It has a name - the Landscheidt Minimum
Considering that Dr. Theodor Landscheidt was a bit of an outlier (astrologer and amateur climatologist) it will probably be given another name -- a 'respected' scientist perhaps but this from
his Wikipedia entry looks interesting:
Theodor Landscheidt
Theodor Landscheidt (born in 1927 in Bremen, Germany, died on May 20, 2004) was an author, astrologer and amateur climatologist.
In 1989, Landscheidt forecast a period of sunspot minima after 1990, accompanied by increased cold, with a stronger minima and more intense cold which should peak in 2030, which he described as the "Landscheidt Minimum". His work on solar cycles is cited by global warming skeptics to argue that observed warming is not anthropogenic and will soon be reversed, based on an assumption that fluctuations in climate are controlled by solar activity.
In 1983 he founded and financed the Schroeter Institute for Research in Cycles of Solar Activity in Lilienthal, near Bremen. The Institute (for which Landscheidt appears to have been the only active researcher) later moved with him to Nova Scotia, Canada.
This website lists some of
Dr. Landscheidt's papers.
Posted by DaveH at September 11, 2008 8:24 PM
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