"This work is speculative..."
"This work is speculative..."
That's the understatement of the year.
It's pieces like this that blow me away:
...sun spot activity, geomagnetic storm indices and looked at the variation of atmospheric radiocarbon derived from studies of tree rings and marine sediments to make his predictions.
Yeah those radiocarbon tree rings and marine sediments will give you a real good picture of future solar activity!
That's like trying to decipher future weather based upon the how dry the ground was yesterday. At best we have about twenty years of decent solar data. The functioning and life cycle of stars is still largely hypothetical - yet this chap can tell us with fair confidence that the next 100 years the sun is going to take a break. Pardon me while I suppress my scoffs.
gotta run...