Sooo . . .
I assume this means get a floor fan rather than a sweater, or the other way around?
Late night ping!
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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Fewer sunspots translates to cooler temperatures here on Earth. Another stake in the heart of the global warming zombies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
No, not really. From an article more than 2 years ago:
Thank goodness the USA is in such a good financial, political, & morale position to meet this challenge. NOT!!!!!