by Mitch Battros - Earth Changes Media                                                     August 14 2013

Last week's headlines were rather alarming, quoting "something big is about to happen to the Sun." Yes it's big, yes it's about to happen, but what does this mean to you-me-and Earth itself? In short, the flipping of the Sun's magnetic field in-itself is no big deal. It happens approximately every 11 years. However, the current trend reflects warming and cooling trends of the past.

*See Note From Mitch at Bottom

First, a bit of history regarding cycle 23 and cycle 24. Since the unusually prolonged and weak solar minimum between solar cycles 23 and 24 (2008-2010), the sunspot number is smaller and the overall morphology of the Sun's magnetic field is more complicated compared with the same minimum and ascending phases of the previous cycle. Nearly 13 yrs after the last solar maximum which occurred sometime in 2000, the monthly sunspot number is only at half the highest value of the past solar maximum.

This is where it gets confusing. Though the current absence of large solar flares and CMEs is allowing smaller charged particles i.e. 'cosmic rays' to enter the Earth's atmosphere in which its radiation is heating the Earth's core. The core reacts by dispersing its overheating through mantle plumes, magma flows, volcanoes, viscous veins and pores heating the oceans.

It is for this very reason, a number of scientists believe we are at the beginning of a "cooling trend". What the transition for warming trend to cooling trend looks like….I don't know, but we would be foolish not to learn from Earth's history and not get lost in this current day battle of manipulated righteousness.

In a new study from Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, scientists initiated two novel parameters - the Standard Deviation (SD) of the latitude of the Heliospheric Current Sheet (HCS) and the Integrated SLope (SL) of the HCS - to evaluate the complexity of the Sun's magnetic field and track the solar cycle. SD and SL are obtained from the magnetic synoptic maps calculated by a potential field source surface model.

Scientists believe there will be two peaks in the sunspot number in this solar maximum as in the previous maximum (in 2000 and 2002), since the Sun's magnetic fields in the north and south hemispheres look asymmetric, and the north evolved faster than the south recently. So far the highest value of monthly-averaged sunspot number in this cycle 24 is still the one in the November 2011. So we can say the first peak of cycle 24 could be in November of 2011, since it is the highest monthly sunspot number so far in this cycle. If there is a second peak, we will see it sooner or later."