"The sun is entering one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space Age," wrote Dr Tony Phillips just six weeks ago, on 27 Sep 2018.
Sunspots have been absent for most of 2018 and Earth's upper atmosphere is responding, says Phillips, editor of spaceweather.com.
Data from NASA's TIMED satellite show that the thermosphere (the uppermost layer of air around our planet) is cooling and shrinking, literally decreasing the radius of the atmosphere.
To help track the latest developments, Martin Mlynczak of NASA's Langley Research Center and his colleagues recently introduced the "Thermosphere Climate Index."

Displays times of Cold, Cool, Neutral, Warm, and Hot since 1940.
The Thermosphere Climate Index (TCI) tells how much heat nitric oxide (NO) molecules are dumping into space. During Solar Maximum, TCI is high (meaning "Hot"); during Solar Minimum, it is low (meaning "Cold").
"Right now, it is very low indeed ... 10 times smaller than we see during more active phases of the solar cycle," says Mlynczak.
Record cold in a matter of months
"If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for cold," says Mlynczak. "We're not there quite yet, but it could happen in a matter of months."
See more: The Chill of Solar Minimum
Thanks to François M., John A. Brown, Craig Adkins, Loherchef, Laurel and Craig Adkins for this link
Dr. Tony Phillips was once (and perhaps still is) production editor of Science@NASA.



The EU is scalable and is no less at the frontier of our biology as well as opening different ways of accounting for quantum phenomena.
It is also - in my view - applicable to the greater understanding of the subtler realm of consciousness - including the historical framework that laid down the archetypes of what is largely unconscious beneath and operating through our seemingly rational conflicts that are then projected out to a human realm of conflict under ignorances and arrogances that seem to be our 'condition' but are more truly a deep and pervasive conditioning - aka the matrix of a fear subjected enslavement or fixation in the shadow play of 'Plato's Cave'.
So of course you are not a closed system organism any more than Earth.
Our relation to Sol is not merely being shone on or lit up - but integrally within a 'Galactic Transformer' whose energetic qualities are not only charge phase communications of intensity but resonant qualities of frequency whose influence at the 'signalling' or informational level are inversely effective to their seeming weakness. The wifi and 5G - MAY force an awareness of our bio-signalling function by the symptoms arising from blocking it - just as our toxicities of pesticide and vaccination and other exposures have undermined gut function to raise the true nature of our biological support and dependency on gut function for consciousness and immune integrity (true health).
Awakening responsibility is the OPPOSITE to the assigning of guilt (carbon or otherwise) in a redistribution of power.
True causes allow true resolutions. False economies DO NOT WANT SOLUTIONS. Hence the ramping up of any way of blocking, smearing, invalidating or diverting from true cause with stories that use the emotional charge of consumer guilt to fuel a shift to an economy based upon consumer guilt - even at the corporate level. Why should corporations - including financial sector - be free to outsource the pain and toxicity of the consequences of their actions (choices) upon everyone else - and induce them to feel morally justified in enforcing this on themselves and their fellow beings?
Because it is a consciously fearful step to stand out in seeming dissonance to a top down consensus that has enough resource and momentum to make life difficult and necessitate a deeper journey of our own convictions?
Y et that is the nature of a human life lived. Not to war on fear symbols, but to step out of its distortion field.