<div>It requires going back to 1913 to find a lower solar minimum during the past century than the minimum of 2008-09.  As global average temperatures in March 2010 (very low sunspot activity continues in 2010, though new solar cycle 24 is under way:  <a href="http://solarb.msfc.nasa.gov/">http://solarb.msfc.nasa.gov/</a> , <a href="http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml">http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/predict.shtml</a> ) set a new March monthly record for intensity, the climate science speculators/skeptics of anthropogenic warming, who have been pushing the solar forcing theory for contemporary increases in global temperatures, might consider recanting their position (no misleading and/or &quot;cooked&quot; data graphs regarding contemporary temperature and solar activity presented here):</div>

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<h2>NOAA: Global Temps Push Last Month to Hottest March on Record</h2></div>
<div><a href="http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100415_marchstats.html">http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100415_marchstats.html</a></div>
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<h3 id="content_title">NASA - Solar &#39;Current of Fire&#39; Speeds Up </h3>
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<h2><span>Variations</span> <span>in</span> <span>the</span> Sun’s <span>Meridional</span> <span>Flow</span> <span>over</span> a <span>Solar</span> <span>Cycle</span></h2><strong>David H. Hathaway¹^,* and Lisa Rightmire² </strong>
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<div class="Abstract"><span>The</span> Sun’s <span>meridional</span> <span>flow</span> is an axisymmetric <span>flow</span> thatis generally directed from its equator toward its poles at <span>the</span>surface. <span>The</span> structure and strength of <span>the</span> <span>meridional</span> <span>flow</span> determ<span>in</span>eboth <span>the</span> strength of <span>the</span> Sun’s polar magnetic field and<span>the</span> <span>in</span>tensity of sunspot <span>cycle</span>s. We determ<span>in</span>e <span>the</span> <span>meridional</span><span>flow</span> speed of magnetic features on <span>the</span> Sun us<span>in</span>g data from <span>the</span><span>Solar</span> and Heliospheric Observatory. <span>The</span> average <span>flow</span> is polewardat all latitudes up to 75°, which suggests that it extendsto <span>the</span> poles. It was faster at sunspot <span>cycle</span> m<span>in</span>imum than atmaximum and substantially faster on <span>the</span> approach to <span>the</span> currentm<span>in</span>imum than it was at <span>the</span> last <span>solar</span> m<span>in</span>imum. This result mayhelp to expla<span>in</span> why this <span>solar</span> activity m<span>in</span>imum is so peculiar.</div>
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<p>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</p>
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