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What’s Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing)
This report, that there’s nothing to report, is newsworthy because of a growing buzz in lay and academic circles that something is wrong with the sun. Sun Goes Longer Than Normal Without Producing Sunspots declared one recent press release. A careful look at the data, however, suggests otherwise.
Plotted sunspot data give a line snugging asymptotic to zero. The extrapolated model predicts sunspot frequency drawing a 70-degree rising line. Was the analysis done by an economist?