Re: Sunspots hit new highs

From: Albert Nurick (albert_at_nurick.com)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:39:41 GMT

Sam Wormley <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in
news:CuYfd.19015$R05.17183@attbi_s53:

> Sunspots hit new highs (Oct 27)
> http://physicsweb.org/article/news/8/10/16
> The Sun is more active at present than it has been for over 8000
> years according to a new method for determining the level of
> sunspot activity in the past. Sami Solanki of the Max Planck
> Institute in Katlenburg-Lindau and colleagues in Finland, Germany
> and Switzerland have developed a technique that relates the number
> of sunspots to the concentration of carbon-14 in tree rings.
> However, the team insists that this high level of solar activity
> is unlikely to be the main cause of global warming (Nature 431
> 1084).

Maybe it's *caused* by global warming? ;-) 

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