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Is the Sun Heating Up?
Earthfiles.com ^ | 12/07/2005? | Linda Moulton Howe

Posted on 12/07/2005 8:01:06 AM PST by oxcart

- Astrophysicists are scratching their heads about what's happening on the sun and in our solar system. Why has this so-called "Solar Minimum" been so active? It should be quiet now with very few sunspots because this is supposed to be the low point of the Sun's 11-year-sunspot cycle. But this week, there was a sunspot called 822 that's 87,000 miles across - the size of the planet Jupiter! Could it erupt with more powerful X-flares as has happened the past few months. Big flares threaten all the broadcast, global positioning and military satellites that now orbit our planet. As I've reported before in Earthfiles, the sun is not "normal." Is it warming up?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: doomed; globalwarming; hats; idiots; isithotinhere; moonbat; orisitjustme; suvs; tinfoil
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Linda Moulton Howe is a barking moonbat that frequents Coast to Coast AM. (you have been warned)
1 posted on 12/07/2005 8:01:07 AM PST by oxcart
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To: oxcart

WE'RE DOOMED.......

and it's Bush's fault....


2 posted on 12/07/2005 8:02:22 AM PST by nevergore (“It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.”)
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To: oxcart
Is the Sun Heating Up?

I suspect that it's all the SUV's on the Sun.....

3 posted on 12/07/2005 8:02:38 AM PST by Onelifetogive (* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some FReepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
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To: oxcart
I suspect that someone will figure out a way to not only blame this on global warming, but blame George Bush.
4 posted on 12/07/2005 8:05:03 AM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: oxcart
Separated at birth?

Linda Moulton Howe and Kathryn Hays (the Empath from Star Trek).

5 posted on 12/07/2005 8:06:49 AM PST by r9etb
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To: oxcart

Where is Art Bell when you need him.


6 posted on 12/07/2005 8:08:13 AM PST by hgro (A)
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To: oxcart

Yep. Bush's fault.


7 posted on 12/07/2005 8:08:23 AM PST by polymuser (Losing, like flooding, brings rats to the surface.)
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To: DaveLoneRanger

Gosh you would think this would have some effect on global warming.


8 posted on 12/07/2005 8:08:25 AM PST by FOG724 (http://gravenimagemusic.com/)
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To: oxcart
Is the Sun heating up?

Well, it is pretty darn hot....

9 posted on 12/07/2005 8:11:58 AM PST by lovecraft (Specialization is for insects.)
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To: FOG724
Yes . . . and it can be stopped if we only implement a global income tax to pay climate reparations to each government in the third world.
10 posted on 12/07/2005 8:12:12 AM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: polymuser

You forgot, "Women and children most affected."


11 posted on 12/07/2005 8:12:16 AM PST by wbill
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To: oxcart
Imagine that, the sun it hot .......
But, don't tell the Liberals/MSM/Democrats/Enviro Wackos that.
They might just figure out that ?
It might be the reason for global warming , and not just in this passed last century, but, is past patterns in Earth's history.
I guess now, we will have to try to explain to the Liberals/MSM/Democrats/Enviro Wackos that the Earth is really round, but, they are difficult to convince them that one just yet.
12 posted on 12/07/2005 8:12:47 AM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: FOG724

Yeah .... who would have thought ?


13 posted on 12/07/2005 8:13:52 AM PST by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: oxcart
But this week, there was a sunspot called 822 that's 87,000 miles across - the size of the planet Jupiter! Could it erupt with more powerful X-flares as has happened the past few months.

Right now there are only three tiny sunspots on the sun that are no threat to anyone. Author-is-a-moron alert.

14 posted on 12/07/2005 8:16:35 AM PST by Strategerist
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To: oxcart
This from the article: a very interesting graph. Note that during the ordovician period (440 MY ago) the athmospheric CO2 is 100 times what it is today, and yet its bloody freezing. It's all to do with insolation (no sic) IMO.
15 posted on 12/07/2005 8:17:13 AM PST by agere_contra (You are worthress, Arik Bawdrin!!!)
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To: lovecraft

I believe we should send a lot of environmental scientists to the sun to investigate.


16 posted on 12/07/2005 8:18:10 AM PST by mnehring (God, forgive me for forgetting to love my neighbors, I was too busy with the latest boycott.)
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To: oxcart
Lets try that again shall we?

This from the article: a very interesting graph. Note that during the ordovician period (440 MY ago) the athmospheric CO2 is 100 times what it is today, and yet its bloody freezing. It's all to do with insolation (no sic) IMO.


17 posted on 12/07/2005 8:18:16 AM PST by agere_contra (You are worthress, Arik Bawdrin!!!)
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To: Strategerist

#14, I warned you! (Twilight Zone music playing)


18 posted on 12/07/2005 8:18:29 AM PST by oxcart
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To: oxcart

What this article really points out is that the scientists don't have a clue!


19 posted on 12/07/2005 8:18:43 AM PST by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY (( Terrorism is a symptom, ISLAM IS THE DISEASE!))
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To: oxcart
Is the Sun Heating Up?

I hope so, it was -160 F when I woke up this morning.

20 posted on 12/07/2005 8:18:58 AM PST by conservonator (Pray for those suffering)
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