[brityank]

High sunspot activity means warmer temps. Low means lower temps. My astronomy prof taught me this awhile back.

I remember learning about the Milankovitch Cycle too, back in school in the 50's - grade school in the UK.

Here's where we are now with the Sunspot output:

(Click pic for details)

Watts Up is a great resource for real details on all aspects of Climate Change. Yes, it changes and as has happened for eons Man will modify his living arrangements to survive whatever comes. What we need to find is a good rat repellent!

[justa-hairyape]

And it looks like the sunspot average for December will be lower then the average for November. Getting worse. NASA and the Solar Deniers have recently released new heavily downward revised predictions for Solar Cycle 24. Now even the Solar Deniers say a 64 Sunspot max average is the most likely outcome during cycle 24. What that probably means is very little net warming is likely to occur during solar cycle 24. We are screwed to say the least.

[21twelve]

“Man will modify his living arrangements to survive whatever comes.”

To a degree that is true. If a true ice age occurs while mankind is still around (and I think that is probably likely) it will be a mess.

Pretty tough to modify thousands of feet of ice covering the cities from Seattle to Manhattan. (To Oslo and Moscow and Seoul?).

Migrations of huge numbers of people, poor growing conditions worldwide (cold and dry), etc. Lots of wars going on, etc. It wouldn’t be an extinction event, but it would thin out the herd quite a bit.

And the worst part is, the scientific effort is being spent on “stopping” global warming. It should be spent on a open analysis of the true climate changes, and looking at how to adapt to changes (warmer or colder) in the climate. (Farming techniques, cold-weather crops, etc.)

[CedarDave]

What we need to find is a good rat repellent!

Didn't you hear?? EPA has banned the most effective ones starting next summer:

EPA on verge of curbing use of rat poisons

[Paved Paradise]

Spring of 2009, my astronomy prof had our class go outside to look at the sun through a telescope - with the help of a special filter of course. He was so disappointed because there was no sunspot activity to view. I later saw an article that said we had been in a low sunspot period and I linked it to him and said that was obviously why we didn’t see one that day.

This was interesting. Thanks.