Posted on 08/12/2016 6:15:27 AM PDT by Bratch
Yeah...in a couple of centuries.
I can’t remember which it was but it was cold
Very near by is Warrior Path State Park. My neighbors took our kids down to see the solidly frozen Duck Island lagoon. We returned and I dug out the ice skates of yor and we tried out ice skating. A ranger came and told us ice skating was not allowed and was critical of me for allowing the endangerment of my kids.
I had walked out to the middle and with my rock hammer pick, dug a hole to measure the 4” thickness. He didn’t believe it and insisted we quit
Direct solar activity is something that humanity has not even had the means to trace until recent decades. Ice core samples show fluctuation in climate that are believable on an old-earth model, at least. But they can only say what it was like on the earth at the corresponding time, not what the sun was directly doing.
Where are the astrophysicists here? It’s been apparently assumed that the Sun as a whole doesn’t dim and flare on the scale of centuries and millennia, but is that actually true of the sun? It is driven, as best our scientists understand it, by nuclear fusion. To my maybe simple mind, it seems there may be layers and pockets of burned and unburned fuel in the body of the Sun that act much like a Lava Lamp does, stirring things up and resulting in variations of gross output (because it is the burning fuel that is causing the output, not some steady state source beneath it as is the case for an actual Lava Lamp).
I flag our secular scientistic sort on such questions, not to present any direct argument about God, but to question popular assumptions about the Sun.
I’d like to even propose a method to examine the core of the Sun, that would work if we could field a craft that would circle the Sun closely and rapidly like Venus and we could wait for a suitable supernova to appear, whose output we could monitor both directly and as it passes through our Sun, with the craft and the Earth as references. The result would be like a kind of crude CAT scan of the Sun.
I’ll be darned.
Didn’t realize it got that hot that far north ... or that you’d get a 60-degree day/night temperature swing.
“Why do I mention that? 1976 is the winter that Joe Bastardi is saying this coming winter will resemble. I need to buy some extra blankets.”
I was 16 at the time. We had sub-zero temps for weeks on end; school was cancelled which was unheard of for southern Wisconsin. We pretty much toughed it out, no matter what!
We had an ice storm that left our whole city without power for a week. I remember my Mom & Dad taking meat out of the freezer and Dad firing up the charcoal grill; all the Dads in the neighborhood were doing that!
Trees snapped like matchsticks form the weight of the ice. You had to CRAWL on hands and knees to get across the road to the neighbors; no one came to ‘save’ you or to even plow or salt the roads. No one COULD.
But the worst thing? I was a teenage girl without a phone. FOR A WHOLE WEEK! Gaaaah!
Can you imagine what’s going to happen when kids (and this current crop of child-like ADULTS) don’t have their smart phones for a period of time like that?
Perish the thought, LOL!
Thank you for posting that link, I needed a little between seasons entertainment.
Warm means more ocean evaporation, which means more rain.
Warm means that Canada becomes better for farming.
Cold means crop failures and starvation.
That’s it, stick with the Pemmican!
Yes, I can certainly see that we're in a terrible cooling spell at the moment.
As I break into a sweat just sitting here are my keyboard typing.
Well, although I feel for the peeps in the colder zones here in Phoenix I hope for a, dare I say it, mild summer.
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