Although we’ve been covering this quiet sun issue for over a year on WUWT, the light bulb seems to have gone on for mainstream media right about now.
There is growing press coverage about the current state of the sun, most recently from Charles Osgood of CBS News as well as the BBC and other major outlets. While the sun slumbers deeper and has missed its cyclic snooze alarm, our media is finally waking up to the solar somnolence.
Here is a short roundup of news articles on this subject today:
‘Still Sun’ baffling astronomers
Scientists warn sun has dimmed
Sun ‘at its quietest for 100 years’
Has the sun gone in? Earth’s closest star ‘dimmest it’s been for a century’
So the question arises, now that this has been identified, what should we call it?
There have been some good ideas, such as naming it after Jack Eddy, who coined the phrase “Maunder Minimum“. There’s been some discussion of a “Gore Minimum”, but I don’t like the idea of giving Gore credit for something he has nothing to do with, or even likely understands. There’s been suggestion of “The Hansen Minimum” which makes a little more sense, since he’s an astronomer by training. On that note, Leif Svalgaard predicted this, so maybe it should be his honor.
So, I’ve decided to have a poll, and I’ll take suggestions for other names than what I’ve listed.
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Gotta go with naming it after Leif!
As as Dane, the country of Lomborg and Svensmark, i think “Svensmark minimum” is a really good choice.
After everything Svensmark had to go through I think he diserves this honour.
Svensmark is perhaps the most important scientist in the whole debate?
Svensmark Minimum
Hmm.. its different and i like it..
OT: http://www.klimadebat.dk/forum/attachments/peer1.gif
CESIND Minimum – Cause and Effect: See, It’s Not Difficult!
Gore Minimum!
It might be time to call it a solar nadir, then it could be named Gore’s Nadir.
Save the Landscheidt Minimum for the time he predicted it…around 2030. I’d call this one The Warminimum.
IF Gore should be honored, which I don’t agree with, call it The Gorey Minimum. (“The Gore Minimum” sounds flatfooted.)
Gore Minimum
I’ll sit on the fence and say the ‘Archibald Landscheidt Svalgaard Minimum’
How about:
The Science is Settled Minimum…
Since it’s not supposed to be happening at all:
The Oops Minimum
I vote for the “A.J. Gorrible Minimum”.
The over exaggerated underestimated theoretically incorrect solar cooling event
The inconvenient minimum?
Maybe appropriately for the current era…
It’s The Sun Stupid Minimum?
The Gore Minimum is a maximum slap at the perversion of science.
The Gore Minimum would memorialize the triumph of science and reason over hype and propaganda.
The Fat Albert Arnold Gore Minimum, (FAAG Minimum,) also has a nice ring to it.
History books will document that Svalgaard predicted the Gore Minimum long before Gore could cash in on his carbon ponzi scheme.
Re: “Gore Minimum”
Why honour a reprehensible liar with such a title that will live on in history? Put Gore in the incinerator of history where we belongs…
It is not an amusing irony.
Name it after the real scientist who actually predicted this.
Svalgaard Minimum FTW.
Millennium Minimum has a nice ring too.
I voted for ‘Gore’, it’s not like we’re actually giving him credit for discovering it. Everyone will have forgotten ‘Truth’ in a few years. I’d like for professors In 100 years time to use Al’s name to scare their undergrads.
The “I wish our government was as inactive” Minimum
The Inconvenient Minimum
How about the Gorian Minimum in honour of the age of false prophets and the new Pied Piper
Leif got my vote because I learn too much from Leif not to pay my respects.
Gore’s name should only be remembered in the butt of jokes. He represents one of the largest threats to my children’s future.
Please not the Gore Minimum. How many people think Molotov invented the Molotov cocktail? The Finns invented it in the Winter War against Russia (1939/40) and nicknamed them after Molotov who was the Russian defence minister at the time. You may name something sarcastically to begin with but time will erode that meaning eventually and I hate the idea of a fraud like Gore being commemorated in this way.
If this does turn out to be a significant minimum it should be named after the first predictor of it – which would appear to be Landscheidt.
Jim Owen (11:57:36) :
It kinda turns my stomach to immortalize either Gore or Hansen like this.
Ditto.
I wouldn’t want anything named after Gore! I vote absolutely NO to naming it the Gore Minimum. Come on people get creative. Many of you are incredible scientists, you must know the name of someone to name this after. Perhaps one of the scientists who first claimed a connection between a quiet sun and a colder planet?
Stop the nonsense and give credit to someone who has added to this field of science, who has been committed to analyzing data and promoting intelligent debate.
We have to be smarter than this….