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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Landschiedt Minimum (04:19:39) :
remove Landschiedt’s name off the books. Good luck with that.
At least you should spell it correctly: ‘Landscheidt’
Leif Svalgaard (20:58:39) :
Landschiedt Minimum (04:19:39) :
remove Landschiedt’s name off the books. Good luck with that.
At least you should spell it correctly: ‘Landscheidt’
Leif Svalgaard (07:50:11) :
Lanscheidt predicted that 1990 would be the Grand Minimum
Pot calling the kettle black……
Geoff Sharp (22:26:39) :
“Lanscheidt predicted that 1990 would be the Grand Minimum”
Pot calling the kettle black……
Ah, but I’m not an enthusiast so am allowed to make typos.
Leif Svalgaard (23:01:14) :
Ah, but I’m not an enthusiast so am allowed to make typos.
Not if you demand it of others.
I am not an enthusiast either, in fact using quite different methods.
Geoff Sharp (23:46:18) :
“Ah, but I’m not an enthusiast so am allowed to make typos.”
Not if you demand it of others.
One might surmise that the poster would be glad to have a mistake corrected to obtain a better ‘handle’, but it is good to know that someone is watching every little step.
Name it “The Gore Minimum” – my shit. Only some warm, really hot stuff can be named after him.
Dr. Eddy is definitely the mostdeserving
Dr. Eddy has my vote. He was an outstanding solar scientist. I think we might by in the “Eddy Minimum” right now.
Dr. Eddy has my vote. He looked like a very humble man who has contributed to our knowledge of this slightly variable (but thankfully very stable) star we orbit. He will be missed.
Pete
Sign me too. We need to be able to start calling this by its own name, and he deserves the honor as much as anyone I can think of.
Please add my name to the petition. Thank you. I am an amateur astronomy buff and am quite interested in the events on the sun as relates to the earth’s weather situation. Another solar minimum at this time would surely drive the earth’s temperature downward and give rise to the ‘GLOBAL COOLING’ aspect as opposed to the global warming’ists’ point of view. Mr. EDDY’S name should indeed be attatched to the next solar minimum. Thank you.
Yes for the petition of the Eddy Minimum. Thank you.
I fully agree with Geoff Sharp’s comments with regards to the naming issue and his comments are reinforced by Leif’s accusations of Landscheidt as ‘pseudoscience’.
Leif’s constant dismissive remarks on various threads are just going to reinforce our desire to learn and understand what different scientists have to say on the matter of what the sun will do.
Landscheidt’s name will not be erased by such remarks. Even if his theory isn’t 100% correct at least he was willing to break out of consensus and put out a theory (of weak activity bottoming out +- 2030) at a time when the sun was clearly in a phase of maximum activity. His ideas had been ridiculed by science at the time and now that the sun has moved away from major activity we can at least say that just MAYBE Landscheidt got something right.
To my knowledge a new element has been discovered and it may be named after Copernicus. Well, Copernicus had interests in astrology, as did Newton! So to dismiss Landscheidt based on the fact that he also had interests in astrology is ridiculous.