This book takes an excursion through solar science, science
history, and geoclimate with a husband and wife team who revealed
some of our sun's most stubborn secrets.
E Walter and Annie S D Maunder's work helped in understanding
our sun's chemical, electromagnetic and plasma properties. They
knew the sun's sunspot migration patterns and its variable,
climate-affecting, inactive and active states in short and long
time frames. An inactive solar period starting in the
mid-seventeenth century lasted approximately seventy years, one
that E Walter Maunder worked hard to make us understand: the
Maunder Minimum of c 1620-1720 (which was posthumously named for
him).
With ongoing concern over global warming, and the continuing
failure to identify root causes driving earth's climatic changes,
the Maunders' story outlines how our cyclical sun can alter
climate. The book goes on to view the sun-earth connection in terms
of geomagnetic variation and climatic change; contemporary views on
the sun's operating mechanisms are explored, and the effects these
have on the earth over long and short time scales are pondered.
If not a call to widen earth's climate research to include the
sun, this book strives to illustrate how solar causes and effects
can influence earth's climate in ways we must understand in order
to enhance solar system research and our well-being.
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