“All three of these lines of research to point to the familiar sunspot cycle shutting down,,,

watts up with that? ^ | June 14, 2011 | Anthony Watts

[Psalm 144]

Sooo . . .

I assume this means get a floor fan rather than a sweater, or the other way around?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Late night ping!

[blam]

It's always something:

Solar Threat: We’ll Have Minutes to Respond; Government Plans Controlled Blackouts; Elite Contingency Plans

Mac Slavo
June 14th, 2011

While many will claim that solar storms are an unrealistic threat to our world, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom aren’t taking any chances. According to a report put together by Alex Thomas of The Intel Hub, the threat is not only real, but very likely, and could change the world as we know it from one day to the next:

In a stunning announcement, The United States and United Kingdom are likely set to began “controlled” power cuts in preparation of a giant solar storm.

The announcement by Thomas Bogdan, the director of the US Space Weather Prediction Centre, comes a week after a large scale solar flare released a massive amount of radiation and threatened to cause moderate disruption.

The solar flare on June 7th, 2011 was luckily pointed away from Earth but caused many to wonder if another solar flare is imminent, this one aimed directly at earth.

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[Royal Wulff]

No, it means store food.

[LibWhacker]

Fewer sunspots translates to cooler temperatures here on Earth. Another stake in the heart of the global warming zombies.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

We are about to get a demonstration of how the sun affects our climate over the next several decades....is what they are saying!

[Marie]

“This is highly unusual and unexpected,” Dr. Frank Hill

Just like the economy...

But seriously, I think that it's highly irritating that these scientists are finally figuring out what ham operators have been saying for years.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That is good!

[Marie]

This is good for a political argument. This is very, *very* bad for humanity.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The Sun has it's cycle....

The Alarmists will need to change their message!

[Texas Fossil]

Global Warming? Global Cooling?

Neither, more variability....

We have known for over 100 years that weather is more variable during sunspot minimums and sunspot maximums. It is about “change” in activity on the sun... Pretty simple?

Droughts, Floods and freaky weather.

Texas is the hottest and driest in most of the state since possibly 1895. Now some of our neighbors to the East have had terrible flooding.

We still cannot predict it, but it is more variable.

[ApplegateRanch]

No, it means store food.

...and stock up on candles and coal.

Second thought, a nice new wool sweater couldn't hurt, either.

[Ezekiel]

Another stake in the heart of the global warming zombies.

The zombies caught on, that's why they now call it "climate change". Hot, cold, or anything inbetween climate, they'll still demand your money.

[fso301]

I was really late getting off work and had to stop by the all night grocery to get a few items for wifey. Coast-to-Coast was playing over the intercom and they were talking about this.

[piytar]

Some Russian physicist worked this out a while ago. The key issue (if IRCC) is the center of mass of the solar system v the center of mass of the Sun. That’s mostly controlled by Jupiter’s orbit.

If the two are divergent, tidal forces in the Sun result in more solar activity.

If the two align, the sun gets quiet. And we get cold (for a number of reasons).

We’re in for more and longer cold, and it has NOTHING to do with CO2.

[C210N]

“This is highly unusual and unexpected,”

No, not really. From an article more than 2 years ago:

All Systems Go, for Tragic Al Gore Minimum

[danielmryan]

Hot, cold, or anything inbetween climate, they'll still demand your money.

Yes, they will, but they can't demand their old predictions be wiped away from the Internet. Global warming falling to icy pieces is an example of how the Internet is changing our time as much as Gutenberg's press changed late medieval society.

Back in the olden days, we'd only have our memories to fall back on except for the patient few who could spend time (and spare the time for) looking through drafty microfilms of old newspapers, and dusty copies of old magazines and books. That option wasn't available for TV.

Those few would have had to rely upon alternative newsletters or magazines to get the word out. The only other option was writing personal letters.

The MSM started to be brought to heel by the VCR. The Soviet Union was brought down in part by the use of fax machines. The Internet and social networking have brought down several authoritarian regimes. No telling how far it will go...

[LibWhacker]

This is good for a political argument. This is very, *very* bad for humanity.

There is no reason to believe that. As the article says, the last Maunder Minimum lasted 70 years (1645-1715). Humanity pulled through just fine.

The Earth will cool off by, perhaps, one-half a degree (exactly the amount it has warmed up since the last minimum) and the global warming zombies will have to transfer their hysteria to some other drug-induced danger they've imagined, perhaps pot blight or killer butterflies under their skin. Rest assured, it will soon metastasize into demands that we give up our cars and bottled water and leather goods and football and Christmas and Thanksgiving and that, from that moment on, we walk to work along dirt paths in our bare feet.

[The Cajun]

You could really see the panic set in for the *Globull* warming crowd a year or two ago when they were pushing hard that the sun had little to no effect on climate.
You just know they could see their crap theories falling apart and decided to descend into pure idiocy.