A Thousand Words: How Shannon Entropy Perspective Provides Link between Exponential Data Growth, Average Temperature of the Earth and Declining Earth Magnetic Field

Abstract

The sunspot data seems to indicate that the Sun is likely to enter Maunder Minimum, then it will mean  that low Sun activity may cause low temperature in Earth. If this happens then it will cause a  phenomenon which is called by some climatology experts as “The Little Ice Age” for the next 20-30 years,  starting from the next few years. Therefore, the Earth climate in the coming years tend to be cooler than  before. This phenomenon then causes us to ask: what can we do as human being in Earth to postpone or  avoid the worsening situation in terms of Earth cooling temperature in the coming years? We think this is  a more pressing problem for the real and present danger that we are facing in the Earth. What we are  suggesting in this paper is that perhaps it is possible to model Sun-Earth interaction in terms of Shannon  entropy. Since Shannon entropy can be expressed as bits of information, then it would mean that perhaps  we can do something with Earth temperature by controlling the amount of information transfer and  storage in the Earth. This proposal is somewhat in resemblance with message of a 2012 movie “A  Thousand words” where we shall strive to love our neighbours and nature, instead of being absorbed in a  culture of less-meaningful fast-talk (starred by Eddie Murphy).