{"id":27417,"date":"2016-06-30T14:31:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T21:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-sun-is-losing-its-spots-and-heres-why-thats-a-bad-thing-for-all-of-us"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:10:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:10:50","slug":"the-sun-is-losing-its-spots-and-heres-why-thats-a-bad-thing-for-all-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/the-sun-is-losing-its-spots-and-heres-why-thats-a-bad-thing-for-all-of-us","title":{"rendered":"The sun is losing its spots \u2014 and here\u2019s why that\u2019s a bad thing for all of us"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The sun is losing its spots, and it\u2019s certainly something that we shouldn\u2019t take lightly. According to news.com.au<\/a><\/a>, our fireball has gone blank for the second time this month, leading Meteorologist Paul Dorian to believe that the next solar minimum is approaching and there will be an increasing number of spotless days over the next few years. This matters because the amount of sun spots reportedly affects our climate<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, let\u2019s start with solar minimum. What is it exactly? Well, NASA explains it to be when the sun\u2019s natural solar cycle shows the lowest amount of sunspots.<\/a> You see, when at its best, the sun\u2019s surface is covered in visible dark blemishes<\/strong>, or sunspots. The sun goes through a natural solar cycle approximately every 11 years, and each cycle is marked by the increase and decrease of sunspots <\/strong>\u2013 with the highest number of sunspots in any given solar cycle being the \u201csolar maximum\u201d and the lowest number being \u201csolar minimum.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sun at its best.<\/p>\n

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The sun is losing its spots, and it\u2019s certainly something that we shouldn\u2019t take lightly. According to news.com.au, our fireball has gone blank for the second time this month, leading Meteorologist Paul Dorian to believe that the next solar minimum is approaching and there will be an increasing number of spotless days over the next [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61348,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27417\/revisions\/61348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}