If you look at the highest peaking cycle of the 20th century that is SC19.
Posted on 07/16/2013 1:14:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Astronomers have been counting sunspots for centuries, and they have seen that the solar cycle is not perfectly regular. For one thing, the back-and-forth swing in sunspot counts can take anywhere from 10 to 13 years to complete; also, the amplitude of the cycle varies. Some solar maxima are very weak, others very strong.
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And oh, Algore? The reason it is hot this year? Solar maximum. You know that 11 year cycle? Look it up. It ain’t coal fuelin this train.
Gee could it be that variations in the sun’s output affect global temperatures more than molecular level changes in CO2?
The article is clearly biased. There was no mention of what caused the weak solar maximum. (Too much CO2 on Earth, duh!)
(I respect FR too much to include a /sarc tag with the above comment.)
OMG, now global warming is so bad that its affecting the Sun.
And leave you lying in the ditch.
I was looking at river flow on one of the local streams. Data was available since about 1930. Since 2000 the flow has gone down as low as 5 cubic feet per second THREE times. The period since 2000 has also had some of the highest flows.
In the 70 years prior to 2000 the flow only reached that level twice.
Something has changed, probably the climate and probably normal and we probably can’t do much about it either way.
I know we’ve been through one heck of a dry spell and I’m ready to get back to something more normal. I can’t remember the last long lingering rain.
The warming fanatics aren’t going to like this. Without the sun to do their dirty work, what can they depend on?
It’s not hot here in the midwest. Today is the first day we’ve broken 90 all summer. Last year we had over 40 days over 90 by this time.
There will always be variations. But I agree that man made global warming/climate change/whatever is bogus. They cannot account for the Medieval Warm Period or the Interglacial Period, other than by “getting rid of them.”
In other words, there is no predictable pattern.
Solar Cycle 19, which happened during the dawn of the space age, was the strongest of the 20th century. I don’t know what they’re smoking but they are flat out lying!
Believe it or not, some warmist dude is actually peddling a ridiculous story that the Medieval Warm Period was caused by Native Americans burning vast amounts of the forest every year. The Little Ice Age resulted from Evil Euro Imperialists slaughtering the Peaceful Red Man and thereby halting the burning. It's a PC daily double!
This guy (University of Virginia academic) is currently suing Mark Steyn for libel for daring to call him out on this claptrap.
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That’s what came to mind when I read your post. What color is the sky on this guy’s planet?
Bush’s fault.
I tell people that Global Warming was caused by Burning Man.
A scientific study must be over centuries for things like weather. You are falling right into the lefts play book
The maximum distance from the Sun (aphelion) occurs in July — can you IMAGINE how much worse the GW will be at perihelion in January???
No, I’m not because I don’t believe a bit of the left’s play book. Yes, a point does not make a trend. The point is that we have about 90 years of data, maybe 8 solar cycles and this one is unusual within recorded history. Does not mean that it has not happened before.
I do know that in the last 50 years I can’t recall a 10 year period as dry as this one has been. That’s all.
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