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Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century
Daily Tech ^ | 1 Sept 08 | Michael Asher

Posted on 09/01/2008 6:43:44 AM PDT by gobucks

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To: itsthejourney

“So, the New Ice Age just cancelled out Global Warming.”

Seems the SUN insists on having the ‘last word’ on this global change carbon credit inconvenient truth money robbing Al Gore investment portfolio pyramid scheme.


41 posted on 09/01/2008 7:20:37 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: gobucks
NASA's David Hathaway: “It does seem like it’s taking a long time,” allows Hathaway, “but I think we’re just forgetting how long a solar minimum can last.”

Another way to examine the length and depth of a solar minimum is by counting spotless days. A “spotless day” is a day with no sunspots. Spotless days never happen during Solar Max but they are the “meat and potatoes” of solar minima.

Adding up every daily blank sun for the past three years, we find that the current solar minimum has had 362 spotless days (as of June 30, 2008).Compare that value to the total spotless days of the previous ten solar minima: 309, 273, 272, 227, 446, 269, 568, 534, ~1019 and ~931. The current count of 362 spotless days is not even close to the longest."

Anything to portend doom. They didn't mention the proto-spot of last week with polarization indicating it was cycle 24 field.

42 posted on 09/01/2008 7:23:27 AM PDT by steveo (Hi mom!)
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To: gobucks

> Sunspot data has been collected since 1749 <

Good article. And I would find it even more persuasive if the author knew that data are plural.

(The scientists that collected the data back in 1749 certainly knew!)


43 posted on 09/01/2008 7:25:18 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: UCANSEE2

That’s , uh... GCCCITMRAGIPPS.


44 posted on 09/01/2008 7:26:10 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: Tribune7

In coastal N.C. last week the highs were in the 70’s - all week, and last night the temp low was 64. Very unusual for August.


45 posted on 09/01/2008 7:35:50 AM PDT by elpadre (nation)
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To: UCANSEE2; BOBTHENAILER; gobucks
> That’s because the REAL SCIENTISTS are telling the CLIMATOLOGISTS they better wake up <

I think you're missing an important fact:

It's been CLIMATOLOGISTS all along (most prominently, Richard Lindzen of M. I. T., but also others like Patrick Michaels of the U. of VA) who have been the most effective and informed critics of the "pop theory" of global warming.

Of course, there have also been climatologists on the other side. But whenever there's something like an alarmist global-warming petition by scientests on a full-page New York Times ad, you'll find that the vast majority are from non-climatologic specialties -- geography, biology, chemistry, etc.

46 posted on 09/01/2008 7:37:29 AM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: UCANSEE2
Then, we can drive around in HumVee’s. Since it is ‘known’ by these astronomers and scientists that a lack of sunspots does cause the global average temperature to lower, anything we can do to warm it up will help those who insist the weather should never change.

I love it.

47 posted on 09/01/2008 7:43:23 AM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: steveo
"They didn't mention the proto-spot of last week with polarization indicating it was cycle 24 field."

Does that come with an English translation?

48 posted on 09/01/2008 7:45:56 AM PDT by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Just finished a great book, “The Last Centurian”, by John Ringo. It deals with the coming COOLING quite nicely.


49 posted on 09/01/2008 7:46:00 AM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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“...many climatologists now believe solar activity
is an influencing factor for climate on earth...”
- - -
News Flash!


50 posted on 09/01/2008 7:56:11 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th
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To: Hawthorn
I think you're missing an important fact:

Haven't missed it at all, but appreciate the inclusion of Lindzen's and Michael's names to my collection of FACTS to be used against the kool-aid drinkers I encounter.

51 posted on 09/01/2008 7:59:32 AM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: SW6906
Does that come with an English translation?

You can read more here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055418/posts

52 posted on 09/01/2008 8:04:33 AM PDT by steveo (Hi mom!)
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To: gobucks

It is 36 degrees here in Helena with buckets of snow in the surrounding mountains. Good ski season coming up.


53 posted on 09/01/2008 8:06:21 AM PDT by jesseam (Been there and done that!)
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To: jesseam; gobucks

Click on this link, then click on MacDonald Pass to see fresh snow:

http://www.blackfoot.net/~slk2948/MTcams.html


54 posted on 09/01/2008 8:10:15 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: ken21

:-)

LLS


55 posted on 09/01/2008 8:10:17 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( REAGANISM not communism)
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To: gobucks
Won't it be sweet in a few decades when the cooling has started to really cause problems around the world and the scientists of that day will blame the scientists who jumped on the global warming wagon and saw to it the chemicals that could have saved them from a mini-ice age never got a chance to do their job!

If the Lefties/MSM would put as much effort into counter-terrorism efforts as they have the global warming ‘crisis’ the world would be much safer in years to come.

It seems like liberals never give any thought to the possibility that they could wrong, just plain wrong. Conservatives I've worked with spend a good deal of their time on a project evaluating results and tuning efforts to keep the results maximized. Libs, OTOH, just make a plan, fund it with someone else’s money, and then go balls to the wall. By the time it's become obvious that their project is an abject failure they've found a new crisis and are off an running on planning to solve it, leaving in their wake a steady debris field of projects that were either designed to fix a crisis that wasn't, or poorly designed to fix a real crisis.

Just look back over the years at the number of such projects the Libs have embraced. Try to find ONE that worked!

56 posted on 09/01/2008 8:13:44 AM PDT by jwparkerjr
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To: ChildOfThe60s

If some terrorist group took the mercury light bulbs and started smashing them against the offices of the ACLU and a bunch of liberl strongholds like PETA, and other tree hugger organizations, a toxic waste dump would be created in all the right places. Then EPA would have to be called in to make sure that proper liberal cleanup procedures would be used. I do not advocate this, just bringing it up.

The liberal green beanies have created a toxic nightmare with their mercury laden light bulbs. There are no disposal plans.


57 posted on 09/01/2008 8:30:01 AM PDT by 2ndClassCitizen
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To: ChildOfThe60s

If some terrorist group took the mercury light bulbs and started smashing them against the offices of the ACLU and a bunch of liberl strongholds like PETA, and other tree hugger organizations, a toxic waste dump would be created in all the right places. Then EPA would have to be called in to make sure that proper liberal cleanup procedures would be used. I do not advocate this, just bringing it up.

The liberal green beanies have created a toxic nightmare with their mercury laden light bulbs. There are no disposal plans.


58 posted on 09/01/2008 8:30:06 AM PDT by 2ndClassCitizen
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To: ken21

Pollution from SUVs has caused the sun to burn out!!!

Only way to stop it now is to buy yer carbon credits from my company. But wait thats not all order now and you also get these ginsu knives.


59 posted on 09/01/2008 8:30:21 AM PDT by festus (Tagline removed.)
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To: ken21
listen... warming, cooling, it was 50/50. so i took a shot!!!

Ohh WOE is me... whys everybody pickin on me???

60 posted on 09/01/2008 8:36:04 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - McCain/Palin'08 = http://www.johnmccain.com/)
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