel as intense outside as in previous years..
🙂 I thought that was just me. I have noticed a change in the rainbows that my crystals are throwing though. They were throwing a sort of washed rainbow in years passed but are beautiful and well defined today. Boy I sound like a weirdo … 😀
Mike,
I am with you completely.
This is one of the hottest heat waves for this time of year in Houston I can recall.
I have signed the petition and it was a pleasure to do so
I’ve been talking to people that think it should be called the “Gore-Hansen” minimum.
That’s in reference to the views of Al Gore and his buddy Jim (?) Hansen who are bound and determined that we’re going to have global warming whether the sun cooperates or NOT.
REPLY: These two guys (Hansen/Gore) have all sorts of accolades and wads of cash thrown at them. Gore produced an error-ridden sensationalized slide show, and Hansen defends criminals that vandalize power plants. Do these guys really deserve another award? – Anthony
“Thanks Mike, you da man. Can I ask one more favor? A link to this petition post on WUWT? I’m sure a lot of people will read that Wiki entry soon, and the exposure would be helpful for Leif’s effort. – Anthony”
Done.
No need to honour Gore and Hansen further, I’ve already done it by labeling the smallest room in my humble abode the “Gore-Hansen Suite”.
Yeah, the Wikipedia AGW defenders are interesting. I didn’t discover this and other blogs until the AGW defenders claimed I was merely echoing what I was reading on these blogs which they consider harmful. The results of their editing are increasingly amusing.
REPLY: Here’s the kind of stuff that goes on, William Connolley objects to the Scaffeta and West paper referenced in the Wiki section on Solar Variation
21:18, 7 June 2009 William M. Connolley (talk | contribs) (63,744 bytes) (Undid revision 294874813 by Dikstr (talk) like I said: S+W is worse than nothing)
Apparently some peer reviewed papers are “worse than nothing” if these two “climate cops” disagree with it.
Maybe the next petition I’ll start is to get Peterson and Connolley banned from Wiki for excessive heavy handed censorship. They are poster children for abuse of the process, pushing out all other ideas except theirs. – Anthony
Biological taxonomists frequently name new species in honor of someone else and it’s considered bad form to name one after yourself or someone undeserving of honor. Of course there are exceptions: a species named enesseffi for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the funder of the research, and a dinosaur species named marknoffleri after the Dire Straits musician because the namer really liked his music. Silliness in this case should be out of the question; Jack Eddy seems very deserving of the honor.
btw I’d appreciate it if someone could post a full publishing history of Eddy so I can add it to the wiki article on him. thanks.
“REPLY: Just update the birth and death dates, and provide links to relevant current news, perhaps the interview and petition, and maybe post the photo. I’d do it myself but Wiki Climate Cops Kim Petersen and William Connolley would likely delete it simply because my name is attached to the edit. Thanks, Anthony”
I know how that is. I won’t go into why on a public forum, but suffice to say the lefty editors and admins there gang up on anybody whose contributions conflict with their idea of what consensus reality should be, and they get to decide what constitutes a neutral point of view on everything. These days I post anonymously on generally safe noncontroversial topics and do so properly so nobody can dispute my contributions as pov or original research or whatever other excuses they have in their pocket to deny contributions by people they dont approve of.
Done and done.
Just signed the petition.
OT: Hunter & Mike: San Antonio is as bad as Houston.
Yesterday: 101°F (“feels like” 109°F).
Today (right now): 102 °F (“feels like” 108°F).
More forecast for tomorrow.
Here’s the flow chart:
NASA/GISS Director: James Hansen
Hansen’s subordinate: Gavin Schmidt
Gavin Schmidt and Michael Mann [of the discredited “hockey stick”] are the censors/editors for RealClimate
GISS Modeler: Gavin Schmidt [Mr. “Upward Adjustment“]
RealClimate contributor: William Connolley
Wikipedia editor/censor: William Connolley
Most of this is charged to the taxpayers. See the problem?