Beam me to Planet Gore !
Side effects of Carl Rove’s weather machine. It’s Bush’s fault.
The Earth has been in a fairly steep cooling trend since 2006, I don't expect it to turn around for some time. The really crazy part is that Solar Cycle 25 (not due for 11-13 years) is expected to be extremely weak by NASA. So, we could well be looking at 20-30 more years of cooling!
It'll be interesting to see things spin as the politicians realize they bet on exactly the wrong horse...not that humans can do much to affect the climate one way or the other.
He used to project an actual image of the sun on the floor. He and the kids would count the spots.
That changed some months back.
Seriously, though, anyone know where there's a decent sale on base layers? Sounds like we're going to need them.
This has been one of the nicest summers and (so far) fall, that I can recall in a long time.
The down side is that the Great Lakes are REALLY warm for this time of year. The right conditions mean getting nailed with a lot of lake-effect snow in those areas prone to it.
I’m feeling chill.
Although it started with a long minimum, that sunspot cycle became extremely active, peaking in 1958-59. I didn’t receive my first amateur radio license until 1961, but the sunspot cycle that peaked in ‘58-59 was legendary for radio propagation. (Higher sunspot count correlates with increased ionization of the upper atmosphere, where radio signals are refracted (”skipped”) back to earth, thousands of miles from where they originated.)
Jack
Cheney-Halliburton has been illegally drilling on those spots without congressional approval. That’s why they’re gone now.
We must investigate.
I’ve lived in FL for 16 years. We usually get our first cold front of the year sometime during the first half of October, usually like clockwork from the 7th - 15th. Now, granted this time of year a “cold front” means that instead of 89 degrees it will be 82 degrees :) But still.
This year it came a week ago.
Not looking forward to January.
Sun spot ping
An Exhausting War on Emissions
Public Employee Pensions Endangered by State Officials Playing Global Warming Politics
British Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law
Jobs more important than climate change action
Global warming on Free Republic
Algore is on suicide watch - up his meds!
The Sun is just saving up for 2012. :)
Time to buy grain futures because of shortened growing season. Coffee will also be sharply affected.
“To find a year with more blank suns, you have to go back to 1954, three years before the launch of Sputnik, when the sun was blank 241 times.”
*&^%-&*%$# Commie &*(^$*$#!!!!