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Why the Sun Going Blank Means a 'Game of Thrones'-like Winter is Coming
New York Post ^ | June 29, 2016 | News.com.au

Posted on 07/01/2016 3:31:22 AM PDT by broken_arrow1

You may not have noticed but our sun has gone as blank as a cue ball. As in, it’s lost its spots. According to scientists, this unsettling phenomenon is a sign we are heading for a mini ice age. Meteorologist and renowned sun-watcher Paul Dorian raised the alarm in his latest report, which has sparked a mild panic about an impending “Game of Thrones”-style winter not seen since the 17th century. “For the second time this month, the sun has gone completely blank,” Dorian says. “The blank sun is a sign that the next solar minimum is approaching and there will be an increasing number of spotless days over the next few years. “At first, the blankness will stretch for just a few days at a time, then it’ll continue for weeks at a time, and finally it should last for months at a time when the sunspot cycle reaches its nadir. The next solar minimum phase is expected to take place around 2019 or 2020.” According to NASA, the sun goes through a natural solar cycle approximately every 11 years. The cycle is marked by the increase and decrease of sunspots — visible as dark blemishes on the sun’s surface, or photosphere. The greatest number of sunspots in any given solar cycle is designated as “solar maximum.” The lowest number is “solar minimum.” “During Solar Max, huge sunspots and intense solar flares are a daily occurrence. Auroras appear in Florida. Radiation storms knock out satellites. Radio blackouts frustrate CB radio as well. The last such episode took place in the years around 2000-2001,” the space agency’s website explained. “During solar minimum, the opposite occurs. Solar flares are almost non-existent while whole weeks go by without a single, tiny sunspot to break the monotony of the blank sun.

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To: broken_arrow1

This isn’t like the whole global warming hoax. It’s real science based on history.


41 posted on 07/01/2016 7:29:09 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: broken_arrow1

This should have a direct impact on the San Andreas and the New Madrid fault lines. All sort of hell is about to break loose. Cities will crumble, rivers will change course, and we will all be made generally miserable or dead. Time to stock up on booze!


42 posted on 07/01/2016 7:41:46 AM PDT by Jay Redhawk (Diversity for the sake of diversity is just flat out stupidity.)
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To: mikey_hates_everything

Dansgaard-Oeschger and Bond events?


43 posted on 07/01/2016 7:54:16 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: polymuser

Hepa filters. Stock up on hepa filters.


44 posted on 07/01/2016 8:13:38 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: broken_arrow1

We need to fire back up those coal burning power plants!


45 posted on 07/01/2016 10:17:13 AM PDT by nitzy
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To: mikey_hates_everything

We are in a solar maximum and it has been a pretty sorry one compared to the last few with few sun spots. As we enter a solar minimum sun spot activity will continue to decline and if the pattern holds to form it’s gonna get Brrrr! Cold!


46 posted on 07/01/2016 12:07:36 PM PDT by sarge83
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47 posted on 07/01/2016 12:52:22 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cuckservative: a "conservative" willing to raise another country's ideology in his own country)
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To: Klemper

I DENY THE WARMISTS.
I WILL SMITE THEM WITH COLD, ICE, AND DARKNESS.
THEY WILL FREEZE AND STARVE TO DEATH IN THE DARK.


48 posted on 07/01/2016 2:05:33 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Jay Redhawk

Will cats and dogs “be sleeping together”?


49 posted on 07/01/2016 2:14:04 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: polymuser

What? No porn or smokes or chocolate? I’m not sharing a foxhole with YOU, LOL! :)


50 posted on 07/01/2016 2:18:47 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: broken_arrow1

I’ve recently sold all I own and have moved to Der Hinterlands to write my Manifesto. (That no one will ever read, of course, because it’ll make too much sense!)

We are buried in the hills; our, ‘driveway’ is two miles long. I told Beau that he can count on a kick-@ss, nasty winter season my first one out here, because that’s just how my luck tends to run.

And now, I have the Sun working against me! A Gal can’t catch a break these days! ;)


51 posted on 07/01/2016 2:24:47 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ah, reminds me of the days I maintained a Glowball Warming Watch on several different sites....


52 posted on 07/01/2016 4:28:50 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: #1CTYankee

We need another one...


53 posted on 07/01/2016 11:37:38 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: broken_arrow1

Long story short. More sunspots . Warmer weather. Less sunspots. Cooler weather.


54 posted on 07/02/2016 3:49:50 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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