Jack Eddy

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Jack Eddy (1932 – ) is an American astronomer. He did a study in 1976 demonstrating that irregular variations in solar surface activity, a few centuries long, were connected with major climate shifts. It was at this time that he coined the term Maunder Minimum, for the dearth of sunspots seen between 1645 and 1715.

Similar work has been done by Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon.

[edit] Quotes

• "We had adopted a kind of solar uniformitarianism," solar physicist John (Jack) Eddy suggested in retrospect. "As people and as scientists we have always wanted the Sun to be better than other stars and better than it really is." [1]

[edit] See also

• solar variation
• climate change

[edit] External links

• Jack Eddy on His Work on Solar History
• Changing Sun, Changing Climate?