Here is good paper that is cited in science...

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    Here is good paper that is cited in science
    https://www.researchgate.net/public...dle_and_end_phase_of_the_Maunder_solar_minima


    I certainly hope we dont go down this path.

    Major geophysical events and transitions of heliospheric magnetic field in the beginning, middle and end phase of the Maunder solar minima

    In recent decades we are moving towards the hypothesis that electromagnetic (EM) processes inside the
    solar system (not yet fully understood from a physical point of view), may be linked with the energy released
    during major geophysical events (energy expressed in magnitude or Volcanic Explosivity Index).
    This research has focused on analysis of the temporal relationship between EM processes inside the solar system
    and major geophysical events around the crucial phase of the Maunder solar minima (1645-1715).
    To carry out this study thirty-five limit values of the heliospheric magnetic field strength HMF (minimum and/or
    maximum) were compared, in terms of time, with twenty-one major geophysical events which occurred between
    1600 and 1729.
    In the solar-terrestrial interaction, the concomitant conditions necessary for the amplification of the energy of the
    geophysical event, are two:

    i. low solar activity during a long period (from decades to centuries), for example, the historical solar minima:
    Wolf, Sporer, Maunder, Dalton, etc. and

    ii. fast and impulsive EM solar dynamo reorganizations in the short-term (one year or two years), are characteristic
    in the two periods of the solar cycle border, the incoming or outgoing of the solar minima or solar
    maximum.

    The reconstructed intensity of the heliospheric magnetic field (HMF) was the main set of data used to
    carry out the present study. HMF evaluated by the annual cosmogenic 10Be ice core data from Dye 3 and North
    GRIP, in Greenland [McCracken;Beer,Sol.Phys.,2015 in press].
    Analysis of the data shows that all the major geophysical events, with magnitude and volcanic explosivity
    index: 8.7 reconstructed field strength HMF. The possible proof of the link (time occurrence) of major geophysical events
    with unknown dynamics EM, in the deep solar minimum, is confirmed by taking into account the comparison of
    the dates of major geophysical events with:

    i. the biannual variations of the content of carbon C14, in the tree rings of pine trees in the southern Urals,
    1600-1730 [Kocharov,1995] and

    ii. the recent hypothesis of the solar minima that occurred in Maunder [Zolotova,2015].

 
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