I'm John Batchel with Bob Zimmerman. He keeps the website behind the black.

We're going to the sunny side of the

street. This is the Sunspot report, Bob, now and again, I think monthly, brings us up to date about

what we don't know at the sun. Here we go, Bob. We're going to know less after you finish talking.

That's always the routine. The more you know, the less you know. I actually forgot to do my

Sunspot monthly Sunspot X report last month, but that didn't matter because the last two months

the activity was about the same. It was lower than predicted. During this whole solar cycle,

as it ramped up to Maximum is now ramping down. The sunspot activity has never matched the

prediction. During the ramp up, it was always more active and faster than predicted. During the ramp down

now, it's much faster and weaker than predicted consistently. The graph on behind the black will

make that clear to you if you want to go take it out. We don't really understand what's going on here.

We don't really know why the sun has these cycles.

We know it's related to the dynamo and the magnetic field of the sun, but the unfundamentals we do not understand.

And the bottom line here is that the solar cycle has been weak now for two cycles,

and that links to the so-called pause in global warming

that occurred.

It wasn't a pause.

We suddenly didn't have any global warming for 20-plus years, and that links to the solar

cycle.

There is a connection.

They don't quite understand it yet.

Once again, uncertainty of science, John.

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